Example sentences of "[adv] from the [noun pl] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , On Time is definitely worth reading seriously , because it may indicate a way of thinking that does not totally exclude the question of meaning , not only from the studies of phenomena of the kind discussed here , but also from all sorts of other studies , in such diverse fields as biology , psychology , and human relationships . |
| 2 | I have also learnt much from the skills of others : without Chris Whitaker and Tess Lomax we might not have succeeded in improving the way we organise community care . |
| 3 | American disability rights activists learnt much from the struggles of women and African-Americans for basic civil rights . |
| 4 | A distinction needs to be drawn , however , with stones used to keep vehicles away from the corners of buildings . |
| 5 | Changes in marketing methods , such as mass marketing on top of mass production , kept the customer further and further away from the suppliers of goods . |
| 6 | They much prefer their annual holiday away from the throngs of spectators on the riverbanks . |
| 7 | We 've gone away from the days of systems imposed by the data processing department , this is going to be a system for the users . ’ |
| 8 | Let us now move away from the store-rooms of museums to the wider world of archaeology in the field . |
| 9 | Here the vines are mostly grown at a height of between 140 and 180 metres on south-east and south-west-facing slopes although some climb steeply from the outskirts of Hautvillers and rise to a height of around 250 metres . |
| 10 | They are known largely from the writings of churchmen . |
| 11 | Now the need for liquidity derives both from the demands of individuals and private bodies to finance trade and investment flows , and from the operations of central banks . |
| 12 | Bernard Arenson , Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs , claimed that the relaxation had been made to assist the poor in Haiti who had suffered unduly from the effects of sanctions depriving them of jobs and wages . |
| 13 | County clubs were financed partly through gate-money and partly from the subscriptions of members . |
| 14 | Today 's world was one in which five-pound notes gushed benignly from the walls of banks at the touch of a button , in which people had only to scribble their names and anything they wished for was theirs ; a world in which — as she had seen on a television programme — unimaginable sums of money flew about the globe at the whim of shirt-sleeved young men who sat tapping idly at keyboards . |
| 15 | The daughters of small farmers were best esteemed , but they were declining and the supply was made up from the cottages of artisans , shopkeepers and labourers . |
| 16 | Over the porch was a wooden pointed hood with scalloped edges , to keep off the rain , presumably from the heads of visitors waiting for the door to be opened . |
| 17 | Carlisle Cathedral suffered badly from the attentions of garrisons between 1645 and 1652 , and York Minster only avoided serious damage through the personal intervention of the New Model Army commander , Sir Thomas Fairfax . |
| 18 | This suggests , perhaps , that the need for a prior epistemology depends , not on the character of the general questions which epistemology starts from , but rather from the kinds of solutions which , in this case , are offered — namely reductive ones . |
| 19 | Er Madam Speaker , I I agree with er the honourable gentleman that it 's extremely important that the various agencies do play a part in working together to ensure effective action with minimum bureaucracy and I know that the honourable gentleman has been anxious to ensure that that happens in his own constituency and his own area where he is dealing with the problems of high unemployment er and the fall out from the closures of pits in his area and if the honourable gentleman has any specific er er measures which he would like us to look at then I 'd be very happy to consider those . |
| 20 | The descent of property can sometimes be traced over several generations through the archives of the Court Baron , while individual names can be picked out from the lists of freeholders and customary tenants at the beginning of each meeting of the Court Leet . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've come too far from the ways of men to be able to go back now … but we must get away from that sea ! ’ |
| 22 | The emphasis on research , however , is less marked than at Heidrick and Struggles , and there is no movement upwards from the ranks of researchers . |
| 23 | He knows very well from the deputations of trustees and directors of national galleries and of galleries and museums around the country that they have been hugely critical of the Government 's neglect . |
| 24 | Expressions like ‘ do n't want to let the side down ’ , and ‘ it 's better to be a giver than a taker ’ , fall unselfconsciously from the lips of men like Lord Ferrers . |
| 25 | Both may find new partners instead from the ranks of companies eyeing the sudden boom in aerospace : including those from Japan ( see below ) . |
| 26 | Such plants , together with primitive mosses and liverworts , formed green tangled carpets , miniature forests that spread inland from the edges of estuaries and rivers , and into these the first animal colonists crept from the sea . |
| 27 | Apart from the Heads of Units , they rarely have contact with other similar services . |
| 28 | ‘ As far as I am concerned diving is not an excessive calorie-consuming sport , and certainly from the numbers of divers that I see who are overweight , I do not actually believe that the statement in ‘ The Great Diving Adventure ’ , by Horace Hobbs , is actually borne out . |