Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] from [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All five competing anglers finished in the top 50 in a 160-strong field from all over the world . |
| 2 | He slides among suspicious groups of heat-seeking , light-shunning nomads , who had made temporary camps up lesser conduits , who milk sweet , pure water from above from the gleaming concrete walls . |
| 3 | Northampton is superbly located midway between London and Birmingham , close to junctions 15 and 16 of the M1 with easy access from there to the M5 , M6 and M25 . |
| 4 | She will join a 14 strong team from all over the UK which will be competing against 22 countries worldwide . |
| 5 | Olympia has yielded magnificent bronzework from right through the archaic period , but stone sculpture there in this time is sparse and generally poor . |
| 6 | When Smart Lethieullier of Aldersbrook had completed his mortuary chapel adjoining St Mary 's , Little Ilford , Essex , in c.1740 he transferred the remains of his parents into the present vault from elsewhere in the church . |
| 7 | He had led the party since 1984 , succeeding Dom Mintoff [ see p. 33794 ] , and had been Prime Minister from then until the party 's defeat in 1987 . |
| 8 | Like every other ruler of a great State , the empress was the captive of the historical situation in which she found herself , and in her case this forbade any radical change in the social structure of Russia or any far-reaching amelioration from above of the position of the peasant . |
| 9 | That they never bore fruit was due as much to Bolshevik neglect of them as to the eventual insistence from above on the abolition of the private farms . |
| 10 | There is continuing demand from all over the world for the expertise of members of the Development Administration Group in the University 's School of Public Policy . |
| 11 | The names come easily off the tongue : David Burns , Roland Wysner , George McCartney and many others — worthy winners who took their laurels in the face of stiff competition from all over the country . |
| 12 | Our plan was to ascend The Appian Way on the west face of Low Man before tackling Rib and Slab on High Man — but you do not begin The Appian Way from anywhere near the Green Ledge . |
| 13 | It was only a short step from here to the so-called ‘ New Pop ’ of Duran Duran , Wham ! and Culture Club , with ABC standing by as a rather aloof and better-dressed alternative . |
| 14 | It is a short step from here to the dramatic parallelism associated with a masterly speech maker . |
| 15 | It is also a short step from here to the rhetorical balance of the fourfold repetition of the ‘ In such a night ’ speech in the Merchant of Venice ( V.i . ) . |
| 16 | It was but a short step from there to the deduction that the woman was the one they had been ordered to look out for , and the guard shouldered the door aside , bounding inwards . |
| 17 | Once again , the intensity of contact spread over such a long time in the field makes this form of self-monitoring difficult to maintain , and there was also a general resistance from below to the management 's instruction . |
| 18 | Some sergeants conform to this , others do not , but the general resistance from below to the excesses of authority , coupled with a relative autonomy in the work place , affords the men and women in a section the latitude , if they so wish , to ‘ ease ’ , using Cain 's now familiar term ( 1973 ) , or , to use their word , ‘ bluff ’ . |
| 19 | Nor does the evidence of a renewed upsurge of potentially revolutionary protest from below in the immediate pre-war years suggest that this source of their inhibition would fade with time . |
| 20 | Over the next 12 weeks Jonathan Ross and a brand team will astound , amaze and ‘ all that ’ with silly snippets and tacky trivia from all over the world . |
| 21 | It is not a big step from here to the symbolic use of signals . |
| 22 | Hair swept into a chic chignon from just behind the fringe is let loose and combed close to the head . |
| 23 | A loud slam from somewhere on the floor below put an end to further reluctance . |
| 24 | One is the daughter of Vortai the Black , and there 's bad blood from here to the Eastern Sea over the marriage . |
| 25 | The population of Greater London grew by 2 million between the wars , 1.25 million by inward migration from elsewhere in the country and 0.75 million by natural increase . |
| 26 | Nevertheless as half-time approached Irwin struck an excellent shot from just outside the penalty area after Winterburn had headed out Marshall 's cross . |