Example sentences of "of [noun] from [adj] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he defines his terms carefully , Hecht is still somewhat confusing when he writes : ‘ The servant class , then , was composed of recruits from social levels as diverse as the gentry and the rural proletariat … |
| 2 | The organization very often mobilises the fear of aggression from competing companies rather than a mature dependent relationship with the enterprise and its management and so encourages people to submit to the power of supervisors : |
| 3 | All the reservoirs receive a degree of disturbance from recreational activities primarily fishing , but on some more active forms of recreation take place . |
| 4 | Saturday might begin by dividing the participants into small groups of three or four , each composed of people from different communities so that everybody will be encouraged to work together as a team rather than rely on ‘ traditional ’ dominant group-leaders . |
| 5 | Adventure holidays are increasingly popular and the brave can test their physical and mental endurance in a number of ways from outward-bound courses where the participants usually spend the last few days of their ‘ holiday ’ building themselves a shelter in a sodden landscape and living off nature , to dog-sledging across the Arctic Circle and learning how to build an igloo on the way . |
| 6 | The quantum hypothesis explained the observed rate of emission of radiation from hot bodies very well , but its implications for determinism were not realized until 1926 , when another German scientist , Werner Heisenberg , formulated his famous uncertainty principle . |
| 7 | There is no doubt that the outer few tens of metres of the maria are fine dust , but this could be the result of many impacts too small to leave visible craters and of dust from large impacts elsewhere . |
| 8 | Erm , we get fed all sorts of information from various levels in and rumours from outside , not just the milkman , you know |
| 9 | The first of the six sections is mainly historical and traces the development of astronomy from megalithic observatories through to the latest electronic observational techniques . |