Example sentences of "the [noun] from [noun pl] in the " in BNC.

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1 If , later on , he made rather too much of his lucky escape from one of Hitler 's flying bombs , describing the eerie cutting out of the engine noise seconds before it dropped , the blinding flash , the tall plume of smoke as it came to its final resting place in what was known as Bomb Alley — the route from bases in the Pas de Calais , via Kent to the capital — it was , perhaps , understandable .
2 Maxim had picked up the story from friends in the Intelligence Corps .
3 Chess Club An alternative meeting night is requested as the noise from activities in the hall is proving inconvenient when matches are in progress .
4 Chess Club An alternative meeting night is requested as the noise from activities in the hall is proving inconvenient when matches are in progress .
5 Under the Control of Pollution Act 1974 the noise from stereos in the street between 9pm and 8am is forbidden .
6 A split-half reliability carried out on the data from children in the standardisation sample between the ages of 4 years and 8 years 11 months produced correlations of between 0.64 and 0.84 for the different items .
7 After reading some of the criticisms from readers in the past few months I felt that it was about time I wrote in .
8 The work earmarked for the Alton plant also includes creating additional treatment capacity to cope with the waste from households in the out-lying villages who are now being placed on main drainage .
9 As has been suggested in this chapter , the relative autonomy of the state from the mode of production means that the jump from tendencies in the economy to a political response to those tendencies is problematic .
10 In the second place , the relative autonomy of the state from the mode of production means that the jump from tendencies in the economy to a political response to those tendencies is problematic .
11 It 's also packed with the mother 's antibodies against common things like flu , which help protect the baby from infections in the first few months of his life .
12 It is frequently not practicable to withhold benefits gained by the organization from non-joiners in the same area of activity ( wage increases or better working conditions , for example ) .
13 The object of these exercises was sometimes to try and get a change of policy , sometimes to indicate alarm should certain lines of policy be carried further and sometimes so that the critics can signal their feelings to sections of the party outside Parliament ( Left-wing MPs , for instance , use this method to get support in the annual elections to the National Executive Committee of the party from activists in the constituencies ) .
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