Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] from [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Lilley 's decision to abide by European Commission rules on the distribution of regional aid from Brussels immediately unlocked £18.9m of investment earmarked for the stricken former coalfield communities of Durham , Tyne and Wear , and Northumberland . |
| 2 | Meeting a group of complete strangers from backgrounds very different to my own , in such an alien environment , was disconcerting . |
| 3 | During the mid-1950s , at a time when continental drift was not seriously considered by most earth scientists , new evidence in the form of palaeomagnetic data from rocks again began to bring into question the notion of stationary continents . |
| 4 | Males have a blue face , especially on the cheeks , while females do not , and the presence or absence of iridescent blue on the lips is a sure way of separating males from females even at small sizes ( say 1.5″ S.L. ) |
| 5 | Seven people were reported killed after police fired on protesters in West Bengal calling for the arrest of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh officially estimated to total 100,000 . |
| 6 | Marines were honour-bound to board a hulk , to cleanse any threat it posed , and to recover any valuable or enigmatic pieces of ancient technology from millennia earlier which might be encysted in the wreck like pearls held in a lethal clam . |
| 7 | A host of angry letters from women over thirty who thought themselves beautiful had arrived at the office . |
| 8 | Due to the obsession of most comparative sociologists with problems of measurement , all sight of a global system was lost in the mists of dubious generalization about a host of discrete variables from societies all over the world . |