Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] from [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was that they could almost be read as things more real than the things they qualified , a pattern of eternal forms from another world , not part of the solid world of cabbages and pears — yellow and violet , blue and orange , red and green . |
| 2 | Our ten lucky runners-up will receive two fabulous products from this range — Sorbie 's luxurious Riche Conditioner , and his latest styling product — Hot Shapes . |
| 3 | Working groups from all member countries met in Prague on Oct. 23-25 to discuss the transformation of COMECON in keeping with " market reactions " . |
| 4 | On listing the known elements in order of ascending atomic weight , Newlands found several groups with similar properties located at intervals of eight steps from each other , and accordingly proposed his ‘ law of octaves ’ in 1865 . |
| 5 | For example , he says , there have been strong demands from some groups to screen all pregnant women for toxoplasmosis , an infectious disease that can damage the nervous system . |
| 6 | Eight animals from each group were killed at 16 weeks and the remainder at 32 weeks . |
| 7 | Eight animals from each group were killed at 16 weeks and the remainder ( 22 per group ) were sacrified at 32 weeks . |
| 8 | This scheme evokes strong doubts from some area officers and bureaux managers who may not have been among those who carried the vote to accept the plans . |
| 9 | However , this has been a costly process and the fall in house prices since 1989 has made it impossible to earn adequate returns from these investments in the short-term . |
| 10 | But when a crowd of equally hardened bearded old prisoners from another Oflag appeared on the other side of the gate , the inmates of the camp felt rebuffed and even a little concerned . |
| 11 | Understandably , perhaps : women who deceive their husbands in order to attend political meetings are probably rare , even when they hold , as Richard and I did , different opinions from each other . |
| 12 | The recent study that I made ( Squires 1986 ) attempted to get some reactions from such bodies on the subject , and while they were again mixed , a substantial number had reservations about modular schemes at the undergraduate stage , though more were in favour at the postgraduate or continuing stage . |
| 13 | The DNA structure-specific recognition protein showed homology to high mobility group ( HMG ) 1 and 2 proteins from several species , and to proteins which contain HMG-box domains . |
| 14 | Your brain uses the slightly different pictures from each eye to judge distance accurately . |
| 15 | It was built in 876 , and those ancient parts of the church that remain are among the few fragments from that time that still exist , not only in Milan , but also in Lombardy . |
| 16 | If the debate had started at 10 pm when it was scheduled to start , and if the normal business of the House had continued , many more hon. Ladies and hon. Gentlemen from both sides of the House would be here tonight . |
| 17 | The king agreed to this , but then had to face petitions for further concessions from both magnates and the commons , who demanded that the charters should be observed , the laws and statutes maintained , and the concessions of 1340 upheld . |
| 18 | One unfortunate Japanese worker died when a fatal punch was delivered by a robot that had received and acted on ‘ errant ’ electromagnetic signals from another device . |
| 19 | The North proposed convening a " political consultative conference for national reunification " in either Seoul or Pyongyang , to be attended by 50 delegates drawn from political parties and public organizations from each side . |
| 20 | National Savings were particularly competitive in the 1980's when emphasis was placed on raising government funds from this source , largely because it relieved the need somewhat to borrow from the banking system which created credit and therefore inflationary conditions , and because of the fear that government borrowing in the long-term capital markets would tend to ‘ crowd-out ’ industrial and commercial companies from that market , and impede their ability to raise funds for capital investment and long-term growth . |
| 21 | He went out of his way to meet foreign visitors from all walks of life — politicians certainly , but also a delegation from a Nobel prizewinners ' congress , a group of doctors connected with the medical movement against nuclear war , the Latin American writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez , a group of writers including Arthur Miller and James Baldwin who were attending the Issyl-Kum forum in 1986 , and many others . |
| 22 | Erm , even if you inherit some spreadsheets from this person that 's left , that 's useful knowledge because you do n't have to spend time searching for whoever might have created this spreadsheet . |
| 23 | There were currently 50,000 refugees from former Yugoslavia in Austria . |
| 24 | ‘ Get me some plectrums from that shop in Charing Cross Road ! ’ |
| 25 | Although Quality has no offices in Europe , it does generate some revenues from this region , using a ‘ rifle-shot approach ’ — seminars , mailshots , recommendations from consultancies , and from selling to multinationals . |
| 26 | He had long ago realised that if he was going to find any clues to the whereabouts of the Way Out , the location or identity of the Key , there was a good chance he might get some ideas from that type of writing . |
| 27 | The related business person 's turnover will be under the current registration threshold if ( broadly ) it is not over £36,600 in any of the last 12 calendar months and is not reasonably expected to exceed that amount in the next 30 days from any time ( VAT Act 1983 , Sch 1 , para 1(1) ) . |
| 28 | Lewis Carroll had a very vivid imagination and I will use some extracts from both books , to show how he expressed his imagination in his work . |
| 29 | While Iraq demanded the unconditional release of all prisoners-of-war ( PoWs ) and their return to their countries of origin on " humanitarian and legal " grounds , Iran insisted that the issue of prisoner exchange could not be separated from territorial questions and called for the simultaneous withdrawal of Iranian and Iraqi troops from each other 's territory with prisoner exchange . |
| 30 | I 've got to get him some plants from that tub have n't I ? |