Example sentences of "[noun sg] from [noun prp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notional regions without definitive boundaries are used for the purposes of economic development , and our regions get aid from Europe without the need for a formal structure . |
| 2 | The SPLA claimed that the Bright Star campaign forces had captured the garrison town of Kajo Kaji , on the White Nile , 100 km south of Juba , on Jan. 6 , after destroying an armoured column sent to relieve the town ; Kaya garrison , to the west of Kajo Kaji , reportedly fell on Jan. 14 , and on Jan. 28 the SPLA claimed to have captured the town of Yei , on the main road south-west from Juba to the frontier with Zaïre . |
| 3 | At the same time , there has also been a sometimes quite heated public debate about the impacts of inward investment from Japan within the European Community and North America . |
| 4 | In the north , Charlemagne 's empire covered Slovenia — the land of the Slovenes — the mid-Sava valley and the northern Adriatic coast from Istria to the neighbourhood of Šibenik . |
| 5 | In 1419 Stephen Ostojić , King of Bosnia , made a grant of land to the south , which took in the fertile Konavli valley , which runs parallel to the coast from Cavtat to the Gulf of Kotor . |
| 6 | For a time it probably controlled the Adriatic coast from Rijeka to the Neretva and extended inland to the Hungarian border north of Zagreb and to the Drina valley in the south , where it faced the Byzantine empire and the Serbian principality of Raška . |
| 7 | In A.D. 409 it was established at Ravenna and this area of the Adriatic coast from Ancona to the Istrian peninsula — designated the Ravennate — became the connecting link between Constantinople and the western half of its empire . |
| 8 | Bartram , 24 , who joined Bournemouth from Wolves last year , has already been the target of a £300,000 bid from Blackburn during the summer . |
| 9 | Queen 's Park Rangers earlier yesterday granted Kendall permission to approach Reid , who joined the London club from Everton on a free transfer in February , and said they would ask no fee for the 33-year-old player in recognition of his ‘ marvellous attitude ’ in his time at Loftus Road . |
| 10 | A proposal to abolish all drift net fishing in the Mediterranean was abolished after surprise opposition from Britain at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . |
| 11 | She went into the hall , glad of anything that would take her mind from Dana for a few minutes . |
| 12 | The Indian Supreme Court on Aug. 27 cleared the way for a resumption of investigations into allegations of high-level corruption in connection with the 1986 deal for the purchase of Bofors artillery from Sweden for the Indian army [ see p. 37184 ] . |
| 13 | A dozen men move back and forth , putting up lights in the living-room , shifting all the furniture round , and accepting trays of tea from Felicity in the kitchen . |
| 14 | In fact , as he later admitted in court , he had been represented by a lawyer from Newcastle at the time of signing to Virgin : not a music-business lawyer , it was true , but a lawyer none the less . |
| 15 | Until they supplemented it by jadeite from Burma during the eighteenth century , the Chinese relied on nephrite . |
| 16 | The RJO also confirmed that they had received a video tape from Israel of an interview carried out recently with Shaikh Abdel-Karim Obeid . |
| 17 | This was well north of any line of march from Wales to the north east , which suggests that Gloucester had business in Lancashire and was not just en route to join his brother , who was then at York . |
| 18 | This was well north of any line of march from Wales to the north east , which suggests that Gloucester had business in Lancashire and was not just en route to join his brother , who was then at York . |
| 19 | After them the literary scene in Slovenia throughout the nineteenth century resembles that of many of the small nations of Europe struggling to free themselves from the shackles of the great multinational empires which straddled the continent from Finland to the Aegean . |
| 20 | The Spanish empire , which stretched over the American continent from California to the Straits of Magellan , was the most imposing political structure of the Western world ; to Napoleon it was still the greatest supplier of silver and to British merchants the greatest unexploited market . |
| 21 | On a June night in 1746 , she disguised the haughty Prince as her Irish maid , ‘ Betty Bourke ’ , and went with him/her in an open boat from Benbecula to the seat on Skye of Sir Alexander Macdonald . |
| 22 | Access to the island is permitted and usually made by hired boat from Tarbet across the Sound of Handa ; to avoid disappointment , visits should be pre-arranged . |
| 23 | Simon Vinkenoog , the founder of Sigma Nederland provided a piece from Amsterdam for the first issue on the then prominent Provos , the proto-Green anarchists who had just won seats on that city 's council . |
| 24 | We had snow from London to the Cotswolds and then it turned soft [ he wrote to the Davidsons ] . |
| 25 | I will now move on to look at one chapter from Alice through the looking glass . |
| 26 | I had seen it when I had taken a detour from Arequipa into the Colca , reputedly twice as deep as the Grand Canyon . |
| 27 | Recently there has been a change in emphasis within the textile industry from Europe to the Far East , and CAC has had to react to this new situation . |
| 28 | , Lucien ( 1857–1930 ) , journalist , was born in London 20 January 1857 , the elder son of Edward Wolf , pipe manufacturer , a refugee from Bohemia after the 1848 revolution , and his wife Céline , daughter of Ludwig Redlich , a Viennese banker . |
| 29 | lt is remarkable that despite these low numbers of species , little is known of their biology and one , the sebastiao-de-arruda , a well-known timber export from Brazil since the last century , has only lately ( 1978 ) been botanically identified and given a Latin name : Dalbergia decipularis ( Leguminosae ) . |
| 30 | Second half I was expecting to see a lot more action from Leeds at the Leeds fans end part of the ground . |