Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] of [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons of continuity from the old , a fundamental unit of data in the new hyper-medium is a document . |
| 2 | So far I 'd acquired all my know-how about birds of prey from books and first-hand experience . |
| 3 | While no deaf person in Britain has been awarded any armed services medal — for the simple reason that no deaf person is permitted to serve in the armed services — or any government sponsored civilian award , or police award , deaf people have been given awards from such bodies as the Carnegie Fund , the Royal Humane Society , and the Society for Protection of Life from Fire . |
| 4 | Those medals were from the Society for Protection of Life from Fire . |
| 5 | The European Commission has adopted draft legislation on integrated pollution prevention and control aimed at achieving " a balanced system for reduction of emissions from industrial installations into the air , water and soil " . |
| 6 | The six participants also took a risk in buying the building without planning permission , but some months later they obtained consent for change of use from school premises to residential/studio units and the architect was able to instruct a builder to commence Stage 1 — the conversion of the building into six basic , serviced ‘ shells ’ . |
| 7 | I am afraid that it has not been a success and that has certainly not been for want of effort from him but I think we just have to write that one off . |
| 8 | And even within one library there is a wide difference between patterns of use from one subject to another . |
| 9 | After yesterday 's meeting , committee chairman Councillor Charles Booth said a recommendation for removal of W.H.Spence from the list of approved contractors would now be made to the council 's general-purposes committee . |
| 10 | Manchester , with colleagues Bruce Peterson and Pat Wallis , has now switched to the nearby Anglo-Australian optical telescope to look for pulses of light from this region of the sky . |
| 11 | This will be so where he is reasonably satisfied that one of a group of two or more people , including yourself , must have committed an act of gross misconduct ( such as theft of money from a room to which only a very limited number of individuals had access ) , and yet he can not pinpoint the actual culprit , despite having examined all the evidence thoroughly . |
| 12 | I am consulting a solicitor to gain compensation for loss of earnings from the driver 's insurance company . ’ |
| 13 | To compensate hunters , many of them peasants and Indians , for loss of income from the illegal trade , the government is allowing exports of a few species not in danger of extinction , such as the Teyu Guazu iguana , whose skin is used for handbags and belts . |
| 14 | Firms are often poorly capitalised , relative to their needs , as shown elsewhere by the difficulties of some securities firms resulting from their equity operations after the stock market crash and the need for injection of capital from parent banks . |
| 15 | By this system any unexpected hiatus should be avoided and the Law Society will no longer be compelled to process applications for renewal of certificates from the entire profession at one and the same time . |
| 16 | Reining up , the Regent found himself master of the southern approaches to Berwick , and cutting off Edward of England from his own territories and sources of supply . |
| 17 | One large funding organisation has admitted privately that it does not dare to support such campaigns for fear of complaints from its own donors if the news leaked out . |
| 18 | At present , parents can be held responsible for the misdemeanors of their children , yet they are not allowed to chastise their children for fear of reprisals from the courts . |
| 19 | Amego ( Automated Machine for Extraction of Gas from Oil ) is a fully automated system which uses the vacuum method without the potentially harmful use of mercury . |
| 20 | ‘ Italy needs a government — it has a government — and this government will continue , ’ he told parliament , after pledges of support from his main Christian Democrat ( DC ) allies . |
| 21 | There was sack after sack of mail from Bristol and Bath . |
| 22 | ‘ The chickens have really come home to roost , after years of overproduction from publishers , ’ Mr Coward said . |
| 23 | Latency was calculated as follows : Increased lysosomal fragility is indicated by a decrease in latency. ( ii ) Determination of the proportion of total enzyme released into the supernatant after resedimentation of lysosomes from the incubated samples by centrifugation at 16500 g fr 25 minutes . |
| 24 | The filling of the posts as they become vacant is decided by the General Board after consideration of recommendations from the faculty board . |
| 25 | But this was after gains of £225,000 from selling part of its stake in Total Systems Plc . |
| 26 | Turnover rose by 24.1% to £254.3m , while pre-tax profits rose 27.2% to £41.6m — after gains of £6.4m from the sale of corporation tax credits . |
| 27 | By the early ninth century at the latest , the kings of the first dynasty of Gwynedd were regarded as descendants of Cunedda from Manau Gododdin ( the plain of the Votadini between the Rivers Avon and Carron ) in the territory of the Votadini ( HB ch. 62 ) . |
| 28 | I have discovered that during periods of withdrawal from normal mental activity — during meditation , or while hovering on the borders of sleep , for instance — it is sometimes possible to look right into that ‘ teeming womb ’ and release its contents prematurely . |
| 29 | Dr Almahawi had earlier worked as a junior doctor assisting in operations in the South Tyrone Hospital , Dungannon , during periods of employment from 1988 to 1990 . |
| 30 | When either looking for blocks of text from other documents to include in the new document database or when considering new additions to the semantic net itself , preference was given to additions that would make the semantic net manifest more analogical inheritance . |