Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] [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 | 3 Local authorities were faced with demands for improvements in service from local community groups . |
| 4 | They provided loans and grants for artists in need from May 1870 , in 1885 they offered a pension programme and , in 1910 , a medical aid programme . |
| 5 | And even within one library there is a wide difference between patterns of use from one subject to another . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ The chickens have really come home to roost , after years of overproduction from publishers , ’ Mr Coward said . |
| 9 | That he didso , even after appeals for clemency from abroad , including Britain and France , apparently indicates his concern at the threat posed by the abortive coup , and may presage further measures to demonstrate a firm hand . |
| 10 | After deductions for loans from the subsidiary to Cabra , and for the stake in the Fulham ground , the net cost to Chelsea would be about £10m . |
| 11 | But this was after gains of £225,000 from selling part of its stake in Total Systems Plc . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I waited for exclamations of horror from above , for someone to call Harry 's name in alarm , for some natural innocent reaction to the floor 's collapse . |
| 18 | On March 4 the Miami Herald cited US officials in a report which specifically named Capobianco and the Chief of Police , Gen. Felipe Carvajal , as recipients of money from coca producers . |
| 19 | The expedient of the withholding of manifestations of love from the very young child amounts to the instilling of the first tiny measure of fear , and fear , used in conjunction with reward provides the fundamental tools which the adult population must have if it is to maintain steady progress towards the civilisation it desires . |
| 20 | Despite a worldwide protest campaign , the first in a series of shipments of plutonium from Europe to Japan to supply the local nuclear-power industry is going ahead . |
| 21 | It thus lends support to the materialistic view that it makes sense to think of objects in abstraction from a mind which perceives them . |
| 22 | Late in 1867 , despite calls for resistance from among his more conservative supporters , he formally returned political authority to the emperor , but this move proved inadequate to appease his more extreme opponents , who argued that while the Tokugawa continued to control more than 25 per cent of the country they were bound to play the dominant role in councils of state . |
| 23 | Poverty and restricted opportunities for employment as a result of under-development are usually regarded as so-called ‘ push ’ factors in the explanation of patterns of emigration from less developed countries , and in the case of the Indian sub-continent and the Caribbean Islands have operated powerfully throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in compelling sections of their populations to find work abroad , very often servicing the economic and military needs of the British Empire . |
| 24 | There was no delivery of coke on the following day but , on Tuesday 29 May , thousands of pickets plus police from eleven forces descended on the plant . |
| 25 | ‘ Could I buy a couple of pairs of greys from you ? ’ he asked , coming to a sudden decision . |
| 26 | The Libyan delegation withdrew following the opening session in protest at " Nigeria 's unfriendly stance towards the Arab Libyan people " [ for Nigeria 's involvement in airlifting of prisoners of war from Chad in December 1990 see p. 37907 ] . |
| 27 | He drew up a map of Scotland based on where the men lived and found the excess of cases in children from rural areas who had been exposed to those men . |
| 28 | Biologists have studied the nutrient-rich environment created from the wood and iron in the shipwreck in an otherwise barren area by using hundreds of hours of tape from Nemo 's cameras . |
| 29 | Leicester in the 1760s had a daily crossing of coaches on runs from Manchester or Leeds to London ; by 1815 more than thirty left the town each day for London and other major population centres in the Midlands and north . |
| 30 | His autobiography tells of expeditions to Houndslow Heath , on the advice of Major John Wildman [ q.v. ] , to dig up buried treasure , of programmes of alchemical experiments , and of meetings with dignitaries from the fairy kingdom of the ‘ Lowlanders ’ ( whose Queen , Penelope , he believed he married ) . |