Example sentences of "from the [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrows in the drawing are moving back from the boundary of the information field to the centre . |
| 2 | Detached garages with a floor area of less than 30sq m ( 325sq ft ) are exempt from control , so long as they are constructed wholly of non-combustible material ( which most garages are ) , or are more than 1m from the boundary in the case of wooden buildings . |
| 3 | The next example shows double canon by inversion from the Trio of the Minuet of Mozart 's Serenade No. 12 ( the entire piece is canonic ) . |
| 4 | The switch by currency dealers from the dollar to the deutschmark — not least due to the wide gap in interest rates obtaining in both countries — also had an effect on other European currencies . |
| 5 | Less than a mile from the turning for the Lac de Bious-Artigues , but on the other side of the road , is a lazier way of gaining real altitude and tremendous views , by taking the cable-car ( it goes regularly only in summer and during the skiing season ) up to the Pic de la Sagette , at almost 7,000 feet . |
| 6 | Also , of course , the climate becomes steadily cooler from the equator to the poles . |
| 7 | Thus the biomes from the equator to the poles run : wet forest , dry grass land with trees ( savannah ) , hot desert , temperate grassland , temperate forest , and cold desert ( tundra ) . |
| 8 | Moving from the foot of a high mountain to its peak is very like travelling from the equator to the pole . |
| 9 | This is a race ; in Europe it will have taken 35 years from the signing of the Treaty of Rome to attain the European Community 's planned single market in 1992 . |
| 10 | Miss Margaret Medlow ( now Mrs Johnston ) retired from the Superintendency of the Primary Sunday School , thus ending an association of over 50 years with the Sunday Schools . |
| 11 | In the bees and the higher Diptera only the indirect muscles of the mesothorax generate the power needed for flight ; the metathoracic indirect muscles are capable only of tonic contraction and act so as to control the amount of power transmitted from the mesothorax to the metathorax . |
| 12 | It is Vic 's impression that English wildlife is getting streetwise , moving from the country into the city where the living is easier — where there are no traps , pesticides , hunters and sportsmen , but plenty of well-stocked garbage bins , and housewives like Marjorie , softhearted or softheaded enough to throw their scraps into the garden , creating animal soup-kitchens . |
| 13 | This is despite the fact that the government in China has total control over migration from the country into the towns , and immediately bulldozes any squatter settlements . |
| 14 | Sebe , the " President-for-life " of the Ciskei homeland which was granted nominal independence by South Africa in 1981 , was absent from the country at the time . |
| 15 | He must have come from the country for the lava-lava was rarely seen in the towns , however small . |
| 16 | Jesus had just returned from the country of the Gerasenes . |
| 17 | Ten to fifteen years ago there was a drift from the country to the urban areas but with the recent high unemployment this had changed . |
| 18 | The main reason for the growth in numbers was the migration of linenweavers , and their families , from the country to the linen factories and spinning mills . |
| 19 | E. Just recently , since about 1970 , the migration from the country to the towns has started to reverse . |
| 20 | All across Europe there was a movement of population from the country to the city , from the south to the north , from the east to the west . |
| 21 | Milk brought by rail from the country to the town enabled the atrociously insanitary urban dairies to be abolished from the 1870s . |
| 22 | Others were in favour of an immediate switch in the emphasis of the guerrilla campaign from the country to the cities , while still others , including the Philippines-based acting chairman , Benito Tiamzon , advocated greater pragmatism , including the possibility of gaining power through participation in elections . |
| 23 | The mountain barrier between Norway and Sweden was so impassable in the Middle Ages that the easier exit from the country to the outside world was by sea , and the nearest important neighbour was the British Isles . |
| 24 | I could perhaps mention titles only : technology , choice of technology and the link with the again the unemployment problem ; fields like rural development planning and erm the associated questions of rural industrialization of the balance between town and country , of migration from the country to the town and it 's implications for both country and town . |
| 25 | However , in December the government achieved a breakthrough in its protracted campaign to trace and retrieve the huge sums believed to have been looted from the country by the Marcos family , when the Swiss Supreme Court ruled that funds held by the family in Swiss bank accounts should be returned to the government of the Philippines , but stipulated that this could be done only after a Philippines ' court had ruled against Marcos [ see p. 37961 ] . |
| 26 | Do not lean backwards or jerk the barbell upwards as this will put great strain on the lower back area and detract from the development of the biceps . |
| 27 | MRS THATCHER will fly to Strasbourg for the two-day European summit tonight with no intention of making a conciliatory gesture over the Social Charter or economic integration to lessen the likelihood of Britain being isolated from the development of the rest of the community . |
| 28 | For over twenty years from the development of the first military reactors at the end of the Second World War , the nuclear industry continued to experiment and expand against a background of general public approval . |
| 29 | Throw that away ‘ abstract yourself from it and you thereby abstract yourself both from the plan and from the development of the spontaneous into cognised laws , and from the development of political economy into a science … |
| 30 | Marx 's theory of the major historical transitions from one type of society to another discovers their prime cause in changes in the ‘ mode of production of material life ’ , which result from the development of the forces of production and bring about a more or less rapid transformation of the ‘ entire immense superstructure ’ in a period of social revolution . |