Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | A gas leak on an unmanned North Sea platform which led to the evacuation of 70 workers from a nearby drilling rig was successfully sealed . |
| 2 | Cheltenham is a town of spacious elegance from sweeping terraces and broad avenues bordered by trees and gardens galore . |
| 3 | Demanding higher levels of technical efficiency from domestic suppliers is directly related to the need to standardize and improve the quality of inputs that are used in later stages of manufacturing , where closer physical location to the main plant is crucial . |
| 4 | The Minister then joined and a group of technical staff from the Businesses for lunch . |
| 5 | ( 3 ) Very recent discoveries of articulated thelodonts from the Silurian and Devonian of northwestern Canada have revealed a surprising new body shape among agnathans and traces of a stomach , as well as providing evidence of the affinities of this enigmatic group . |
| 6 | ( Specimen kindly made available by V.V. Missarzhevksy. ) c , Deltaclavus graneus , a series of articulated sclerites from the Lower Cambrian of Hubei , China , x90 . |
| 7 | The Moselle winds through some 160 miles of tranquil countryside from the city of Koblenz at the Moselle 's junction with the Rhine , to old city of Trier which has its roots in Roman times . |
| 8 | There are a number of surviving features from that Old Bicester , mostly found near the Market Place , including half-timbered sixteenth and seventeenth century houses , two coaching inns — The Kings Arms and the Swan — and , above all , St. Edburg 's church with its proud pinnacled tower . |
| 9 | In May these reforms were abandoned following weeks of persistent criticism from delegates and employees [ see p. 37888 ] |
| 10 | The Merchant Shipping ( Oil Pollution ) Act 1971 imposes civil liability upon the owner of a ship carrying a cargo of persistent oil in bulk for escape or discharge of persistent oil from the ship . |
| 11 | A number of Royalist prisoners from the civil wars in England and Ireland were transported to the sugar islands in the 1650s as convict labour with the prospect of eventual release to become part of the white garrison , but this barely covered the losses from death and emigration . |
| 12 | She won a gleam of mocking agreement from Guy . |
| 13 | Known as mamluks ( an Arabic term meaning " owned " ) this army raised in the slave markets of the Caucasus and beyond , took over power in 1250 at a time of Mongol threat from the east . |
| 14 | Moreover , many of them were made with the aim of preserving achievements from an earlier period ( particularly , the stable currency and low inflation ) . |
| 15 | A remarkable Marxist interpretation , for example , was made of Florentine painting from Giotto 's time to the fifteenth century , by Frederick Antal in the 1940s . |
| 16 | Consequently it has sometimes been difficult for the new patterns to establish themselves in the face of combined resistance from programme committees , established departments , and professional senior officers . |
| 17 | New words are coined or borrowed or made out of combined parts from existing words ; the meanings of old words gradually shift . |
| 18 | Petre Roman resigned as Prime Minister on Sept. 26 , amidst three days of demonstrations and riots in Bucharest by thousands of striking miners from the Jiu Valley coalfield . |
| 19 | Any list of nutritional recommendations from any eminent medical organization in the Western world will consist of an ‘ Eat less of these ’ list ( fats , sugar , salt , calories ) and a single ‘ Eat more of this ’ item . |
| 20 | The reconstruction of extinct species from fossil bones was often undertaken by museum workers , who were thus disposed to see development through time as the unfolding of purely formal relationships between successive species . |
| 21 | This was to change assessment of advanced courses from a system driven by external examinations to one in which assessment is driven by the nature of the outcomes in the course and can assess the range of outcomes desirable in vocational courses . |
| 22 | Mr Patrick Corbally Stourton , who went out to work in Australia several years ago , and is now managing director of Originals Outback Limited , invited me to the opening of the first comprehensive exhibition of Aboriginal art from the Central Western Desert of Australia to be seen in Europe . |
| 23 | It was from this perspective that I undertook a research project aimed at exploring how members of a variety of professional groups from medical , social service and legal agencies came to recognise , or suspect , that some children are being abused , and how decisions are taken about those children . |
| 24 | Other families need help over a longer period , although the group is careful not to overlap with the work of professional staff from the social services . |
| 25 | What Dr Tolley was advocating was withdrawing membership of professional bodies from people who did not keep abreast . |
| 26 | Finally , Gold Disk has slashed the price of Professional Draw from £395 to £99 . |
| 27 | I am afraid that we are assuming too much from this proposed change and that it is a little too simplistic — a sort of professional defamation from those who believe that applying law and order is the only way of solving what are , in part , deep-seated social problems . |
| 28 | And they cater to the deranged grin fetishes of retired colonels from the home counties . |
| 29 | Following a three-day meeting in London on Sept. 24-26 , the Sino-British Liaison Group ( JLG ) announced that Hong Kong 's Court of Final Appeal , which in 1993 would replace the Privy Council in London , would be composed of the Chief Justice , three Hong Kong-based judges and a fifth member to be invited alternately from two panels — Panel A , containing retired and serving Court of Appeal judges in Hong Kong , and Panel B , made up of retired judges from other common law jurisdictions . |
| 30 | Françoise Cribier finds one reason for the remarkable exodus of retired couples from Paris is that both man and wife need the husband to get out of the house . |