Example sentences of "from the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all likelihood it would have been considered by the Air Ministry , and quietly stored , with the many other ‘ war-winning ’ schemes , from the possible to the ridiculous . |
| 2 | To justify a treatment of women which denies their autonomy , resort has been had to a ragbag of ideas about female and male sexuality , varying from the bogus to the irrelevant and culled formerly from medicine and latterly from psychoanalysis . |
| 3 | I have taken these surveys from the 1960s as a useful starting point . |
| 4 | By the eighties , affluence was expressed , to a growing degree , in the purchase of a second home , often by city-dwellers whose alternative residence hastened the endemic decay of village life — or open political hostility in Wales where a campaign of house incendiarism by some cultural nationalists , the ‘ Sons of Glyn Dŵr ’ , punctuated the otherwise peaceful history of the principality from the 1960s to the 1980s . |
| 5 | Lester Piggott , his brilliant successor from the 1960s to the 1980s , was driven by such a desperate , obsessive need for wealth and security that he was sent to prison for persistently defrauding the Inland Revenue of its share of his millions . |
| 6 | From the 1960s to the 1980s , they came from the impoverished north-eastern states — Paraiba , Pernambuco , Bahia and Minas Gerais — to find shelter , food and livelihood in a city that has expelled them . |
| 7 | Support for this view is provided by evidence from the 1960s to the 1980s . |
| 8 | For example , as we shall see in Chapter 7 , the main response of successive governments to the growing prison numbers crisis from the 1960s to the 1990s was to provide a range of additional penal measures and then , out of deference to the principle of judicial independence , to rely on exhortation rather than legislative direction in an attempt to change the sentencing practice of the courts . |
| 9 | The borrowing requirement increased rapidly in the period from the 1960s to the early 1980s , but in 1987 , as a result of tight expenditure control , it was down to 2.6 per cent of the total . |
| 10 | With consummate skill , Trudi Pacter follows the paths of these extraordinary women from the 1960s to the present day , as their fortunes rise and fall in the high society hothouses of London and New York . |
| 11 | In tracing the influence of psychodynamic theory , Payne offers a three part periodic table consisting of the following elements : prior to 1920 when these theories had little influence ( pre-influence ) ; a period of dominance between the 1930s and 1960s ; from the 1960s to the present when they form one of many alternatives . |
| 12 | In the British case , the fall has been compounded by cutbacks in the network of rural and provincial services from the 1960s under the Beeching strategy for ‘ reshaping the railways ’ ( BRB 1963 ) . |
| 13 | But this time it 's all in the cause of truth , as he re-enacts a notorious true life murder from the 1960s in the latest ITV crime series , In Suspicious Circumstances . |
| 14 | Does he recall that just a few months ago he dismissed devolution as a stale hangover from the 1960s in which there was no public interest ? |
| 15 | From the 1960s until the present , Payne asserts that the political position of psychodynamic theories has become more complex . |
| 16 | These programs provide facilities ranging from the essential to the virtually useless depending on your point of view . |
| 17 | Since relatively few people express a preference for changing tenure from the owner-occupied to local authority sectors , when this happens there are often important employment and demographic aspects at work . |
| 18 | Two factors are mainly responsible for movement from the owner-occupied to local authority sectors — unemployment and marital breakdown . |
| 19 | The unemployment rates among married heads of household moving from the owner-occupied to the local authority sector is about six times the rate of those moving in the opposite direction ( Murphy and Sullivan , 1986 ) . |
| 20 | Guests can choose from three excellent restaurants with menus ranging from the traditional to the exotic . |
| 21 | Neo-evolutionism rejects this unilinear dogma , and argues that there are many possible paths from the traditional to the modern , though there is a strong supposition that the capitalist road via pluralist democracy resulting in something like the contemporary United States and Western Europe , is the best and most efficient of the alternatives . |
| 22 | The consultants clearly expected too much from an over-generalised model , and as a result they produce results which lurch from the absurd to the ludicrous . |
| 23 | The rugby career of Audley Lumsden ranges from the absurd to the amazing . |
| 24 | Thousands of living species occupy every marine habitat from the shallowest to the deepest abyss , and , as every gardener knows who has tried to protect his vegetables against marauding hordes of snails and slugs , they have been remarkably successful in making the transition from sea to land . |
| 25 | This forms the nucleus of a comprehensive collection of programmes dating from the 1840s to the present day , which continues steadily to increase . |
| 26 | From the 1840s to 1900 the proportion of illegitimate births declined throughout Europe , from 7 per cent to less than 4 per cent , with no evidence that chastity outside marriage had become more popular . |
| 27 | The laissez-faire economy was conceived of as international , and indeed from the 1840s to the end of the century thousands emigrated from Britain . |
| 28 | Hiram Powers is not only a major monograph on one of America 's most significant artists of the nineteenth century , but also a catalogue of more than 200 portraits of members of international society who found themselves in Florence from the 1840s until the 1860s . |
| 29 | High fertility in Ireland ( by modern standards ) depended upon the institutionalized pattern of high emigration which prevented population rising from the 1840s until the 1950s . |
| 30 | Many historians believe that ‘ there is a tremendous change in attitudes towards children from the 17th to the 18th centuries ’ ( Plumb 1976 ) . |