Example sentences of "[noun] from [noun] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most striking features of IBM 's lamentable personal computer business is that there is not a single reason embedded in the hardware why IBM mainframe and AS/400 users should buy their personal computers from IBM rather than from its army of tormentors led by Compaq Computer Corp : presumably few customers have actually asked IBM for 3270 and 5250 emulation in ROM on the motherboard at no extra charge in its PS/2s — or perhaps IBM thought that would kill off its dumb tube business and resisted until it was too late — now it makes no money on personal computers and sells few dumb tubes . |
| 2 | Tolkien was a Catholic who never entirely ceased to resent Lewis 's preference for Anglicanism ; others were High Church ; and Lewis , who always claimed to see religion as an escape from superstition rather than from atheism , held himself scrupulously above such disputes . |
| 3 | A GALLON of diesel will cost 8.2p less — 204.1p — at BP stations from midnight tomorrow because of the strength of the pound against the dollar . |
| 4 | The reign of Cnut has tended to attract relatively little attention from historians largely because of the scarcity of the sources . |
| 5 | This was partly due to reduced growth both in financial transfers from Greeks abroad and in tourism revenue . |
| 6 | Approaching the board from side-on rather than from the rear quarter . |
| 7 | Great Britain still had great industrial resources : there were specialized skills available among her workers , she still had huge supplies of her excellent coal , she had opened up new markets as fast as she had been pursued into her old ones by her competitors , and she had an enormous income from investments overseas and from the services which she supplied — in transport , banking and insurance , for example — to the rest of the world . |
| 8 | By 1957 , it had become clear that it was easier to direct affairs on the far side of the Arab sea/air barrier from London rather than from Cyprus , which had little or no contact with Aden and Kenya . |
| 9 | Yet the harsh fact remains that Rushdie has won much greater commitment from politicians elsewhere than from those in the country of which he has been a citizen for a quarter of a century . |
| 10 | With the Tunnel , you can commute to the City from France faster than from , say , Wiltshire or Dorset — which are the in places to live at the moment . |
| 11 | On a little island in the river at this attractive village is a small stone monument to Sir Hugh Myddelton , a wealthy mine-owner and Member of Parliament , who constructed an artificial waterway in 1613 to carry much-needed drinking water to London from springs here and at Chadwell . |
| 12 | This irregular plural ending may occur when the word comes directly into English from Latin rather than via French . |
| 13 | This irregular plural ending may occur when the word comes directly into English from Latin rather than via French . |
| 14 | He successfully persuaded RTE the Irish State-run broadcasting network the event should go ahead in his home town almost 200 miles from Dublin rather than in the capital city . |