Example sentences of "[noun] from the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its proposals will have significant impact on the arts from the abolition of customs posts at frontiers to the approximation of VAT on works of arts and antiques . |
| 2 | Deaths : Sammy Fain : in Los Angeles aged 87 : one of the last tunesmiths who peddled their songs from the back of trucks and in the dingy hallways of Tin Pan Alley . |
| 3 | Other composers did not yet differentiate so sharply between secular and sacred idioms ; even Palestrina introduced madrigalian elements — with beautiful effect — in his settings from the Song of Songs , while Victoria toward the end of his life , in 1600 , broke into a much more surprisingly secular vein in a Missa pro victoria with organ , modelled on Janequin 's ‘ La guerre ’ . |
| 4 | The US government continues to receive royalties from the sale of chips designed under the original agreement with Gazelle , although TriQuint is no longer receiving any support from ARPA ( the ‘ D ’ was dropped last month as part of the Clinton administration 's promise to shift spending from the military to the civilian sectors ) . |
| 5 | A solicitor will generally be free to decide for himself whether or not to accept instructions from a client , though he must always bear in mind the statutory obligation not to discriminate against potential clients on the grounds of race , colour , sex etc ( see Chapter 3 ) and he must refuse to act or to continue to act in any of the following circumstances : ( 1 ) where his client seeks to insist on the solicitor conducting his case in a way which would involve some breach of law or professional regulation ; ( 2 ) where the client 's affairs are outside his professional competence ; ( 3 ) if he suspects that the instructions purporting to come from his client do not in fact represent the client 's wishes ; ( 4 ) where the solicitor is unable to obtain confirmation from the client of instructions received from a third person ; ( 5 ) where there is or is likely to be some conflict of interest involving the solicitor himself , his client , other clients ( present , past or prospective ) , or the firm ; ( 6 ) where the solicitor may be a material and not merely formal witness in any proceedings ; ( 7 ) where another solicitor has already received instructions which have not been formally withdrawn . |
| 6 | The majority of sub-contractors either price an extract from the bill of quantities or prepare an estimate from the drawings and specification . |
| 7 | And when he pointed out that these were Irish , not British Trade unions they were talking about , it was sadly admitted that the English disease had poisoned the minds of many impressionable Irish trade unionists and that it would of course take time entirely to eradicate malign English influences from the land of Saints and Scholars . |
| 8 | ‘ In the film they have genetically created dinosaurs from the blood of mosquitoes and made a theme park for them . |
| 9 | Here four young Scottish practices present ideas across a broad spectrum of subjects from the design of armchairs to buildings and skyscrapers . |
| 10 | Several of the leading radical publicists of the 1870s made their name as champions of female emancipation from the domination of fathers and husbands . |
| 11 | Some people have had great pleasure and good practice from the rhythm of songs which were familiar before losing their hearing — such old friends as ‘ Auld Lang Syne ’ , ‘ God Save the Queen ’ and the Wedding March . |
| 12 | She was not exactly a refugee from the violence of invaders like many other Anglo-Saxon women , including one whose case we shall soon encounter : she was simply a woman of royal birth being educated in a monastery awaiting a suitable marriage . |
| 13 | Before a company can exist or do business it must obtain a certificate of incorporation from the Registrar of Companies ( in Cardiff ) . |
| 14 | This would remove chlorine from the chain of reactions which destroys ozone . |
| 15 | Sadistic people derive perverse pleasure from the suffering of others and may seek out situations in which they can inflict this . |
| 16 | In the second phase ( 1910–14 ) , baton-wielding police sought to protect strikebreakers from the wrath of pickets . |
| 17 | The single entrance gate bears a lock from the age of dungeons . |
| 18 | There was a further emigration attempt from the port of Durrës on Nov. 5 . |
| 19 | The steady stream of visitors to Max Gate continued , with many sightseers anxious for a glimpse of the great man , but also more welcome guests , including a deputation from the Society of Authors on his 80th birthday , and the Prince of Wales in 1923 . |
| 20 | He was the sort of person who might , after much hard study , have finally learnt two phrases from the language of flowers : the gladiolus , which when placed at the centre of a bouquet indicates by the number of its blooms the hour for which the rendezvous is set ; and the petunia , which announces that a letter has been intercepted . |
| 21 | An alternative would be to subtract the proportion of optimists from the proportion of pessimists . |
| 22 | I have therefore decided to accept a proposal from the Institute of Personnel Management that employers should be required to seek the consent of their employees to the check-off every three years . |
| 23 | Amongst Unitarian abolitionists an emotional quality in antislavery commitment was also present but it may often have had different origins from the antislavery of Evangelicals and Quakers . |
| 24 | She concludes that an individual ‘ can only protect his own patterning from the invasion of others by a kind of wild jay-walking among the traffic , trying not to get run over ’ ( 614 ) . |
| 25 | Yet it is of course the labour theory of value which justifies the conclusion that the whole of the proceeds from the sale of goods or services should accrue to the workers : and hence , that income accruing from property — that is , from land and capital — to the owners is misappropriation ; that the remedy is to abolish rights in property , ; that , since property owners are bound to resist abolition , a class war between the workers or proletariat , and the property owners or bourgeoisie , is inevitable ; and that it will be resolved by revolution . |
| 26 | In addition to the income from the rates collected from the parishes , the directors received cash payments from the fathers of illegitimate children by order of the magistrates , as well as the proceeds from the sale of lambs , calves , skins , wool , and the hire of horses . |
| 27 | Consequently , at the end of 1992 , the Group 's net debt of £1,146 million [ including preference shares ] represented approximately 111 per cent of shareholders ' funds , after having received £732 million proceeds from the sale of assets . |
| 28 | City states like Hong Kong and Singapore revive , extraterritorial ‘ industrial zones ’ multiply inside technically sovereign nation-states like Hanseatic Steelyards , and so do offshore tax-havens in otherwise valueless islands whose only function is , precisely , to remove economic transactions from the control of nation-states . |
| 29 | The industry has come a long way since the day 's of men selling cornets from the back of bicycles . |
| 30 | But it was a tersely worded compliment , and as he turned to take an olive from the tray of hors-d'oeuvres already laid out on a side-table , her stabbing disappointment told Belinda that he was the person she had really dressed up for today , though what she wanted to prove to him she did n't quite know . |