Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] from [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alone of the Pacific species , N. emarginata shows something like a comparable variation in shell shape with exposure ( Crothers , 1984 ) , but the shell is so thin as to afford little protection from crabs regardless of its shape ( Kitching , 1976 ) and an ability to resist desiccation could be of great value to this highQQintertidal species in sites protected from continuous spray . |
| 2 | I 've taken someone this afternoon from Highdown just until the half term when they should go to a special school . |
| 3 | A few self-contained University flats are also available to couples , though there is considerable competition for such flats from students already at University . |
| 4 | The Pope 's 450-page draft text has been drawn up with the help of 24,000 suggestions from bishops all over the world . |
| 5 | Recipients of many conifers have been the National Parks which now find themselves under serious threat from developers instead of trees . |
| 6 | ‘ Taylors have a certain amount of stock but she will be bringing extra samples from London especially for the show . |
| 7 | Males have a blue face , especially on the cheeks , while females do not , and the presence or absence of iridescent blue on the lips is a sure way of separating males from females even at small sizes ( say 1.5″ S.L. ) |
| 8 | Tamar bridge is the only road vehicle crossing for twenty three miles from Rainhead northward to Gunnislake Bridge and Cornwall is almost as island , with natural boundaries fixed by the coastline and the river Tamar . |
| 9 | Following the welcome change in Kenya 's constitution towards a multi-party democracy , and in view of the unhappy news from Kenya yesterday of the repression of demonstrations in Nairobi , will the Minister not only advise that country on the international standards of multi-party democracy , which she has ennunciated from the Dispatch Box before , but suggest that , in order to disarm such demonstrations , it is time that the Government start a dialogue with the Opposition on both the timing and ground rules for an election ? |
| 10 | Objective 1 status would provide 53,000 people from Dornoch northwards with a modern rail service , not one held back in the 19th century . ’ |
| 11 | There were many representatives from churches all over our diocese who went to lobby their MPs . |
| 12 | Due to the obsession of most comparative sociologists with problems of measurement , all sight of a global system was lost in the mists of dubious generalization about a host of discrete variables from societies all over the world . |
| 13 | I ask because I have been throwing out a raft of old notebooks and discovered some scrawled lines from years ago about the open air factor . |
| 14 | The only evidence from Britain apart from the pottery , is a small piece of sculpture from Lincoln and an inscription at Chedworth ( Prasina Factio ) the green company , referring to one of the four colours of the chariot races . |
| 15 | I have now received a polite letter from B.T. together with a phone card worth 30p . |
| 16 | ITN shareholders are demanding that the four bidders — Carlton , Central TV , LWT and Reuters — should cut their intended stakes from 20% apiece to 15% , with the remaining 40% staying with the current shareholders . |
| 17 | You can invest any amount from £2,000 upwards in a High Interest Deposit Bond for a fixed term of either 6 or 12 months . |
| 18 | You probably could n't say the same for Howard Kendall — the Everton manager tried in vain to sign the big fellow from Luton earlier in the season . |
| 19 | However , the company is still hauling 750,000 tonnes of potash each year from seams deep under the North Sea and is building up an increasing export market . |
| 20 | It struck him that it seemed weird that Leeds rejected continuous bids from Blackburn all through the season and then suddenly , out of the blue , accepted one . |
| 21 | On March 10 the Hungarian Foreign Minister , Gyula Horn , and his Soviet counterpart , Eduard Shevardnadze , signed a similar agreement in Moscow , providing for the withdrawal of all 49,700 Soviet troops from Hungary also by July 1991 , with two-thirds of the troops and equipment due to be removed by the end of 1990 . |
| 22 | On joining the nearest Brownie Guide Pack , she was delighted to find two other girls from Scotland already in the Pack . |
| 23 | Director No. 62668 ‘ Jutland ’ enters Victoria with a local train from Nottingham probably around the time these engines were given a brief return to service from storage at Staveley in 1961 . |
| 24 | Spurs ' best effort in the first period was a 25-yard shot from Gray just beyond the far post , though Samways tested Rees with a low effort from the left . |
| 25 | But if it does n't hold , at the very end what they 'll do is break in on it ‘ and now the special report from Dan Rather in Baghdad , and then you see Dan Rather and when he 's done there 's a commercial and then it goes back to whatever they were doing on tape . |