Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] of [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he had been scared to tell the truth after a series of threats from one of the gang . |
| 2 | The operation , at Milton Keynes , came after a series of complaints from residents and shopkeepers in the city . |
| 3 | It suffered its next severe blow in 1968 , when it was left on the shelf after a round of mergers from which the British banking industry emerged in the state it remained in until this year . |
| 4 | General practice and primary care need to be centre stage to ensure that the rhetoric of a transfer of resources from secondary to primary care does not actually entail an overall loss of resources . |
| 5 | Sun Microsystems Inc hopes to get one of its workstations on BBC1 's Tomorrow 's World science television programme in the UK tomorrow : Oklahoma State University 's Dr Marvin Stone has developed a hand-held device dubbed ‘ the thumper ’ which can measure the ripeness of a watermelon by delivering a blow to its skin and Sparcstations can put up a colour map indicating the ripeness of a field of watermelons from data downloaded to it from the thumper . |
| 6 | He announced that he was making good last year 's promise to look into the knotty question of advance corporation tax , an impost which has been the subject of a crescendo of complaints from some of Britain 's biggest companies . |
| 7 | As an admission that , yes , they did go into a bit of a decline , the band has even included re-recorded versions of a couple of songs from their last album , No Place Like Home , a record whose only purpose appears to have been ‘ to keep things ticking over ’ . |
| 8 | What steps are taken to insure the involvement of a cross-section of parents from the community the school serves ? |
| 9 | Lively recordings of a selection of readers from each level are available on cassette . |
| 10 | All I had was a promise of a pair of boots from Jack Riordon , a quartermaster in the Green Howards Regiment . |
| 11 | The tour will show you the whole manufacturing process by following the progress of a pair of shoes from start to finish around the factory . |
| 12 | He suddenly became aware of a volley of shots from behind him , and all three bodies fell back like tin ducks on a rifle range . |
| 13 | This should ideally be part of a course of lessons from a skilled teaching professional if you are to use your time and effort efficiently . |
| 14 | In the United States the theory that evolved was based on ‘ pitch phonemes ’ ( Wells , 1945 ; Pike , 1945 ) : four contrastive pitch levels were established and intonation was described basically in terms of a series of movements from one of these levels to another . |
| 15 | It closes with a reading of a series of formulae from one of his papers but even here , where the ‘ mathematicalness ’ of the performance is forced on you , the dance is more absorbing . |
| 16 | Tests in a 5-node seismic processing environment reportedly showed a reduction in the run-time of a series of jobs from 2.5 hours to 43 minutes . |
| 17 | The agency claimed that , having stated as recently as Sept. 17 that it had no unreleased BNL material , it had since discovered the existence of a series of transmissions from the CIA 's Rome station which indicated that the Rome headquarters of BNL had authorized some of the Iraqi loans . |
| 18 | was issued at the close of a meeting of mayors from 50 cities in 20 countries . |
| 19 | The entire land was to be divided into missionary territories , each division under the religious instruction of a group of monks from Austrasia . |
| 20 | ‘ A Jesuit Missionary in Chinese costume ’ by Rubens ( est. £50–100,000 ; $90–180,000 ) is included in this sale of Old Master drawings , which will also put on offer Pierre-Paul Prud'hon 's ‘ Seated youth ’ , one of a group of drawings from the Woodner Collection ( est. £60–80,000 ; $110-150,000 ) , and ‘ A winged deity and other figures on clouds ’ by Giambattista Tiepolo ( est. £30–50,000 ; $55–90,000 ) . |
| 21 | We met some lovely people — quite a few from Scotland , and our last night was spent in the company of a group of friends from Scotland , England , Ireland and Holland , having a meal in an Indian restaurant , and hearing about the scuba diving and snorkelling in the Red Sea . |
| 22 | The Age Concern report on shopping , which was produced in 1985 with the help of a group of representatives from major retailers , identified a range of environmental conditions which would be likely to attract older customers into stores . |
| 23 | I am part of a group of individuals from various professions who are interested in developing a National Children 's Legal Centre in Ireland . |
| 24 | HOLIDAY camps in the country will resound this summer with the dulcet tones of a group of children from a school near Darlington . |
| 25 | The reunion consists of a programme of events from April until the end of September . |
| 26 | transfer of a table of entries from the Main Database to the Working-Set within one working day |
| 27 | Vauxhall Astra Diamond — one of a package of improvements from Vauxhall . |
| 28 | In the period beginning just before the punk explosion and ending around 1982 , the rock press played a decisive part in the making and shaping of a succession of trends from punk itself to Two-Tone , the so-called new pop phase and the emergence of quasi-mystical underground acts like Echo and the Bunnymen . |
| 29 | Otherwise if they sit there and be quiet you lose a hell of a lot of ideas from that one person . |
| 30 | In general , the full analysis of a set of data consists of a sequence of tasks from data validation , through the exploratory production of graphs and summary statistics to more complex techniques of estimation and inference . |