Example sentences of "from [pos pn] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | From my earliest days , my interest in the Old Masters has frequently led me to consult Hofstede de Groot 's A Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century which includes the work of such household names as Rembrandt and Frans Hals , Johannes Vermeer and Jacob van Ruisdael among some 40 major Dutch artists . |
| 2 | From my earliest days my father had planned my future along rigid lines . |
| 3 | Although I knew most of these countries from my naval days , the perspective one gains visiting the coasts of a country as a sailor is very different from the view of the businessman . |
| 4 | I knew Tony Milton well from my brief days on the amateur golfing circuit . |
| 5 | I knew the clubhouse well from my amateur days and I quickly turned left , went through the main lounge ( to the horror of one member who recognised me not as a former amateur golfer but as a caddie , God dammit ) , through the back of the already busy bar and through the goods entrance , or exit in this case . |
| 6 | The former nurse said : ‘ It was probably just as well I knew what to do from my nursing days . ’ |
| 7 | From their earliest days they were battling it out — sometimes for the same parts . |
| 8 | Fire had been a constant hazard in woollen mills from their earliest days , as a result of the large amount of grease and oils used gradually soaking into the wooden floors . |
| 9 | 16.8 We hope parents will share books with their children from their earliest days , read aloud to them , and talk about the stories they have enjoyed together . |
| 10 | Opposite From their earliest days Cooks used the power of advertising to promote new ideas . |
| 11 | From their earliest days the local groups relied upon the cooperation of schools and education authorities , and to a lesser extent club workers , to supply them with the necessary information concerning pupils who were about to leave school . |
| 12 | As usual the author traces the history of the stations from their earliest days , 1891 in the case of Pwllheli , and has located some early photographs including one of the unusual ‘ tubular ’ lifeboat which served at this station on the Lleyn Peninsula for a short time after it was first opened . |
| 13 | And so it was that she died alone in a mental hospital — as Eliot told Violet Schiff , one of the few who had known them both from their earliest days together , death could only have been a deliverance for her . |
| 14 | Men are taught from their earliest days to value autonomy , the right to do what they want to do , when they want to do it . |
| 15 | But he convinces one that , from their early days of teenage touring in Hauptmann 's Hannele , they shared a mutual devotion to each other , an indefinable star quality and a passion for the strange , hermetic world of theatre . |
| 16 | THIS season garden centres are heavily stocked with camellias , and you can see them in flower , since these evergreens bloom from their early days . |
| 17 | If we wish children to develop awareness and sensitivity , Art and Nature must ramify their schooling from their early days . |
| 18 | Bonnie 's behaviour stems from her early days . |
| 19 | She paused for a moment remembering how from her earliest days she had sat with her father in the small shed working the leather . |
| 20 | People like handsome Major David Waterhouse , newsagent chain heiress Kate Menzies and the Earl of Arundel cheerfully refer to their old friend as ‘ Duch ’ — a nickname from her pre-royal days . |
| 21 | One stream is made up of those whose families have belonged to the church from its earliest days and who themselves have known no other spiritual home . |
| 22 | Consequently , from its earliest days the service had a strong welfare orientation . |
| 23 | Users fall into various categories : firms can keep up-to-date with the latest developments in their line of business and the indexes also provide the means to check on the activities of competitors ; researchers in academic and other institutions similarly can check progress in their particular speciality ; students of the history of technology , and industrial archaeologists can follow the gradual development of an industry of science from its earliest days . |
| 24 | As well as the world famous Boot and Shoe Collection , the Museum also includes fine collections of ceramics and paintings , and the two history galleries , ‘ Hamtun ’ and ‘ Shoe Town — New Town ’ , recreate the town 's past , from its earliest days to modern times . |
| 25 | From its earliest days it has been the target of media vilification for its gay programming . |
| 26 | Instead it was named " Stockport School " , thus using one of the names which had been applied to Sir Edmond 's Foundation , probably from its earliest days , though the first written reference dates only from 1597 . |
| 27 | Lee , a key figure not only within the Association since its foundation , but also with the Dictionary of National Biography from its earliest days , referred to the aims of the English Association , suggesting " that English be the constant , the unresting ally and companion of whatever other studies the call of national enlightenment and national efficiency may prescribe " . |
| 28 | They thereby avoid a circularity of reasoning which has plagued the natural rate-NAIRU literature from its earliest days : if a sustained rise in the unemployment rate is not accompanied by an abatement of inflationary pressure , then this literature can admit of only one explanation — that NAIRU , a concept which has often been conflated with that of the natural unemployment rate , must itself have risen . |
| 29 | It is true that Sassoon was prominent member from its early days , but the PPU was in fact founded by Dick Sheppard in 1934 . |
| 30 | Charleton was involved from its early days with the subject of the next chapter , The Royal Society of London for the Improving of Natural Knowledge . |