Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] from [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Recipients of many conifers have been the National Parks which now find themselves under serious threat from developers instead of trees .
2 ‘ Taylors have a certain amount of stock but she will be bringing extra samples from London especially for the show .
3 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. )
4 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 ?
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 I have now received a polite letter from B.T. together with a phone card worth 30p .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 On joining the nearest Brownie Guide Pack , she was delighted to find two other girls from Scotland already in the Pack .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
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