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

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1 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 .
2 Heads can create their own clarity if they organize their time in such a way as to digest and weigh reports , views and experiences from sources either outside the school or inside the staffroom .
3 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 .
4 Erlich had seen nothing like it in CI-3 , in Washington Field Office , where each room had photos of wives stuck onto cork boards , of kids , postcards from vacations all over the world , cartoons , clippings of headlines and a huge blow-up of a quote from an English thriller writer : ‘ The most suspicious , unbelieving , unreasonable , petty , inhuman , sadistic , double-crossing set of bastards in any language [ are ] the people who run counter-espionage departments . ’
5 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 .
6 Both raw materials and finished products were all in bags — we unloaded the raw materials up until midnight then re-loaded the lorries from midnight onwards for the drivers to deliver the next day .
7 ‘ When our case was originally rejected we got calls from authorities all over the country saying ‘ What 's going on ? ’ . ’
8 Our advisory services answer thousands of queries from people all over the country .
9 It was reported on March 17 that the Uzbek Supreme Soviet Presidium had decided to recall within a month Uzbek servicemen from republics not in the CIS ( the Baltic states and Georgia ) , from CIS member states establishing their own armed forces ( Ukraine , Moldova and Azerbaijan ) and from the Transcaucasus military district and Caspian flotilla .
10 The Pope 's 450-page draft text has been drawn up with the help of 24,000 suggestions from bishops all over the world .
11 It 's especially valuable to get comments on the modules which are in the Programme of Work for that year or the coming year because then we can feed comments from practitioners straight to the Module Development Group .
12 On joining the nearest Brownie Guide Pack , she was delighted to find two other girls from Scotland already in the Pack .
13 I have found a seat on flights from way down in the ‘ relegation zone ’ on standby lists , simply because there was one space left and the couples above my name loyally refused to split up .
14 It was not everyone who could lead a party of men from Innisfree on to the mainland without being spotted .
15 Not only is she busy sending out subscription forms to the existing 220 members , she is also coping with the dozens of enquiries from amateurs all over the world looking to turn professional .
16 ‘ Taylors have a certain amount of stock but she will be bringing extra samples from London especially for the show .
17 Representatives from countries all over the world met in Nairobi at the end of June to discuss the greenhouse effect .
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