Example sentences of "[v-ing] from the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't kiss Lyn , he never touched women , or men either for that matter , but he seemed to make a principle of shrinking from the touch of women . |
| 2 | It has advanced slowly , by the patient amassing and interpretation of data in many varied fields , ranging from the study of fossils ( palaeontology ) to the chemical and physical properties of rocks themselves ( petrology ) . |
| 3 | The OLF announced on June 23 that it was withdrawing from the Council of Representatives ; elected in July 1991 the 87-member Council contained 12 members of the OLF and 16 were from four other Oromo organizations [ see p. 38322 ; for December 1991 agreement on autonomous regions see pp. 38564 ; 38660 ] . |
| 4 | Proceeding from the system of exchanges of energy and mass in the biosphere and between the atmosphere and land surface , they show how the functions of an ecosystem require a never-ending series of exchanges of energy , water , atmospheric gases and mineral nutrients between the organic and inorganic parts of the system . |
| 5 | Madeira became , however , the temporary home for 2,000 Gibraltarians evacuated to Funchal and their arrival relieved what might have been a financially distressing situation resulting from the lack of tourists . |
| 6 | Although Stone is committed to replanting the woods , and is expressly forbidden to exploit neighbouring hardwood forests , ecologists and local Indian communities fear that the whole Mosquito Coast will be vulnerable from " spin-off " development resulting from the construction of roads into the area . |
| 7 | The venture aims to provide service for applications resulting from the merging of telecommunications and computing technologies , such as ISDN and viewdata . |
| 8 | The problem of administrative inconvenience resulting from the quashing of decisions with retrospective effect might also be capable of being overcome in some cases by some form of prospective relief ( that is , relief which only operates in the future ) . |
| 9 | The second category is the national stoppage resulting from the breakdown of negotiations and the exhaustion of the bargaining machinery . |
| 10 | Rivers have been polluted by chlorine , phenol and detergent , together with run-offs resulting from the over-application of pesticides on farmland . |
| 11 | Thus , a cell resulting from the fusion of cells R and M is referred to as cell R + M. The advantage of this relatively simple system of nomenclature is evident in the so-called discal cell , a term used in at least four separate orders of insects with reference to a different cell in each case . |
| 12 | The object of the final analysis is to create a data set which contains , for each raster , the number of times it is simulated to be inside the areas resulting from the sequence of GIS operations . |
| 13 | Darman stated that the size of the 1991 deficit reflected ( i ) an increase of $105,500 million in estimated outlays to help pay off debts resulting from the collapse of savings and loans institutions , or " thrifts " [ see pp. 36843 ; 37412 ] ; and ( ii ) a decline of $87,000 million in estimated receipts resulting from a weaker than expected economy . |
| 14 | ‘ With repossessions taking place at around 100 a day , it seemed like proper advice was sadly lacking from the range of services available to homeowners . |
| 15 | There is , in a sense , a dichotomy in the change of direction in work , moving from the closeness of women 's friendships to the seeming betrayal of these friendships . |
| 16 | Of special relevance is the section dealing with record sources , for this will assist those students moving from the study of surnames to genealogical research . |
| 17 | The Commission was to have not just the right to initiate and recommend policy to its executive partner , the Council of Ministers , but also the task of ensuring that the provisions of the treaty and policies emanating from the Council of Ministers were carried out by the other institutions and the member states . |
| 18 | The right of an employee inventor to claim statutory compensation from his employer has recently been asserted before the courts for the first time in a series of three reported cases emanating from the Comptroller of Patents and the Patents Court . |
| 19 | Henriques also condoned the practice of fiddling coin machines , thieving from lorries and joy-riding : ‘ Again it seems hardly fair to blame children for stealing from the back of lorries , which is such a very common offence , the result , generally , of perfectly innocent joy-riding . ’ |
| 20 | There are drawbacks , however , in placing too much emphasis on sensory measurements , stemming from the choice of panellists for example . |
| 21 | Snow buntings , their throats bulging with food for hungry nestlings , paid little attention to us , and Lapland buntings were singing from the top of boulders , the males with striking head patterns in their summer plumage . |
| 22 | However , evidence was accumulating from the study of microorganisms that DNA might have some genetic effects , and this forced a reconsideration of its chemical structure . |
| 23 | The sound of voices raised in anger and hysterical sobbing could be plainly heard coming from the suite of rooms occupied by the Prince and Princess of Wales at Sandringham House . |
| 24 | ‘ Attitude surveys have identified certain needs and more information is coming from the introduction of appraisals , which have involved about half of Courtaulds ’ employees so far . |
| 25 | ‘ I raced there to see white smoke coming from the patch of bushes and part of a wall demolished . |
| 26 | It requires a broader approach than task analysis in that it often involves tracing the acquisition of the skill starting from the kind of persons who undertake training ( the selection criteria ) through the training procedures to the end product ( the training success criteria ) . |
| 27 | CHOOSING FROM THE RANGE OF BRUSHES |
| 28 | With spreadsheet products not always well-differentiated in terms of the basic calculations that they can do , considerations such as the quality of printed output carry some weight when one is choosing from the array of packages on offer . |
| 29 | By progressing from the sampling of collections to storing details of every object in a computer database , we have therefore simply transferred our allegiance from sampling theory to graph theory . |
| 30 | BEST PRACTICE : A TECHNIQUE FOR REDUCING COSTS Building on multisite knowledge and experience of internal audit , the concept of best practice — learning from the experience of others — was developed at Lucas Automotive . |