Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | They included , in May , the legalization of private banking and the reduction of taxes on company profits from 89 per cent to 59 per cent in an attempt to encourage investment . |
| 2 | The yen 's rise could help trim the trade surplus in the long run as it could make U.S. exporters more competitive , although in the short-term that could help lift the amount of exports in dollar terms from Japan . |
| 3 | In the agriculture industry attention centred , as in recent years , on environmental issues , particularly the removal of stockpiles of animal fertiliser from which nitrogen compounds were leaching into ground water and polluting the sea . |
| 4 | British Steel on Thursday appeared to add a faint glimmer of hope into the controversy over a plan to switch thousands of tonnes of limestone dust from rail to road . |
| 5 | On Oct. 25 , 1990 , the European Parliament called for an immediate EC moratorium on tropical hardwood imports from Malaysia as result of the " catastrophic " deforestation in Sarawak , and also for the introduction of quotas for hardwood imports from other countries . |
| 6 | The lesson had been given in a lay-by near Kendal on a soaking wet afternoon in February with an audience of coach-trippers on day release from the Satanic Mills . |
| 7 | In the late 1950s and early 1960s a survey of sources of radio waves from outer space was carried out at Cambridge by a group of astronomers led by Martin Ryle ( who had also worked with Bondi , Gold , and Hoyle on radar during the war ) . |
| 8 | The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany stated that events in Great Britain , but also more recent developments in the Federal Republic of Germany with regard to the increasing purchase of firms by fishing undertakings from other member states and the attempted re-flagging of fishing vessels from other member states , showed that the stability objective pursued by the Common Fisheries Policy might be impaired . |
| 9 | The evacuation went ahead of dependents of embassy staff from Kuwait and Bagdad . |
| 10 | Table 2.1 : Assessment of quantities of animal bones from early Anglo-Saxon settlements by per cent of fragments |
| 11 | You get used to seeing insulting poems about you , all sorts of things on exam papers from students , right ? |
| 12 | Estimated ratios of natural to anthropogenic emissions of oxides of nitrogen range from 15:1 to 1:1 because of the variability in estimates of the natural emissions . |
| 13 | A point of serious concern is the shift in the balance of staff from established to contract-funded posts which appears set to continue primarily as a result of the transfer of research funding from the UFC/HEFCE to the research councils , of substantially increased external research income from all sources , and of constraints upon core funding from the HEFCE . |
| 14 | And by combining them with any of the rather healthy range of foods from Weight Watchers from Heinz , your picnic basket will be the only thing bursting this summer . |
| 15 | Next year 's calendar for the club includes another series of talks including guest speakers from the New Victoria Theatre and Sainsbury 's as well as more pub lunches . |
| 16 | Government research says that the presence of dioxins in flue gases from plants such as that at Pontypool ‘ are in the low range of parts per trillion ’ ( one part per trillion is of the order of 30 seconds in a million years , or one ounce in 28 million tons ) , and that all the UK PCB-destroying plants together emit only a ‘ few grammes per year ’ . |
| 17 | A waste contractor , Russell Bliss picked up thousands of barrels of waste sludge from a chemical plant that had made 2,4,5T for the army . |