Example sentences of "and [noun pl] of [noun] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the dealers , Spink opens Sporting Art today with British sporting watercolours and drawings from £500 to £15,000 , and tomorrow Richard Green launches Marine Paintings and Views of London from the Thames at 44 Dover Street , while Anthony Mould breaks new ground with a venture into contemporary painting . |
| 2 | With cries of ‘ oi gevalt ’ and ‘ keender ! keender ! ’ from Mum and Dad and screams of fear from the girls , the three bodies eventually manage to extricate themselves from the floor . |
| 3 | Let's put it this way : because of the occasional lightning strike and buckets of water from the celestial quarter there was little opportunity for sevens hookers to ply their ancient trade . |
| 4 | With elegant blue toile wallpaper , rich gilt mirrors , a Victorianstyle fireplace , and furniture made by John , all it needs is a tree , candles and trails of ivy from the garden to transform it into a very festive scene . |
| 5 | This included an increased degree of autonomy for Quebec ( and any of the other provinces which sought it ) through the proposed transfer of numerous powers and areas of responsibility from the federal to the provincial sphere of government . |
| 6 | The façade is a complex mixture of styles and periods of work from the eleventh to sixteenth centuries , but it presents a coherent whole which is unsurpassed , even in Italy , for richness of colour and materials ( 207 ) . |
| 7 | The obvious solution is to strike their military installations and lines of supply from the air . |
| 8 | ‘ The cheers melted into gasps of admiration and roars of approval from the stands as , in turn , this famous pair of chasers made some of the most prodigious leaps ever seen on an English racecourse , ’ wrote Len Thomas in the Sporting Life : ‘ It was a spectacle which I shall never forget . ’ |
| 9 | Prices perk up , trading volume revives and stories of return from the grave are polished up . |
| 10 | German technologists have developed a system of filtering out sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen from the flue gases of coal-fired power stations . |
| 11 | It dawns sunny and clear , with a strong wind blowing , and storms of chaff from the barley-threshing on the roof rain down yellow against a peacock sky . |
| 12 | For a band who 've frequently balanced on that tightrope ‘ twixt credibility and downright incredulity , it 's a fittingly bewildering mish-mash of live footage , snippets of interviews , shots of them recording the ‘ Achtung Baby ’ album in Berlin and stacks of stuff from the first leg of the current World Tour . |
| 13 | And being a sad old fart , I do recognise the samples — old BBC Radiophonic Workshop snatches and bits of dialogue from the Moon landings ( ‘ We 're behind you guys all the way ’ ) . |
| 14 | The petition was accompanied by one from the magnates , who also sought the withdrawal of the tax on wool : it appears that for the first time since the Ordinances of 1310–11 the commons and the magnates were joining together to seek concessions and measures of reform from the king . |
| 15 | In the nineteenth century these diseases ravaged the most remote populations : the Nganasans and Dolgans of Taimyr from the 1830s , the Chukchis and Koryaks of the far north-east in the 1880s . |
| 16 | Useful data with descriptions and records of communities from the machair have been provided by Imogen Crawford ( pers. comm . ) . |
| 17 | Lithuania 's unilateral decision , to abrogate USSR constitutional articles concerning USSR sovereignty and the validity of the Constitution on Lithuanian territory , would be null and void until such time as " the procedure for and consequences of secession from the composition of the Soviet Union are established by law " . |
| 18 | As Cameron surveyed the crowd , trying to make a rough count , he saw some women cracking stone bottles against their cudgels , stripping off their stockings , and packing them with shards and handfuls of gravel from the forecourt . |
| 19 | The two countries would be fighting each other , on and off , for 22 years ; and there were those , like Benjamin Titford , born in 1786 , who lived through nothing but wars and rumours of wars from the day they were born to the day they died . |