Example sentences of "[noun] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The collapse of the Empire in 1814 and the fall of Napoleon I brought about a dispersal of the Imperial House and although the return of Napoleon from Elba in 1815 led to a restoration of the family fortunes , it was all over in the Hundred Days . |
| 2 | In Section 10.4 estimates are given for the intensity of gravitational radiation on Earth from various sources ; finally in Section 10.5 current detector designs , which appear capable of detecting waves from supernovae in our Galaxy , are described . |
| 3 | Dr Norman Davy used to point out to us and name the many different kinds of birds to be seen from the physics laboratory windows and I remember vividly the almost tangible stillness of those very early mornings when , on its roof , I whirled a hygrometer whilst recording the arrival of sound waves from gunfire at Shoeburyness in Essex . |
| 4 | In that year em waves from Venus at radio wavelengths greater than about 10 mm were detected by means of radio telescopes . |
| 5 | Completed on May 1 , 1927 it first flew on May 12 and proved to be an excellent design , setting a world class record for long-distance flight when it flew the 1,240km from Kharkov/Sevastopol to Moscow in fifteen hours thirty minutes . |
| 6 | The Pennine Bridleway from Hexham to Matlock is another very important development . |
| 7 | After exhausting the gamut of expression from Cockney pub-talk to Dante , and running across the broad acres of comparative religion from intichiuma to St Magnus Martyr , Eliot seems to be generating the commands of a new religion reborn from the old , by returning in his rainmaking to the origin of religious rites . |
| 8 | As laicisation has forced religion from community to private practice , we should not be surprised that so few people know how to mourn together and share common griefs . |
| 9 | Variable spin speed from 120rpm to 1000rpm . |
| 10 | A similar policy for mentally ill people moved patients at record speed from asylum to cardboard box , tent , and lions ' cage . |
| 11 | I recall imitating a stunt performed by the obscure Buffalo Bill Jnr in a Poverty Kow serial , when he outwitted his pursuers by swinging at speed from saddle into tree . |
| 12 | One of the great achievements of the Roman Empire was the construction of their roads by which means their Legions moved with comparative speed from place to place . |
| 13 | Over the last decade or so , new types of financial instrument have been developed to help businesses manage the risks from fluctuations in interest and exchange rates . |
| 14 | As new evidence came to light the risks from exposure to radiation appeared worse and worse . |
| 15 | Limits is designed to integrate with corporate treasury systems and to help indicate the extent of potential risks from involvement with other parties such as members of the Maxwell empire or from fluctuating currencies . |
| 16 | In the so-called ‘ pill scare ’ of 1977 attention was first drawn to the risks from thrombosis to older women on the pill ( Vessey et al . |
| 17 | They must , of course , take calculated risks from time to time to achieve objectives which they perceive to be right but not universally popular . |
| 18 | The Lord has won a victory over my feelings in this area although there are still skirmishes from time to time ! |
| 19 | ( We stress that ‘ isolation ’ in this context implies isolation from time-cues in the environment rather than sensory deprivation . ) |
| 20 | Isolation from centres of further education meant that these young folk often had no opportunity to participate in training and would welcome the opportunity of taking part in training courses such as welding , building maintenance , shearing , etc , which might improve their chances of employment in a rural area . |
| 21 | Particular regions of the world have been chosen for special attention and solidarity work , e.g. the Pacific ( SCAWD had a Frontier Intern from PNG on its staff for eighteen months ) , Latin America and the Middle East . |
| 22 | ‘ Different interests , differing parties , all join in a universal clamour , ’ wrote Daniel Defoe from Edinburgh on 9 August 1707 , ‘ and the very Whigs declare openly they will join with France or King James or anybody rather than be insulted , as they call it , by the English . ’ |
| 23 | The new era having dawned with the introduction of the blast furnace from France in 1496 , French experts were naturally recruited to install them . |
| 24 | We shall see that the principal peculiarity of the English upper class is the survival of cultural and status characteristics from stages before industrial capitalism , and the continued dominance of non-industrial capital in powerful circles . |
| 25 | 6 Move your glance from group to individuals . |
| 26 | The Commission issues guidelines from time to time on its views on appreciability . |
| 27 | Mockery from others over one 's appearance ; withdrawal of external appreciation of your beauty . |
| 28 | In The Merchant of Venice Shylock and Bassanio have been discussing Antonio 's desired bond of three thousand ducats in prose , with some bitter mockery from Shylock on being invited to dinner : ‘ Yes , to smell pork , to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjur 'd the devil into . |
| 29 | Research has consistently demonstrated that the transfer of older clients from hospital to the community can be very problematic with older people being sent home without adequate arrangements having been made for their continuing care ( Victor 1983 ) . |
| 30 | This practice involves fund managers switching securities between accounts to shield favoured clients from losses to the detriment of others . |