Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] from [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only beneficiaries of the stock withdrawals were Britain 's independent steam lines , who eagerly snapped up ready-to-run coaches from around £1,000 a time . |
| 2 | There are very many sixth-century kouroi from all over the Greek world . |
| 3 | New brands , of course , will keep coming our way : there are plenty more classic labels from middle-of-nowhere towns out there , each with their own distinctive symbol . |
| 4 | ‘ He gives the orchestra very strong signals from very subtle impulses . ’ |
| 5 | My thoughts were interrupted by several loud bangs from very close by , then two flares lit the sky , hanging eerily just above the trees , then drifting out of sight a short distance away , followed by a long burst of machine gun fire . |
| 6 | My guess is that he is a receiver of stolen cars from all over the country . |
| 7 | Detailed clauses ensured that ( i ) the President once elected could not be a member of a political party ; ( ii ) the military were denied seats in the Senate ; ( iii ) members of the Securitate and militia bodies guilty of repression and public officials guilty of abuses were not eligible for election ; ( iv ) candidates for election to the Assembly of Deputies had to be over 21 years of age and for the presidency and Senate over 30 , with no upper age limit ; ( v ) prisoners and the mentally handicapped were not eligible for election or to vote ; ( vi ) independent candidates were eligible to stand for the Senate and Assembly if supported by at least 250 electors and for the presidency if supported by 100,000 electors ; ( vii ) the votes of Romanian citizens abroad via diplomatic missions , consulates or trade agencies would be treated as votes cast in the city of Bucharest ; ( viii ) the financing of political parties from abroad was forbidden ; ( ix ) strict procedures would be applied to check and validate nominations ; ( x ) hours of polling would be from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m . |
| 8 | Servants of the Crown , from the highest executive , administrative , or military officers downwards , enjoy no general immunity for their public acts from either civil or criminal proceedings ; and the command of a superior , even the command of the Queen , is no defence to any such proceedings . |
| 9 | We explained the presence or absence of worker control over output and earnings by ‘ external factors ’ , social influences from outside the individual workshop , eg the organisation of the industry , its degree of capitalisation , the strength of trade unionism and the culture of the community ( Lupton and Cunnison , 1964 ) . |
| 10 | Architectural influences from outside were strong and , apart from England , included France , Russia and Byzantium . |
| 11 | They 're my old leathers from way back when I was skinny . |
| 12 | Top designers from all over the country were getting together to stage something that , it was already forecast , would be the money-raising event of the year . |
| 13 | This was devised in a rising market , in very different circumstances from today . |
| 14 | Sir , The proper name for the Maastricht Treaty is the ‘ Treaty on European Unity ’ , signed at Maastricht on 7th February 1992 ; as John Hudson pointed out ( 6th November ) there are English texts from both the EC and UK government — both available from HMSO , but the first is half the price of the second ! |
| 15 | Still mindful of the University' image Professor Costall pays attention to entertaining visitors from overseas , particularly from America and Japan where it is very formal , showing them the best that Yorkshire has to offer . |
| 16 | a warm welcome to staffed monuments from well trained staff identified by name |
| 17 | This is a forum in which new entrants to the profession can interact with senior academics , distinguished visitors from overseas , and international economists working in government , finance , and international institutions . |
| 18 | There was a sound of quick , light footsteps from inside the curtain of fog . |
| 19 | 200 hospital clerical workers from all over Oxfordshire , who are working to rule , have voted to suspend their action . |
| 20 | Filmmakers were rarely imported from outside ( Thorold Dickinson , who was allowed in to make Secret People in 1952 , could be regarded as an ‘ old boy ’ since he had worked at the studio during Basil Dean 's time ) and , with five directors responsible for two-thirds of the films made at the studio between 1942 and 1955 , there was little competition inside the studio , and no exposure to fresh ideas from outside . |
| 21 | If industries in other countries were weakened or depleted by German domination , and if the single currency removed the competitiveness of weaker economies while the Social Charter , with its minimum wage , insulated German workers from competitively low wages abroad , then one could well imagine economic decline and rising unemployment on the periphery of the EC financing the German stranglehold . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're talking about a world that seems light years from here . |
| 23 | ‘ There is a research station , not light years from here , James , where the professors and gifted students of the department of behavioural sciences torture apes and other animals for the benefit , they tell us , of all mankind . |
| 24 | The government claimed a 91.9 per cent voter turnout , and the elections were monitored by foreign observers from more than 20 countries including the Soviet Union , Thailand , the United Kingdom and the United States . |
| 25 | Foster carers and social workers from all over the province were attending the two day event , organised by the Northern Ireland Foster Care Association and Loughside foster carers groups . |
| 26 | It was a prestigious event , attended by ministers and top delegates from all over Europe , and the speech delivered to the Prince 's office was straightforward and bland , essentially a pat on the back for Britain in all she was doing to keep the North Sea clean . |
| 27 | More serious , probably , was the extensive deforestation carried out by neolithic farmers from around 8000 BC onwards : a deforestation which , for example , denuded Scotland in the centuries before the Romans came . |
| 28 | Top breeders from all over the country joined local pigeon fanciers in donating young birds for the sales . |
| 29 | In the late nineteenth century , when vast quantities of grain were shipped into British ports from overseas , the milling industry became concentrated at ports and in towns with good canal , rail or road links . |
| 30 | They were united by their growing segregation from a bourgeoisie whose wealth increased dramatically while their own situation remained precarious , a bourgeoisie which became increasingly self-contained and impervious to would-be entrants from below . |