Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun prp] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A well-known Serbian-American historian , Michael Boro Petrovich , considers that the most far-reaching effect of the Ottoman occupation was the isolation of Serbia from the main currents of western thought and western social development . |
| 2 | It was startling to discover that a race which was identifiably mutant had laws for the suppression of mutations , and he guessed that the origin of cause and principle alike lay somewhere in the lost time of the isolation of Tarvaras from the Empire . |
| 3 | It was well named : this was the edge of the Great Rift Valley , a gigantic dyke which cuts across the entire continent of Africa from the Red Sea to Mozambique , and from our vantage point the ground fell away , almost sheer , to the flat valley floor , some 2,000 feet below . |
| 4 | Wolsey had bought the manor of Hampton from the Knights Hospitallers , levelled it to the ground and , bringing in craftsmen from every part of Europe , built a palace breath-taking in its opulent beauty . |
| 5 | The demonstrators held banners demanding both the secession of Georgia from the Soviet Union and the full integration of the Abkhazian republic , which had itself been seeking to secede from Georgia and to resume the union republican status it had enjoyed from 1921 until 1931 . |
| 6 | The loss in the general election of one of the Nevis seats held by the NRP ( which had retained four seats in the December 1987 elections to the Nevis island Assembly ) to the CCM ( which had gained the remaining elective seat ) revived speculation about the eventual secession of Nevis from the federation . |
| 7 | Short of a series of studies which is designed directly to compare regional patterns , holding other variables constant , we can not be certain that any observed variations can be attributed to , say , people 's views about family responsibilities being different in the north-east of England from the prevailing norms in the south-west . |
| 8 | Ribbed cottons are decorated with pastel florals and shell motifs — available at branches of Hennes from the end of February . |
| 9 | The Saturday Review remarked that he was ‘ in no way prominent for artistic taste or knowledge ’ , and his only possible interest could have been that his London home , Montagu House , was on the opposite side of Whitehall from the site . |
| 10 | STUDYING the West Coast of Scotland from the yacht Britannia , the Queen is said to have remarked , not long ago , that the people there did n't seem to have much of a life . |
| 11 | Why were the large new steelworks and rolling mills built in a different part of Sheffield from the old cutlery works ? |
| 12 | At this village north of St Austell is the Wheal Martyn China Clay Works , now preserved as an open-air museum of the industry that brought prosperity to this part of Cornwall from the mid-eighteenth century , when William Cookworthy , a Plymouth Quaker and apothecary , discovered kaolin , the chief ingredient of porcelain , which had been a secret closely guarded by the Chinese for over a thousand years . |
| 13 | Similarly , Jacqueline Hill was a strong contender for the part of Barbara from the very start , thanks to her critically acclaimed part in the TV play Six Proud Walkers . |
| 14 | The prayer of Jesus from the heart of the suffering world is not something in the mind , it is his accepted bodily agony and it is by being given the grace to accept our material weakness and pain and finally our death in union with him that we too can pray . |
| 15 | Our plate shows — originally back to front , as is characteristic of the process , but corrected here — a vista of Whitehall from the corner of Trafalgar Square . |
| 16 | What you do n't expect is the level of NVH from the drivetrain and suspension . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | First , of the some 96 paintings given to the National Galleries of Scotland from the Royal Scottish Academy 's collections , only a small number were by academicians . |
| 19 | In the courtyard is a wooden statue of Hercules from the second quarter of the 18C , attributed to L. Widmann . |
| 20 | After yesterday 's meeting , committee chairman Councillor Charles Booth said a recommendation for removal of W.H.Spence from the list of approved contractors would now be made to the council 's general-purposes committee . |
| 21 | The removal of Franca from the upper storey was perhaps the sign that her arrival was imminent . |
| 22 | After the death of Henderson in 1935 and the removal of Lansbury from the leadership , disarmament and pacifism were less universally accepted among the Party 's members . |
| 23 | During the later part of my career , I was University Estates Officer to the new University of York from the university 's inception in ninety sixty three until my retirement . |
| 24 | The family had been settled in the west of Ireland from the early thirteenth century and on the death of his father in 1808 Ulick John de Burgh inherited , in addition to the earldom , 56,000 acres in county Galway . |
| 25 | Jewish legend also suggested that Alexander proclaimed the unity of God from the tower of his new city , Alexandria ( Ps. -Callisth . |
| 26 | In 1985 , Rome declined to follow the convention of choosing the new archbishop of Dublin from the names submitted by the clergy and notables of the diocese , and imposed a known conservative and former president of Maynooth College , Dr Kevin MacNamara . |
| 27 | Nor can you get away from Hegel by simply removing him , like the excision of Trotsky from the side of Lenin in certain official Soviet photographs . |
| 28 | An almost identical coffin as that shown in the Bedford Hours , though within a far less elaborate hearse , can be seen in the equally luxurious London Hours of René of Anjou from the Egerton Workshop . |
| 29 | In November 1990 Lacy had vetoed the appointment of Jack B. Yager to a union vice-presidency on the grounds of his past association with criminals ; in December he banned vice-president George Vitale of Michigan from the union for five years for alleged embezzlement . |
| 30 | In accordance with these principles , arrangements should be made for " the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Israel from the occupied territories in Palestine , Syria and Lebanon ; Syria 's withdrawal from Lebanon ; a withdrawal between Iraq and Iran ; and the formulation of arrangements for the situation in Kuwait " . |