Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] from [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 Manor court rolls and deeds show that families possessed small parcels of land on a variety of copyhold , leasehold and freehold tenures and that income from even the smallest holdings was often set aside to provide for dependants .
2 There was little noise from outside the windows and we appeared cut off from the city and from civilian life in general ; I lay in bed and pulled the sheets up over my nose .
3 We contested the decision vigorously , encouraged by strong support from outside the institution , but it did bring a significant and positive stage to an abrupt conclusion , leaving us to reflect on what we had learned , and were still learning , that might be relevant to widely shared concerns .
4 In the dead of night Elaine , 28 , drove the sparkling H-reg car from outside the home of her husband 's lover , through a pedestrian precinct and into the town hall 's glass-fronted main entrance .
5 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 ) .
6 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 !
7 There was a sound of quick , light footsteps from inside the curtain of fog .
8 And it was Wise who next went close with a free kick from near the corner spot which caught the wind and eluded Southall before bouncing to safety .
9 Scrape off all the old putty from inside the gutter and clean both ends with a wire brush .
10 The extent of royal jurisdiction varied enormously : at one extreme lay Roger II , the would-be autocrat , uttering absolutist doctrines out of Justinian ; or the English king , who , however tied by custom , had effective control both of the king 's court , which retained a wide jurisdiction and was capable , under Henry II , of rapid expansion , and over the old popular courts of the shire and , where they had not fallen into private hands , of the hundred ; at the other extreme was the German king , much of whose jurisdiction had been delegated to the ecclesiastical immunities , and equally much was slipping , in the twelfth century , into princely hands ; or the French king , who was expected to do high justice to all who came , but received comparatively few callers from outside the royal domain .
11 Some people from both the Libyan Jewish and Slovakian foci of inherited prion disease have been found to carry the mutation at codon 200 and yet remain unaffected at ages similar to or greater than the upper age at onset in most affected relatives.Such incomplete penetrance has not been reported in other types of inherited prion disease .
12 New lighting effects were installed to improve public viewing from outside the glass case , and an operating console was designed to fit into a small room outside the Dolls ' House .
13 It can be argued that the successful development of such techniques requires an adherence to semantic theory from both the computational and linguistic perspective , to provide a sound theoretical framework .
14 As she re-passed the stable yard , she heard the sound of voices , a man 's and a woman 's , raised in some altercation from inside the buildings .
15 The Town Docks Museum is a 10 minute walk from both the Hull BR and adjacent bus station .
16 Programmers can access this memory from outside the parallel processor by using memory mapping .
17 But what differentiates the earlier part of this century from either the present or the early nineteenth century is that these problems did not all coalesce into one disturbing image of a threatening , dangerous , and disorderly criminal class .
18 It was like reliving the Dam Pool experience all over again , this time from above the water , rather than underneath it .
19 Failure led him to mass manipulation and an attempt to revolutionize British politics from outside the system .
20 THE most appropriate response to this production from even the most restrained of critics would be a cry of joy .
21 There was an extra loud crash from inside the bus , followed by a stream of invective calling into question the parentage of the Pope and his fondness for animals .
22 In many cases it will be best to seek professional assistance from outside the firm .
23 Chairman John Haynes said the group 's performance had been achieved with little help from either the UK or the US economies ( although the latter was showing a significant increase in retail spending in the fourth quarter ) : turnover was up by less than 2% to £11.1m .
24 By 1989–90 , the government 's grants had risen to 82 million to support expenditure on 15 ‘ activities of national priority ’ , with LEAs encouraged to seek additional funding from outside the public sector .
25 Remember attracting just one additional child from outside the area will , under LMS , more than repay the entire costs of printing the prospectus .
26 ‘ WESTERN EUROPE ’ takes many forms ; but whether one looks at a group of about 10 nations , or a more complete group of 20 or so , the crucial difference from both the USA and Japan is the presence of a jumble of nation-states of different sizes and distinctive history .
27 The legislation also sought to ensure that future immigration from outside the European Communities ( EC ) was properly controlled .
28 Starting with the categories of information used in this form individual comments from both the description and potential risks condition were assigned to categories .
29 ‘ Act Two — Beginners please , ’ said a tremulous voice from outside the door .
30 Lee suddenly heard a violent crack from outside the room , which was simultaneously thrown into stark relief by pure , blinding light .
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