Example sentences of "[noun pl] from [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Due to the obsession of most comparative sociologists with problems of measurement , all sight of a global system was lost in the mists of dubious generalization about a host of discrete variables from societies all over the world .
2 Heads can create their own clarity if they organize their time in such a way as to digest and weigh reports , views and experiences from sources either outside the school or inside the staffroom .
3 It struck him that it seemed weird that Leeds rejected continuous bids from Blackburn all through the season and then suddenly , out of the blue , accepted one .
4 Erlich had seen nothing like it in CI-3 , in Washington Field Office , where each room had photos of wives stuck onto cork boards , of kids , postcards from vacations all over the world , cartoons , clippings of headlines and a huge blow-up of a quote from an English thriller writer : ‘ The most suspicious , unbelieving , unreasonable , petty , inhuman , sadistic , double-crossing set of bastards in any language [ are ] the people who run counter-espionage departments . ’
5 I ask because I have been throwing out a raft of old notebooks and discovered some scrawled lines from years ago about the open air factor .
6 The markings should be located as follows : a spot over each eye ; on cheeks ; as a strip around each side of muzzle , but not on the bridge of the nose ; on throat ; triangular mark on either side of prosternum ; on forelegs from carpus downwards to toes ; on front of rear legs from hock to toes , but not completely eliminating black from back of rear pasterns ; under tail ; black pencilling on toes .
7 On March 10 the Hungarian Foreign Minister , Gyula Horn , and his Soviet counterpart , Eduard Shevardnadze , signed a similar agreement in Moscow , providing for the withdrawal of all 49,700 Soviet troops from Hungary also by July 1991 , with two-thirds of the troops and equipment due to be removed by the end of 1990 .
8 Males have a blue face , especially on the cheeks , while females do not , and the presence or absence of iridescent blue on the lips is a sure way of separating males from females even at small sizes ( say 1.5″ S.L. )
9 A few self-contained University flats are also available to couples , though there is considerable competition for such flats from students already at University .
10 Detectives have already been to Scotland to talk to colleagues there … and they 're pooling information with officers from forces all over Britain .
11 WOMEN managers from colleges all over Wales will gather at the St David 's Park Hotel at Ewloe today for the launch of the Network for Women Managers in Further and Continuing Education in Wales .
12 Both raw materials and finished products were all in bags — we unloaded the raw materials up until midnight then re-loaded the lorries from midnight onwards for the drivers to deliver the next day .
13 A consortium of British Aerospace , GEC-Marconi and British Telecom is to operate the satellite which will beam programmes from space directly to small ‘ dishes ’ on houses and in back gardens .
14 So they took me on and the to cut all the roads from Kirkland right to West Mainland right out into Kirkwall and .
15 Lightweight British-made frames are also available for tots from 18-months upwards from good opticians .
16 Lightweight British-made frames are also available for tots from 18-months upwards from good opticians .
17 ‘ When our case was originally rejected we got calls from authorities all over the country saying ‘ What 's going on ? ’ . ’
18 Our advisory services answer thousands of queries from people all over the country .
19 But because exploration costs represent barely a fifth the total North Sea spending of about £10 billion , this may not be considered too heavy a price to pay for an attempt to switch activity towards developing some of the finds already made or maximising the returns from fields already in production .
20 The Pope 's 450-page draft text has been drawn up with the help of 24,000 suggestions from bishops all over the world .
21 It 's especially valuable to get comments on the modules which are in the Programme of Work for that year or the coming year because then we can feed comments from practitioners straight to the Module Development Group .
22 ITN shareholders are demanding that the four bidders — Carlton , Central TV , LWT and Reuters — should cut their intended stakes from 20% apiece to 15% , with the remaining 40% staying with the current shareholders .
23 ‘ Although we have had bookings from people all over Britain , strangely no one has expressed any interest from Northern Ireland , ’ she added .
24 On joining the nearest Brownie Guide Pack , she was delighted to find two other girls from Scotland already in the Pack .
25 Not only is she busy sending out subscription forms to the existing 220 members , she is also coping with the dozens of enquiries from amateurs all over the world looking to turn professional .
26 ‘ I 've got letters from people recently with big crosses on them , people who 've accused me of using my lyrics to subvert people .
27 Sale of the Lancashire bus company could result in one major group dominating bus services from Lancashire right through Cumbria to the Scottish border .
28 ‘ Taylors have a certain amount of stock but she will be bringing extra samples from London especially for the show .
29 Harrison , who with colleagues has comprehensively studied deaths from asthma prospectively in Norwich over five years in a confidential inquiry , reports an average of just under five ( undoubtedly genuine ) deaths from asthma a year in a population of almost half a million .
30 Tamar bridge is the only road vehicle crossing for twenty three miles from Rainhead northward to Gunnislake Bridge and Cornwall is almost as island , with natural boundaries fixed by the coastline and the river Tamar .
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