Example sentences of "[noun pl] from [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , hospital based series have usually shown an increased mortality , which probably reflects the severity of disease in patients referred to specialist units from outside the area . |
| 2 | The equipment takes images from inside the body in the form of thin slices which can then be viewed by specialists on a computer screen . |
| 3 | Although insignificant on the map , it has long been a magnet drawing folk from the Dales on repeated visits ; latterly there has been a growing influx of tourists and walkers from outside the county to see the magnificent waterfall of Hardraw Force . |
| 4 | His job was to keep the stream of voices from inside the apartment above him recorded , encoded , radioed to Grosvenor Square for decoding and digestion by the listeners in the basement . |
| 5 | Johnson ( 1985 , pp. 424–5 ) also cites prime ministerial intervention in promoting top civil servants , and the increasing frequency of appointments to senior posts from outside the service ( such as Peter Levene recruited from the private sector to head the Defence Procurement Executive in 1985 ) as evidence of ‘ a more active personnel policy ’ designed to enhance managerial competence . |
| 6 | Most of these birds seem to be visitors from outside the county . |
| 7 | In an interview published on Jan. 4 Sezgin mentioned Iran along with Syria , Iraq , and three unnamed countries from outside the region , as being responsible for encouraging separatist activity among Turkish Kurds . |
| 8 | The European Commission yesterday duly called for total deregulation of telephone service in the European Community by 1998 and asked telecommunications ministers to endorse that goal at their Council of Ministers on May 10 : the UK is the only European Community country where the body responsible for installing phones and running the service has been forced to make room for a competitor , but national territorial monopolies were not suited to the needs of a single Community market and technological advances meant they were no longer justified in any case , the Commission said ; Industry Commissioner Martin Bangemann said the Commission would soon produce another paper on whether development of telephone networks should also be dealt with under a free market system , adding that the Commission believed companies from outside the Community should be free to reap the benefits of deregulation as long as EC firms were able to do likewise on those firms ' home territory ; but the Commission pulled back from recommending that large companies be free to lease spare capacity on the networks of utilities such as gas from the start of next year . |
| 9 | Golfers from outside the parish will be able to join in , but will not be eligible for the trophy . |
| 10 | There was a sound of quick , light footsteps from inside the curtain of fog . |
| 11 | But hopes of a local victory were swept away by crews from outside the region who snatched a convincing win . |
| 12 | This tactic involved borrowing ideas from outside the community to force a change and was a typical ploy for incomers . |
| 13 | The research programme , for which 730,000 has been allocated , is being funded largely by the ESRC , with contributions from both the Home Office and DHSS . |
| 14 | British Gas holds to the opinion that it will need discoveries from both the Norwegian and UK sectors to meet future demand and that it will need to buy some 12,000 billion cubic feet of new supplies by the end of the century — some one-third of the amount British Gas projected it would sell . |
| 15 | Moreover they will tend to be Catholics from just the sort of background the universities here have for years wished to see represented more adequately among students . |
| 16 | Cadets from military schools and a force of 1000 cossacks from outside the capital tried without success to overthrow the new government . |
| 17 | That class qualifies as a species because all the members will breed with other members of the class , but not with plants from outside the class ; but there would be no justification for saying that the class also represented a genus and a family , if the larger taxonomy of which it forms part did not exhibit branching at these levels . |
| 18 | It is aimed at young booksellers from outside the German speaking area who are interested in learning about the structure of German publishing and bookselling . |
| 19 | The government brought criminal charges against 19 people , including Mehta , who was arrested on June 4 , and senior officials from both the State Bank of India and the UK-based Standard Chartered Bank . |
| 20 | General Motors Corp may need to sell a stake in Electronic Data Systems Corp in order to overcome a $14,000m worldwide pension obligation , industry analysts told Reuter : chief financial officer Richard Wagoner said the automaker plans to make a ‘ significant contribution ’ into its pension fund this year and next year , and over the next six or seven years , hopes to eliminate its pension fund liability completely ; analysts say it could raise almost $5,000m by selling a 25% stake in the computer services giant , and Lehman Brothers automotive analyst Joseph Phillippi said he expects it either to sell a stake or return to the equity markets ; officials from both the General and British Telecommunications Plc say that any deal for the UK phone giant to buy a stake in EDS is far from certain . |
| 21 | Secondly , investors from outside the Community , from places such as Japan , the United States and many others , look at the European Community and decide that the United Kingdom is by far the best place in which to invest due to the stability , skills and reliability of our work force . |
| 22 | Exercise is , in fact , well provided for , with an indoor swimming pool , a gymnasium , a sports area for football ( with teams from outside the prison involved in both football and weightlifting ) , and like most long-term prisons , Maidstone has its share of those who keep fanatically fit . |
| 23 | These will be made primarily in the plane of the galaxy , although observations will also be made of gamma-ray sources from outside the galaxy . |
| 24 | the use of resources from outside the school , such as the LEA Training Grants Scheme ( LEATGS ) budget ; and |
| 25 | A statement that , to viewers from outside the north west of England , must have seemed bewildering . |
| 26 | The Portfolio seminar features several leading figures from both the industry and outside as speakers who will attempt to change the impression that successful women in senior operational roles in the industry need to be single , or divorced , childless and generally married to their work . |
| 27 | ‘ This particular tie-up is everything we stand for two companies just around the corner from each other which were dealing with firms from outside the area . |
| 28 | Industry guru Marc Schulman has left UBS Securities to set up his own consulting operation , The Technology Strategies Group , whose primary customers are expected to be computer industry managers from both the hardware and software side . |
| 29 | Louis Gerstner was by no means the first , and IBM Corp has been actively hiring executives from outside the company since the beginning of the year , Associated Press reports : it says that IBM has hired about 30 outside executives in the past two years and is searching for 50 more ; incomers include Robert Howe , 48 , general manager , IBM Consulting Group , former head of worldwide financial services practice at consulting firm Booz-Allen & Hamilton ; Michael Cannon , 40 , vice-president , personal systems storage devices , Adstar , former senior vice-president , worldwide operations at Syquest Technology Inc ; John Osborne , 39 , sales director , Personal Software Products , former vice-president of sales and marketing at Zenith Data Systems Inc ; Jon Cornell , 53 , assistant general manager , original equipment manufacturers sales and marketing , IBM Technology Products , former president , Harris Corp ; John Singleton , 56 , general manager , business development , Integrated Systems Solution Corp , former chief executive , Security Pacific Automation Co ; and Clare Thain , 43 , advertising and promotion director , IBM US , who was formerly the managing partner at Ronald James Direct . |
| 30 | He had found some fence posts slack and claimed that it was impossible to reach the lifebelts from outside the fence . |