Example sentences of "[noun sg] from the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a sense of isolation from the rest of the world , a sense of the power in the dogs , and a wonderful feeling of being in control , but only just . |
| 2 | And Defence policy can not grow in isolation from the rest of national decision-making in Whitehall . |
| 3 | After many straight miles , the road curves inland to round Applecross Bay , a welcome sight well endowed with trees and , after passing a picnic place , turns into the village of Applecross , a friendly place with no obvious awareness of its extreme isolation from the rest of the world . |
| 4 | This does beg the question , however , of the extent to which education , and higher education in particular , exists in isolation from the rest of society . |
| 5 | ‘ My Lords , if one reads the words ‘ the rights ’ at the opening of section 3(1) literally and in isolation from the rest of the section , Mr. Denison 's submission undoubtedly has force . |
| 6 | The two further major reservations that must be made are first that the service is moulded chiefly by the doctrine of ministerial responsibility with all that flows from it — anonymity , one collective viewpoint , secrecy and a degree of isolation from the rest of the community . |
| 7 | Some mammalian families must have migrated to that continent and evolved there in isolation from the rest of the world . |
| 8 | It is obvious that it would be insufficient and even counter-productive to tackle official curriculum areas in isolation from the rest of school life , from the rest of school-based gender construction . |
| 9 | Absolutely because in York , in sorry , in Litchfield you have a confirmed greenbelt right up to the boundary , they were pursuing a local plan for the Li the city of Litchfield in isolation from the rest of the district , and there they were promoting seven hundred and fifty houses to be taken out of the greenbelt . |
| 10 | Even the most ardent advocates of exchange rate flexibility no longer maintain that it is feasible for a country to pursue independent policy objectives in isolation from the rest of the world . |
| 11 | The seeds of herbs may be dispersed by large mammals , which eat and pass plant material in bulk : many such seeds have up until recently been considered to exhibit merely ‘ gravity ’ dispersal , when looked at in isolation from the rest of the plant . |
| 12 | When South America and Australia broke away to begin their long periods of isolation from the rest of the world , they each carried their own cargo of dinosaurs , and also of the less-prominent animals that were to become the ancestors of modern mammals . |
| 13 | My Lords is there not a danger at looking at er accident and emergency departments in isolation from the rest of the hospital . |
| 14 | Now the one thing that I think is important is that one can not look at the problems of any given society in the world in isolation from the rest of the world as a whole , and in particular , in the case of underdeveloped countries , their problems are very much linked to the situations that take place in the developed countries . |
| 15 | The biggest shortcoming of the Dobry Report , however , was that it never really came to grips with the major weakness of the development control system : its general isolation from the remainder of the planning process . |
| 16 | It is , however , difficult , for a number of reasons , to accept the ‘ introductory ’ status of criminal law and its isolation from the mainstream of law teaching . |
| 17 | Efforts to merge the country with Libya [ see pp. 37367 ; 37703 ] were treated with great scepticism by analysts of the region , who interpreted it as an attempt by the regime to end its isolation from the mainstream of the Arab world . |
| 18 | It is curious that despite frequent allusion to man-environment relations by geographers , they largely chose to ignore the signposts that were evident from the mid nineteenth century onwards and physical geography proceeded largely in isolation from the hand of man . |
| 19 | They believed that emotions should be let out and then mastered ; there was their Protestantism , fighting the good fight , the insistence on going their own way , ; their fear and dislike of cities ; their psychological as well as actual isolation from the body of mankind ; their awareness of the stigma of art ; a distrust of the intellect when fed on abstractions ; a desire to get ‘ beyond ’ art to a kind of heaven and a paradoxical belief in art activity as a means of shedding psychic sickness . |
| 20 | One could choose a song title with a special sentimental attachment , or the frontispiece from the score of some classical music ( as shown in the photograph on the facing page ) , but there are other ideas too from which you can choose . |
| 21 | In France trade associations dealt both with ‘ economic ’ and ‘ social ’ matters , although , as far as industry-wide relations with trade unions were concerned , organisation among employers remained greatly underdeveloped until well after World War I. At confederal level the central ( peak ) organisation , the CNPF , also combined the functions both of an employers ' and a trade association from the time of its establishment in 1919 , as did the Confindustria in Italy . |
| 22 | As the NSDAP in the Reich moved nearer to its electoral victory of 1930 , so the Danzig Nazis shifted their thinking from the idea of seizing power in the city state to the altogether different business of returning Danzig to the Reich . |
| 23 | ( Most Westerners would , I think , have little difficulty in assuming that they could infer confused thinking from the observation of confused speech and behaviour . ) |
| 24 | Whatever we do with a horse from the beginning of its life will influence the creation of habits or forms of behaviour which it may well keep for the rest of its life . |
| 25 | On the emotional level , stresses come in many different forms ; such as problems in relationships , with family or the grief from the death of a loved one . |
| 26 | The tears were falling hotly down her cheeks , and she buried her face in his hot neck , a hoarse sob coming unbidden from the back of her throat . |
| 27 | Last time Madcap Agnew had stepped unbidden from the chamber of her mind . |
| 28 | Johannitsa threatened the pope with accepting coronation from the patriarch of Constantinople : in 1203 Johannitsa submitted to the Holy See , the legate bestowed the pallium on the archbishop of Trnovo as primate and in November 1204 crowned Johannitsa king of the Bulgars and Wallachians . |
| 29 | He wrote a pathetic letter to his lord , describing his condition in prison where he lay bound with fetters of iron and beseeching aid from the Earl of March to secure his deliverance . |
| 30 | The EBRD has 10 billion Ecus ( £7 billion ) of capital , a drop in the ocean compared with the needs of eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union — the latter alone got £15.7 billion of aid from the Group of Seven last week . |