Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | INCIDENTS of damage to homes from subsidence caused by drought has risen from 3,000 in 1980 to 100,000 in 1991 . |
| 2 | As Christians , our approach to the Old Testament is frequently selective : we value the Ten Commandments as a basis for public morality , the psalter as a help in public worship and the record of the lives of men and women of faith as examples from which we can learn . |
| 3 | Will the Government recognise that the only way that many of those pensioners will have a happy and healthy retirement is through a substantial increase in the basic rate of income of at least £5 for a single person and £8 per couple , which is the commitment of the Labour party and which is supported by pensioner groups throughout the country as was shown by a recent lobby of Parliament by pensioners from the north-west which was supported by many Conservative Members ? |
| 4 | Costs include : buying or leasing the new property ; building and refurbishment ; staff costs ( including redundancy/severance payments , retention payments if staff are to be encouraged to stay until the move goes ahead , recruitment and training costs for new staff and relocation and removal allowances for those moving ) ; communication costs ( including the installation of telephone and telex facilities and changes to stationery ) ; occupancy costs ( including rent , rates , lighting , heating and security ) and other costs ( such as new machinery and the cost of removal of goods from the old to the new site ) . |
| 5 | Women 's weak labour-market position is a source of disadvantage to women from which only employers benefit , since it enables them to pay women workers less than they would men . |
| 6 | 3 ) Lack of guidance to branches from HQ |
| 7 | Sometimes other hints of friendship between men from different elements of the connection survive . |
| 8 | Sometimes other hints of friendship between men from different elements of the connection survive . |
| 9 | Apart from reservations from AT2 , the teachers anticipated no sense of intrusion from visits from the Senior Management Team , other than the Head , whose arrival AT3 expected to produce ‘ an entirely artificial atmosphere ’ . |
| 10 | Such has been the volume of turnover in personnel from Pakistan that even Ulster 's two inter-pro debutantes at Whitechurch Park can harbour claims for an Ireland place . |
| 11 | Of the total of 179 , 14 dream reports were judged to contain elements from the films , although there was no difference in the frequency of incorporation of scenes from the two films . |
| 12 | The degree of concentration of bones from such accumulations of prey depends on the habits of the predator more than the habits of the prey animals . |
| 13 | They had both had their fill of talk as children from critical families . |
| 14 | The Department of Theology and Religious Studies offers two aspects of theology : doctrine as it has emerged in Christian tradition , and the relation of theology to influences from philosophy , other contemporary studies , and atheistic alternatives . |
| 15 | The main boost for those groups will come from the reduction in the rate of ACT on dividends from 25 per cent now to 22.5 per cent next year and 20 per cent in the 1994-95 tax year . |
| 16 | One night , in a state of despair , he drank several cans of lager with friends from college — and on the way home , expressed years of frustration against his parents ' beliefs ( as well as his deep need for their love ) by throwing stones at the stained glass windows . |
| 17 | Both underwent deep spiritual experience before they embarked on their public ministry , the Buddha in his night of illumination under the Bo tree when he discovered a way of escape for men from suffering , and the Christ in the forty days in the harsh countryside of the Dead Sea , when he was shown and accepted the way of love , sacrifice and service , as the way of salvation in the Kingdom of God . |
| 18 | The air waybill was designed as an acknowledgment of receipt of goods from the consignor , and as a notice of shipment to the carrier ( and especially to his agent at the destination ) , a notice which would also enable the identification of the consignee . |
| 19 | The export of wood by merchants from Ragusa and other Dalmatian cities to the Arabs in Egypt , North Africa , Spain and Sicily contributed to the deforestation of the immediate hinterland . |
| 20 | With a faster rate of transfer of workers from old machines to new ones , the proportion of more modern , higher-productivity machines in use rises . |
| 21 | The separation of ownership of premises from general practitioner pension arrangements |
| 22 | The most prominent aspect of privatisation , as practised by the Conservative government , has been the transfer of ownership of assets from the public sector to the private sector ( as in definition 1 ) , and it is the arguments for this that are now considered . |
| 23 | In vitro studies have shown significant reactions to both synthetic A-gliadin and adenovirus 12 peptides from the regions of homology by leukocytes from coeliac disease patients . |
| 24 | They could hear the wild rush of the wind and the pattering of rain against floorboards from the deserted upper floor . |
| 25 | Members of the World Sephardi foundation were arriving in Ankara on that day for a two-day visit in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Jews ' arrival in Istanbul [ see p. 38823 for commemoration of expulsion of Jews from Spain ] . |
| 26 | " A small part , " 90 entire pennies and a few fragments , was recovered by the Scottish Exchequer and were mostly from the reign of Eadgar with others from Athelstan , Edmund , Eodred and Eadwig . |
| 27 | The general conclusions that can be drawn from these and other studies are , first , that it is not possible to separate fully the effects of education on earnings from those of other factors , particularly those of such abstract personal qualities as motivation , perseverance , ability to make decisions , etc . |
| 28 | It 's the largest subject created so far by a foundry which specialises in works of art by sculptors from Britain and Europe . |
| 29 | It 's the largest subject created so far by a foundry which specialises in works of art by sculptors from Britain and Europe . |
| 30 | The South American story is complicated by the fact that it was subject to sporadic waves of invasion by mammals from North America . |