Example sentences of "from the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There seems general agreement that the mind does not work like a camera , faithfully recording everything in front of its lens , for apart from the discrimination of sensations and the filtering out of some of them , the information that is passed on undergoes considerable re-organisation and change so that there is always a discrepancy between the sensory input and what is perceived . |
| 2 | He lashed out at it and sent it flying down the road , away from the trio of kids . |
| 3 | RAIDERS stole jewellery , bank cards and cash worth £2,200 from the home of honeymooners Ian and Toni Hunter at South Ockenden , Essex . |
| 4 | But although Mr Redwood agreed to allow the West German competition authorities special rights to look at sensitive mergers , he obtained a commitment from the Council of Ministers that this could only be used ‘ in exceptional circumstances ’ . |
| 5 | The Commission was to have not just the right to initiate and recommend policy to its executive partner , the Council of Ministers , but also the task of ensuring that the provisions of the treaty and policies emanating from the Council of Ministers were carried out by the other institutions and the member states . |
| 6 | Iran 's relations with other West European countries began to improve a few months after the initial call by Ayatollah Khomeini for Rushdie 's death , although Rafsanjani 's statement in May 1989 advocating the killing of five Westerners for every Palestinian killed in the occupied territories [ see pp. 36669-70 ] drew a strong rebuke from the Council of Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 7 | The 40-member Federal National Council , appointed by the emirates , considers legislative proposals from the Council of Ministers . |
| 8 | At the end of the day it 's a political decision from the council of ministers , but it seems to be going there with a firm endorsement of support from the commission . ’ |
| 9 | We bear warrants from the Council of Guardians of Scotland and yet you ignore us . |
| 10 | The most important thing in this report is from the Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland and it 's a resolution that they passed on Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | The OLF announced on June 23 that it was withdrawing from the Council of Representatives ; elected in July 1991 the 87-member Council contained 12 members of the OLF and 16 were from four other Oromo organizations [ see p. 38322 ; for December 1991 agreement on autonomous regions see pp. 38564 ; 38660 ] . |
| 12 | He reached Haslemere in early afternoon , hired a taxi and discharged it fifteen minutes later on the other side of the road from the Skein of Geese Hotel and Restaurant a few miles south-east of the town . |
| 13 | All he really wanted to do was walk away from the Skein of Geese and never return . |
| 14 | It next considered the problem of designing the curriculum , and in particular the competing claims on the curriculum from society , from epistemology ( i.e. theories on the nature of knowledge ) , and from the psychology of pupils . |
| 15 | There is , in a sense , a dichotomy in the change of direction in work , moving from the closeness of women 's friendships to the seeming betrayal of these friendships . |
| 16 | There were two appointments from the Academy of Sciences , namely Shatalin , a pro-reform economist , and Osipyan , a theoretical physicist . |
| 17 | This characteristic stems from the diversity of techniques required to climb the rock . |
| 18 | Similarly , being closed and self-contained , the structure implies a concentric form of organization with the centre as the organizing agent which would then be exempt from the play of differences which , instead , it appears to control . |
| 19 | An alternative would be to subtract the proportion of optimists from the proportion of pessimists . |
| 20 | The points value of a champion , and of any magic item he carries , comes from the proportion of points allocated to the army 's characters and NOT the regiments . |
| 21 | The points value of a champion , and of any magic item he carries , comes from the proportion of points allocated to the army 's characters and NOT the regiments . |
| 22 | The two-volume octavo work of 1724 , known as The Gardeners and Florists Dictionary , is Omitted from the enumeration of editions , the folio work of 1731 being classed as the first . |
| 23 | Basalts form the entire oceanic crust of the Earth , and all of this basalt originates in the same way , from the melting of rocks in the upper part of the mantle , underneath the ocean ridges . |
| 24 | So when someone emerged from the scrum of drivers meeting various flights and waved a sign in our face , I sort of pushed him away . |
| 25 | Using this technique , Spigelman et al have examined DNA extracted from the foregut of patients with familial adenomatous polyposis . |
| 26 | It was stuffy but bearable and , despite his length , large enough , provided he remained crouched in the foetal position ; which meant he nearly gagged from the smell of almonds . |
| 27 | ‘ That the experience was an intense one for all was obvious from the babel of voices on the road down . |
| 28 | In some cases doctors will not only have to consider the capacity of the patient to refuse treatment , but also whether the refusal has been vitiated because it resulted not from the patient 's will , but from the will of others . |
| 29 | An article in Izvestiya of Aug. 17 commented that their failure to create a structured opposition stemmed from the conflict of interests between enterprise directors and the parliamentarians who had organized both conferences . |
| 30 | ( 3 ) It possesses the monopoly of violence throughout this area , by virtue of which it has the capacity , even if not the moral authority , to guarantee the finality of its decision in political disputes arising from the conflict of individuals or groups within its territory . |