Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be unrealistic to expect the majority of researchers from overseas to maintain their UK research interests when they return to their country of origin , or move elsewhere , as many of them do , to the extent that they would wish to complete a paper or papers based on their UK findings . |
| 2 | It would be unrealistic to expect the majority of researchers from overseas to maintain their UK research interests when they return to their country of origin , or move elsewhere , as many of them do , to the extent that they would wish to complete a paper or papers based on their UK findings . |
| 3 | Whereas the majority of respondents from the six CCAB bodies favoured the principle of rationalisation by means of reduction of the number of bodies , 58 per cent of ICAS respondents did not . |
| 4 | Clearly this offers no solution for the majority of students from low-income families , while for most rural children no such alternatives exist . |
| 5 | The Exchange 's executive director Sergey Starodubov has said in an interview with the newspaper Kommersant that the majority of offers from foreign firms amount to the foreign partners being responsible for most of the hard currency expenditure involved in carrying out a project . |
| 6 | The report , which called for the raising of the minimum wage in the overseas departments and examined the contentious issue of civil service pay , was not supported by the majority of deputies from Guadeloupe and Martinique in a debate held on June 12-13 in the French National Assembly . |
| 7 | The majority of deputies from the opposition bloc were absent from these sessions . |
| 8 | It has been known for some time that the majority of fibres from the left and right eyes converge upon single cells in the visual cortex of the cat and monkey ( Hubel and Wiesel , 1967 ) . |
| 9 | Their activism is now able to sustain itself independently of the lives , dreams and aspirations of the majority of blacks from whose experience they derive their authority to speak . |
| 10 | The majority of deaths from lung cancer happen to smokers ; smoking causes heart disease , bronchitis and emphysema ; many more suffer years of debilitating illness that would certainly kill them if some other cause of death — crossing the road to go to the tobacconist first , perhaps — did not intervene . |
| 11 | In England and Wales those aged 65 + represent the majority of deaths from all forms of heart disease and strokes . |
| 12 | A Fire Authority divisional officer at Bangor confirmed the majority of firemen from Castlereagh have left the service . |
| 13 | I can write to the hon. Gentleman with the figures , but the majority of arrivals from Vietnam who are screened are found not to be refugees . |
| 14 | Cutbacks were instigated , including the reduction of employees from 21,000 to 14,000 . |
| 15 | On March 11 , opposition groups led by George Serban drew up the Timisoara Declaration , a document calling for the banning of ex-communists from public office , a purge of the bureaucracy and democratic reforms . |
| 16 | The slightly grudging tone is revealing : the AMMA , like most other teaching unions , campaigned against the funding of schools from Whitehall during the last Parliament . |
| 17 | The range of Victorian and Edwardian painting can be seen in the variety of subjects from classical , medieval and modern life and contrasting styles from the minute detail of the Pre-Raphaelites to the broad brush of Sickert and Steer . |
| 18 | The high per capita costs of ensuring these services , and the provision of subsidies from central government may be easier to justify where there is a closer relationship between farming and other activities . |
| 19 | He says in his affirmation , with the support of letters from his doctor , that he and his wife suffer from heart conditions and other ailments which make it undesirable for them to occupy accommodation above the level of the ground floor . |
| 20 | One of the pretexts is the smuggling of objects from countries such as Greece and Italy , not to speak of Turkey and the African countries whose cultural heritage could be seriously affected . |
| 21 | A major investigation has now been launched into the smuggling of keys from the jail to UDA elements outside . |
| 22 | US intelligence had estimated that North Korea could have nuclear weapons ready by 1993 and that it was taking action to hide the existence of components from possible international inspection . |
| 23 | The first cases were reported to the Board of Guardians from Renhold , Kempston , Thurleigh , and St. Cuthbert 's in the town . |
| 24 | A member of the board of examiners from 1925 to 1952 , he took the chair in 1929 . |
| 25 | For Guy Tolson , the reliability of deliveries from France makes his job a little less stressful . |
| 26 | The differentiation of accidents from other types is useful in the context of emergency planning and is not so clearly conveyed by other hazard typologies . |
| 27 | Thus , it began to incorporate the principles of determinism and the differentiation of offenders from non-offenders that were to be the later hallmarks of positivist criminology . |
| 28 | But the problem was still there ; even in relation to this seemingly most obvious of variables , the differentiation of criminals from non-criminals , which was so important to positivist criminology , failed to stand out adequately . |
| 29 | About three-quarters of the judges are educated at public schools and Oxford or Cambridge , but there are also other factors that reinforce their exclusiveness : their socialization into the legal life via their training as barristers ( that is those entitled to appear in the higher courts ) and the need to demonstrate professional competence in order to ‘ take silk ’ , that is become a Queen 's Counsel and thus gain themselves a place among the elite of barristers from whom judges are chosen . |
| 30 | Royalty likes to go where royalty has already been , and in the second half of the last century Biarritz became the resort of monarchs from all over . |