Example sentences of "[indef pn] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Williams agreed to get someone from Grand Met to meet all the landlords affected . |
| 2 | Someone from Central Admin , with a sharkish smile , hands out the evening 's assignments . |
| 3 | I always thought that to be a religious Jew , you had to dress like someone from nineteenth-century Poland . |
| 4 | You have n't been in London for months , so it must be someone from round here . |
| 5 | A graduate perhaps , a very bright secretary promoted from another department , or someone from one of the media contractors who wants the broader experience of agency work . |
| 6 | And someone — someone from close by , someone on or near this site — caught him in the act , and took drastic action . |
| 7 | They stood or sat in groups on all the branches around Little Billy , staring at him as though he were someone from outer space . |
| 8 | When we speak to a child , or to someone from another culture , we can easily estimate this knowledge incorrectly . |
| 9 | But I preferred to think that you were … well , you know … someone from another planet . |
| 10 | And even if someone from another age is standing on this spot , a ghostly paintbrush in her hand , her eyes would n't see what I see . |
| 11 | ‘ So it 's someone from another part of town . ’ |
| 12 | Gin had been the great popular comfort of Paradise Street in her childhood , gin and tea , so she took it as someone from another background might have made a dish of bread and milk . |
| 13 | I think if I could ever call anyone a role model , for me it would be someone from both categories — Madonna for her strength of character and Joni Mitchell for her musicianship , and her lyrics are bloody great . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We 've been refusing that man a cheque book for months but he just went inside and someone from senior management , who has n't been behind a counter for years , just hands one over without a thought . ’ |
| 15 | It does n't have to be someone from this parish council , maybe other people are interested , or prepared to attend . |
| 16 | Is there a deeper fear that someone from this little part of the world could become another champion of champions like those who went before ? |
| 17 | ( It might be a familiar figure , someone from past ages , an animal , or mythological character . |
| 18 | There 's just point if anyone , someone from head office goes in . |
| 19 | They said that at , someone from third year last year er , she said that Professor is having an extra lecture you know , telling what 's on the exam those things . |
| 20 | Someone from British Coal rang a bemused Rob Gretton to find out what ‘ the political content of the record was ’ as , what with the goings-on with the imminent pit closures they claim not to want any more adverse publicity ! |
| 21 | Nobody from Australian cricket officialdom and not one member of the Australian team saw us off . |
| 22 | Erm , nor I think are there any proposals to change the grading or pay honorarium to P As to reflect there work on these files , er , I 'm not sure whether the assumption that this would n't be taken into account by the W R is sound , because I think one of the principles that I recall was that he were meant to ensure that that each of these job evaluation panels had somebody from each office so that an account could be taken of the different practices , I mean I 'm sure that , I 'm sure that each of the three offices in the er deal with things in a different way , so that er what gets done by one person here is not necessarily done by people in Coventry and York , and that in fa in London , and that also holds good in the other way , I think . |
| 23 | She wants somebody from each |
| 24 | so I think in a way it would be quite nice to sit down with somebody from each of the colleges to hammer out the syllabus because Napier will see it from Napier 's point of view about what 's easiest for them to teach and what this and what the other whereas I suspect if you also sat down with and and people you might get a broader discussion base |
| 25 | MI5 provided non-classified information , but none from secret or classified sources . |
| 26 | Yes , I 've always , I 've always understood , understood more recently the reason why that there would always seemed to be enough prisoners , when we know there really must be enough prisoners throughout the world is that the betting procedure and they 're making quite sure they 're the right people takes time and money and effort , erm , that 's part and also there are some areas of the world now , where , where there are n't as many prisoners as there were , there are very few , there are very few prisoners of conscience in Latin America because they do n't put them in prison they just get rid of them , they just disappear and there are practically , practically none from Latin America countries , cos of these , these disappearances rather than being put in prison , erm , but it 's a sort of combination of reasons I think but er quite a long time now , ten , fifteen years I think groups have only had one prisoner , whereas when I first joined and Ann 's there , we had three did n't we at one time ? |
| 27 | Jonah ( portrayed as everything from muscular faun to bearded elder ) has an iconography whose pedigree and variety would make Noah envious . |
| 28 | The kit contains everything from antiseptic cream and scissors to a thermometer . |
| 29 | ‘ They included everything from long jump and discus to middle-distance running , ’ she said . |
| 30 | Then why not listen to DC Talk ( the ‘ DC ’ stands for ‘ decent Christian ’ ) rapping about everything from divine providence to abortion ( ‘ Yo , children can live without it ’ ) . |