Example sentences of "from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statistical approach reduces the problem facing the syntax analyser from a logic-based task to one of pattern recognition . |
| 2 | Friends of the Earth accused the government of retreating from a firmly-stated commitment to identify contaminated land . |
| 3 | They now spontaneously assemble into rods which press against the membrane of the red blood cell deforming it from a rounded into a sickle shape . |
| 4 | The oral shield is variable in shape from a rounded triangular to slightly pentagonal ; it lies proximal to the genital slits not spanning them . |
| 5 | Rory had waited with the older man — silent for quarter of an hour apart from a whispered hello and a quick explanation of what was going on — until the herd of deer appeared , brown shapes on the brown hill . |
| 6 | Palmer looked at three hundred and five patients , in an M R C study , and from a multivariate analysis , he found the number of tumours from that diagnosis was the single most feature . |
| 7 | This comparison , however , does not take into account the duration of follow up , and the number of patients who had previously had recurrence is too small to permit valid conclusions from a multivariate analysis . |
| 8 | Anyhow the upshot is , one way or another I 'm lying in the front seat of the Boomerang with my trousers round my knees and copping a twenty-dollar blowjob from a speed-fuelled Zulu called Agnes . |
| 9 | From a refereeing point of view , when the maul becomes stationary the time allowed for the ball to emerge is the equivalent of the time currently allowed for the emergence of the ball from a collapsed maul . |
| 10 | This followed claims by Lorraine Osman , former chairman of the London subsidiary of Bank Bumiputra , that money from a collapsed Hong Kong company , Carrian , might have financed the opposition campaign in the general election in October . |
| 11 | Glass , like toffee , has no sharp melting point but changes gradually , as it is heated , from a brittle solid to a viscous liquid and during this process there is no important change of molecular structure . |
| 12 | His postcard was drawn from a bulging bagful of entries — nearly all of them correct — after the closing date . |
| 13 | The percentage who had seen Labour in second place rose from a mere 13 per cent in the Pre-Campaign Wave to 78 per cent in the first fortnight and 95 per cent in the second . |
| 14 | The duties of a trustee may be indefinitely varied by the terms of the instrument which creates the trust , and may range from a mere duty to make a legal conveyance to the beneficiary at his request , and in the meantime to permit him to possess and enjoy the property , to extensive and onerous duties of management , sale , investment , and application of capital and income . |
| 15 | This still falls well short of supporting the English law of manslaughter , where the ‘ unlawful act ’ doctrine allows a manslaughter conviction if death results from a mere assault or battery . |
| 16 | It is quite obvious that each type of violence varies considerably in its degree : physical force can be anything from a mere push to a brutal beating which leaves the victim close to death , and a sexual assault may be anything from a brief touching to a gross form of sexual violation . |
| 17 | Having reached 50 off 71 balls , Simmons was unstoppable as he sprinted to his third hundred in one-day internationals from a mere 102 balls . |
| 18 | After a poor start , at the 10th , where he missed for his three from a mere 18ins , he did not let the birdies escape at the 11th and 12th . |
| 19 | In the years 1860–1913 German coal production leapt from a mere 17 million tons to 277 million tons . |
| 20 | This high level of homogamy converts the upper class from a mere social category ( albeit with an economic reality ) into an intermarrying group aware of its own social boundaries . |
| 21 | This idea of the representative having a right , and even a duty , to exercise an independent judgement , with this independence being the core of what is held to distinguish a representative from a mere delegate , is a notion which has long survived Burke 's formulation of it . |
| 22 | There was no question of his telephoning Émile Chaillot : he was not going to take orders from a mere administrator . |
| 23 | It is not so much that curriculum is the ‘ what ’ of education and teaching the ‘ how ’ , as that the teacher 's classroom strategies are what transform curriculum from a mere bundle of inert ideas to experiences through which children learn . |
| 24 | The amounts range from a mere 56 lb. up to 88 cwt. and totals 48 tons 5 cwt . |
| 25 | But should such an undertaking be implied from a mere invitation to the reader to seek advice ? |
| 26 | In Wellingborough the number of male boot and shoe makers rose from 613 in 1841 to 814 in 1851 and to 861 in 1861 ; female numbers rose from a mere 37 in 1841 to 473 in 1851 and to 744 a decade later . |
| 27 | Such was the rapid rate of expansion that ensued that the workforce in Britain 's mines rose from a mere 50,000 at the beginning of the nineteenth century to over 1 million on the eve of the First World War . |
| 28 | The staff of the Dutch foreign ministry swelled from twenty-three in 1849 to forty-five in 1914 ; and the tiny Danish one grew from a mere nine in 1848 to twenty-one in 1900 and a remarkable fifty-eight in 1919 . |
| 29 | The features that had appeared fierce and uncompromising from afar , here , from a mere metre away , were even more so . |
| 30 | My step brother , Tommy , do you know the original well Mr was a sales rep for Bokes couriers , and er his wife used to make pickles , homemade , and she us Mr used to give his friends a jar of pickles occasionally and er from that the idea of selling them , cos it ou after they 'd started distributing amongst his friends he got the idea that there was a market for it , so my step-brother Tommy er started to work with Mrs we used to call them Mrs but her name was , Street you know where Street is , well on the left hand side of Street about oh at the back of the first row of houses in Street , there was a , a small open space and Mr had a big shed put there , and er started buying the pickling onions and er all the women who wished to started skinning onions at so much a bag for Mr and er he 'd gradually built himself up but me step- brother Tommy was er working full time helping Mrs to pick the onions and , and that , that 's how Mac 's Pickles started was just from a mere fact of him being a commercial traveller and he 'd di distribute them to his friends and created the , a market for himself really ac actually they , they , they did have a van driver and a van , a van to deliver them as they gradually increased the supply and they used to deliver them all , all around the area . |