Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there . |
| 2 | All must seek leave to appeal from the special adjudicator who is to be appointed by the Lord Chancellor . |
| 3 | On the other hand Atrakhasis has man toiling from the first , has no single " Adam " , no separate making of woman , no Eden , and no Fall — in fact no moral teaching at all . |
| 4 | A group of 114 Irish patients with primary adenocarcinoma of the large bowel had significantly lower serum cholesterol concentrations than an age and sex matched group drawn from the general population . |
| 5 | High fertility in Ireland ( by modern standards ) depended upon the institutionalized pattern of high emigration which prevented population rising from the 1840s until the 1950s . |
| 6 | Some of the larger local authorities , as we have seen , are now appointing specialist advisers to the chief executive 's office , or even to the leader of the council , who can give advice divorced from the service-providing departments , but such posts are few and regarded with some suspicion by mainstream local government officers . |
| 7 | Morais and Bertelson ( 1975 ) pointed out that the usual dichotic listening paradigm does not allow one to distinguish between an interpretation of the REA in terms of ear of stimulus presentation and an alternative explanation favouring input coming from the right side of space . |
| 8 | Along with their tickets the refugees had bought landing permits from the Cuban director of immigration , who had given a personal guarantee that they would face no difficulties entering his country . |
| 9 | Lit by a single , battery powered lamp hung from the exposed rafters , even with the bits of carpet and drapes hung down the walls the place was a prison cell , and felt like it . |
| 10 | • Dwyer 's Wallabies walk on water — Steve Jones sees trouble coming from the new ruck/maul law |
| 11 | The manner in which a vine is trained will guide the size , shape and height of the plant towards reaping maximum benefits from the local conditions of aspect and climate . |
| 12 | We eventually found the car by good luck more than good management ; I wished we 'd had time to start from the top end and find how we 'd gone wrong . |
| 13 | The invoice amount also includes interest accrued from the previous coupon payment . |
| 14 | Among the numerous artifacts uncovered was a miraculously preserved carpet dating from the 5th century BC , which survived because it was frozen in a block of ice after early grave robbers had broken the seal and allowed water into the tomb . |
| 15 | Not surprisingly , therefore , import penetration increased from the mid 1960s onwards and then moved at an alarming rate in the early 1970s . |
| 16 | But even as he at last turned and , more like a conjurer than ever , whipped the cloth from the object on the table , which turned out to be a saucepan containing water scooped from the shattered font , the first heavy drops began to drum on the altar table ; and while the Padre was saying : " Hope Mary Ellen , I baptize thee In the name of the Father and of the Son , and of the Holy Ghost , Amen , " the Collector , forgetting that he had only just renounced an interest in the vain pomp and glory of the world , thought crossly : " That wo n't do the Louis XVI table any good at all . " |
| 17 | In the case of Climbline , weather forecasts are supplied by Oceanroutes ( UK ) Ltd , one of the world 's leading meteorologists , and we get avalanche reports from the Scottish Mountain Safety Group and snow and ice conditions from various climbing contacts . |
| 18 | Film shows at school on the manufacture of coal gas intercut interesting views of hot coke being extruded from retorts with dull shots of gas scrubbers removing sulphur compounds from the hot gas . |
| 19 | The softly spoken command came from the third man , who had remained silent until now . |
| 20 | She gave a tiny giggle as a little dollop of cream adhered to the tip of her nose ; she removed it with one finger , licked the pinky , then wiped her nose with her napkin , glancing round the restaurant through the confusing topography of slats and uprights of the seats and screens , apparently worried that this minor lapse in hand-mouth coordination was being critically observed by any of the surrounding middle-class matrons , perhaps with a view to passing on the scandalous morsel to their opposite numbers in Gallanach and having mother black-balled from the local bridge club . |
| 21 | Yes , we do get Rugby Special on a Sunday , at a time when most of the rugby fraternity are spending time recovering from the previous day 's actions , catching up with family life and preparing the next week 's work . |
| 22 | A team headed by the UN Secretary-General 's special envoy , Abdulrahim Farah , arrived in Tehran on May 31 to assess damage resulting from the eight-year war with Iraq . |
| 23 | A report released on Aug. 2 by a UN team assigned to assess damage resulting from the 1980-88 war with Iraq [ see p. 38309 ] found that " the damage inflicted on the country 's infrastructure was of a magnitude and nature that will require several years of repair or reconstruction " . |
| 24 | The Americans watched the bamboo rod rise and fall and heard the sickening thud of wood on flesh and bone ; as the fallen Annamese struggled to raise himself from the dusty road they saw blood welling from the crimson weals on his back . |
| 25 | Finally , it is essential to realise business benefits from the intrinsic coherence which arises from AEA 's history . |
| 26 | The Thai government has moved to control pollution resulting from the burgeoning number of shrimp farms . |
| 27 | Fading newspaper reports from the mid-1800s stand testimony to the power of the river . |
| 28 | Annesley yard received and despatched coal trains from the local pits which were taken south at speeds of up to 50 m.p.h. eventually destined for the Western Region . |
| 29 | Using information abstracted from the cumulative distribution curve , Passega ( 1957 , 1964 ) suggested that the ratio of the coarsest one percentile , C , to the median diameter , M , could be used as an indicator of the dynamics of the depositional environment . |
| 30 | I do not know if Alex used it to court his Mary — he must have used something — ‘ The joke was unconscious but crowing laughter came from the young men beside the whisky jar . |