Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deadline for lodging the appeal is midnight tonight but UEFA have so far heard nothing from the Georgian club . |
| 2 | Often co-operating with reputable frying equipment manufacturers and suppliers , they test everything from the critical point at which a food product fries best , to the recovery times for oil temperatures . |
| 3 | The all-alloy 24-valve twin-cam engine is described by Cosworth as being of the ‘ high-efficiency ’ type , and follows the ‘ modular ’ theory — meaning that the basic design could suit anything from the three-cylinder unit to a V12 . |
| 4 | If you 're gay you 're reviled , but Cube has always revealed the sick shit from the grubby corners of his mind , and you ca n't expect someone from the wasted landscape of black urban America to think like a white liberal . |
| 5 | Themes cover everything from the sorry state of the environment to how money corrupts on to how people are persecuted because of their appearance . |
| 6 | Erm , and I also understand that this is the first time you 've actually had someone from the private sector , er , whose been invited to er , address your A G M so , I 'd like to thank you for the privilege , and for also for the opportunity to speak on a subject which I personally er , find of of great interest . |
| 7 | As a result of that , he said , you should never believe anything from the political source except denial — and then you should believe what is denied . |
| 8 | Mr. Ennals got one from the Prime Minister 's son during his visit here on behalf of the British Government . |
| 9 | Celia and Brassard , who had overheard everything from the outer office , exchanged rueful glances . |
| 10 | Secret As soon as the first four figures — 1978 are written down , you obtain the final result by subtracting one from the right hand figure and adding it to the front . |
| 11 | Each of these seems to derive something from the interruptable time of the television chronotope , and its consequently segmented narrative . |
| 12 | He ran his gloved hand up across Alexei 's shoulder , and pulled something from the stiff material of the embroidered coat . |
| 13 | Philosophically it inherited something from the Absolute Idealism of the Hegelians and other nineteenth-century opponents of materialism , thus refusing to think of ‘ reality ’ as distinct from ideas of reality . |
| 14 | It also increasingly removes one from the contemporary marketplace , and makes it even more difficult to foresee the future . |
| 15 | With projects that are more than ten years old you should give a lot of thought to the problems involved , and then decide to build something from the current issue of Everyday Electronics instead ! |
| 16 | Each of the Moi carried a long-bladed machete which had been dubbed a coupe-code in Annam , and taking one from the nearest tribesman , the Senator bent over the dead buffalo . |
| 17 | He has upset many influential Democrats , partly because he has blundered into their territory , partly because he is congenitally blind to status distinctions , judging everyone from the loftiest senator to the lowliest staffer on the basis of the quality of their arguments . |
| 18 | In this respect Wilson seems to have learned nothing from the earlier failure of the NAS&FU . |
| 19 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |
| 20 | There is now a ‘ hassles and uplifts ’ scale with which ambitious social psychologists try to quantify everything from the down value of a lost shoe to the up value of a birthday card from an old friend . |
| 21 | ‘ We have made a bid and are confident of winning but we have n't yet heard anything from the Premier League , ’ said Dyke , who last year retained ITV 's franchise with a bid that was £28m less than their rivals . |
| 22 | The troubled couple are paid nothing from the Civil List . |
| 23 | And not until I have someone from the American embassy present . ’ |
| 24 | This does n't just mean doing a sedentary job but refers rather to the type of person ( who could well be a housewife , doing a basically non-sedentary type of job ) who calls the children to bring something from the next room rather than getting up herself , or who goes to great lengths to avoid journeys up and down stairs , or who will drive round for five minutes to find a parking spot near the exit of the car park rather than walk for two minutes … |
| 25 | But they could probably learn something from the occupational pluralism practised by crofters as an adaption to living on agricultural holdings too small to be economically viable . |
| 26 | The Americans are also put out by the efforts of Russia 's foreign minister , Andrei Kozyrev , to rescue something from the apparent wreckage of the world 's peace efforts . |
| 27 | If he resembles anyone from the less-than-hallowed history of TV light entertainment , it 's Dick Emery , with his gaggle of thumb-nail stereotypes and music hall turns . |
| 28 | And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea . |