Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun sg] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Junius ended this particular outburst with a threat , which drew its force from the common knowledge that the Hanoverian dynasty had usurped the Stuarts . |
| 2 | It also aims to increase its funding from the private sector . |
| 3 | Hoylake claimed that : ‘ BAT 's urge to conglomerate has diverted its attention from the traditional core business , tobacco towards ill-conceived diversification ’ . |
| 4 | He writes in Our Lady : ‘ We are , after all , familiar enough with the tragedy of a certain feeling which is obliged to borrow its expression from the opposite feeling so as to escape from the myrmidons of the law . |
| 5 | But the character of Plas-yn-Rhiw is subtler than that , drawing its mood from the Welsh landscape and blending its colours with those of the wildflowers with are freely admitted through the gates . |
| 6 | On May 5 the fundamentalist Jamaat-i Islami Pakistan ( JIP ) , the second-strongest party within the Pakistani government , announced its withdrawal from the eight-party Islamic Democratic Alliance ( IDA ) . |
| 7 | Charging depreciation in the accounts of businesses receives its support from the matching concept . |
| 8 | Legend has it that the bridge got its name from the plaintive cries of the prisoners as they were escorted across it . |
| 9 | It is no surprise to learn that this village got its name from the local industries of smelting silver and iron . |
| 10 | The Lithuanian Communist Party declared its independence from the Soviet CP in December 1989 , and renamed itself the Lithuanian Democratic Labour Party ( DLP ) in December 1990 [ see p. 37921 ] , but was banned on Aug. 23 , 1991 [ see p. 38373 ] . |
| 11 | The building of the Henry Ford factory on the Marina had been started a few years before ; and Denis , whose regular walks to Blackrock — solitary now that his father was no longer there to accompany him took him past the site , had watched its growth from the first brick . |
| 12 | From the Mediterranean coastlands , it obtained its name from the Latin ros and maris , dew of the sea , and has had associations with the mind and improving the memory since classical times ; witness the famous quotation in Hamlet , of poor Ophelia : " There 's rosemary , that 's for remembrance " . |
| 13 | The church gets its name from the adjacent hospice where pilgrims on their way to or from Rome once stayed . |
| 14 | This elongated , rocky finger , which gets its name from the ancient word for dragon , is said to resemble the creature at rest . |
| 15 | With this in mind , the Zipper Club , which gets its name from the distinctive scar left after surgery , aims to help people before , as well as during and after treatment . |
| 16 | It gets its name from the strengthening threads which run across warp and weft to create small squares in the otherwise close-woven nylon . |
| 17 | It gets its name from the Silurian Epoch — a period around 450 million years ago when the rocks which make up the skeleton and the soil of the Grizedale Forest were formed . |
| 18 | The fish gets its name from the unusual formation of the teeth which are elongated on the upper and lower jaws near the middle of the mouth . |
| 19 | The Vampire Plec gets its name from the unusual formation of the teeth which are elongated on the upper and lower jaws near the middle of the mouth . |
| 20 | The hawthorn is the oldest of the hedgerow trees , for it gets its name from the Old English word haga , ‘ a hedge ’ or ‘ an enclosure ’ , and it was used from Saxon times onwards to make impenetrable fences — the hedge-thorn . |
| 21 | It 's a common condition which gets its name from the carpal bones that form a circle at the wrist . |
| 22 | Hamas was widely believed to draw its inspiration from the spiritual leaders of Mujama'a in the Gaza Strip . |
| 23 | The parent who shows strong disapproval , smacking the child or forcibly removing its hand from the offending area is sowing the first seeds of inhibition or sexual disorder . |
| 24 | It takes its inspiration from the Eastern idea of nirvana , ‘ a few drops of serenity ’ . |
| 25 | The ‘ Jay Yang ’ range takes its inspiration from the Far East with traditional floral designs with striking background colours creating the drama of the Eastern world . |
| 26 | THE scheme takes its inspiration from the new street furniture and public spaces in Barcelona and , more generally , from the Deconstructionist look fashionable in schools of architecture and design in recent years . |
| 27 | The Country Club of Mount Dora takes its name from the quaint local town in which it is situated . |
| 28 | The valley takes its name from the Entlen torrent , a tributary of the Little Emme , which races down to join it from the slopes of the Glaubenberg mount which separates this valley from the parallel valley in which lie the Lungern and Sarnen Lakes ( and the road from Brunig Pass . ) |
| 29 | Originally a Roman colony , legend has it that it takes its name from the first lord of its castle Rufus , Marquis of Obertenghi , who had thick red hair , or , perhaps more romantically , that it is named after the sunset hues which turn the mountain here from a gentle rose to red each evening . |
| 30 | Butts Lane takes its name from the medieval archers who practised their skills close by . |