Example sentences of "[verb] from a [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jan Fischer produced a transporter that might well have come from a professional machine shop . |
| 2 | Its name come from a Gaelic word Lagh which meant Law — Mountain of Lawgiving . |
| 3 | He rose from a cushioned wicker chair as soon as he saw her and came to take the tray , saying , ‘ You 're Belinda , of course . |
| 4 | Corbett returned to his cell , carefully bolted the door and drew from a large leather pouch , parchment , pumice-stone , inkhorn , quill pens , a long thin razor-edged knife and a wad of red sealing-wax . |
| 5 | In Edna O'Brien 's A Pagan Place , which followed Veterans at the Royal Court in 1972 , Eyre drew from a 16-year-old school girl called Veronica Quilligan , who had never acted before , a performance of exquisite subtlety and emotional truth . |
| 6 | In we saw the Health Authority choosing not to purchase services directly from the N H S for their but purchasing from a voluntary stroke private , privately motivated organization . |
| 7 | MORE than 200 young dancers are expected to join a protest outside the BBC Television Centre in west London on Sunday after being dropped from a major TV tribute to the Queen . |
| 8 | Mr David Coleridge 's Chairmanship of Lloyds came under criticism from a group of irate Tory MP 's , Michael Jackson followed his trip to Africa with a stay in London during which he spoke with his fans via messages ( eg ‘ I love England with all my heart ’ ) written on pillowcases , dropped from a 14th floor window , and the British Winter Olympic Team returned gongless from Albertville . |
| 9 | We referred in Section 9.6.1 to the growing current account deficit of the USA , and Table 9.2 shows this clearly : it moved from a current account surplus of $6.9 billion in 1981 to a deficit of $ 154 billion in 1987 . |
| 10 | ‘ In the space of two years , we moved from a domestic merchant bank with 500 people , all of whom knew each other very well , to an organisation with nearly 3,000 people spread all over the world , ’ says Mr Reed . |
| 11 | Meanwhile there was comment in the Sunday Times about Pearson 's standing to benefit from a large pension fund surplus at Thames TV , such surpluses being a controversial issue in company accounting and takeovers . |
| 12 | The idea stemmed from a EC-approved feasibility study last year , conducted by Arfon Borough Council , to develop the Glyn Rhonwy site at Llanberis into a bio-technology park . |
| 13 | They claim some 10-20pc of Britain 's electricity could be wind-generated in the long term and say every kilowatt of electricity produced in this way saves around a kilogram of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide being emitted from a coal-fired power station . |
| 14 | After two years it was found that the fish eaters had up to 30 per cent less chance of dying from a second heart attack than those who had been told nothing about fish . |
| 15 | About 400 people were evacuated from a Royal Air Force base at Stanmore , north London , on June 21 after a patrol discovered a bomb , which later exploded . |
| 16 | After returning from a 30 month tour with UB40 , I believe that Birmingham is establishing itself as Europe 's leading city of the arts and media . |
| 17 | Fifty-six hours in the relative luxury of a two-berth , soft-class compartment with Robert , an engineer , returning from a Siberian fishing trip . |
| 18 | In order to confirm that the ts-1 mutation is still present on this plasmid the Bgl II- Xmn I fragment was purified from a preparative agarose gel and cloned into Bam HI+ Sma I digested pGEM-7Zf(+). ssDNA for sequencing was isolated from this recombinant phagemid and the sequence determined . |
| 19 | The court would be unwilling or unable to determine what speed would be expected from a competent getaway driver . |
| 20 | What 's even more amazing is that the Heartbreakers ' music is both memorable and professional , something which is seemingly least expected from a New Wave band . |
| 21 | In general , it seems sensible to suggest that any discretion will be exercised so as to improve regulators ' utility ( along the lines of what would be expected from a managerial utility maximization model like Williamson 's , 1963 ) . |
| 22 | But evolution never starts from a clean drawing board . |
| 23 | The efficacy of the alcohol project and the non-punitive paradigm is demonstrated by the results reported from a three year evaluation study covering 152 offenders . |
| 24 | As Punk Rock codified from a post-modern art movement — very similar , in late 1976 , to a United Kingdom version of Andy Warhol 's Factory — into a ‘ public ’ movement with a crudely ‘ tough ’ style , it nevertheless delivered a disturbingly accurate political polemic . |
| 25 | Subsequently another volume of poems , several notebooks , and a book of liturgical devotions were discovered ; in 1964 the discovery of a manuscript of Select Meditations was announced ; and in 1982 a large manuscript entitled Commentaries of Heaven , which had been rescued from a burning rubbish tip in south Lancashire about 1967 , was identified as Traherne 's . |
| 26 | BRITISH children are believed to be among 160 being held in care today after being rescued from a religious sex cult in Argentina . |
| 27 | Eventually I managed to find a page torn from a local bus timetable which showed the Province of Parma . |
| 28 | Vincent made a start by setting himself exercises from a popular drawing manual , the Cours de Dessin Bargue , and by painstakingly copying prints . |
| 29 | The manuscript had just been discovered in the uncatalogued recesses of the British Museum ; it was exciting work , said the doctor , but difficult : the manuscript was badly damaged and as he had not the money to go to London he was having to work from a smudged xerox copy . |
| 30 | For those who like to use their own design ideas , the KL116 Knitleader charting device is another option — this allows the knitter to work from a full size pattern outline . |