Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the driver seemed satisfied enough , she accorded with relief as with a smile he pointed to an illuminated notice indicating that her hotel was at the end of a narrow passageway leading from the main street . |
| 2 | Much of the finest building dates from the twelfth century . |
| 3 | But in the total picture if you take what a , any , an average American state spends and you ask the question what proportion of that money comes from the federal government , the answer is wait for it , the answer is about twenty percent . |
| 4 | However , this investigation used collocations extracted from a domain-specific corpus , and test data taken from the same domain . |
| 5 | A distinctive , erratic song with some metallic-sounding notes coming from the hidden depths of a thicket had finally been identified as belonging to a bluethroat , surely one of the most beautiful small birds in Scandinavia . |
| 6 | Such lack of interest in any active Turkish diplomatic relationship with the European states stemmed from a deap-seated view of the world . |
| 7 | They are : co-ordinating the interactions of multiple types of ambiguity , co-ordinating processes that encode different sources or types of knowledge ; co-ordinating the resolution of several anaphors in one sentence ; and co-ordinating the consideration of possible referents arising from the current sentence and from elsewhere . |
| 8 | The island community Nichols studied traditionally spoke Gullah , a creole variety developed from the African/English pidgin of early slave plantations . |
| 9 | Provision was patchy , and professional attitudes ranged from a sensitive understanding of the issues to the blandly ignorant . |
| 10 | Each level borrows from a different mythology , starting in Graeco-Roman hell ( Hades to the classical scholars ) . |
| 11 | Most social historians have tended to stick with Raymond Williams 's argument and have been reluctant to give up the notion that what was most lively and energetic in all that variety came from the working class . |
| 12 | Michael Chance and Stephen Varcoe are both on characteristically strong form but my greatest pleasure derived from the eloquent declamation of recitatives by Anthony Rolfe Johnson . |
| 13 | There is a good deal of evidence to suggest that managerial and technical talent flows from the domestic sector to the transnational companies rather than vice versa , particularly but not exclusively in the Third World ( see Gershenberg , 1987 , on Kenya ; Okada , 1983 , on Indonesia ) . |
| 14 | Light is also obedient to this effect so that light received from an approaching body has a blue shift and from a receding body a red shift . |
| 15 | In a special preface to their communiqué the Foreign Ministers extended to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe " the hand of friendship and co-operation " and expressed determination to " seize the historic opportunities resulting from the profound changes in Europe to help build a new peaceful order … based on freedom , justice and democracy " . |
| 16 | Thus the national economic programme departs from the political ; national independence does not include economic independence . |
| 17 | The scientists measured concentrations of CFC-11 and CFC-12 , the two most important ozone destroyers , at locations in both the northern and southern hemispheres and found that the growth rate for CFC-11 concentrations dropped from an annual average of 11 parts per trillion from 1985-88 to 3 parts per trillion in 1993 . |
| 18 | One is North Korea 's declared intention to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) after the demand of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) to inspect sites which Pyongyang says are non-nuclear . |
| 19 | As well as the despairing cries of ‘ oops ! ’ from the light beams , she could now hear a muffled , mocking chant coming from the ray-gun box : ‘ Yah , yer missed ! |
| 20 | On our way back to the main road , at the end of the day we persuaded the reluctant Halim to investigate with us the loud festivities issuing from an isolated group of stilt houses . |
| 21 | To take but one example from the many available , a well-known medieval armorial design comprises a shield with three spike-like shapes starting from the top edge of the shield , points downward and meeting towards the bottom . |
| 22 | In later years wave after wave of Confucian , Hindu , Buddhist , Christian and Islamic influences swept from the flowering civilizations of Asia and entwined with the pre-existing " oceanic " animism of the islanders . |
| 23 | Male ‘ sex passion ’ was either the result of stimulation from external sensations , or of involuntary influences coming from the sexual organs themselves . |
| 24 | The dual division of ecclesiastical power has also been important because the religious orders have often been the vehicle for innovative theologies differing from the Roman line . |
| 25 | The fact that she held to her theory of carpel polymorphism , despite the overwhelming criticism levelled against it , in some measure detracts from the overall impact of her morphological work . |
| 26 | This heritage comes from a colonial model of top-down health care where the doctor , the matron and the administrator head three parallel hierarchies staffed by ranks of nurses and clerks . |
| 27 | Another view of the need to rebuild British cities came from an old school : the garden city movement . |
| 28 | Overall expenditure was contained by minimal increases in other areas and , in defence , by a 2.5 per cent expenditure cut to DM50,800 million [ for June 30 decision to withdraw from the European Fighter Aircraft project see p. 38980 ] . |
| 29 | It is important here to draw attention to d'Indy 's political and religious beliefs - beliefs remarkably similar to those of the Action Française , an authoritarian , ultra-nationalistic and counter-revolutionary movement formed soon after the Franco-Prussian War.D'Indy came from an aristocratic family and , apart from an early flirtation with Bonapartism , he remained throughout his life an ardent Royalist . |
| 30 | This case arises from an undercover police operation said to be unique in this country . |