Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] from [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , Monotype appear to have a lead in this area as they are coding all their fonts from a single digital master , regardless of the final output format . |
| 2 | After that he greeted her like an old friend each morning ; she did n't mind , it was dull talking to Magnus who seldom listened , and he gave her protection from the intense political views of the Afghan 's owner . |
| 3 | It would appear to have been adopted in psychoanalysis because of its air of scientific detachment and objectivity , its freedom from the objectionable religious overtones of such terms as ‘ sin ’ and ‘ evil ’ . |
| 4 | In the contest for the governorship of Tokyo the LDP switched its support from the 80-year-old incumbent governor Shunichi Suzuki , to Hisanori Isomura , the candidate supported by the national leadership of the opposition Komeito ( Clean Government Party ) and Democratic Socialist Party ( DSP ) . |
| 5 | Hastily averting her eyes from the strong arched column of his tanned throat as he emptied his glass , she retraced her steps to the kitchen . |
| 6 | She could n't seem to wrench her eyes from the heated blue gaze devouring her . |
| 7 | The accepted wisdom that bulk car manufacturers buy exclusive marques ( Chrysler and Lamborghini , et cetera in the hope of garnering reflected glory is misplaced : any benefit that might accrue to the Escort by dint of its coming from the same stable as the Virage would be heavily outweighed by the damage done to the Virage by the Escort . |
| 8 | For some years after her exit from the integrated military structure of Nato , France was the pioneer in East-West relations . |
| 9 | According to the Treaty , non-signatories would have to pay hard currency for their imports from the new Soviet Union . |
| 10 | MONICA Seles pulled out of Wimbledon last night — only hours after confirming her withdrawal from the French Open , which starts in Paris next week . |
| 11 | Meredith wrenched her gaze from the sad little scrap of paper and looked about her . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | On Dec. 22 , following the mediatory efforts of Jeffrey Davidow , US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs , who met UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi on Dec. 19 and dos Santos on Dec. 21 , UNITA announced a six-stage plan of action , beginning with its withdrawal from the northern provincial capital Uige and from the nearby air base of Negage . |
| 14 | Marta gets her stocks from a large informal market in Villa El Salvador shanty-town . |
| 15 | Luckham 's survey of public library use , for instance , notes that only 24% of users obtained all their needs from a single public library service point . |
| 16 | And while Black Dwarf staff might have protested their separateness from the two underground papers , readers in London , and students and hippies elsewhere , would not . |
| 17 | As part of the same announcement , Cognos , which derives the vast majority of its business from the proprietary mini world — 20,000 of its 35,000 PowerHouse licences worldwide are on its traditional platforms like Hewlett-Packard MPE or Data General MV — is positioning Cognos as a client/server tool , with the Unix platforms as servers and Microsoft Windows 3. x as clients . |
| 18 | The fragrance is beautifully crafted — a subtle blend of jasmine and sandalwood — and the bottle takes its theme from a dancing Buddhist goddess . |
| 19 | The Maronites , who took their name from a fifth-century Syrian hermit , had emerged from the great division in the Byzantine Church over the single divine will of Christ . |
| 20 | Elite cadres are selected by their predecessors from the same educational institutions : the old boy network ( Sedgemore , 1980 ; Benn , 1981 ) . |
| 21 | Twenty years ago Civil Rights Marches in the Six Counties took their inspiration from the Black Civil Rights Movement in the US . |
| 22 | The property takes its name from a small Roman bell which is there to be seen . |
| 23 | But Rock Santeiro , which takes its name from a steamy Brazilian TV soap opera that delighted viewers throughout Portugal 's former African colonies , sits on a rubbish dump on the northern edge of Luanda , the capital of Angola . |
| 24 | Derives its name from the central Persian village where it evolved over 200 years ago , and is a more delicate and sensuous variation of the mina-khani composition . |
| 25 | The Country Club of Mount Dora takes its name from the quaint local town in which it is situated . |
| 26 | The village had been recorded in Domesday Book and had taken its name from the Old Danish personal name Thurulf and the earlier Anglo-Saxon suffix tun . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There was reported controversy at a meeting of the SI council on Nov. 23-24 in Geneva , Switzerland , over proposals , principally from the West German and Austrian socialist parties , that the SI establish formal links with ruling " ex-communist parties " in Eastern Europe , especially with the Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP — which had changed its name from the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( HSWP ) in October — see p. 36960 ) . |
| 29 | This line reached a crossing of the Mid Wales Line , of the Cambrian Railway , at Builth Road in April 1867 , then known as Llechryd but taking its name from the high level station which still survives . |
| 30 | The nearest town to the estate is Strada — said to have received its name from an old Roman road — but Grassina is easier to reach and has a better range of shops . |