Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] from the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She could n't seem to wrench her eyes from the heated blue gaze devouring her . |
| 6 | For some years after her exit from the integrated military structure of Nato , France was the pioneer in East-West relations . |
| 7 | According to the Treaty , non-signatories would have to pay hard currency for their imports from the new Soviet Union . |
| 8 | MONICA Seles pulled out of Wimbledon last night — only hours after confirming her withdrawal from the French Open , which starts in Paris next week . |
| 9 | Meredith wrenched her gaze from the sad little scrap of paper and looked about her . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Twenty years ago Civil Rights Marches in the Six Counties took their inspiration from the Black Civil Rights Movement in the US . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Country Club of Mount Dora takes its name from the quaint local town in which it is situated . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This season 's eye and lip colours take their cue from the current international designer collections . |
| 21 | As another step in this direction , the South African army is toning down its salute from the existing bellicose method of raising the entire arm above the shoulder . |
| 22 | They were a group of 130 citizens , headed by their Burgomaster from the small Dutch town of Haren , who were received in Church House before being taken to the homes of their local hosts . |
| 23 | There is an argument of increasing popularity with government and some of the advisers to government , that since comprehensive schools are widely seen to do worse for their pupils than selective schools in terms of examination results , and since so many people , if they can afford it , are removing their children from the maintained comprehensive sector to independent schools ( which are broadly speaking selective ) a way must be found for government to supply non-comprehensive schools , in the interests of the country as a whole . |
| 24 | While there are a few things in digital technology which have no possible representation in analogue form — infinite impulse response filters are a good example — most digital blocks derive their shape from the original analogue function . |
| 25 | Her legacy from the hot three-month affair is fame — the very prize she was striving for before she played bedroom games with the Minister for Fun . |
| 26 | I am not sure why this quarter was called ‘ Chinese ’ except that perhaps its apartness from the regular secular and religious life of Salamanca made it seem like another country , and a far-off , exotic one at that . |
| 27 | On Oct. 26-27 the AMU foreign ministers met in Algiers with their counterparts from the western Mediterranean countries of Europe ( Portugal , Spain , France and Italy ) , with Malta as an observer . |
| 28 | Also , if the deceased person leaves any estate , the local authority will claim its expenses from the legal personal representative . |
| 29 | To take one last look at the electronic signature which marked out his birthplace from the countless other star systems he could see . |
| 30 | And so it had gone on , generation after generation , Dowd changing his face on occasion ( a simple trick , or feit ) so as to conceal his longevity from the withering human world . |