Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] from [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In common with any other community , the Deaf Community has had its share of people who have performed deeds of bravery that earned them recognition from the appropriate authorities . |
| 2 | Over the years I have kept my distance from the white women 's movement . |
| 3 | Burns 's poetry and songs have played an important part in my life from the earliest years , not only because of their simple beauty , but also because of their directness , honesty , and wry , lop-sided , humour ; the appreciation of which stood me in good stead the last time I was in Mauchline . |
| 4 | Rory led the way to the disco floor , all too aware of the speculative glances slid in her direction from the other dancers , yet aware too of a peculiar little thrill of pride as she caught the envious looks in the eyes of the other women . |
| 5 | The chemists encouraged people to have fun in the sun while protecting their skin from the harsh rays which can prove dangerous . |
| 6 | It was also nearly twice as dependent on Arts Council cash , with nearly 30 per cent of its income from the Scottish Arts Council — double the average of 14 per cent . |
| 7 | No , the only buggers Sam Snort has any time for are the boys down in the gay bars who have affectively tendered their resignation from the Snortian fields of romantic endeavour . |
| 8 | King Priam 's widow Hecuba and other women await their fate from the victorious Greeks . |
| 9 | The party as a whole proved the reality of its patriotism from the first days of the war , and the logic of this continuation from peacetime was underlined by the speed with which Ulster Unionists rallied to the flag in 1914 , and the gallantry with which they died on the Somme in 1916 . |
| 10 | In reply , Soviet generals grumbled that Kutuzov 's troops on their return from the Napoleonic wars did not have to pay for forage as they crossed what is now Poland ; the Poles , they said , were showing scant gratitude for their liberation in 1945 . |
| 11 | They die out , you know , ’ she said without raising her voice or removing her attention from the crowding clouds . |
| 12 | They introduced themselves as self-confessed leaders of the Maillotins , the French word for ‘ clubs ’ , a secret society of the Parisian poor who attacked the rich and earned their name from the huge cudgels they carried . |
| 13 | Their departure from the royal precincts had not , Nicholas believed , drawn attention . |
| 14 | He vaguely remembered her name from the literary magazines , where she was quite well thought of . |
| 15 | In my garden at Wells I have a wonderful well — indeed , there are five of them and the city of Wells derives its name from the five springs in the palace grounds . |
| 16 | Legend has it that the bridge got its name from the plaintive cries of the prisoners as they were escorted across it . |
| 17 | It is no surprise to learn that this village got its name from the local industries of smelting silver and iron . |
| 18 | It 's a common condition which gets its name from the carpal bones that form a circle at the wrist . |
| 19 | 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 " . |
| 20 | It gets its name from the strengthening threads which run across warp and weft to create small squares in the otherwise close-woven nylon . |
| 21 | Butts Lane takes its name from the medieval archers who practised their skills close by . |
| 22 | In this section we set out one broad school of thought — the instrumentalist explanation — which draws its inspiration from the early writings of Marx . |
| 23 | Hamas was widely believed to draw its inspiration from the spiritual leaders of Mujama'a in the Gaza Strip . |
| 24 | But the arrival of punk and the flood of self-produced records led to the setting up of new distribution networks which enabled the new labels to keep their distance from the bigger companies . |
| 25 | These were founded either by the late Saxon kings from Alfred onwards to protect their kingdom from the Scandinavian invaders or by the Scandinavians themselves , partly for defence , and partly tor the encouragement of trade . |
| 26 | The islands ' governing Legislative Council on Oct. 26 repeated its protest to the UK government at its exclusion from the ongoing talks , and voted not to co-operate with any plan reached with Argentina until the islanders were assured of a protected 200-mile limit for their own use . |
| 27 | However , there appear to be less sinister reasons behind its absence from the leaked papers . |
| 28 | Traditionally , the Labour Party has derived its strength from the urban areas while the Conservative Party is based in the suburbs and rural areas . |
| 29 | In kung fu the hands take their shape from the particular animals whose fighting techniques the practitioner is imitating . |
| 30 | Whatever you can make of equation [ 9 ] there is no denying that it is a differential equation , not so very different in its way from the differential equations that Newton and Maxwell had used when they had created the fundamental basis of classical physics . |