Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | For some years after her exit from the integrated military structure of Nato , France was the pioneer in East-West relations . |
| 6 | MONICA Seles pulled out of Wimbledon last night — only hours after confirming her withdrawal from the French Open , which starts in Paris next week . |
| 7 | Meredith wrenched her gaze from the sad little scrap of paper and looked about her . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Twenty years ago Civil Rights Marches in the Six Counties took their inspiration from the Black Civil Rights Movement in the US . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Country Club of Mount Dora takes its name from the quaint local town in which it is situated . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This season 's eye and lip colours take their cue from the current international designer collections . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | To take one last look at the electronic signature which marked out his birthplace from the countless other star systems he could see . |
| 26 | Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada resigned on Oct. 27 as president of the right-wing Nationalist Revolutionary Movement ( MNR ) , and announced his withdrawal from the 1993 presidential election race . |
| 27 | The barbel takes his name from the four long whisker-like barbules that hang from his snout . |
| 28 | ‘ Here I Am ’ is rooted in the teaching and tradition of the Catholic Church and explicitly draws it inspiration from the four major documents of the Second Vatican Council . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The Chief of Defence Staff is now the sole military adviser to the Government , drawing his advice from the three single Service Chiefs of Staff , whose responsibility is to give the naval , army and air points of view , unfettered by the need to reach collective decisions . |