Example sentences of "[pron] from the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Key Stages 1 and 2 , these might include someone from the local archaeological unit , the museum or archives or a local historian , especially someone used to speaking to young children . |
| 2 | She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia . |
| 3 | In adopting this chic mode of expression , the nouveau riche was effectively distinguishing itself from the traditional middle classes while at the same time flaunting the fact that it had connoisseurship and taste . |
| 4 | He had given her that household , a little society , warming itself in its own glow of virtue , insulating itself from the big bad world ; but within its own limits it had been open and supportive . |
| 5 | Among the smaller opposition parties the JCP fought a largely defensive campaign in which it attempted to dissociate itself from the discredited communist regimes of Eastern Europe . |
| 6 | Likewise , control clicking ( holding down the CTRL key while you click ) allows you to select multiple items for processing and shift clicking highlights everything from the last highlighted item to the one your pointer is over as you shift click . |
| 7 | We , we thought the , perhaps a statement from the chairman of the Health and Housing Committee and another one from the Chief Environmental Health Officer might be useful . |
| 8 | They represented the spectrum of Christian conviction , East and West — though there was no one from the Eastern Orthodox Churches when it opened , and two Russian Orthodox clergy came shortly after the Council had got under way . |
| 9 | President Jaime Paz Zamora , claiming that he did not want any confusion between " electoral campaigning and government work " , accepted the resignations of three other ADN ministers and one from the Left Revolutionary Front ( FRI ) . |
| 10 | For some of these rescues , he was awarded medals , including one from the Royal Humane Society . |
| 11 | Ministers were selected mainly from the ruling National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development ( MRND — until June 1991 the National Revolutionary Movement for Development ) , with one from the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) ; both parties had announced their working programmes and had listed members . |
| 12 | Antall announced on May 16 the membership of his coalition Cabinet , dominated by HDF members but including four members of the Independent Smallholders ' Party , one from the Christian Democratic People 's Party ( CDPP ) , non-party academic experts to the Finance and International Economic Relations portfolios , and a non-party legal expert , Ferenc Madl , as Minister without portfolio charged with preparing Hungarian integration into European organizations . |
| 13 | United Motors had received two urgent requests for assistance ; one from the local Managing Director , who needed help to resolve his serious plant problems , and the other from the Turkish Prime Minister requesting UM investment support to reduce the country 's massive trade imbalance . |
| 14 | No , I think that I had better take one from the Scottish National party . |
| 15 | Alright , I , I borrowed this one from the Senior Common Room . |
| 16 | The EC defines people in poverty as those whose ‘ resources are so small as to exclude them from the minimum acceptable way of life of the member state in which they live ’ . |
| 17 | Only an alarming collapse by four of the clubs above Quakers can save them from an instant return to the Fourth Division , with nine points separating them from the fifth bottom club . |
| 18 | The colours are bright and are called fluorescent to distinguish them from the normal opaque colours in the usual felt-tip pens . |
| 19 | Pray that God would protect them from the evil spiritual powers that they are contacting . |
| 20 | The article gives the possibility of legal action against individual sellers or suppliers , or groups of them from the same economic sector , or against their trade associations . |
| 21 | Richards and King put on 139 for the fifth wicket in just seventy-seven minutes , King annihilating the bowlers to the tune of three sixes and ten fours in his 86 , most of them from the three part-time bowlers who conceded , by coincidence , 86 between them . |
| 22 | The musical setting is carefully selected too to remove him from the tawdry everyday fray of the pop marketplace : violas , accordions , pennywhistles and assorted kitchen utensils conjure up the timeless integrity of Irish folk music ( or ‘ roots ’ in 1990-speak ) . |
| 23 | If he was thus eligible for that title , there must have been something which qualified him — something which distinguished him from the numerous other leaders , both military and political , who at the time were themselves becoming thorns in the Roman side . |
| 24 | Travis had raised himself out of his despair to quip that she and his cousin both worked for the same firm , but the message that had come across to her from the dark steely look of Naylor Massingham was that that might be true now , but , since she had chosen not to heed his warning , one of them would not be working for the same firm for very much longer ! |
| 25 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 26 | He smiled almost gently , but there was nothing gentle about the glitter in his dark eyes as they ran over her from the smooth shining coil of her silver-blonde hair to the long slender legs encased in elegant sheer navy stockings . |
| 27 | The passers by stopped to admire her from the large wrought iron gates at the bottom of the drive . |
| 28 | In some ways I feel her peculiar dilemma parallels my own for she described her stance as one which distanced her from the classical anthropological mode , creating a ‘ memorable adventure ’ , which she claims , ‘ has marked me for life ’ ( ibid. 22 ) . |
| 29 | The adoral shields are large , slightly convex and situated totally proximal to the oral shield not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 30 | The adoral shields are nearly rectangular and situated almost entirely proximal to the oral shield not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |