Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was not long before the dominance of news about ministers and politics at the centre drew protest from MPs , who said that news from their respective areas of the country was not being heard . |
| 2 | " Free speech " , in fact , means no more than speech from which illegal utterances are subtracted . |
| 3 | In this period the ‘ colonization road ’ , the Canadian Northern , stretched its system east and west from its first line in Manitoba . |
| 4 | Cut sprigs of cherry laurel and yew from their main branches ensuring you leave a long stem and securely push them into the cane ring until the circle is complete |
| 5 | The doc drained air and blood from his pleural cavity and … ’ |
| 6 | SIR — Being 18 , able-bodied and a keen sportswoman , I understand the satisfaction and pleasure that sport can bring , and consequently feel empathy for those with physical disabilities who wish to gain the same satisfaction and recognition from their chosen sports . |
| 7 | Our responses , it says , are conditioned by reward and punishment from our surrounding environment . |
| 8 | There is nothing discreditable in a bailiff appropriating to his lord 's use his own products , e.g. to brew from his own barley , to make cloth and linen from his own wool and flax , feed his horses from his own produce . |
| 9 | We hold it in our arms , and it learns not only discipline and respect for us but also reassurance and security from our close body contact . |
| 10 | The speaker evaluates time , distance , and person from his own point of view . |
| 11 | New Zealand 's National Party government eased proposed cuts in pensions on Nov. 7 after a storm of protest including marches by retired people , and criticism from its own back benches and political opponents . |
| 12 | While adult movies present a menu of cannibalism , incest , vomit and violence , ‘ family films ’ promote the notion ‘ that parents are corrupt , hypocritical clowns who must learn decency and integrity from their enlightened offspring ’ . |
| 13 | The US Energy Department has acknowledged that , since the 1950s , substantial amounts of radioactive tritium gas have been emitted into the air and water from its nuclear weapons plant in Savannah River , South Carolina . |
| 14 | Even President George Bush will struggle to enunciate metaphors about ‘ a thousand points of light ’ while his narrow eyes sting and water from his own rhetoric about ‘ a kinder , gentler nation ’ . |
| 15 | Individual consumers need accessibility and convenience from their local sources of consumable products . |
| 16 | Friends could need some help and advice from you this evening . |
| 17 | With the patience and advice from my local vet we set up a recovery programme . |
| 18 | He is survived by his second wife , Jenny , and by a son and daughter from his first marriage . |
| 19 | The exclusion of authors , reality and thought from their central position in literature was part of a purification of the notion of literature which entails a radical alteration of one of the most deeply ingrained concepts in thinking about literature : the distinction between form and content . |
| 20 | In contrast , a small or medium-sized business will require greater competence and versatility from its top management , because they will not have the benefits of support from functional specialists which are available to the top managers of large organisations . |
| 21 | In terms of engineering , the BRMs were behind their time ; the cars gave endless trouble ; Jackie 's dissatisfactions grew ; accidents intervened , especially at a rain-soaked Spa where Jackie went off the track at high speed and lay trapped in his car , his shoulder broken , his ribs cracked and petrol from his ruptured tanks soaking through his overalls , burning his skin . |
| 22 | The pointlessness of my existence — stealing money and food from my poor parents , wood from the railway cutting , begging my coup de vin from Suzanne at the Café du Coin — all that was clearly not worthy of me . |
| 23 | The next time I went to see her she offered me another two Chagalls one was the goat and bride from his Parisian period , and the other I can no longer recall , but it was another gouache . |
| 24 | According to former Tangier refugees like Pubi Rosenbaum , who lived until recent years in New York , and George Wertheimer of Madrid , Samuel was entrusted with considerable sums of money and jewellery from his orthodox brethren in Vienna and Hungary which he left in various strategic places for safekeeping . |
| 25 | In a shock move , the US General Services Administration has dropped IBM Corp and Microsoft Corp software and hardware from its annual purchasing lists , the Washington Post reports , making it more difficult for government agencies to acquire the products . |
| 26 | A common criticism is that their ‘ telepathy ’ is nothing more than mumbo-jumbo covering the clever ‘ detective ’ work of extracting clues and information from their naive victims . |
| 27 | The motor road reaches a car park and viewpoint from which this phenomenon can be observed . |
| 28 | The latter were continuing to draw prestige as well as profit from their ill-gotten gains . |