Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brett 's third penalty on the hour raised Selkirk hopes and they were further fanned by Marshall 's try from his own lineout pouch , Keith McConnell 's support and tilts by Bill Gentleman and Cammy Guntley . |
| 2 | On Nov. 9 , 1989 , Deng retired as the chairman of the Central Military Commission ( CMC ) , his last official party post [ see p. 37040 ; see also p. 37318 for Deng 's resignation from his final government post in March 1990 ] . |
| 3 | At least , he concluded , their journey to Woodforde had diverted the coroner 's mind from his constant agonising over the Lady Maude 's mysterious conduct . |
| 4 | A much more dramatic break with the current political tradition is required if progress is to be made in building support for the policies that could spring Britain 's underclass from its current position . |
| 5 | However , there appears little support at this stage for the former king 's return from his Swiss exile . |
| 6 | The Maiden Voyage charts the course of Tracy 's campaign from her previous Whitbread trip as cook for a leg on board both Norsk Data and NZI Enterprize , to her purchase of old Disque d'Or — and the ensuring financial crisis — to the race itself . |
| 7 | The Tweeds , both CB radio fans , met at a CB club barbecue in 1984 , shortly after Marcelle 's divorce from her first husband . |
| 8 | One reason given for Cruise 's divorce from his first wife , 39-year-old actress Mimi Rogers , in January 1990 , was their inability to have children . |
| 9 | It is essential however , that the conditions be created for Iraq 's withdrawal from its illegal occupation and a permanent resolution to the Gulf crisis . |
| 10 | And , having freed over a quarter of the world 's population from our colonial rule , we have no desire to lose our own independence . |
| 11 | Booth 's conclusion from his great survey was , reassuringly , that although poverty was severe it was diminishing , and the capacity for self and mutual help among the masses was improving . |
| 12 | But many biologists took it for granted that the main purpose of evolutionism was to elucidate the precise course of life 's development from its earliest origins . |
| 13 | that Martian 's willy from my little hand . |
| 14 | Cornelius pulled the late Victor Zenobia 's snapshot from his top pocket . |
| 15 | The Court ruled that the threat to the girl 's life from her repeated threats of suicide was less than the certainty of the unborn child 's loss of life through an abortion . |
| 16 | ‘ It is thought by some , ’ said Megan , in a smooth lecturer 's voice from which all trace of her faint Welsh lilt had vanished , ‘ that the Scottish brochs may be an extension of the southern round-house culture , as exemplified in some sites of south-western England , but this seems unlikely , in view of- ’ |
| 17 | Christy , 34 , Sonny 's daughter from his first marriage , invited her superstar stepmum to launch her Mexican restaurant in Santa Monica , Los Angeles . |
| 18 | Right , okay , that , show me something else that 's arm 's length from your right shoulder . |
| 19 | So if I said show me something that 's arm 's length from your right shoulder north , or up , or west or some way , okay , or on a bearing of thirty seven degrees |
| 20 | ‘ In many instances , ’ writes Godwin , ‘ these hotbeds fever and vice are so effectually hidden by goodly houses that the inhabitants of the latter are scarcely aware of the poverty and disease which exist within a stone 's throw from their own doors . ’ |
| 21 | The nobility of the ancien régime from which twentieth-century Europeans emerged was one of deeply entrenched attitudes which were often hardly made explicit — because they did not need to be . |
| 22 | Before doing this they had first made enquiries about the car 's history from its previous owner and learnt nothing suggesting that the odometer reading was false . |
| 23 | That again leaves two contenders for the microkernel operating systems business — OSF 's Mach-based work and USL 's technology from its Paris-based partner Chorus Systemes SA . |
| 24 | In 1946 Howard Stenton Jones set up home with Margaret Burns in Stanstead Road , Brixton , along with Terry , Margaret 's son from her previous marriage . |
| 25 | Unlike most birdwatchers , I am lucky enough to live less than four hours ' drive from their regular winter home — a wildfowl marsh constructed by one of the Maharajahs of Bharatpur . |
| 26 | Only four months after buying computer book publisher M&T Publishing from its German parent Markt & Technik , Miller Freeman sold the unit to Henry Holt & Co last month . |
| 27 | At first glance , Lambeth 's 2.25% discount from its standard rate for the first 12 months of the loan looks a slightly better deal than Portman 's 2.0% discount for the same period . |
| 28 | That remains to be seen : an 85 per cent mandate from her 374 voters is convincing by any standards . |