Example sentences of "from a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | To keep a child any longer than 36 hours requires consent from a magistrates ' court . |
| 32 | Erm I know there had been occasion when we had people sleeping on the the stairway and you know , I think occasionally and but I think sometimes that was maybe somebody got home from a blues party , and had too much to drink or something , and they came into the warm , the heat w from the the downstairs flat , er k comes up on the stairwell , and I know there was someone sleeping there . |
| 33 | There was thefts from persons you know , people , three o'clock in the morning , making their way home from a blues were robbed . |
| 34 | Using the Light Rifle about 10′ from a 22″ television set gave a reasonable degree of control over the game . |
| 35 | The scene that confronted her was like a tableau from a waxworks , she thought with faint hysteria as she walked in . |
| 36 | Angela Kinsella , 28 , of High Northgate , Darlington , was sentenced to a month 's imprisonment yesterday for causing fear or provocation of violence , resisting a police constable and stealing a shirt from a clothes shop . |
| 37 | Even after the £383m the bank got from selling a 14.9% stake in itself to the Hongkong Bank and the £1.1 billion it raised from a rights issue and the sale of its Scottish and Irish banks , Midland still struggles to keep its third-world debt provisions up to the level of its rivals . |
| 38 | Of course , token gestures often suffice to land unknown quantities from obscurity — Republic of Ireland striker Tony Cascarino joined Gillingham from a boys ' club in Crockenhill for the cost of a new set of playing strips . |
| 39 | Senior staff from a midlands steel firm are also being questioned over an alleged attempt to illegally export the huge weapon . |
| 40 | While class-based information does not exist for all those students who fail to gain work after graduating from a YTS , the conclusion about how the scheme operates in the case of black youths is probably equally valid with respect to white youths without qualifications coming from poor , unskilled , working-class homes . |
| 41 | So if you only have a 360k floppy drive and need to copy a file from a friends hard disk that is over 360k ( even after compression ) then this is the program for you . |
| 42 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 43 | Close the two lapels , and continuing the old traditional method , bind firmly but not too tightly with raffia — you can buy this as ‘ bass ’ from a sundries shop — that has been prepared previously into 18 inch ( 45cm ) lengths and well soaked to make it soft and pliable . |
| 44 | But with police assistance , out went the occupiers , off to set up the one and only edition of the International Free Press from a distributors ' warehouse off Old Street . |
| 45 | ‘ Black and minority ethnic communities suffer from a services and resources deficit which urgently needs to be addressed ’ . |
| 46 | No one in the room is excluded , as they might be from a maths activity that some of them ca n't do ; or from a games session , where physical prowess is such an important factor . |
| 47 | An announcement of a firm intention to make an offer ( as distinct from a talks announcement ) must contain the following information ( Rule 2.5(b) ) : |
| 48 | From a Lions viewpoint , Best stressed he was extremely pleased with Scotland 's performance and judging by the displays of the Irish and Welsh against McGeechan 's men there should be a fair tartan representation in the 30-strong Lions squad which will be announced the week beginning 21 March . |
| 49 | The giant wrought-iron entrance gates , for example , came from the people of Tetbury , the fruit trees espaliered against the walls of the vegetable garden were presented by the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers and the herbs came from a women 's institute in Sussex . |
| 50 | FITNESS enthusiast Angelina Arnott was turned away from a women 's health club because she used to be a man . |
| 51 | Other contributors who are working within this tradition ( Brenda Almond , Morwenna Griffiths , Mary Midgley and Anne Seller ) also consider in what ways central philosophical issues might look different from a women 's ( or feminist ) points of view . |
| 52 | " I tried the Univite diet and any other diet from a women 's magazine that I came across . |
| 53 | Lotus Development Corp and the Skytel unit of Mobile Telecommunications Technologies Inc plan joint development of technologies and applications to meet the demands of a growing wireless messaging market : first product from the agreement is a wireless messaging gateway for Lotus Notes , which is claimed to be the first US national wireless gateway for workgroup software — combining Notes and a SkyWord alphanumeric receiver , the gateway will create a Notes ‘ thinking mailbox ’ that can forward changes in information from a Notes server to SkyWord receivers , the firms say . |
| 54 | An example would be to use department code as an alternate key to provide personnel listings by department from a personnel file arranged in some other order , such as alphabetic . |
| 55 | The squad operated from a Personnel Carrier . |
| 56 | Like a world war beginning from a lovers ' quarrel |
| 57 | Following food chains can lead to exciting discoveries ; I reared one ichneumonid , Hyposter tricolo , from a larvae of a magpie moth feeding on flowering currant , which is native to North America . |
| 58 | Coming from a police family and married to a police officer , her inculcated beliefs were such that the alternative concepts which the sociology of law posed were beyond acceptability . |
| 59 | It is headed by Suresh Grover , who , like many associated with the organisation , has been active in radical Asian politics since the mid-1970s and the bitter campaign which followed the death of Blair Peach from a police truncheon blow in 1979 . |
| 60 | Describes prisoners about to be transported to prison from a police station , in particular two younger sisters , the elder hardened to it all but the younger one bitterly distressed . |