Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [noun sg] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wednesday 's injury crisis will ease next week when England striker David Hirst starts his comeback from a cracked ankle . |
| 2 | Charging depreciation in the accounts of businesses receives its support from the matching concept . |
| 3 | It can be that magic moment in such dances as the Rose Adage in The Sleeping Beauty when Aurora triumphantly raises her hand from the fourth Prince 's grasp and holds the final attitude for several seconds revealing her complete command over the forces of gravity . |
| 4 | Greenwich 's famous clipper ship gets her name from the cutty sark or short chemise ( a loose-fitting dress or under garment ) , which her figure-head wears . |
| 5 | The church gets its name from the adjacent hospice where pilgrims on their way to or from Rome once stayed . |
| 6 | This elongated , rocky finger , which gets its name from the ancient word for dragon , is said to resemble the creature at rest . |
| 7 | With this in mind , the Zipper Club , which gets its name from the distinctive scar left after surgery , aims to help people before , as well as during and after treatment . |
| 8 | It gets its name from the strengthening threads which run across warp and weft to create small squares in the otherwise close-woven nylon . |
| 9 | It gets its name from the Silurian Epoch — a period around 450 million years ago when the rocks which make up the skeleton and the soil of the Grizedale Forest were formed . |
| 10 | The fish gets its name from the unusual formation of the teeth which are elongated on the upper and lower jaws near the middle of the mouth . |
| 11 | The Vampire Plec gets its name from the unusual formation of the teeth which are elongated on the upper and lower jaws near the middle of the mouth . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It 's a common condition which gets its name from the carpal bones that form a circle at the wrist . |
| 14 | It takes its inspiration from the Eastern idea of nirvana , ‘ a few drops of serenity ’ . |
| 15 | The ‘ Jay Yang ’ range takes its inspiration from the Far East with traditional floral designs with striking background colours creating the drama of the Eastern world . |
| 16 | THE scheme takes its inspiration from the new street furniture and public spaces in Barcelona and , more generally , from the Deconstructionist look fashionable in schools of architecture and design in recent years . |
| 17 | The property takes its name from a small Roman bell which is there to be seen . |
| 18 | But Rock Santeiro , which takes its name from a steamy Brazilian TV soap opera that delighted viewers throughout Portugal 's former African colonies , sits on a rubbish dump on the northern edge of Luanda , the capital of Angola . |
| 19 | There go right to see the Palazzo Erba-Odescalchi , a sumptuous palazzo built by the Cusani family in the early 1500s , although it takes its name from a later Archbishop who used it as his palace in the eighteenth-century . |
| 20 | Hashing , which takes its name from a Malaysian eating house where the hobby originated before World War II , involves running or walking in pursuit of ‘ hares ’ — volunteers who act as the quarry . |
| 21 | The Country Club of Mount Dora takes its name from the quaint local town in which it is situated . |
| 22 | The valley takes its name from the Entlen torrent , a tributary of the Little Emme , which races down to join it from the slopes of the Glaubenberg mount which separates this valley from the parallel valley in which lie the Lungern and Sarnen Lakes ( and the road from Brunig Pass . ) |
| 23 | Originally a Roman colony , legend has it that it takes its name from the first lord of its castle Rufus , Marquis of Obertenghi , who had thick red hair , or , perhaps more romantically , that it is named after the sunset hues which turn the mountain here from a gentle rose to red each evening . |
| 24 | Butts Lane takes its name from the medieval archers who practised their skills close by . |
| 25 | The Lakeside new station takes its name from the nearby lake , where a by-pass road scheme is under construction . |
| 26 | The Old Forge Mews development in Arundel , Sussex takes its name from the old Grade 11 listed forge building on the original site . |
| 27 | Takes its name from the Persian word for crab , but is probably based on either a floral or animal form . |
| 28 | The Wilder Kaiser is very comfortable gasthof , which takes its name from the magnificent mountain range that rises behind Scheffau . |
| 29 | This programme , given by the prize-winning Georgian Company , takes its framework from the incidental music to two popular Restoration comedies , interspersing instrumental dances with both popular ballads and ornate songs . |
| 30 | The fragrance is beautifully crafted — a subtle blend of jasmine and sandalwood — and the bottle takes its theme from a dancing Buddhist goddess . |