Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [noun pl] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Marta gets her stocks from a large informal market in Villa El Salvador shanty-town .
2 Where the European issue is concerned , the weakness of this overly consensual approach is underlined by the fact that the Foreign Affairs committee ( which has a sub-committee on European affairs ) takes its instructions from the Foreign Ministry .
3 Although Orlan takes her inspirations from the Old Masters she uses state-of-the-art computer imagery to ‘ re-design ’ her face .
4 Mr Devlin borrows his films from a different shop .
5 Fukuyama averts his eyes from the poor , and fears no real threat to the permanent triumph of consumer capitalist society except nostalgia and boredom .
6 He gets his Fuggles from a leading grower named Tony Redsell at the splendidly-named Mockbeggar Farm near Faversham .
7 A drunk who takes his orders from a higher source .
8 The Belfast branch , for instance , with 700 members , draws its officers from the civil service , the Electricity Board , local software houses and the University of Ulster .
9 It draws its students from a wide variety of subjects , including English , other languages , the social sciences ( psychology , anthropology ) , mathematics , computer science and artificial intelligence .
10 The Alpe-adria Ensemble , which draws its personnel from a geographical area that covers Central and Eastern Europe , give a strong and hot-blooded account of the Mahler , and are suitably po-faced in the Brahms .
11 Because he draws his criteria from a particular musical tradition — a ‘ music of thought ’ , characterized by the working out of themes over extended , integrated forms and requiring concentrated , ‘ intellectual ’ listening — he regards other forms of music as either primitive in comparison or as corruptions of this tradition .
12 after discussion with their Course Tutor they are able to select a programme of units which satisfies their needs from the elective programme .
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