Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [indef pn] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I did n't know , ’ Sarella said dully in a last-ditch attempt to salvage something from the wreckage of her self-esteem . |
2 | The waterside cafe serves everything from a pot of tea to a full range of appetising snacks and meals . |
3 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
4 | All the windows in the farmhouse had been shattered , the whole scene resembling something from the Blitz . |
5 | It is regrettable that the judge heard nothing from the appellants ' side , despite the fact that they were represented — no oral evidence , no affidavit evidence , not even an address in mitigation . |
6 | From the standpoint of the scholar interested in learning there was , of course , the practical objection that the duties of the kadilik distracted one from the pursuit of . |
7 | Scotland 's determination to take something from the night was shown in the 64th minute , too , when a defender , Wright , was replaced by a forward , his Aberdeen team-mate , Scott Booth . |
8 | Definitional overlap uses dictionary definitions as a source of semantic knowledge , and follows a sequential comparison algorithm to select one from a number of alternative word candidates as being the most ’ semantically plausible ’ within that sentential context . |
9 | Clean , it was an absolute dream ; the EQ offered more than enough scope to produce anything from a cutting Telecaster to a rich acoustic tone , and with the help of a short delay and pitchshift I put a sound onto tape which I 'd defy anyone not to recognise as an acoustic guitar — and I 'd actually used the Patrick Eggle New York model reviewed elsewhere in this issue . |
10 | Even if you have never given a bottle feed yourself it is possible that the baby received one from a nurse while in the maternity ward . |
11 | Psychobiology , the study of the biological bases of behaviour , is a broad area covering everything from the evolution of mating systems in the toad to the functions of subregions of the human cerebral cortex . |
12 | Why have the Government learnt nothing from the experience , and why are they proposing to do nothing if a crisis emerges shortly , as it could ? |
13 | Although the sons of Zebedee were evidently netsmen , Christian iconography has drawn on angling to depict anything from the means of grace by which God draws our souls up into Heaven to His ensnaring of the monstrous Leviathan . |
14 | ‘ Where are we heading now ? ’ she asked in an effort to salvage something from the day if it was at all possible . |
15 | ‘ If ever I went out of my way to learn something from a book the chances were that It 'd be hopelessly wrong — you know , inaccurate transcriptions of a song or solo — so I decided to try and develop my own ear by learning things from record . ’ |
16 | The interpreter operates at high speed : in simultaneous translation ( strictly speaking , simultaneous interpreting ) , he keeps roughly a sentence behind the speaker ; in consecutive translation ( interpreting ) the speaker waits for the interpreter to translate anything from a morpheme to a whole paragraph at a time . |
17 | A third is transput instructions , requiring a field to specify one from a range of peripheral devices . |
18 | Next day Peony said she was going to post a letter , did her mother want anything from the village ? |
19 | How will the Scottish Office separate one from the other ? |
20 | Though Catholicism is championed in the end , it is no longer portrayed as having the power to protect one from the extremes of madness and sin . |
21 | This is no time to cut anything from the employment development fund , from the training budget , even sixteen thousand pounds . |