Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] from a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From that experience , he derived an ideal of stage unity stemming from a close collaboration ‘ regardless as far as possible of individual prestige and personality ’ , which was reinforced by working in the Group Theatre of the thirties with Auden , Isherwood , Spender , Britten and others . |
| 2 | On Feb. 23 a Swedish parliamentary delegation returning from a two-week visit to South Africa recommended the maintenance of Swedish economic sanctions until the outcome of the referendum was known . |
| 3 | He believed ‘ a moderate degree of elevation relieves all objects on an horizontal plane from that huddled confusion resulting from a lowly point of view ’ . |
| 4 | It has not rituals whatever to deal with distress and grief resulting from a difficult birth or a pregnancy that ends in death . |
| 5 | Sir Henry Curtis perched upon a rock bleeding from a dozen wounds but fighting on with the remnant of the Greys against the hordes of Twala was too heroic . |
| 6 | For instance , a visual field loss resulting from a damaged retina will not be helped by wearing spectacles , and they will not be prescribed . |
| 7 | His head was throbbing and his body was a bruise radiating from a single abscess of pain that cut through him at every step . |
| 8 | I presently see a figure approaching from a hundred yards off , up the middle of the street : a tall young woman , in a close white cap , and a short frock of lilac cotton , and coarse sack-cloth apron , and strong boots . |
| 9 | When a boy goes ‘ bang bang ’ with his finger , or a more realistic-looking gun , he no more wishes to kill or maim the ‘ enemy ’ than his parents would actually enjoy seeing gouts of blood issuing from a real villain as is shown on television . |
| 10 | We came to a spot aromatic with eucalyptus scent , whose rocks had been mapped as a cascade of lava falling from a faulted escarpment . |
| 11 | If for Hegel historical time is the reflection in time of the essence of the historical totality , for Althusser it is a function of the structure of the totality arising from a particular mode of production . |
| 12 | Ludens had picked up from the floor a sketch , acrylic on paper , representing ( perhaps ) a pale human figure emerging from a dark marsh or river . |
| 13 | of light-cord trailing from a naked bulb . |
| 14 | Mum and Davey had gone to the morning service ; I stayed at home recovering from a bad cold . |
| 15 | A white Range Rover passed , the Union flag snapping from a small mast on the bonnet . |
| 16 | A presidential decree on Dec. 28 , 1989 , cancelled an article in the higher education law resulting from a Constitutional Court ruling of March 1989 which overturned a law permitting the wearing of Islamic head-scarves at universities [ see p. 36528 ] . |
| 17 | A BOY suffering from a serious heart condition was airlifted from North Wales to a specialist cardiac unit yesterday morning . |
| 18 | A CHILD suffering from a serious heart condition had to be airlifted from North Wales to a specialist cardiac unit yesterday . |
| 19 | In this a weak input which can not sustain LTF in its own right may be encouraged to do so if combined with a strong stimulus arriving from a second pathway . |
| 20 | At a turn in the corridor she saw a picture she remembered , a ship at sea , and under the waves a chariot racing from a previous painting . |
| 21 | More than anything else in the world , he wanted to see that muscular hairy body hanging from a bloody meat-hook in the cellar among the turkey carcasses and slaughtered pigs . |
| 22 | A family with the disk ranging from a sack-like bag covered with skin or thin scales to a more rigid structure covered with large plates , usually armed with spinelets , granules , or simple rods , the density of covering varying ; the characters of the oral frame falling into broad categories ; either the jaws longer than broad with many papillae or as broad as long usually with fewer papillae , rarely more than 6–7 ; the arms usually noded but sometimes only slightly so ; arm spines usually erect , often long and rugose ; the tentacle pores either large and open with small tentacle scales or none at all or small with a variety of tentacle scales . |
| 23 | In specific cases exact solutions of the stress distribution resulting from a given distribution of surface traction can be found . |
| 24 | At the western outskirts of the town is the Bliss Valley Tweed Mill , an imposing stone-built factory which , if it were not for its chimney rising from a domed tower , would look like a great country mansion . |
| 25 | It can also include an accident resulting from a deliberate act ( Chief Constable of West Midlands Police v Billingham [ 1979 ] Crim LR 256 ) . |
| 26 | A group-wide waste definition has been agreed and for C&P this includes unavoidable waste resulting from a chemical reaction — unless a market is found for it . |
| 27 | Instantly hardening , it has effectively blocked an estimated 50 per cent of the force of the eruption coming from a new fissure . |
| 28 | That was Fiona , in the bed , on the bed , covers half off , the only light in the room coming from a little candle by the bedside , her hair spilled on the pillow ( the other pillow was on the floor ) … and that was Lachlan Watt , wrapped round her , body bucking like some horse , his hands at her neck , at one breast , in her hair , cupping her neck ; the covers sliding off , Fiona putting her arms wide , clutching at the bottom sheet of the bed at one side , clutching the edge of the bedside table with the other . |
| 29 | Perceptions may change — her body can feel as vast as a mountain , and her own breathing be heard as an urgent sound coming from a different person . |
| 30 | The hiatus after 1986 relates to a crisis arising from a large volume of issuance in relation to demand at excessively tight spreads , although it was triggered by concerns regarding regulation of banks ' issues ( see Davis , 1989 ) . |