Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is provision for the GAL to be separately represented if their recommendation differs from the young person , and if they are of sufficient age and understanding to instruct the solicitor themselves ( the GAL will advise solicitors about this ) . |
| 2 | The department benefits from the excellent research libraries in Edinburgh , especially New College Library and the National Library of Scotland . |
| 3 | The red-breast sings from the tall larch |
| 4 | The Great Barrier Reef stretches from the extreme north-east of Australia , down past Queensland 's Daintree forest and undeveloped coast , to peter out some 2,000 kilometres to the south . |
| 5 | In this way the study diverges from the usual tradition of elite studies where emphasis has been placed on ideological response or constituency service as the key to understanding the adoption of attitudes in such an elite . |
| 6 | The motivation for this research derives from the pressing need to assess the reliability of econometric models for cross-section data . |
| 7 | Rhines sees the current semiconductor industry as being in turmoil , as the impetus in the industry moves from the vertically-integrated companies to functionally-defined companies — Japan being an exception to the rule however ; and the purchasing power of vendors such as Compaq Computer Corp , Dell Computer Corp and Apple Computer Inc for example , causing major growth in the merchant market . |
| 8 | Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore . |
| 9 | ‘ I myself can not even begin to imagine by what mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the reputed subtleties of Keynsian economics ( the process which has , apparently , saved the capitalist system from the collapse which would in turn have provoked a revolution ) to the blatant crudities of contemplating intercourse with a mindless whore . |
| 10 | There is a good deal of evidence to suggest that managerial and technical talent flows from the domestic sector to the transnational companies rather than vice versa , particularly but not exclusively in the Third World ( see Gershenberg , 1987 , on Kenya ; Okada , 1983 , on Indonesia ) . |
| 11 | The main carriage operates from the right-hand edge and the lace carriage from the left-hand edge . |
| 12 | However , argon , being a gas , is at zero concentration when the rock solidifies from the molten state , so the amount of argon produced is measured . |
| 13 | Although modern floods are still of importance , much of the Amotape fan dates from the Pleistocene period . |
| 14 | ( The word booze comes from the same source . ) |
| 15 | Again , the term comes from the earliest attempts at explaining the disorder . |
| 16 | In practice the output rises sharply when the echo returns from the nearest point on the planet but dies away slowly as echoes arrive from surrounding regions of the planet 's surface . |
| 17 | The echo comes from the whole disc , but because of this uniqueness the echo can be unscrambled to reveal the contributions to it from every pair of patches of planetary surface exemplified by X and Y. |
| 18 | The funding for this and the downtown programme comes from the fiftieth anniversary campaign , launched in 1988 by the museum 's board of trustees . |
| 19 | Frank Card reports from the recent ICM/Justitia CAS conference |
| 20 | The power for the spring comes from the back legs and feet . |
| 21 | Similarly , a perception that the brain is involved in the outworking of mental processes does not mean that the mind arises from the physical brain . |
| 22 | Saffron yellow comes from the dried pistils of the saffron crocus , but this plant is now extremely rare and the colour is exceptionally expensive . |
| 23 | Although it could be argued that it is not really chronology continuing ( as suggested by the chapter title ) because there had been insufficient time specification before 1950 , the sequence of this chapter proceeds from the basic foundations , to the alternative models , to sea level changes , Quaternary geography and hence to the prospect of environmental change . |
| 24 | The disadvantage comes from the potential neglect of 98 per cent of NHS managers who do not join one of the accelerated programmes . |
| 25 | ( 5.19 ) with respect to time gives the variation of rotor position with time : For a phase current the flux linked with phase A is simply the product of current and inductance : and the rate of change of flux linkages with time is : The first term in this expression is the voltage induced in the phase windings by the rotor motion and the second term arises from the changing current in the phase inductance — Substituting from Eqns — ( 5.17 ) and ( 5.20 ) gives the motional voltage in terms of the phase inductance : Since the phase current , is produced by a switched voltage supply it is non-sinusoidal and therefore , from Eqn . |
| 26 | Now half the income of the city 's administration comes from the federal government . |
| 27 | The more directly threatening stance of the sleepwalker or that of the hypnotist differs from the remote glance of Lamia , but there is once again the unseen threat of the woman as shape-changer and enchantress . |
| 28 | The arrow points from the first node a of the pair ( a , b ) towards the second , b . |
| 29 | However , this mill differs from the simple prototype in having a brickbuilt outshot against its south-east elevation which was constructed to house an auxiliary steam-engine that would be brought into use during periods of drought . |
| 30 | I accept that the law has from the first appearance of corporations , in the absence of any relevant statutory direction , considered the question of a corporation 's right to sue for defamation by reference to the nature of the corporation itself and the need for the corporation to protect its lawful activities and property . |