Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] from [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And beyond , a nightmare creature , barely perceived in the swirling dense smoke , beating at the flames coming from its own body . |
| 2 | It was always envisaged that the House of Lords would use the freedom to depart from its own previous decisions sparingly , but in the years following the Practice Statement the potential impact of the new freedom was narrowed by the addition of a series of riders . |
| 3 | Ms Harman urged the electorate to draw from their own experiences when they vote . |
| 4 | In their sales pitch for such stocks , some dealers would make out the recommendation hailed from their own research department , but by coincidence , The Times had seen fit to tip the stock as well . |
| 5 | Even her pearls looked real , thought Mrs Frizzell grimly , her thoughts for the moment diverted from her own nightmare frame of mind . |
| 6 | Only the House of Lords , acting as the Supreme Court of Appeal , has the right to depart from its own previous decisions ; and this right would be exercised only in unusual and exceptional circumstances . |
| 7 | Both forms are based on the existing topic framework , but the distinction derives from what each individual speaker treats as the salient elements in the existing topic framework . |
| 8 | ‘ The apples come from my own trees , and I make the toffee to dip them in . |
| 9 | The historical and comparative evidence , as well as the evidence drawn from our own society , presents many difficulties in the way of reaching any clear decisions on these matters . |
| 10 | As weather , work and the frenzy of city life threaten our sanity , the urge to flee from it all and to hell with the consequences , sweeps over the mind like a tsunami . |
| 11 | It is also used as an agent of ironic comment whose target is the ‘ actualitá ’ of the news broadcast from which all distinguishing features have been purged . |
| 12 | He kissed her forehead , her chin , cupped her face in both hands and kissed shut her eyes , the tears falling from his own . |
| 13 | Thomas May 's earlier assumption would have been a perfectly natural one had he been dealing with a museum collection , but here at Templebrough , the sherds came from his own excavation , and the only conclusion to be drawn is that he had very little conception of the significance of stratified deposits . |
| 14 | As a recent and fundamentally sympathetic editor , Professor C. Wright Mills , put it , Veblen was blinded by the assumption quoted from his own book that ‘ the accumulation of wealth at the upper end of the pecuniary scale implies privation at the lower end of the scale ’ . |
| 15 | In many ways , the dichotomy derives from his own family . |
| 16 | I realise that the Club will lose interest from this , but it 's obviously a case of the bank profiting from its own mistakes , like British Telecom . |
| 17 | The property benefits from its own drive and a wider than average side access . |
| 18 | In order for an apparent consent or refusal of consent to be less than a true consent or refusal , there must be such a degree of external influence as to persuade the patient to depart from her own wishes , to an extent that the law regards it as undue . |
| 19 | The refractoriness of our malariological critics to the notion of resistant parasites leads them to a paradox ; they refer to ‘ the continuing efficacy of 4-aminoquinolines ’ whereas the table derived from their own 1990 studies shows 41% resistance to these drugs . |
| 20 | If the victim emerges from his own dwelling , and his protagonist repeats his threats or insults , the offence is committed . |
| 21 | The coat and the lipstick came from her own work . |
| 22 | The Dutch biotechnology company , Gist Brocades , is working on a scheme by which pigs could be fed with a product deriving from their own waste . |
| 23 | Seth read Joey bedtime passages from Huckleberry Finn , a habit learned from his own father . |
| 24 | This sense of a future and a past for homosexuality contrasts unfavourably with the British sense of history — it would be unfortunate if the only way for a society to learn from its own history was for it to be occupied by fascists ! |
| 25 | His earnings will be doubled by a pensions package from his former employers . |
| 26 | In March 1204 the men of Cornwall agreed to pay a fine of 2,000 marks and 20 palfreys worth 10 marks each for the disafforestment of the whole of the county , with the exception of two moors and two woods , and for having a sheriff chosen from their own nominees . |