Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When back pain and arthritis are the problems it can help to take short rests or breaks from a long stint in one position — say sitting at a desk or standing at an ironing-table . |
| 2 | Runners-up were the Community Network — a telephone conferencing facility for various charities and social groups — and The Rainbow Centre — a small , national charity working with families where a child has either died or suffers from a life-threatening illness . |
| 3 | deictic : a. gestural b. symbolic 2. non-deictic : c. non-anaphoric d. anaphoric These difficulties are compounded when the phenomenon of deictic projection , or shifts from the egocentric centre , are taken into account ; and they are further multiplied by the interaction of the semantics of non-deictic categorizations of ( especially ) space and time with deictic modifiers . |
| 4 | It frequently happens that a daughter lives with a widowed parent for 20 years or more ; if the parent changes council houses or moves from the private sector to a council house within one year of the death of the parent then on the death of the parent the council house will be the home which contains all the furniture and other articles which form part of the home and have been fitted into the council house by the parent and the daughter . |
| 5 | There are now several benefits — family credit , free school meals , housing benefit and grants from the Social Fund , for example — that can help families in financial need , but the processes of application and appeal for these are complex enough to warrant the assistance of social workers in many instances . |
| 6 | Crawford returned to repertory work to be there for the first three months , appearing alongside stars such as Leo McKern , who had turned down two films and offers from the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company to go to Nottingham , and classical actor John Neville , who had just starred in Alfie on the London stage and was giving up 200-a-week West End rates for the 20 to 50 Playhouse level . |
| 7 | Many illustrations described as woodcuts are not , strictly speaking , woodcuts at all since , from about 1830 , it became common to make stereotypes and electrotypes from the original wood blocks , which would stand up to only comparatively small editions . |
| 8 | Happy as a Sandbag , A musical review of the 1940s , which opens tonight , features songs , dances and acts from the Second World War . |
| 9 | It also eats grass and benefits from a regular supply of green vegetables in its diet . |
| 10 | ″ ) is light , stiff and benefits from the straight throat beam ( STB ) design which helps to prevent the racket twisting after off centre hits . |
| 11 | And sundews from the same area . |
| 12 | A similar greeting evoked a series of grunts and groans from the neighbouring tent . |
| 13 | The first view we can call the " empiricist " , and derives from a philosophical tradition which reaches back as far as Aristotle and runs through more historically recent figures such as Bacon , Locke , Hume , J.S. Mill , and , in the twentieth century , the logical positivists and , latterly , the neo-realists . |
| 14 | The oral shield has an irregular shape , although it may sometimes be hourglass shaped , and extends from the oral frame on to the interradial area . |
| 15 | From then one we are taken through a Druids ' Grove to consider swords , war trumpets , and the bronze shield cover discovered in the River Witham in Lincolnshire and dates from the second century BC . |
| 16 | This brick building replaces a stone Romanesque cathedral and dates from the thirteenth century onwards ( 565 ) . |
| 17 | This is on a square plan and dates from the ninth century . |
| 18 | The nave arcade , with its capitals and columns , is the most interesting and dates from the eleventh century ( 401 ) . |
| 19 | The building is brick and dates from the fourteenth century , though with later fenestration and entrance doorway . |
| 20 | It is a substantial brick watermill , and dates from the seventeenth century . |
| 21 | The Trondheim episcopal palace adjoins the cathedral and dates from the twelfth century . |
| 22 | The archway itself is in fine condition and dates from the third century B.C. It forms part of the Etruscan walls to the city and is the best extant example of Etruscan masonry . |
| 23 | It is possible that the origin is naval and dates from the 16th Century when ‘ sucking the monkey ’ described the tapping and topping up of a coconut with rum before the milk mix was sucked from it . |
| 24 | He also hopes the new format will attract new readers , both those who do not regularly read a daily newspaper and converts from the rival Liberation - which has won an extraordinary success among younger readers with its mix of lively writing , news features and bold use of photography and design . |
| 25 | Yet here they have found that the newcomers are also opposed to the construction of further council housing in the village on the grounds that it is ‘ detrimental to the character of the village ’ and detracts from the rural environment . |
| 26 | The most effective method that I can recommend is to remove carefully all your pressed flowers and leaves from the blotting paper with a pair of tweezers , and store them in small , clear-fronted cellophane bags . |
| 27 | The entries will be opened on Friday July 31st and proceeds from the successful bid will be donated to the Parkinson 's Disease Society . |
| 28 | It is about eight inches in length and runs from the urinary bladder , through the prostate gland , under the front of the pelvis , and , passing through the corpus spongiosum , it ends at the tip of the glans penis in an opening called the urethral meatus . |
| 29 | He goes well fresh , was possibly past his best for the season in those two clashes with Katabatic last term , and comes from a stable firing out winners . |
| 30 | Pammy Jane is the daughter of retired businessman Charles Chafer and comes from a wealthy hunting family in Pickering , Yorkshire . |