Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] from a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This followed claims by Lorraine Osman , former chairman of the London subsidiary of Bank Bumiputra , that money from a collapsed Hong Kong company , Carrian , might have financed the opposition campaign in the general election in October . |
| 2 | One local resident commented at the time , ‘ Possibly this area may have been picked because they think they might meet least resistance from a depopulated area ’ . |
| 3 | That smell of oil and candles and that light from a distant window and him on his knees , mumbling . |
| 4 | At Khartoum North there were two platforms in an overall shed affording some protection from a fierce sun . |
| 5 | I got some stick from a small section of the Palace crowd which I did n't expect , but it did n't bother me . |
| 6 | In 1889 a Select Committee heard another plea from a male trade unionist for the restriction of married women 's work on the grounds that ‘ when the married women turn into the domestic workshops they become competitors against their own husbands and it requires a man and his wife to earn what the man alone would earn if she were not in the shop ’ . |
| 7 | The shepherd poured some wine from a tattered straw flask into four greasy tumblers and the men sat at the oil-cloth-covered table . |
| 8 | Despite all the shortcomings of British society in this period from a socialist point of view , and the alarming prospects raised by nuclear armament , it has to be said that capitalism was ‘ too successful ’ , in developing the productive forces and meeting popular aspirations , for political forces supporting a radical transformation of social relations to make much headway . |
| 9 | This shift from a narrative cinema to a postmodern cinema of spectacle can be detected in some of the biggest moneyspinning films from the mid-1960s , such as Spaghetti Westerns ( Frayling 1981 , pp. 39f ) , in which realist narrative structure is violated by the presence of events which are interchangeable or gratuitous , by films like Scorsese 's Mean Streets which resolutely refuse to end . |
| 10 | Another specific usage of private stations was that of Railway Staff halts which enabled staff to reach a place of work which was some distance from a public stopping place . |
| 11 | He poured himself some water from a chilled carafe . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , a letter I received this morning from a dear friend of mine … ’ |
| 13 | Is the Minister aware that I returned this morning from a short visit to four countries in the middle east ? |
| 14 | Some page from a knightly family , most likely , thought Harry , eyeing him distantly out of the obscuring mist of his own preoccupations . |
| 15 | In fact , Colchester will want to forget about this season from a disciplinary point of view . |
| 16 | Figure 22.2 is a sketch of another pattern from a similar experiment ( the lines correspond to bright lines in the shadowgraph ) . |
| 17 | This comment from a senior teacher expresses a general view held by staff : |
| 18 | This reproduction from a thirteenth century chess manual shows a Christian and a Moslem playing a game . |
| 19 | This scream from a shattered soul is what really links Prince with Little Richard and James Brown , and why we link Prince to a lost golden era of pop when that pandemonium and hysteria was the norm , not a freak occurrence . |
| 20 | But if they were short , they would keep you on until they could get another man from a different station , so that you might only have two hours off . |
| 21 | Poxed , disfigured scavengers scuttled across hillocks of debris which rained into this underworld from a low steel sky by way of chutes and grilles . |
| 22 | We obtained supportive evidence for this explanation from a double contrast barium enema investigation of a patient complaining of changed bowel habit . |
| 23 | Mahmud bathed from the stern of the boat and then went off through the trees to buy some food from a nearby village . |
| 24 | This was still some way from a mathematical science , and chemists continued to look for the Kepler or the Newton of Chemistry who would make it deductive and mathematical . |
| 25 | There was also another son from a previous marriage . |
| 26 | Photographs of Handsworth box are not easy to come by , so this view from a passing train , of 02 No. 63734 is particularly welcome . |
| 27 | England suffered to some extent from a similar gulf between her real power and her ceremonial status during the Interregnum of 1649 – 60 , a gulf in this case deepened by the widespread hostility aroused by the execution of Charles I. For several years the standing of the representatives abroad of the various Commonwealth governments was seriously weakened by the disappearance of the monarchy : in 1654 , for example , the Danish ambassador in Sweden claimed precedence over his English equivalent since the latter was acting for Cromwell , a mere protector , not for an anointed king . |
| 28 | Instances have been cited of two or more children ( six , in one teacher 's account ) , reading aloud simultaneously to a teacher , each child from a different book . |
| 29 | Commissioners were sent to collect a ‘ fine ’ from each parish totalling £600 ; much money from a poor County . |
| 30 | Sugar said his main reaction was one of ‘ relief ’ that the issue had been settled because he had received such abuse from a small section of Tottenham fans . |