Example sentences of "of [noun sg] from a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heseltine was able to announce that he already had assurances of support from a hundred MPs when he formally declared his intention to contest the leadership . |
| 2 | Intercepting a fresh glass of champagne from a passing waiter , he pressed it into Mrs Rossington 's hand . |
| 3 | Chairman , you , you have in a sense already seen this item as part of your budget this morning , er , this is the transfer of payment from an appropriate sum er , other than from the Health Authority , to er , the Local Authority . |
| 4 | He was in the restaurant kitchen late one night before closing up , knocking back the remains of four glasses of liqueur from a dirty table , when his head suddenly cleared and he heard some lines from the past in a devastating playback in his head : ‘ You 're better off without me ’ — Bella 's voice , coolly justifying herself to him on the telephone . |
| 5 | After years of criticism , and after Tampa , here was a suggestion of dishonesty from an unimpeachable source pointing at the chief executive of the group . |
| 6 | The remedy of purchase from a third party , with the consequent obligation on the seller to pay the increase in the purchase price , is broadly similar to that available at common law , but , again , the express clause imports a certain amount of flexibility in the area of the price paid for third party goods ( for instance a premium might have to be paid for quick delivery to meet the buyer 's original timescales ) , and as to how closely their specification need resemble the original goods . |
| 7 | NOTE under the OT policy the exclusion wording on MONEY has not been relaxed and still refers to ‘ loss of money from an unattended vehicle unless secured in its locked boot ’ . |
| 8 | Two centuries of silver from an outstanding Oxfordshire family firm . |
| 9 | Bait was a piece of crust from a new loaf . |
| 10 | If materials do have to be imported we make sure they 're appropriate , for example helicoptering in a supply of gravel from a similar type of hillside . |
| 11 | Murtach was greeted by name more than once , and one of the Hearthwares bent to receive a spray of honeysuckle from a dark-eyed girl who ogled him with adoration , to the amusement of his comrades . |
| 12 | They are offered cups of tea from a steaming cauldron by British soldiers . |
| 13 | PLANNING chiefs are set to block a controversial scheme to extract more than four million tonnes of rock from a green belt site at Elderslie in Renfrewshire . |
| 14 | It is then necessary to distinguish this type of patronage from a fourth kind , in a period in which there were qualitatively new social relations of art , determined by the increasingly regular production of works of art as commodities for general sale . |
| 15 | In summary , studies of perception from a neurophysiological base are not conclusive . |
| 16 | This envisages a major shift of emphasis from the ‘ cognitive-academic ’ curriculum of many secondary schools towards one emphasising more personal involvement by pupils in selecting their own patterns of study from a wider range of choice . |
| 17 | In contrast , the extrusion of a small volume of lava from a secondary cone on the slopes of Tristan da Cunha became the focus of global interest when , during October 1961 , the island 's lobster processing plant was smothered and the 300 people of the island 's only settlement were evacuated to the UK . |
| 18 | This is partly because the council has limited means of enforcing its recommendations , short of the draconian removal of recognition from an entire course . |
| 19 | In this paper , I have tried to suggest briefly some of the questions posed by the study of religion from a sociological perspective . |
| 20 | For many it transformed the view of religion from a confused mystery into a practical guide for everyday life . |
| 21 | A paraboloid can be used therefore as a mirror in telescopes to focus a maximum of light from a distant star or galaxy at a viewing point that can be some ten metres or more above the mirror . |
| 22 | During rotation the cell passes through a collimated beam of light from a high pressure mercury lamp and the emergent beam then travels through the optical system to be recorded photographically . |
| 23 | There were still more books and box-files and stacks of paper piled high on the tables that filled the room , leaving one narrow alleyway leading to the desk where , in a small pool of light from a green-shaded table-lamp , Mr Hardiman sat enthroned . |
| 24 | Maeve sat crouched over a table using a pool of light from a huge candelabra to stab furiously with her needle at a piece of embroidery she had been working on for years . |
| 25 | His method shows how one can explain many physical phenomena , including the speed of sound in air and the colour of light from a glowing furnace . |
| 26 | ‘ Plunged into semi-darkness , I perceived , lit by a slim ray of light from an invisible sun … the compact disc player … sublime in its performance , it stood before us , seekers after perfection gathered together in a common quest for the absolute ’ . |
| 27 | It was estimated that in addition more than 500,000 paediatric AIDS cases resulting from perinatal transmission ( spread of AIDS from an infected mother to her foetus or new-born baby ) , had occurred , with over 90 per cent of this total in sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 28 | One of his feet had been blown away and he had lost a lot of blood from a wide crack in his shell . |
| 29 | When we speak of our economic growth on the basis of market relations ( this is the ‘ meaning ’ of NEP from a certain angle ) , we thereby disprove the thesis of the opposition of socialist accumulation ( even ) to the law of value . |
| 30 | In the third and final section we give a brief survey of the most well-known publications in the area of philosophy from a feminist perspective . |