Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey . |
| 2 | He also seems to have donated his belt and hose , as a twelfth-century account of their treasures lists a girdle made from the one and an alb decorated with gold thread from the other . |
| 3 | I have a built in um caution of those who wander in the groves of academe I always feel they 're a bit divorced from the real world |
| 4 | ‘ A runner came from the front trenches , down the communicating trench . |
| 5 | A year and a half earlier , she had lost her previous camp home when a shell fired from the Israeli-armed Lebanese Christian enclave to the south hit the roof . |
| 6 | But manager Maurice Setters knows his side have a struggle to qualify from a tough section — Germany are the other team in five-nation group three . |
| 7 | At a turn in the corridor she saw a picture she remembered , a ship at sea , and under the waves a chariot racing from a previous painting . |
| 8 | Brandon Lee , 28 , died on Wednesday 12 hours after he was hit in the stomach by a projectile fired from a blank pistol during filming of The Crow . |
| 9 | A blackbird sang from a hazel tree with swinging yellow catkins ; buds were just beginning to open into miniature bright green leaves . |
| 10 | Next , a story lifted from the Daily Mail about Professor Jerrold Petrofsky 's work in Dayton , Ohio , and the hope it gave to the paralysed PC Philip Olds . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's Becherovka , a liqueur made from the local water and various herbs , ’ he answered . |
| 12 | If one were to include other categories of ‘ news ’ , such as ‘ Law , police and accidents ’ — a category excluded from the public affairs one — then the reader would have had access to substantial amounts of information about the outside world . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , that 's a squirrel recovering from an air-rifle shot . |
| 14 | He was also asleep when a gramophone blared from the open window of a flat in the block across the way . |
| 15 | This went further by challenging the immunity that the unions had enjoyed from any financial damages incurred during strikes , a privilege dating from the Liberal government 's Trade Disputes Act of 1906 . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was a tiredness resulting from the previous 14 pitches , but I could see no way of free climbing it at less than E5 , and I was n't good enough for that , not now . |
| 17 | A skin sloughs from a leafless apocalypse . |
| 18 | Alyson received a shield made from an old school desk to mark her record . |
| 19 | A opportunity arose from a primary study of proliferation in gastric malignancy to investigate BrdUrd labelled gastric mucosa . |
| 20 | The urgency of the Czech art establishment 's task is not helped by cloying , centralising bureaucracy : when an English-language Prague newspaper requested a photograph of a Schiele drawing from the National Gallery 's collection , it was told to send a formal request to the director , Mr Slavicek . |
| 21 | The adverts are expected to reach 6.3 million readers in that period , a figure calculated from the audited circulation of each publication . |
| 22 | I presently see a figure approaching from a hundred yards off , up the middle of the street : a tall young woman , in a close white cap , and a short frock of lilac cotton , and coarse sack-cloth apron , and strong boots . |
| 23 | a term borrowed from the Victorian pseudo-science of phrenology , the basic premiss of which was that character could be gauged from the shape of the skull , which phrenologists divided into some 40 sections or ‘ organs ’ , each one being the seat of a mental or moral faculty . |
| 24 | but she had , they have to have a fence built from the back garden , because there 's , there 's an opening from the back garden and it 's onto the drive and then it 's onto the road , even though it is a quiet road |
| 25 | A transformer supplied from a 220 V , 50 Hz mains has an iron core in which the peak flux density , 0.66 T , is reached at a magnetic field of 150 A m-1 . |
| 26 | His head was throbbing and his body was a bruise radiating from a single abscess of pain that cut through him at every step . |
| 27 | Among the ingredients contained in these products are : anise , cantharides ( or ‘ Spanish fly ’ , a chemical derived from the dried bodies of beetles ) , estrogens , fennel , ginseng , golden seal , Korean ginseng , licorice , mandrake , minerals , nux vomica , sarsaparilla , strychnine , testosterone and vitamins . |
| 28 | Sir Henry Curtis perched upon a rock bleeding from a dozen wounds but fighting on with the remnant of the Greys against the hordes of Twala was too heroic . |
| 29 | AS FOR the government 's negotiating strategy , Harkabi forecast that nothing would scare the ‘ extremists ’ like a readiness to talk from the other side . |
| 30 | While he was detained at the police station a number of police-officers used a key taken from the arrested man to enter his mother 's home . |