Example sentences of "a [noun] [v-ing] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A police officer who was at the scene of the crash said , ‘ Mrs Gallagher was travelling on her own side when struck by a vehicle coming from the opposite direction on her side of the road . ’ |
| 5 | Finally , the tusk shells ( Scaphopoda ) are a long-lived group with a record stretching from the Ordovician to the present . |
| 6 | Thalassiothrix longissima ( characterized by long straight to twisted cells , only 1.5–5μm wide but up to 4mm long ) is described as a cosmopolitan species with a distribution ranging from the Southern Ocean to the North Pacific , North Atlantic and the Norwegian Sea . |
| 7 | A surplus arising from the actuarial valuation of one of the UK funds , after taking account of improvements in benefits to members , is being spread forward over twenty years by reducing the regular annual contributions . |
| 8 | In April 1986 our 29-year-old son met a lorry coming from the opposite direction with a very heavy utility trailer in tow . |
| 9 | For C3 plants , , where a is a fractionation resulting from the greater diffusivity of 12 CO 2 than 13 CO 2 across leaf stomata ( 4.4 ( ref. 29 ) ; positive values indicate discrimination against 13 C or 12 C-enrichment ) and b is discrimination by ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase against 13 C in CO 2 fixation ( 29 ; ref. 30 ) . |
| 10 | Are they able to look without too dominant a preconception coming from the Western tradition ? |
| 11 | In another report , the Independent of July 14 described a Khmer Rouge attack on a train travelling from the southern port of Kompong Som to Phnom Penh on July 1 . |
| 12 | Turquoise was also present among the grave goods of Fu Hao , consort of a Shang king , in a tomb dating from the first half of the twelfth century B.C. One of several nephrite halberd blades was hafted in a bronze mount studded with turquoise inlay . |
| 13 | He would have liked to exchange a few words with Cedric Downes at Oxford — surely a man suffering from the same kind of trouble ? |
| 14 | When using leaves to help identify a vine , the grower must take care to select samples from the mature foliage occurring beyond the sixth node from the base of a shoot coming from the previous year 's wood . |
| 15 | I once heard a recording dating from the American election of 1948 . |
| 16 | But as his eyes grew accustomed to it he could make out a hand protruding from the open lounge doorway . |
| 17 | One of the leading members of the council of Wigtown , Bailie Hooks , was the owner of a ship sailing from the Swedish port of Gothenburg , which brought into Whithorn Bay a large quantity of smuggled tea and iron . |
| 18 | He struck his hands in his belt pulling back hi coat , allowing them all to see the butt of a revolver protruding from the inner pocket of his coat . |
| 19 | They descended from hereditary riding-bailiffs of the abbots of Ramsey by a serjeanty dating from the twelfth century . |
| 20 | The Duke arranged for a long avenue Or lime trees to be planted alongside a driveway leading from the main road that ran westward from London ( Chiswick High Road ) and sweeping into his Chiswick House grounds and , despite having been cut in two by the dual carriageway of the Great West Road Extension , it still remains as Dukes Avenue . |
| 21 | On approaching , from some distance off , the first greeting is given by the elegant shape of a belfry emerging from the surrounding greenery ; it belongs to the 17th century church of Santa Maria graced by the renowned painting of the Virgin by Pier Francesco Fiorentino . |
| 22 | The regional variety of a language differing from the standard language in vocabulary , pronunciation or idiom ; it may be the variety of a language according to the user , which could be termed an idiolect . |
| 23 | He had a peculiar way of dismounting — instead of putting his right leg over the saddle in the usual fashion , he used to put his left leg on a step protruding from the rear spindle , stand on this and gently place his right leg to the ground . |
| 24 | Of the Baktrian revolt nothing is known except that the satrapy was recovered by aid of a providential wind , presumably a sandstorm blowing from the Turkish steppes . |
| 25 | In a letter dated 19 November , the Lord Advocate said that in Scotland ’ Civil actions are raised in the Court of Session or Sheriff Court Mrs. would have to establish first of all that she does indeed have a right to raise an action arising from the unfortunate incident of which she has complained . |
| 26 | During his time as Bishop of Woolwich , responsible for an area stretching from the inner-city boroughs of South London to the Surrey commuter belt , David Sheppard conducted a survey of 150 parishes to show the electoral roll members of the Church of England as a percentage of the total population . |
| 27 | It should be pointed out , however , that other definitions of strain will be met with in the literature , most notably , is often called the true strain , while an expression arising from the kinetic theory of elasticity has the form |