Example sentences of "a [noun sg] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The Hlatlolanang Health & Social Service Centre in Sekhukhuneland will serve as a base from which these learnings can be experimented . |
2 | It consists of a nucleus surrounded by a cytoplasm from which thread-like fibres project . |
3 | A POLICEMAN dived into a canal to pull a driver from his crashed car — then booked him for going through a red light . |
4 | A part from its obvious centre-point in railway history , Darlington was ideally placed on the rail network with connections running to all points of the compass from Bank Top . |
5 | The difference between these nodes is the degree to which the reader thinks the author has provided a text from which some meaning is recoverable . |
6 | One company had obtained a concession from its local unions to employ at least a certain proportion of its workforce on a temporary basis . |
7 | Both sensory and contextual information interact in such a way that there is a trade-off between them ; the more contextual information input to a logogen from its top-down sources , the less sensory information is needed to bring the logogen above threshold for activation . |
8 | I do not like the mobile , but it is a present from my new sister so I pretend . |
9 | No student can be enrolled at the university without a certificate from his local authority that he is ‘ morally and politically suitable ’ ( Politika , 8 September 1987 ) . |
10 | Not even a plea from his six-year-old granddaughter to let Big Daddy go could free him . |
11 | As a change from its usual summer survey Galerie St Etienne is presenting three exhibitions focusing on the principal areas of the gallery 's interests . |
12 | Our A.G.M. was held on the 18th April at Ye Olde Cock Tavern , a change from our old venue . |
13 | Our AGM was held on the 18th April at Ye Olde Cock Tavern , a change from our old venue . |
14 | When she peered through her fingers it seemed to her that the butterfly was quite happy in its warm cage : not a flutter from its four wings as she proceeded carefully along the box-edged paths that led back to the green garden door . |
15 | As we pulled out over Lough Atalia towards Athenry I recognised a figure from my own past — Sebastian . |
16 | Up to two hundred old people will have to move if the council accepts a recommendation from its Social Services Director that the homes should close . |
17 | Roman Wyatt was way out of her league ; he was a high-powered business tycoon with beautiful women falling over themselves for a glance from his magnificent eyes . |
18 | That too , perhaps , a throw-back from his regimental days . |
19 | But Rosemarie felt so strongly that mum suggested she write to director Steven Spielberg … and to her surprise she received a reply from his scientific adviser Don Lessem in Massachusetts . |
20 | And while IBM is undoubtedly now more of a computer-services company , much of this business is a spin-off from its installed base of mainframes — hardly a growing market . |
21 | Flashback to 1963 when Dylan was due to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show and planning to sing ‘ Talkin' John Birch Society Blues ’ , a cut from his forthcoming album . |
22 | ‘ GHAAMPRH ! ’ he added , as he plucked a sprout from his left ear and crunched it to oblivion . |
23 | And do you imagine he could make a living from our little community alone ? |
24 | Marx believed that the history of human societies was to be explained first of all by the nature of man as an animal who had to obtain a living from his geographical environment , which meant not only staying alive , but also being able to look after one 's offspring until they could look after themselves . |
25 | He entered the room with the pop-eyed , lock-jawed expression of one who was expecting to hear a death-sentence from his commanding officer , but he cracked into smiles of various kinds when he heard we were to be his proteges . |
26 | Then she produces a key from her own jacket pocket , and lets herself in , to crouch down behind the driver 's seat . |
27 | A SNAKE handler who set up a group to dispel people 's fear of the reptiles was killed by a bite from his Egyptian cobra . |
28 | Adoption involves the legal transfer of responsibility for a child from its natural parents . |
29 | Later I will have the privilege of answering a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Orpington ( Mr. Stanbrook ) on that matter . |
30 | However , the Minister of State for the Armed Forces said , in answer to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Western Isles ( Mr. Macdonald ) : ’ Under the 1972 United States-Soviet ABM treaty and subsequent protocols , the Soviet Union is limited to a maximum of 100 ABM launchers located within a radius of 150 km around either the national capital or one area containing silo fields . |