Example sentences of "that [verb] from a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Windows that pivot from a central point are frequently fitted in modern flats for ease of cleaning . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , the pressure on me has increased since Stuart decided to come back on the England scene , but this is not the first time he has squeezed the position and I accept that challenge from a top-class player . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , the pressure on me has increased since Stuart decided to come back on the England scene but this is not the first time he has squeezed the position and I accept that challenge from a top-class player . ’ |
| 4 | Babies she had seen before had fat fleshy faces that spread from a central dummy . |
| 5 | He had said that it was the duty of any chairman to refer an offer that came from a reputable source to his board and shareholders . |
| 6 | Best of all , perhaps , was his splendid spoonerism that came from an ambitious attempt to say of one player , ‘ He 's sticking out his bottom — like someone sitting on a shooting stick . ’ |
| 7 | She watches me through a black veil that hangs from a black hat . |
| 8 | Not just because their popularity has grown naturally and without cartloads of bullshit , but because they 've wheedled their way out of Northern Ireland with a snarling guitar sound that benefits from an invigorating spread of influences — from techno to rap and ambient house to reggae . |
| 9 | The back has deep , '50s-style chest-contouring , and the whole body is finished in a delicately-sprayed sunburst that darkens from a deep yellow at the centre to a medium orange at the edges . |
| 10 | She realized then that the coffin lid had simply been lifted off , letting in light from a long strip-light that hung from a plain rock ceiling . |
| 11 | Dance in all its aspects has proved capable of embracing the whole range of emotions and behaviour that emerge from a proper reading and understanding of the text . |
| 12 | But in South Africa today , and surely for a good many years to come , there are also additional considerations that demand from a large company actions and policies that go beyond its immediate business interests and seek to ameliorate the excessive social and economic imbalances that have developed in our society . |
| 13 | A great many contract negotiations that started from a written set of terms and conditions sent with an offer to negotiate , which in fact produced mainly contracts upon the original terms offered , with little evidence of variations introduced by negotiation , would seem likely to be caught . |
| 14 | First , the merger of two large firms will give them the immediate monopoly power that derives from a large market share . |
| 15 | A problem might be defined , somewhat abstractly perhaps , as an unsolved mental or physical task that derives from an observed deviation from the standard or norm expected . |
| 16 | There was music , too , and those long shafts of light that fell from a high window , somewhere over to my right . |
| 17 | The hoped-for physiological differences that resulted from an intensive intervention programme and routine medical care were marginal . |
| 18 | the single point that emerges from a close reading of the literature on the underclass and the inner city is that there is no valid need to identify the poor by their putative behaviour at all . |
| 19 | The Dalek Killer was on a balcony — a flat , unwalled slab that projected from a wide opening just below the top of the wall . |
| 20 | This was one of the conclusions that emerged from a recent conference on Media and Theological Education which was sponsored by the Jerusalem Trust and held at Edinburgh University , Scotland . |
| 21 | Nevile Wallis in the Observer drew a parallel between Henry James 's labyrinthine style and the intricacies that result from an acute anxiety to communicate with delicate precision and Minton 's oils , crowded with ingenious patterning and curious detail . |
| 22 | I comfort myself with that recollection when dealing with complaints about my own paper , very much part of a modern editor 's work in an age when our readers have become more critical and more discriminating , but Professor Macmurray 's insights have helped me to distinguish between those complaints that flow , as they sometimes do , from a different subjective interpretation of a given body of facts and those that arise from a straightforward error on our part . |
| 23 | Therefore , the EC has sought to develop a policy designed to secure the benefits that arise from a competitive market , since as national barriers to inter-state competition are removed there is a danger that these can be replaced by privately erected barriers . |
| 24 | I mean there there are some dis-benefits but do the benefits that arise from an inner route , outweigh those dis-benefits . |
| 25 | The world is a great jewel , a blue and green jewel that shines from a million facets . |
| 26 | The reasoning behind that is that come from a lower class generally if you ca n't you know you ca n't go to a nursery school cos you have to pay for nursery school education in this country . |
| 27 | As a whole these wastes are estimated to have an energy equivalent of 21 million tonnes of coal , and government , industry and local authorities alike are very keen on obtaining energy from such cheap sources which are termed biofuels — fuels that come from an organic origin . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) Straight or curved lines that radiate from a common centre , but do not necessarily pass through it . |
| 29 | Drife should not be surprised that many women respond to a strange man with a conditioned response that arises from a long learning experience in a male dominated society . |
| 30 | A scion is the growth that arises from an implanted bud or graft , whereas the stock — sometimes referred to as the root- stock — is the host plant that receives the bud or graft , with its own top growth removed so that its sap and energies are made to support the new guest . |