Example sentences of "from a [noun] 's [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was bone-weary from a day 's back-breaking labour , but it was essential that she finish what she was writing , for she had a deadline to reach and that deadline was the day after tomorrow , her half-day , and she had barely begun her task . |
| 2 | ‘ My arse and thighs are sore from a day 's hard riding . |
| 3 | Z Company were just returning from a fortnight 's well-earned leave while , as always , HQ Company were administering , paying , feeding , clothing and transporting the rest of the battalion . |
| 4 | This last observation suggests that popular discussions of technological spillovers and ‘ the appropriability problem ’ may have exaggerated the ease with which information generated from a firm 's innovative activities spills over to other firms . |
| 5 | According to Longacre ( 1979 : 116 ) , the orthographic paragraph can result from a writer 's stylistic concerns , ‘ partially dictated by eye appeal ’ , or from printing conventions such as an indentation for each change of speaker . |
| 6 | The problem with the conclusions in both sets of experiments is that they are based on the assumption that we can infer when an experience occurs from a subject 's verbal report . |
| 7 | The programme is pitched at Fortune 1000 companies that have embraced open systems for strategic applications and the company suggests that it could develop a prototype to consolidate financial reporting from a company 's strategic business units into corporate headquarters , connecting disparate computer environments into a client-server system . |
| 8 | The programme is pitched at Fortune 1000 companies that have embraced open systems for strategic applications and the company suggests that it could develop a prototype to consolidate financial reporting from a company 's strategic business units into corporate headquarters , connecting disparate computer environments into a client-server system . |
| 9 | In the interest of supposed consistency , circumflex accents are to be summarily abolished on all i and u vowels , despite their frequent help in indicating a missing s from a word 's Latin root . |
| 10 | However , music chosen from a composer 's total output and specially arranged as a score for a three-act ballet with a story has rarely been completely successful . |
| 11 | This stems , he said , from a child 's early toilet training . |
| 12 | The concept of the self develops from a child 's physical separation from the parents . |
| 13 | By fundamental barriers we mean those difficulties , which usually arise from a person 's personal circumstances such as lack of money or having to look after dependants . |
| 14 | Some healers ( especially acupuncturists ) are even able to smell the aura — and this is quite apart from a person 's usual body odour . |
| 15 | Stopping would 've been like looking away from a hypnotist 's swinging silver watch . |
| 16 | She was n't wearing a shawl , and dark hair escaped from a maid 's white mob cap which had slipped half off her head . |
| 17 | Re-isolation from the baboon showed the organism to be the same one as that originally isolated from a baby 's sticky eye . |
| 18 | Or , at least , the bat 's sensation of her mate may be no more different from my visual sensation of a flamingo , than my visual sensation of a flamingo is different from a flamingo 's visual sensation of a flamingo . |
| 19 | Seconds deducted from a rider 's overall time , generally as a reward for places in sprints at the end of a stage or in the intermediate ‘ primes ’ , sometimes called ‘ rushes ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Turnover ’ means post-tax turnover for all goods and services in the financial year , applied as part of an undertaking 's ordinary activities , but excludes turnover from a group 's internal operation . |
| 21 | The alternative view sees constitutions not as a conscious creation but rather as an evolutionary consequence made up of ‘ substantive principles to be deduced from a nation 's actual institutions and their development ’ ( McIlwain , ibid . ) . |