Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.

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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 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
3 A runner came from the front trenches , down the communicating trench .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 ‘ There 's Becherovka , a liqueur made from the local water and various herbs , ’ he answered .
7 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 .
8 He was also asleep when a gramophone blared from the open window of a flat in the block across the way .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 The adverts are expected to reach 6.3 million readers in that period , a figure calculated from the audited circulation of each publication .
13 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 .
14 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
15 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 .
16 AS FOR the government 's negotiating strategy , Harkabi forecast that nothing would scare the ‘ extremists ’ like a readiness to talk from the other side .
17 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 .
18 In October the UK government agreed to a July request from the Legislative Assembly for a review of the 1972 Constitution .
19 Currently nearly half of private households headed by a person of Afro Caribbean ethnic origin ( or nearly twice the proportion of the total population ) lives in a dwelling rented from the local authority .
20 An older term than ‘ formative assessment ’ , diagnostic assessment is a metaphor derived from the medical world .
21 The absolutist state was necessary to maintain control of a peasantry freed from the politico-legal coercion of feudalism by the commutation of dues into money rents .
22 Further controversy was prompted by a manifesto issued from the self-styled South London Ratepayers ' Association which called for a ‘ display of fearless strength ’ by local people , advising that ‘ a discriminating application of the ‘ cat-o'-nine-tails ’ ’ will soon sweep away this reign of terror' .
23 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 . ’
24 In this land of the lawyer , there is no more appropriate place for picking up the social , business and political threads of the city than a spectacle viewed from the public benches of a federal court .
25 Locally action was taken by health workers , with the support of a committee drawn from the whole range of public service workers .
26 Finally , the tusk shells ( Scaphopoda ) are a long-lived group with a record stretching from the Ordovician to the present .
27 It was a moment separated from the normal flow of time .
28 The yield of a product calculated from the chemical equation is called the theoretical yield .
29 Gentle shade is therefore preferable and a site sheltered from the early morning sun is better than one facing east .
30 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 .
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