Example sentences of "[noun] from a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had emerged that a recently formed Soviet state co-operative company called ANT , with clearance from at least three government ministries , had bought the tanks as surplus stock from an armaments factory at Nizhny Tagil in the Urals , had arranged to sell them to a Western country ( not officially disclosed , but unofficially reported to be France ) , and had stood to make US$8,000,000 profit on the deal . |
| 2 | An example would be to use department code as an alternate key to provide personnel listings by department from a personnel file arranged in some other order , such as alphabetic . |
| 3 | You probably succeeded in realizing that this is an extract from a sports report designed to inform people familiar with the sport about the progress of a match , and that the whereabouts of sender and receiver are not of particular importance . |
| 4 | I have asked a couple of guys at the college you know and one fellow said the tray , oh he said , you can buy this tray from a builders , oh he said you can make a , a cover and I said oh god , make it the same colour as the mat and the er |
| 5 | I mean you know what happened when , wh when th General Strike was on , there was er nothing entered unless it 'd got a permit from a Trades Council , and you know that do n't you ? |
| 6 | BALDNESS can be caused by ringworm from a fungi passed on by pet budgies , dogs and cats , says an Australian hair expert . |
| 7 | Interesting gifts have included pestles and mortars from a spice company , silver measures from a whisky company , small silk scarves from a cosmetics company , cuff links from an industrial diamond company and paper knives from a leading stationery company . |
| 8 | The scene that confronted her was like a tableau from a waxworks , she thought with faint hysteria as she walked in . |
| 9 | Of course , token gestures often suffice to land unknown quantities from obscurity — Republic of Ireland striker Tony Cascarino joined Gillingham from a boys ' club in Crockenhill for the cost of a new set of playing strips . |
| 10 | It would n't be in here , quotations are only normally the question from a pre-suppliers ? |
| 11 | So if you only have a 360k floppy drive and need to copy a file from a friends hard disk that is over 360k ( even after compression ) then this is the program for you . |
| 12 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 13 | This was reflected in , for example , the Bauhaus 's shift from an arts-and-crafts to a technological base in the course of the 1920s , and in the shift in cubism to the more geometric means of figuration of Léger after World War I ( Willett 1978 , pp. 13 , 118–19 ) . |
| 14 | " I tried the Univite diet and any other diet from a women 's magazine that I came across . |
| 15 | To keep a child any longer than 36 hours requires consent from a magistrates ' court . |
| 16 | Thieves broke into two premises in Drury Lane , Braintree , and attempted to get into a third.They stole £1,000 in cash and cheques from a dry cleaners , and £130 cash from a hairdressers . |
| 17 | Not all of the output from a GIS is in the form of maps . |
| 18 | Ideally a software interface will exist to connect the cartographic , tabular and graphical output from a GIS and the report-generation capabilities of a high-quality word-processor , thus allowing the results provided by the GIS to be incorporated directly into a document . |
| 19 | A local publican in Rathmullan said he had been told that the vodka had been contaminated by poisonous substances in the water from a plastics factory situated near the Russian manufacturing distillery . |
| 20 | Added to a £149 million windfall from a shares sale , that pushed profits up 27 per cent to £113 million last year . |
| 21 | The Secretary of State er told me er that the has been no occasion where criticism from a companies auditors by my department 's inspectors in reports published since June nineteen seventy nine has led to an audit partner being excluded from membership of a professional accountancy body , er and no auditor criticised in D T I inspector 's reports has been debarred from auditing as a result of information er in that report . |
| 22 | A WARNING has been issued after the theft of a leather jacket from a men 's changing room . |
| 23 | You wo n't get complete protection from a UPS-on-a-card . |
| 24 | Following disturbances in Southall , London , in April 1979 , when Asian youths assembled to protest against a National Front political rally during the general election , and when a New Zealand demonstrator was killed , some alleged by a blow from a police officer , the Home Secretary set in motion a review of the law . |
| 25 | The plaintiff there was claiming damages for her son 's death brought about , she alleged , by a blow from a police truncheon . |
| 26 | A POLICE hotline set up to take calls about a rave party in Stafford got two complaints — about the noise from a police helicopter . |
| 27 | They are allowed to read out agreed statements in libel cases in the High Court and to act as advocates in Crown Courts at committals for sentence or at appeals against conviction or sentence from a magistrates ' court if they took part in the original hearing . |
| 28 | duplicating VHS PAL copies from a 1″ master of 150 minutes ' duration , |
| 29 | Angela Kinsella , 28 , of High Northgate , Darlington , was sentenced to a month 's imprisonment yesterday for causing fear or provocation of violence , resisting a police constable and stealing a shirt from a clothes shop . |
| 30 | STUDENT Chris Smith was given £1,000 from a pools company — and then told : ‘ Sorry , we 've made a mistake . ’ |