Example sentences of "[noun] from a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police fear it was same attacker who last month locked a man in his car boot , kidnapped his girlfriend from a Winchester beauty spot and raped her . |
| 2 | Swatch 1 shows a fabric using a card from a Knitmaster basic pack knitted with a four-ply main yarn and a four-ply weaving yarn . |
| 3 | However , the same little collection of components would n't allow a robot arm to interpret the signals from a CCD sensor in a manner which allows the arm to be placed reliably alongside an item on a conveyor belt . |
| 4 | Morland is the subject of a one and a half million pound bid from a Suffolk based company , Greene King . |
| 5 | To understand and enjoy Versailles , several days are necessary : rather than make several trips from a Paris base itself , it is better to stay in the town . |
| 6 | He went out of his way to meet foreign visitors from all walks of life — politicians certainly , but also a delegation from a Nobel prizewinners ' congress , a group of doctors connected with the medical movement against nuclear war , the Latin American writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez , a group of writers including Arthur Miller and James Baldwin who were attending the Issyl-Kum forum in 1986 , and many others . |
| 7 | ROBERT Maxwell 's former chauffeur , who wishes to be identified only as Ted , has a plausible explanation for the demotion of his official car from a Rolls-Royce to a Daimler . |
| 8 | Video Plan 11 is drawn from worksheets prepared for Danish teenagers to use with a programme from a Thames Television series : The John Smith Show . |
| 9 | A LAWYER from a London legal firm yesterday denied touching a secretary 's breasts at a Christmas party at which he ate a chocolate penis covered with cream , writes Alastair McCall . |
| 10 | Some 1.25 tons of the highly toxic liquid chlorobutadiene have leaked into Lough Foyle from a Du Pont plant near Londonderry . |
| 11 | The four , believed to be Mexicans and described as major drug dealers , were arrested on Friday after police seized 20 tons of cocaine from a Los Angeles warehouse . |
| 12 | The count upon which he was acquitted , that he had allegedly bought crack cocaine from a Washington dealer on Sept. 7 , was refuted by defence witnesses who testified that the mayor had not been in the vicinity of the alleged transaction on the day in question . |
| 13 | ‘ I got an indignant reply from a Ms Norris , saying in effect how dare I trouble Mr Kinnock with this low-level stuff , ’ he says . |
| 14 | The 25 pictures on temporary show in Glasgow 's Converse Gallery are a sample of about 200 photographs and instruments of torture from a Belgrade exhibition countering what sympathisers describe as Western censorship of the horror and cruelty suffered by Serbian minorities in the civil war . |
| 15 | In early 1983 , infra-red images from a US NOAA ( National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ) satellite showed a large cloud , similar to the plumes of gas that rise over volcanoes , off the north coast of eastern Siberia . |
| 16 | Expected numbers were calculated for each group standardised for age , sex , and time period Observed numbers were treated as data from a Poisson distribution with mean equal to the number expected . |
| 17 | Observed numbers of melanomas were treated as data from a Poisson distribution with mean equal to the number expected . |
| 18 | Er , and eventually they took that tune from a melody from a Haydn 's string quartet . |
| 19 | I have taken the title of this chapter from a Durham University M.Ed. thesis by Geoff Readman ( 1984 ) . |
| 20 | TWO ESCAPEES from a detention centre were recaptured within hours yesterday when they were spotted in the countryside near the institution from a Strathclyde Police helicopter . |
| 21 | HOPES of freeing Cleveland housewife Maureen Paleschi from a Cairo jail have taken a severe blow . |
| 22 | Indeed , on one night in June 1946 , five black successes prompted the ambiguous headline from a London newspaper : ‘ Black Night For British Boxing ’ ( Henderson , 1949 , p.340 ) . |
| 23 | I look like a refugee from a Verdi opera , stranded in the damp gentle valleys of South West England , where no one has yet introduced me to wellington boots or the useful strategy of invisibility . |
| 24 | What I have in common with the Kurd is green eyes , the fact that he came to England at the same time as I did — and that he too looks like a refugee from a Verdi opera . |
| 25 | Edwards scored for Bicester after three minutes , and again he was in action from a Walton pass , the keeper having to save full length . |
| 26 | The operation resembled a nineteenth-century historical painting of the Israelite slaves of Pharaoh pulling great slabs of stone to his monuments or a similar scene from a Hollywood Biblical epic , except that the raw energy to pull the building was provided by puffing steam-or diesel-engines rather than human slaves . |
| 27 | Although we are a parliamentary democracy and would expect to take nearly every final decision in this place , is there not a body of respectable constitutional opinion that says that , if we propose to transfer the democratic accountability from a Westminster Parliament to an unelected European Commission , or even an elected European Parliament , the British people are entitled to take a view on the matter ? |
| 28 | YOUNGSTERS from a Middlesbrough nursery class got the feel of country life yesterday by feeding six-week-old lambs being ‘ fostered ’ at the town 's leisure farm in Coulby Newham . |
| 29 | YOUNGSTERS from a Darlington dance studio were kept on their toes yesterday at a workshop on the world 's most famous ballet . |
| 30 | He fell five hundred feet from a New York apartment window last year . |