Example sentences of "[noun] from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hair was drawn back , skilfully arranged to fall in loose waves from a gold clasp . |
| 2 | A burst of frequency between 10 and 10 4 Hz is expected with a duration of several cycles and an energy release of between and in gravitational waves from a star core of mass M. The mass M is expected to be similar to that of the pulsars , which average around for the few cases where measurements have been made . |
| 3 | Modern detectors which should be capable of detecting the gravitational waves from a supernova collapse in our Galaxy are described . |
| 4 | Tape speed is fixed to run at 3 ¾ips , which is twice normal cassette speed , but by engaging the tape speed select switch it can be altered to run up to 20% faster or slower , or take its speed from a SMPTE controller . |
| 5 | Another technique to reduce the risks from a cartel is to find new overseas suppliers of key minerals . |
| 6 | She polished the chrome , and wiped sand away from the stained-glass frontage , but it was finally useless , just another piece of garbage from a past that could have happened to someone else for all the trace it had left on her . |
| 7 | The frontispiece from a copy of the music from the Peer Gynt suite by Grieg was a beautiful piece of artwork even before it was decorated , so I only arranged some flowers in two of the corners , rather than all the way round , which would have overpowered the original design . |
| 8 | A pathologist gave the cause of death as toxic poisoning from a combination of Coproximol and alcohol . |
| 9 | I know of another case in Florida in which a 17-year-old boy bought booze from a Jax Liquor Store ( a supermarket chain found throughout the state ) in Tallahassee . |
| 10 | Dad used to get his hazel twigs from a forester at Winterslow who knew exactly when they should be cut . |
| 11 | The thin dead twigs from a holly tree will start a fire even if gathered wet and then merely shaken . |
| 12 | I duck from beneath the spastic neon of a porno parlour , spotlit and anonymous , and there she is , eating popcorn or chestnuts from a paper cone . |
| 13 | He stood up and untied his now-biddable horse from a sapling . |
| 14 | Two people from the Oxford works department and an employee from a council contractor have been arrested and released on police bail . |
| 15 | Pickfords Removals ' publication Executive Relocation in the Eighties estimates that the potential cost of moving an employee from a £70 000 property to a £90 000 property can reach a total of almost £12 000 . |
| 16 | The Yugoslav government has clearly been right to try to switch inter-regional aid from a grant ( or ‘ loan ’ ) basis to a direct investment basis . |
| 17 | During their stay , the squatters received grant aid from a Housing Association to improve their homes . |
| 18 | For several years there has been a major breed improvement and production scheme in France to increase its genetic merit and select the best breeding stock from a nucleus of 45,000 recorded cows . |
| 19 | Call the fire brigade from a neighbour 's house , giving the address clearly . |
| 20 | Although Mike Marsh rescued the Anfield side from a shock fourth-round defeat with a late penalty , cancelling out Chris Coleman 's opener , this did nothing to calm Souness . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This man is about to steal the hubcaps from a car parked in Northampton town centre . |
| 23 | The first woman pulled out a small card from a file on the desk , ‘ Garau he 's called , Pasqualino Garau . ’ |
| 24 | Sometimes she was served up garnished with prizes , a certificate of excellence in swimming or a merit card from a teacher , but more often than not she was slapped down in front of him like a British Rail sandwich , garnished with a series of medical complaints . |
| 25 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | On the one hand , two fans from a papermill implore him to become a dissident figurehead : on the other hand , two state policmen want him to sign a document denying authorship of the original article . |
| 28 | Two days later Eric had flown to Naples , where he borrowed a jeep from a friend of his , an ex-prisoner from Fontanellato who was now ADC to a general at Caserta , and drove to Rome , where he reported to his branch of the Commission . |
| 29 | Golden eagles can see a hare from a distance of 3.2km ( 2 miles ) if the light is good . |
| 30 | To give herself time to think , she dribbled some sea water onto the hare from a half-pot , lifted thankfully from the clachan rubbish heaps ; and looked at it and round the hut afresh . |