Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Single bells are fascinating , but triple bells from a single unit are quite remarkable . |
| 2 | Yet the same forces and influences on society which saw the emergence of the Die-hards as the main force of the radical right after the First World War also saw more extremist reactions from a small but significant group who thought like Banister , and who were prepared to use Burton 's supposed evidence . |
| 3 | The escape , made possible in part by the chemical explosion in Quinn of the Fury , is followed by a series of independent forays in which Quinn seizes a French sloop carrying hides by following it into a secret harbour and pretending he and his men are drunken sailors returning on board , rescues Royalist prisoners from a castle by skulking and climbing , seizes another French ship by disguising the prize vessel under his command as French , and outwits a pirate ship by means of a collision ( rescuing , by the way , a young Contessa who adds a romantic touch to the story ) . |
| 4 | Prof Cheetham 's group used X-rays from a particle acclerator called a synchrotron to find the atomic arrangement within a powder which is used as a catalyst in the petrochemical industry . |
| 5 | Bundles of papers and piles of books guarded secrets from a bygone age . |
| 6 | John Morrissey put the home team ahead after eight minutes from a Kenny Irons pass and John Aldridge made it 2-0 eight minutes later after Irons rattled the bar . |
| 7 | President Lennart Johansson said last night they are prepared to discuss innovative plans from a group of Europe 's wealthiest clubs , but added : ‘ I can not see the benefit of a league which makes the already rich richer , and the other ones poorer . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was with a band called Muscles until 1978 , ’ he explains , ‘ and while we were on tour in Madrid I noticed the effect of hanging pictures from a brass rail in one of the hotels we stayed in . |
| 9 | They include the most important European schools from a fine small collection of icons and early Italian painting , to the 18C in Holland and Italy . |
| 10 | A good stalker only singles out weak animals from a herd , or those that are past their best . |
| 11 | Dad used to get his hazel twigs from a forester at Winterslow who knew exactly when they should be cut . |
| 12 | Strong words from a leader who , right up to polling day , declared that he was as willing to do a deal with Major as Kinnock . |
| 13 | Pretty strong words from a fellow player and prop forward . |
| 14 | Some interesting reactions from a cabinet member on the receiving end of the doctrinal ministrations of Meese and other Reaganite hawks are to be found in the reflections of Terrell Bell , a Republican moderate and Secretary of Education in Reagan 's first administration . |
| 15 | Oil-spill experts from a number of countries flew into the area to assist with cleaning-up operations , which were largely limited to defending the intakes of desalination plants with the use of booms and " skimmer " vessels ; the slick was seen as too large for practical use of chemical dispersants , which might in any case damage marine life , and the best hope for its dispersal lay in a combination of the natural processes of evaporation and breakdown by marine bacteria . |
| 16 | GUNMEN have stolen nearly 60 gold and silver artefacts , dating from Inca and pre-Inca times from a museum in the southeastern Peruvian city of Cuzco . |
| 17 | The museum receives an additional $2.7 million annually for public programmes from a metropolitan Scientific and Cultural Facilities District , which gives 1% of local sales taxes to cultural institutions . |
| 18 | However , to illustrate my belief that nothing has really changed , while I was taking a few notes from a caddie in Montpellier in the south of France — he was telling me how ‘ we 'd hit a great pitch in at the last ’ — I happened to notice the sign above the caddie shack . |
| 19 | Thieves have stolen thirty thousand pounds worth of silver , including historic racing trophies from a stud farm.Police say the crime was the work of professionals , as only the most valuable solid silver was taken.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 20 | Two thousand years ago a sex manual written in China laid down a few guidelines for gauging a woman 's sexual characteristics from a careful study of her face . |
| 21 | Minutes of the Port Ellen News and Reading Room , the Minute Book 1928–1969 of the Islay Branch of the National Farmers ' Union , extracts , where there is mention of Islay or Jura , taken from the Minutes of the Presbytery of Kintyre , registers and minute books from a number of Islay churches , school magazines and the complete issue of the community newspaper " Ileach " which was first printed in 1973 . |
| 22 | Students take two core units : Issues and Trends in Nursing and Health Care , and Research Methods , Elementary Statistical Theory and Computing ; they then choose four further units from a range of options including Health Education , Dynamics of Group Behaviour , Families in Transition and additional clinical and management studies . |
| 23 | The only other clear winners from a protracted contest would be both firms ' lawyers . |
| 24 | ‘ Just some words from a play . |
| 25 | The smaller girl began to say some words from a song : |
| 26 | When Max Streibl , the incumbent , recently ran into trouble over allegations that he took free trips from a defence company , Mr Waigel spied an escape from his travails in Bonn . |
| 27 | At one point last week , emerging from examining some factory , he passed just a few feet from a group of Fleet Street 's finest . |
| 28 | The main problem in Preston today is the traffic , especially along the Main Street , and the church 's foundations must be suffering , as the tower is only a few feet from a sharp bend in the street . |
| 29 | If this is not possible , allow roughly the same amount of space on each opposing side ( for example , by placing one side of the rug a few feet from a wall and the opposite side the same distance from a large piece of furniture ) . |
| 30 | Marion Howells and her daughter Kayleigh were asleep just a few feet from a window which was shattered by the blasts . |