Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Scroungers ’ expect something for nothing from the Welfare State , rather than offering a fair day 's work for a fair day 's pay . |
| 2 | The Communist Party could apparently hope for little from the Socialist League and for nothing from the Labour Party . |
| 3 | It 's a very versatile shape for everyone from the slender to the grandest size . |
| 4 | Golf Magazine , Motorcycle World , Bike , Amateur Gardening — there are specialist magazines for everyone from the rat fancier to the rugby fan . |
| 5 | I tipped the wink to a pal of mine who 's big in local government , and he managed to fix it for someone from the public health authority to write a letter full of threats and demands and legal gobbledegook . |
| 6 | Yeah , because I mean , like when I had the home erm , that again obviously you ca n't , people said that , I mean , it 's changed a lot but when I had the home you did n't just pull an , out anybody from the street and call them care assistants you had to offer them a day 's training every week |
| 7 | I wanted the approval of everyone from the bus conductor to the Pakistani shopkeeper , because he owned a shop and spoke English . |
| 8 | In all these arrangements , it is clear that the aim of everyone from the pope downwards was to keep Anselm happy during his lifetime , while retaining the power to make new arrangements for the more distant future after his death . |
| 9 | Cheap petrol at present does not reflect the true environmental costs of global warming and the effects on the health of everyone from the atmospheric pollutants discharged by road vehicles . |
| 10 | It involves an act of imagination to see one 's society and culture through the eyes , as it were , of someone from a different culture , to whom the normal ways of living and acting in Western societies appear odd and to demand explanation . |
| 11 | Perhaps after all it was nothing more than that the man reminded him of someone from the old days , and it was not unknown for people from the palace compound to slum in the harbour quarter now and then . |
| 12 | Her strange deep voice pronounced the words like a parody of someone from the Trento area , where the warm and cold currents of Italian and German meet and mingle . |
| 13 | She reminded him of somebody from a movie , maybe it was Kathleen Turner in Body Heat , sometimes Kim Basinger in 9½ Weeks . |
| 14 | The move up to verse can be made for the exit of a person from a lower but also for the entrance of one from a higher rank . |
| 15 | However , permission may be given by the publisher for the reproduction of part of a work or the whole of one from a collected edition , such as an anthology of carols . |
| 16 | The lower tier would be known as the Board for Local Authority Higher Education , its membership consisting of Christopher Ball as Chairman ; six representatives of local authorities ; six from the DES ; six from institutions , made up of two from the Committee of Directors of Polytechnics , two from the National Association of Teachers of Further and Higher Education , one from the Association of Principals of Colleges , and one from the Standing Conference of Principals and Directors of Colleges and Institutes of Higher Education ; and three others , consisting of one from the Trades Union Congress , one from the Council of National Academic Awards , and one jointly from the Business and Technician Education Councils . |
| 17 | Studios have been raiding network archives , and versions of everything from The Flintstones , Bewitched , The Beverly Hillbillies and Car 54 , Where Are You to The Fugitive and The Saint are apparently in development . |
| 18 | Sovereign Worldwide would be delighted to arrange your ‘ Wedding Package ’ , taking care of everything from the registrar to your flowers . |
| 19 | Their presence , either in medieval England or aboard a space rocket , situated them ideally as narrators ; to offer explanations of everything from the Battle of Hastings to nuclear propulsion . |
| 20 | In England and Wales , the Registrar General 's social classes , which are derived from people 's occupations , are used to look at the distribution of everything from the incidence of stillbirth to the distribution of owner occupation . |
| 21 | Younger MPs commented adversely on the absence of anyone from the 1983 or 1987 intakes . |
| 22 | The sale was notable both in content and in consignors : more pieces from the collection of Mrs Barbara Johnson ; a number of lots from the Luton Hoo Wernher family collection ; from John Kluge ; and sixty lots from the Meikleour Estate Trust which comprises the celebrated collection of furniture assembled in the first half of the nineteenth century by the comte de Flahaut de la Billarderie , natural son of Talleyrand , and his wife , Margaret , Baroness Keith and Nairne . |
| 23 | They could often be seen leaning on farm-yard gates , chewing on straws and marvelling at Noddy 's turn of speed as he roared by in the slipstream of anything from a milk marketing board tanker to a Maserati ! |
| 24 | During the day , take your pick of anything from a pizza to a sizzling steak served at the poolside barbecue grill — and afternoon coffee takes on a flavour all of its own when enjoyed with a fresh pastry cooked before your eyes . |
| 25 | This is fairly straightforward equipment , normally modular and therefore infinitely expandable , allowing systems to suit the needs of anything from a six bedroom guest house to a 2000 bedroom high rise hotel complex . |
| 26 | ‘ I object to the way you 've dressed like someone from the pages of a Dickensian workhouse and turned up with your belongings in carrier bags as if you 're on your way to the laundromat . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Why is it sick to dress like someone from the past ? |
| 28 | It was like something from a restoration comedy as he crouched in his flat in Bateman Street and they began beating down the door . |
| 29 | However clever it was at irradiating all those little blue MPs as it passed over them , it still looked too much like something from a game show or a funfair at the end of the pier . |
| 30 | Behind the negress , scaring Violet ; as all the street and crowding in , like something from a freak show , the spiteful leering painted faces . |