Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne was shaken awake by the dreadful news that Eileen 's husband had been killed when his aircraft crashed in flames returning from a bombing raid . |
| 2 | A driver died last week and two football fans returning from a Newcastle United game , were all killed on the A66 east of Bowes , in separate incidents . |
| 3 | He was a shrivelled , runtish creature with fierce little eyes glinting from a pallid , skull-like face . |
| 4 | Alice had the impression , as she rose from her chair , that again Felicity was dark and hag-like , her eyes glittering from a wigwam of jet-black hair . |
| 5 | The 106 entrants in the gruelling marathon set off from London on a route which took them through Europe to Turkey in classic cars ranging from a Ford Cortina to a Russian Moskvitch , all at least 25 years old . |
| 6 | The aim of her survey , of 2000 schoolchildren in four schools ranging from a large inner-city comprehensive to as single-sex public school , was to find out how children perceived the idea of ‘ fairness ’ . |
| 7 | Not all the losses resulting from a delayed product launch are concerned with that product . |
| 8 | Not all the losses resulting from a delayed product launch are concerned with that product . |
| 9 | What is more , the table is remarkable in revealing a progressively better record for successively smaller sizes of factory ( although medium-sized factories ceased to fall in number in the mid 1980s , and all figures are influenced by contracting units moving from a larger to a smaller category ) . |
| 10 | Eyes bulging from a purple , blue-lipped face , he would at last draw in a tortuous gasp of air and the whole process would begin again . |
| 11 | of bricks tipping from a barrow . |
| 12 | Cheeks , a gaudy girl who had been riding with the ‘ pomps for the last few months , was literally crushed flat into the road , dead eyes staring from a foot-wide face . |
| 13 | Later , for a whole scene in Fritz Lang 's film You Only Live Once you find your eyes flitting from a closeup of jailbird Henry Fonda to a dancing hank of fluff stuck in the projector gate . |
| 14 | The counties , notoriously reluctant to embrace change in the past , will have to weigh the advantage of more rest for players with the financial losses arising from a smaller programme . |
| 15 | Journalists watching from a hotel roof in central Mogadishu said the aircraft fire was once again concentrated near the residence of Somali warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed . |
| 16 | It will separate and purify molecules ranging from a few milligrams to several grams from solution . |
| 17 | Dunbar , amongst current researchers operating from a broadly Darwinian perspective , offers salutary ( and , for ardent sociobiologists , perhaps the most disheartening ) advice : |
| 18 | There were 60 cases of Hepatitis A in Langbaurgh in the six weeks up to March 6 with ages ranging from a two-year-old boy in Grangetown to a 99-year-old woman in Teesville . |
| 19 | FIVE people died and a teenager was seriously injured yesterday when a car full of youngsters returning from a nightclub struck a tree in the Irish Republic . |
| 20 | I have woven into the account experiences ranging from a reflection on uniform patrol work , to CID and specialist squad work ; from the marginal world of a ‘ punishment posting ’ in a bridewell or prison , to the centrality of knowledge gained by spells in the centrality of headquarters postings . |
| 21 | Forgetting for a moment the totally illogical premise that Welsh teams get dirtier as they get better , I fail to see what useful purpose was served by raking up old controversies dating from a time when most of the current Welsh team were in primary school . |
| 22 | For style without the cruelty , High Street chain Wallis has five fabulous fakes ranging from a short swing leopard ( £130 ) to a reversible shawl-collared number ( £175 ) . |
| 23 | And nine unnamed UDR soldiers have been given honours ranging from a CBE to Mentions-in-Despatches in awards for gallant or meritorious service . |
| 24 | You can think of them as the wires leading from a bank of three million photocells ( actually three million relay stations gathering information from an even larger number of photocells ) to the computer that is to process the information in the brain . |
| 25 | The shift from rural to urban areas has been marked in England , the proportion of the population living in nonurban areas declining from a little over 35% in 1951 to not much more than 20% 20 years later . |
| 26 | Built in 1810–11 , it was a memorable exercise in neo-classical geometry , comprising four residential blocks radiating from a central drum of day-rooms crowned by a tall glass dome over the stairwell at its core . |
| 27 | If this is superimposed , the joint pattern will be seen as lines radiating from a centre . |
| 28 | This is a tragedy , for biblical hermeneutics concerns the problems facing any ordinary person who wants to find meaning in texts coming from a remote past , and to understand in what sense they can be ‘ the Word of God ’ . |
| 29 | The single high wing , with wooden mainspars , is braced by landing wires running from a pylon atop the centre-section , and by flying wires from the lower longerons and the engine bulkhead . |
| 30 | Some are simple springs issuing from a hillside . |