Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [indef pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Ennals got one from the Prime Minister 's son during his visit here on behalf of the British Government . |
| 2 | The fashion for opera , its current potency to promote anything from a fast car to a pension scheme , does not venture beyond Puccini . |
| 3 | Half the people in the study received nothing from a formal agency and the authors conclude that the Social Fund ‘ is largely irrelevant to most real-life situations within which the poorest people find themselves ’ . |
| 4 | Ashworth 's analysis uses interesting concepts drawn from sociology and psychology but his data cover everything from the official histories of the war , including divisional and battalion histories , right across to the diaries of ordinary soldiers , some of which were based on notes taken during the war but written up years later . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't know , ’ Sarella said dully in a last-ditch attempt to salvage something from the wreckage of her self-esteem . |
| 6 | The waterside cafe serves everything from a pot of tea to a full range of appetising snacks and meals . |
| 7 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 8 | The Vevay Beauty range covers everything from the latest cosmetics to skin and hair care — every product thoroughly clinically tested and selected for you individually to suit your colouring and skin type . |
| 9 | Redken would recommend a new permanent wave called TRUST which combines both acid and alkaline ingredients to create anything from a soft body wave to springy , resilient curls . |
| 10 | All the windows in the farmhouse had been shattered , the whole scene resembling something from the Blitz . |
| 11 | It is regrettable that the judge heard nothing from the appellants ' side , despite the fact that they were represented — no oral evidence , no affidavit evidence , not even an address in mitigation . |
| 12 | Earlier , McWalters barrister , Hugh Vass , stressed his client 's ‘ exemplary character ’ and pointed out that letters of character reference included one from a retired police sergeant . |
| 13 | From the standpoint of the scholar interested in learning there was , of course , the practical objection that the duties of the kadilik distracted one from the pursuit of . |
| 14 | Scotland 's determination to take something from the night was shown in the 64th minute , too , when a defender , Wright , was replaced by a forward , his Aberdeen team-mate , Scott Booth . |
| 15 | The day begins at sunrise and an army of engineers check everything from the fuselage to the fuel valve . |
| 16 | Definitional overlap uses dictionary definitions as a source of semantic knowledge , and follows a sequential comparison algorithm to select one from a number of alternative word candidates as being the most ’ semantically plausible ’ within that sentential context . |
| 17 | Likewise , control clicking ( holding down the CTRL key while you click ) allows you to select multiple items for processing and shift clicking highlights everything from the last highlighted item to the one your pointer is over as you shift click . |
| 18 | In such primitive surroundings , amid the stunning beauties of the island and the glories of the Aegean , where fishermen still wrested a living from the sea and farmers scrabbled one from the land , Leonard found his peace ; his ‘ sitting-down time , ’ as he called it , where he could — as all poets must — recollect in tranquillity . |
| 19 | Clean , it was an absolute dream ; the EQ offered more than enough scope to produce anything from a cutting Telecaster to a rich acoustic tone , and with the help of a short delay and pitchshift I put a sound onto tape which I 'd defy anyone not to recognise as an acoustic guitar — and I 'd actually used the Patrick Eggle New York model reviewed elsewhere in this issue . |
| 20 | Celtic3 St Johnstone1 CELTIC overpowered St Johnstone and remain on course to salvage something from an indifferent season . |
| 21 | The features cover everything from the environment to business , from shutting down a nuclear power station , to opening up a red-hot Mexican restaurant . |
| 22 | Even if you have never given a bottle feed yourself it is possible that the baby received one from a nurse while in the maternity ward . |
| 23 | — The hon. Member for Renfrew , West and Inverclyde said something from a sedentary position which I did not catch . |
| 24 | Fenna wanted nothing from the woman . |
| 25 | Psychobiology , the study of the biological bases of behaviour , is a broad area covering everything from the evolution of mating systems in the toad to the functions of subregions of the human cerebral cortex . |
| 26 | Themes cover everything from the sorry state of the environment to how money corrupts on to how people are persecuted because of their appearance . |
| 27 | As might be expected , losses due to accidents took anything from a healthy nibble to a large chunk from the companies ' profits . |
| 28 | Other gaffes include one from an Acapulco hotel which states : ‘ The manager has personally passed all the water served here . ’ |
| 29 | Why have the Government learnt nothing from the experience , and why are they proposing to do nothing if a crisis emerges shortly , as it could ? |
| 30 | And as if Ontario was n't pretty enough of a picture , there are the galleries showing everything from the avant-garde to Old Masters . |