Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [indef pn] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fashion for opera , its current potency to promote anything from a fast car to a pension scheme , does not venture beyond Puccini . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | The waterside cafe serves everything from a pot of tea to a full range of appetising snacks and meals . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | — The hon. Member for Renfrew , West and Inverclyde said something from a sedentary position which I did not catch . |
| 10 | As might be expected , losses due to accidents took anything from a healthy nibble to a large chunk from the companies ' profits . |
| 11 | ‘ If ever I went out of my way to learn something from a book the chances were that It 'd be hopelessly wrong — you know , inaccurate transcriptions of a song or solo — so I decided to try and develop my own ear by learning things from record . ’ |
| 12 | The interpreter operates at high speed : in simultaneous translation ( strictly speaking , simultaneous interpreting ) , he keeps roughly a sentence behind the speaker ; in consecutive translation ( interpreting ) the speaker waits for the interpreter to translate anything from a morpheme to a whole paragraph at a time . |
| 13 | A third is transput instructions , requiring a field to specify one from a range of peripheral devices . |