Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Change the patient 's position two hourly to encourage secretions to drain from the chest and to relieve pressure on the chest wall . |
| 2 | Long black hair tumbled from the top of the boy 's head . |
| 3 | The morning 's cream is quietly clotting on the stove , the gleaming copper pans are being put to use and the farmworkers are filing in to a meal which is pure poetry ; vegetables plucked from the soil within the hour , fresh baked bread , farm butter , eggs , game and fruit . |
| 4 | As the molecules sediment , a layer of pure solvent is left whose refractive index differs from the solution . |
| 5 | The prince limped from the polo field at Smith 's Lawn , Windsor , yesterday and lay in agony on the sidelines after straining his back . |
| 6 | The situation had become embarrassing , so I laid my rod in the rest , with the hook hanging from the butt-ring , and tied on my mate 's hook for him . |
| 7 | They should be made to correspond more closely with private sector practice and allowed the freedom to borrow from the market place , the group says . |
| 8 | For those with a young family the inevitable taxi duties and watching our children take part in their school and club activities become more important than lying on the settee recovering from the morning session . |
| 9 | If , instead , the proceeds of sale are distributed without a liquidation then , although the shareholders will receive a tax credit for the ACT payable by the company , and assuming this ACT is absorbed by its mainstream corporation tax liability deriving from the sale of the business , the shareholders will nevertheless have an additional income tax liability at an effective rate of 25% . |
| 10 | The reason the vendor shareholders may be willing to accept this is that they can defer their capital gains tax liability deriving from the disposal of their Target shares if s135 TCGA 1992 is satisfied and clearance under s138 is obtained . |
| 11 | Walsh announced his decision to retire from the government on April 2 ; although he gave no reasons , he had earlier suggested that the government lacked sufficient political will to confront the country 's grave economic problems . |
| 12 | After two years of difficult negotiations , the agreement seemed to be a brand plucked from the burning . |
| 13 | She felt the steel strength of his arms around her and her skin quivered from the warmth of his breath on her cheek before he released her as if she might contaminate him . |
| 14 | The discovery , in 1945 by Brotzu in Sardinia , of antibiotic activity in a species of Cephalosporium recovered from the sea near a sewage outfall was brought to Florey 's attention by a former British public health officer and led to work at Oxford and elsewhere on this and similar organisms . |
| 15 | The need to hire coaches arose from the fact the Supporters ' Club actively discouraged membership from fans under the age of 18 . |
| 16 | In the parable of the unmerciful servant which ( not without reason ) comes immediately before Jesus 's teaching on divorce , Jesus strongly emphasises the responsibility to forgive from the heart ( Matt. 18:35 ) . |
| 17 | EM information patterns received from the environment act on DNA molecules in living cells , which in a way produce sensitive antennae to receive and in turn relay the information throughout our biophysical system . |
| 18 | Thus Since the mixture boils at one atmosphere ( 760 mmHg ) , the sum of the two partial pressures must equal one atmosphere : Tables of data show that , at 98.6°C , Substituting this value and the experimental data into the above equation we obtain Note that the molar mass calculated from the formula is 93.13 g |
| 19 | The warm breeze whispered through the chimes hanging from the balcony ceiling . |
| 20 | This technique arose from the inability of a child to perform the ‘ rituals ’ of the adult psychoanalytical tradition in couch-based sessions of verbal exposition . |
| 21 | Mildred did her best to arrange the bucket hanging from the back , but it was obviously going to spill the minute they took off , she put the bucket back onto the window-sill , climbed onto the broom first , and then settled the bucket in her lap . |
| 22 | The right of the pursuers to rescind the contract arose from the principle of mutuality and the materiality of the defenders ' breach , but the intention of the defenders is also relevant . |
| 23 | as if in reply an almost palpable sulphurous wave arose from the dog and eddied around me . |
| 24 | If the mean levels for one hour and two hours are plotted , then a line intersecting the two points can be taken back to the y-axis ( Fig 7 ) and the hourly uptake calculated from the slope , thus : |
| 25 | Sewell tried in 1841 to establish a cattle infirmary at Thomas Flight 's famous dairy ( formerly Laycock 's ) in Islington , housing some 600 or 700 cows ( there were thousands of cows in London until the railways facilitated milk supplies from the country ) . |
| 26 | No fewer than three railway stations offer a fast service to Paris ; and at night it takes only twenty minutes to drive from the town 's centre to the Etoile . |
| 27 | Payments can be stopped and the money withdrawn from the account at any time . |
| 28 | Brightly coloured mobiles rotating from the ceiling , as well as drawings , jewellery and prints by the great American sculptor . |
| 29 | His claim was later proven and the drug withdrawn from the market . |
| 30 | Moodie led from the start and never looked like being caught even though late in the race Joey Dunlop put in a spurt and was in second place with one lap to go . |