Example sentences of "[noun] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then refers to the conference held in 1991 with some 300 theologians , historians , educators and lay leaders from 25 countries who endeavoured to disentangle what is considered legitimate use of religion from its apparent misuse . |
| 2 | The loss of speed from their rougher bottoms was compensated by the fact that they could be sailed harder than wooden ships in blowing weather . |
| 3 | Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland warned at the congress that Norway risked isolation from its Nordic neighbours if it failed to re-apply ( earlier applications having been made in 1962 , 1967 and 1970 ) . |
| 4 | The history of health in Africa has shown often that medical research in isolation from its social context had little benefit for indigenous peoples . |
| 5 | The Party 's increasing isolation from its natural constituency in the broad labour movement was threatening its viability . |
| 6 | Religion is not an individualistic affair ; it is not something that concerns a man in isolation from his fellow men ; it is not simply a matter for the individual soul seeking release , or mok a , from the endless cycle of birth , death and rebirth , or sa sāra . |
| 7 | One baleful glance from its enormous eyes could kill , as would its touch , while its breath would kill even birds which flew far overhead . |
| 8 | Roman Wyatt was way out of her league ; he was a high-powered business tycoon with beautiful women falling over themselves for a glance from his magnificent eyes . |
| 9 | The ‘ case-work ’ approach had much to be said for it in that it entailed a serious attempt to analyse the nature of the problem confronting the individual or family and to achieve a lasting solution without removing the clients from their familiar environment . |
| 10 | Hit The North , a new show on recently launched Radio 5 , invites The Parachute Men into the studio to play songs from their new album , ‘ Earth , Dogs And Eggshells ’ . |
| 11 | Hit The North , a new show on recently launched Radio 5 , invites The Parachute Men into the studio to play songs from their new album , ‘ Earth , Dogs And Eggshells ’ . |
| 12 | From somewhere upstairs came the sound of a group of people singing songs from their own province . |
| 13 | They draw a half dozen songs from their eponymous debut LP , plus one off the next album and encore with a cool-funk reading of ‘ Hey Joe ’ . |
| 14 | They draw a half dozen songs from their eponymous debut LP , plus one off the next album and encore with a cool-funk reading of ‘ Hey Joe ’ . |
| 15 | As an admission that , yes , they did go into a bit of a decline , the band has even included re-recorded versions of a couple of songs from their last album , No Place Like Home , a record whose only purpose appears to have been ‘ to keep things ticking over ’ . |
| 16 | Each young male was likely to adopt songs from his territorial neighbours by imitation , in an analogous way to human language . |
| 17 | Cut off from his inspiration , he endlessly rehashes songs from his American era . |
| 18 | In run-of-the-mill performances you often find yourself lamenting the absence of Lerner and Loewe 's songs from My Fair Lady , but in this detailed , absorbing production , Shaw 's verbal music is enough . |
| 19 | Many postgraduate students will have proceeded without interruption from their primary degrees ; many other participants are seeking career-enhancing or professional development qualifications by either full-time or part-time attendance after deferring the desire to seek postgraduate entry for some years . |
| 20 | Pop 's role in this struggle is to lure us into truancy from our better selves . |
| 21 | With the plaudits of the 4,000 Bedford fans still ringing in their ears from their exhilarating brand of rugby from their pre-English international game last week , the Philiphaugh faithful were equally ecstatic following their team 's magnificent recovery against Stirling . |
| 22 | Another development during the first half of the 1980s hastened the decline in ordinary charter-train operation : the wholesale withdrawal of ageing steamheated 90mph Mk 1 coaching stock from which such trains were usually formed . |
| 23 | Being a Silver Jubilee , passengers were serenaded by the Eccleston Silver Band as they rode behind four steam locomotives in a range of stock from our own home made coach to a Welsh coach from our No. 1 steam engine 's home of Llanberis to the diminutive but delightful Groudle Glen coach from the Isle of Man . |
| 24 | The only new Mission for the deaf that seems to have opened for the first time in the 1890s was that at Oxford , although the deaf people of Bradford almost lost their own when a fire was discovered in the coal cellar under the offices by one of the deaf members who ran to summon the fire brigade from its nearby station . |
| 25 | Bluetits may be famous for having figured out how to remove the silver foil caps from our early morning milk bottles , to find a creamy delight beneath , but I remember watching with amusement as one of our local bluetits swooped down upon a friend 's Mercedes sports car parked in our driveway and perseveringly attempted to remove the central silver disc from the Mercedes logo on the front bonnet . |
| 26 | He , too , had powerful binoculars , with which he had noted the movements among the trees on the opposite side from his own position . |
| 27 | ‘ There is a new stock location in the warehouse from which these orders can be sent out . |
| 28 | Even when he had clear sight of goal , England 's number two goalkeeper saved with his legs from his 44th minute close-range cracker . |
| 29 | Was it guidance from your Higher Self ? |
| 30 | She sighed , picked yellow hairs from her black dress . |