Example sentences of "[noun] from [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Norman Davy used to point out to us and name the many different kinds of birds to be seen from the physics laboratory windows and I remember vividly the almost tangible stillness of those very early mornings when , on its roof , I whirled a hygrometer whilst recording the arrival of sound waves from gunfire at Shoeburyness in Essex . |
| 2 | After exhausting the gamut of expression from Cockney pub-talk to Dante , and running across the broad acres of comparative religion from intichiuma to St Magnus Martyr , Eliot seems to be generating the commands of a new religion reborn from the old , by returning in his rainmaking to the origin of religious rites . |
| 3 | As laicisation has forced religion from community to private practice , we should not be surprised that so few people know how to mourn together and share common griefs . |
| 4 | A similar policy for mentally ill people moved patients at record speed from asylum to cardboard box , tent , and lions ' cage . |
| 5 | I recall imitating a stunt performed by the obscure Buffalo Bill Jnr in a Poverty Kow serial , when he outwitted his pursuers by swinging at speed from saddle into tree . |
| 6 | One of the great achievements of the Roman Empire was the construction of their roads by which means their Legions moved with comparative speed from place to place . |
| 7 | As new evidence came to light the risks from exposure to radiation appeared worse and worse . |
| 8 | They must , of course , take calculated risks from time to time to achieve objectives which they perceive to be right but not universally popular . |
| 9 | The Lord has won a victory over my feelings in this area although there are still skirmishes from time to time ! |
| 10 | 6 Move your glance from group to individuals . |
| 11 | The Commission issues guidelines from time to time on its views on appreciability . |
| 12 | The belief , common to warrior peoples from Viking to Samurai , that the souls of those slain in battle went straight to heaven . |
| 13 | In silent grief from hill to hill . |
| 14 | Drugged you drag grief from room to room and weep , |
| 15 | The spectacular charge of the Light Blue Brigade from stakeboat to finish line con founded the bookies and the Tideway pundits who gave them no chance against Barcelona gold medallist Matthew Pinsent and his crew . |
| 16 | Natural resources and environment : water , soil , possibly vegetation , climate ( reflected in the growing season with hot-cold , wet-dry combinations from year to year ) . |
| 17 | Pin and tack the pleats on the right side from top of valance to bottom of stiffening , by bringing the solid lines together on the wrong side as with pinch pleats ( fig. 33 ) . |
| 18 | Tickets for all performances , at Oxford , Abingdon , Banbury and Henley , and all concerts , may be obtained by cheque ( payable to Theatre for Oxford ) or credit card from Theatre for Oxford , 69 Oxford Street , Woodstock , Oxford OX7 1TJ . |
| 19 | He might have rejected Malebranche 's extension of the arguments about relativity of perception from secondary to primary qualities ; he might have rejected the further conclusions Bayle said should be drawn from them . |
| 20 | The markings should be located as follows : a spot over each eye ; on cheeks ; as a strip around each side of muzzle , but not on the bridge of the nose ; on throat ; triangular mark on either side of prosternum ; on forelegs from carpus downwards to toes ; on front of rear legs from hock to toes , but not completely eliminating black from back of rear pasterns ; under tail ; black pencilling on toes . |
| 21 | Use hand-over-hand stroking movements on legs from ankle to thigh . |
| 22 | She stretched her legs from thigh to toes — and let go . |
| 23 | The tummy toner , for example , raises and lowers the bottom half of the body , and the waist trimmer swings the legs from side to side . |
| 24 | Obviously she 'd have to go out to the shops from time to time , but she 'd had her hair dyed black on the Saturday , bought a new winter coat and a large pair of dark glasses . |
| 25 | In this capacity , he attended meetings around the country to organize opposition to American attempts to remove Aoun from office in favour of a new Syrian-backed president , and later that month conferred in New York with Dr Muhamad Mugraby , Aoun 's envoy to the United Nations , and the consul general for Lebanon , Victor Bitar . |
| 26 | Many women met their husbands from work at dinner time and did their weekly shopping , taking advantage of the cheaper prices at the market and some to ensure they got their housekeeping money before their spouses spent their wages on drink . |
| 27 | One of Stirling 's problems was that he was not content to let others do the raiding from time to time , though he had proved his own courage and nobody would have thought the worse of him had he decided to concentrate on sorting out the many administrative problems that beset L Detachment . |
| 28 | The private right-of-way into Fleetwood from Broadwater with Pantograph car 168 . |
| 29 | It was kicked around like a football from family to family , none of whom seemed to have loved it or to have been able to hold on to it for long . |
| 30 | During this time signals from tissue from tissue with a short T2 , for example , the gut wall , can experience appreciable decay and thus appear dark . |