Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [indef pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks like something from the planet Zog . |
| 2 | ‘ It must have looked like something from an old-fashioned horrorvid . |
| 3 | " Lorrimer would have let in anyone from the Lab , I suppose ? " |
| 4 | I knew why , they had the queer sensation that they were being addressed by someone from a bygone age . |
| 5 | The lower tier would be known as the Board for Local Authority Higher Education , its membership consisting of Christopher Ball as Chairman ; six representatives of local authorities ; six from the DES ; six from institutions , made up of two from the Committee of Directors of Polytechnics , two from the National Association of Teachers of Further and Higher Education , one from the Association of Principals of Colleges , and one from the Standing Conference of Principals and Directors of Colleges and Institutes of Higher Education ; and three others , consisting of one from the Trades Union Congress , one from the Council of National Academic Awards , and one jointly from the Business and Technician Education Councils . |
| 6 | To talk about everything from the fact that you do n't fancy coffee that week to things which are deeply personal . |
| 7 | I move away as I would prefer to talk with someone from the same planet . |
| 8 | When a putative diagnosis of yaws is made in someone from an endemic area , on the strength of positive treponemal blood tests , it is customary to give a course of penicillin which would be adequate to treat latent syphilis should this have been the cause of the positive STS . |
| 9 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 10 | Another thing we 're going to talk to somebody from the N S P C C who 's coming in in a few moments to talk about Halloween trick or treating and stuff like that . |
| 11 | ‘ Senior Valuer Peter Ferguson and I will be very happy to talk to anyone from the Finaghy area who is considering a move in the near future and , of course , we offer a free valuation service at a time to suit any potential vendor . |
| 12 | But I am looking at something from the previous century . |
| 13 | It just so happens that , before I came to this debate this morning , I was flicking through a pile of press cuttings when I came across one from The Journal ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) , a north-eastern regional newspaper . |
| 14 | The storage building blocks are packaged to slide into modular shelving which can then be configured for anything from the desktop to the data centre . |
| 15 | The versatility of it is the big attraction ; it can sound like anything from a vintage Strat to an Ibanez or a Les Paul , with the mid-boost in it . |
| 16 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG has signed up Reading , Berkshire-based Computer 100 Ltd as a value-added reseller : Computer 100 will supply Siemens Nixdorf 's Beetle electronic point-of-sale terminals and personal computers bundled with its bespoke ‘ news management ’ software applications for confectioners , tobacconists and newsagents ; the software deals with everything from the automation of newspaper and magazine orders to customer billing and the management of newspaper rounds ; the agreement is part of Siemens Nixdorf 's current strategy of targeting niche markets , and Computer 100 claims to have over 80% of the total installed newsagents market in Europe . |
| 17 | Glamourous maybe , but years of staying away from home , and being accommodated in everything from a Seamans Mission to a Penthouse Suite , seriously dampens initial enthusiasm . |
| 18 | Mr Rogich says , unhelpfully : ‘ I look at everything from the historical point of view because I think that gives greater impact to the message . ’ |
| 19 | They look at everything from the point of view of the provider and their only discernible policy is that they are against privatization . |
| 20 | This is the kind of frame from which Dorothy Heathcote often ( increasingly ) wants children to work , and this is why it often seems to be the case in her work that the pupils are not in role at all — they are merely required to look at something from a particular scientific perspective . |
| 21 | He has to look at everything from an international perspective . |
| 22 | More than a dozen firms turn out look-alike Cobras , powered by anything from a reconditioned Ford Sierra engine to a massive Chevrolet V8 capable of over 130mph . |
| 23 | Johnny Marr guested with everyone from A Certain Ratio to Bryan Ferry , finally finishing 1987 , somewhat bizarrely , as a member of The Pretenders . |
| 24 | Courses are available at centres at home and abroad and last for anything from an hour to two weeks . |
| 25 | So I make a joke of it — I flirt with everyone from the tea-lady to the sales manager and no one takes it seriously . ’ |
| 26 | There 's no doubt it 's going to be difficult for us but if we play for 90 minutes the same way we did against Cork in the first half last week , we 'll return with something from the game . ’ |
| 27 | There 's also a baseline heavy enough to hang half a dozen DJs from , and a funk aesthetic that you can currently detect in everyone from the Sandals to Galliano , Brand New Heavies to D-Influence . |
| 28 | In the end , the dominance of the professionals can be seen by the fact that five of their number emerged with two wins out of two ( Alliss , Clark , Garner , Dawson and Guy Hunt ) compared to none from the amateur side . |
| 29 | Data files included punched cards ( as data files , not just for input ) ; the computer was dated , overloaded and likely to be replaced by one from a different manufacturer ; there was little real-time access to data ; management information was scarce ; there was little in the way of computerized records for Polytechnic students on non-modular courses , and that little was unintegrated with the modular system ; there were no benefits or access to data for offices besides the registry ; the file structures could no longer cope with the then size of the course ( 1,100 students ) ; and the data structures were arcane ( for example , over-zealous use of bit-packing ) . |
| 30 | The minimum wage policy has been condemned by everyone from The Guardian to Goldman Sachs . |