Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] from a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money of any currency which a Firm holds or receives for or from a client and which is not immediately due and payable on demand to the firm for its own account and money held by the firm as stakeholder . |
| 2 | The highest rates were for those charged with theft of or from a vehicle ( 23 per cent . |
| 3 | The smell was terrible , worse than anything Maggie had ever known , and on this frosty morning steam came up as if from a dung heap . |
| 4 | And there was the additional point that on their return they had appeared cheerful , as if from a windfall . |
| 5 | There arose within me without warning , and as if from a depth not of years but of centuries , the memory of that earlier morning at the Old House when my brother had brought his toy garden into the nursery . |
| 6 | She heard her name again , and again she emerged as if from a dream and found that time had passed . |
| 7 | The small device which enables Canned Draught Guinness to pour as if from a pub fount looks simple , but well over 100 techniques were designed and tested before the final development of the patented in-can system . |
| 8 | The marble block was then set into the wall of the family tomb , so the occupants appeared to be gazing at passers-by as if from a window . |
| 9 | Robyn heard Luke 's voice as if from a distance , deep and unexpectedly showing a trace of concern . |
| 10 | Much as I hope this will never occur , all that would happen is that the patient would either open his eyes and come completely out of the hypnotic state , or that he might doze for some ten or fifteen minutes before waking as if from a nap in an armchair . |
| 11 | I looked up , and the wobbly house-of-horrors mirror slipped its planes : the glass door opened , my father stared out and then gestured encouragingly , as if from a touchline . |
| 12 | The more they were squeezed the more chrome was exuded , as if from a tube , at each end . |
| 13 | The heat from the room below belched up as if from a furnace . |
| 14 | She saw them then , with shattering clarity ; they crowded the dunes in a cold eddying radiance , each spear-point a spark of light , grimly staring as if from a trance . |
| 15 | She orgasmed with a series of low , satisfied grunts , as his ejaculation shot spunk into her as if from a gun . |
| 16 | There are two fundamental ways of transferring energy to or from a system . |
| 17 | angle of lead When intercepting a track to or from a radio beacon you must allow for the turn onto track from the intercepting heading . |
| 18 | A very important property of angular momentum is that if no angular momentum is transferred to or from a body then , regardless of any internal changes in the body , its angular momentum remains fixed . |
| 19 | The insurance guarantees cover works of art ‘ from nail to nail ’ , during transport to and from a museum and during the exhibition . |
| 20 | To make good a specific track to and from a station you must find the heading required with a known or unknown wind . |
| 21 | We need drivers to bring people to and from a session . |
| 22 | The son of another Superintendent has told how he and his mother often had to remove the leggings and gaiters from his father when he arrived home soaking wet and utterly stiff and weary after cycling several miles to and from a meeting on a winter night . |
| 23 | Modules specified in this way appear when the contents of a package are displayed using LIFESPAN , and can be marked for transfer to and from a VMS account . |
| 24 | The serial channels , which interpret and process the communication protocols , each support eight different protocol modes and a built-in time slot assigner routes data to and from any of the channels , to and from a Time Division Multiplexed Channel such as a T1 or CEPT line . |
| 25 | ‘ Small Agricultural Tractor ’ — unladen weight not more than 2550 kg may be driven in the course of agricultural operations on any road which is not a restricted road or on any road ( other than a Special Road ) while taking or going to and from a driving test . |
| 26 | The difference between telex and the newer systems being developed ( eg facsimile transmission ) is that the latter enable electronic mail to be passed to and from a terminal on an individual 's desk , instead of to a separately-located telex machine in another office . |
| 27 | Purse nets are used to cover all holes leading to and from a warren system . |