Example sentences of "[noun sg] from [art] ashes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Dot had seen a canary in a bent cage pulled out , black like a little sparrow from the ashes and soot , yet still singing even though its owner was gone . |
| 2 | The Five Nations Championship is understandably the envy of the rest of the rugby world and what spice will be added to the coming encounters — notably when England travel once more to Murrayfield on the opening day and return to Paris in February ; when Ireland , so nearly conquerors of champions Australia , run out once more at Lansdowne Road , and Wales begin their brave attempt to rise like some Phoenix from the ashes . |
| 3 | The campaign to get the new ‘ child tax credit ’ payable to mothers was eventually a successful one : while the tax credit-scheme as a whole was abandoned , the child benefit , combining family allowance and child tax allowance and payable to the mother for all her children including the first , rose like a Phoenix from the ashes , in the form of the Child Benefit Act , 1975 . |
| 4 | Her female Spirit-Self simply seems to rise mysteriously like a phoenix from the ashes of patriarchal conditioning . |
| 5 | But despite his subsequent Phoenix-like rise from the ashes of defeat , he reflected that his fall from grace had been mainly due to the persistent interference of the private detective Grant . |
| 6 | The city had been devastated by German bombing during the Second World War and its newly built cathedral , which was to be a symbol of its phoenix-like rise from the ashes , was still awaiting the final touches before its opening . |
| 7 | The band are literally raising the ageing singer 's career from the ashes . |
| 8 | The band are literally raising the ageing singer 's career from the ashes . |