Example sentences of "[pers pn] from [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sleeping bags all have season ratings — from one to five — taking you from hot summer nights to high mountain winter camps . |
| 2 | Do I buy them from existing shareware libraries , or is there somewhere I could obtain a complete set of titles from in one go . |
| 3 | Last year the town recorded 2,500 vehicle offences , many of them from central car parks . |
| 4 | The third characteristic envisaged for the polytechnics , namely that they should have an ‘ applied philosophy ’ , means that their courses should have a vocational orientation and be designed with specific career outlets in mind , thus distinguishing them from many university courses which are sometimes described as ‘ pure ’ . |
| 5 | A total of 43 people died on Jan. 14 , most of them from toxic cyanide fumes , after a fire broke out at a Zaragoza nightclub . |
| 6 | On January 14th the unlikely figure of Bob Dole , the Senate Republican leader , took time off from the Gulf to call for a statutory commission to find out why women have not broken through the ‘ glass ceiling ’ that keeps them from top management jobs . |
| 7 | The White Lions protected him from many assassination attempts and his personal retinue of Sapherian wizards countered all death-spells . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , he obtained a Commission in the Regular Army before the Great War of 1914 — 1918 , in which he was wounded by a sniper 's bullet through a lung , and would have died but for the fact that one of his men , having also been wounded , fell on top of ‘ Monty ’ and thereby , protected him from further sniper bullets until darkness permitted rescue to be made . |
| 9 | Like all Scots he seemed to her intelligent and well-bred , but uniquely devoted after he saved her from two carriage accidents and two assailants . |
| 10 | The bowl was filled with water and the old man , chanting softly to himself , poured powder into it from small leather pouches . |
| 11 | Well I got it from that travel agents |
| 12 | As much as 97 percent of our barbecue fuel is imported … much of it from Indonesian rain forests and mangrove swamps . |
| 13 | When the ILP had been a founding organization of the Labour Representation Committee in 1900 , its opposition to the " Liberal-Labour " position separated it from many trade-union officials and earned their Suspicion . |
| 14 | Got it from British Home Stores . |
| 15 | Got it from British Home Stores . |
| 16 | Senior expects Delta 's haemoglobin to cost around 50 pence per gram , ten times less than the cost of purifying it from red blood cells , the main existing source . |
| 17 | On Nov. 11 Hezbollah radio , the Voice of the Oppressed , had broadcast an attack on the government policy statement , which , it claimed , contained nothing to distinguish it from previous policy statements . |
| 18 | I made it from old aluminium tent-poles , some of which I had found in the attic a long time previously and some I had got from the town dump . |
| 19 | It is an idea that has taken root recently in Scotland where local government and private enterprise , approaching it from different starting points , have begun to put both the idea and supporting environmental ideals to the test . |
| 20 | It recorded the main events of his life , and modern scholarship has in the main verified it from independent documentary sources as well as from Rolle 's own writings . |
| 21 | Whibley 's effectiveness can be measured by the fact that he retained his position on the Palace flank while assisting us from Southern League also-rans to 3rd Division champions , and to a dignified place in Division Two . |