Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [indef pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fashion for opera , its current potency to promote anything from a fast car to a pension scheme , does not venture beyond Puccini . |
| 2 | Half the people in the study received nothing from a formal agency and the authors conclude that the Social Fund ‘ is largely irrelevant to most real-life situations within which the poorest people find themselves ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't know , ’ Sarella said dully in a last-ditch attempt to salvage something from the wreckage of her self-esteem . |
| 4 | The waterside cafe serves everything from a pot of tea to a full range of appetising snacks and meals . |
| 5 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 6 | The Vevay Beauty range covers everything from the latest cosmetics to skin and hair care — every product thoroughly clinically tested and selected for you individually to suit your colouring and skin type . |
| 7 | All the windows in the farmhouse had been shattered , the whole scene resembling something from the Blitz . |
| 8 | It is regrettable that the judge heard nothing from the appellants ' side , despite the fact that they were represented — no oral evidence , no affidavit evidence , not even an address in mitigation . |
| 9 | Earlier , McWalters barrister , Hugh Vass , stressed his client 's ‘ exemplary character ’ and pointed out that letters of character reference included one from a retired police sergeant . |
| 10 | From the standpoint of the scholar interested in learning there was , of course , the practical objection that the duties of the kadilik distracted one from the pursuit of . |
| 11 | Scotland 's determination to take something from the night was shown in the 64th minute , too , when a defender , Wright , was replaced by a forward , his Aberdeen team-mate , Scott Booth . |
| 12 | Definitional overlap uses dictionary definitions as a source of semantic knowledge , and follows a sequential comparison algorithm to select one from a number of alternative word candidates as being the most ’ semantically plausible ’ within that sentential context . |
| 13 | Likewise , control clicking ( holding down the CTRL key while you click ) allows you to select multiple items for processing and shift clicking highlights everything from the last highlighted item to the one your pointer is over as you shift click . |
| 14 | Clean , it was an absolute dream ; the EQ offered more than enough scope to produce anything from a cutting Telecaster to a rich acoustic tone , and with the help of a short delay and pitchshift I put a sound onto tape which I 'd defy anyone not to recognise as an acoustic guitar — and I 'd actually used the Patrick Eggle New York model reviewed elsewhere in this issue . |
| 15 | Celtic3 St Johnstone1 CELTIC overpowered St Johnstone and remain on course to salvage something from an indifferent season . |
| 16 | Even if you have never given a bottle feed yourself it is possible that the baby received one from a nurse while in the maternity ward . |
| 17 | Psychobiology , the study of the biological bases of behaviour , is a broad area covering everything from the evolution of mating systems in the toad to the functions of subregions of the human cerebral cortex . |
| 18 | Why have the Government learnt nothing from the experience , and why are they proposing to do nothing if a crisis emerges shortly , as it could ? |
| 19 | Although the sons of Zebedee were evidently netsmen , Christian iconography has drawn on angling to depict anything from the means of grace by which God draws our souls up into Heaven to His ensnaring of the monstrous Leviathan . |
| 20 | ‘ Where are we heading now ? ’ she asked in an effort to salvage something from the day if it was at all possible . |
| 21 | This fat includes everything from the obvious fats like butter and oil to those hidden in cakes , biscuits and fried foods . |
| 22 | ‘ If ever I went out of my way to learn something from a book the chances were that It 'd be hopelessly wrong — you know , inaccurate transcriptions of a song or solo — so I decided to try and develop my own ear by learning things from record . ’ |
| 23 | The interpreter operates at high speed : in simultaneous translation ( strictly speaking , simultaneous interpreting ) , he keeps roughly a sentence behind the speaker ; in consecutive translation ( interpreting ) the speaker waits for the interpreter to translate anything from a morpheme to a whole paragraph at a time . |
| 24 | A third is transput instructions , requiring a field to specify one from a range of peripheral devices . |
| 25 | Next day Peony said she was going to post a letter , did her mother want anything from the village ? |
| 26 | How will the Scottish Office separate one from the other ? |
| 27 | Though Catholicism is championed in the end , it is no longer portrayed as having the power to protect one from the extremes of madness and sin . |
| 28 | This is no time to cut anything from the employment development fund , from the training budget , even sixteen thousand pounds . |