Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This case arose from a contract under which the pursuers , an engineering company , were to supply and install a conveyor belt system at the premises of the defenders , a brickmaking company . |
| 2 | The case arose from a magazine article accusing him of having revealed details of President Kurt Waldheim 's alleged Nazi past to an SPÖ conference in October 1985 . |
| 3 | The reason why a rational person would draw this inference is that an unexpectedly high price can be due to a positive aggregate demand shock or a positive relative demand shock , and it can of course arise from a combination of the two . |
| 4 | Income deriving from a UK source is , however , normally liable for UK tax . |
| 5 | In females it generally consists of a group of stout bristles which lies beneath the extended fore Wing and engages there in a retinaculum formed from a patch of hairs near the cubitus . |
| 6 | Does the Minister accept that the vast majority of people in Scotland recognise and understand international obligations , and that the whole problem of the Iraqi contract arose from a feeling that something was being put through behind the scenes ? |
| 7 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 8 | The second difficulty arose from a proposition in St. Augustine in which Galileo saw some mileage . |
| 9 | This change arose from a realization that war provided opportunities for the nobles not only to increase their honour and their prestige but also to enrich themselves . |
| 10 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
| 11 | Most word processing programs , such as WORDWISE VIEW , APPLEWRITER and EDWORD allow the user to work from a menu . |
| 12 | Those taking part come from a variety of backgrounds and have spent several months or in some cases years receiving instruction in the faith , usually as part of a parish group . |
| 13 | These are essentially the notes of an F♯ minor arpeggio approached from a semi-tone below . |
| 14 | The decision stemmed from a suggestion by the Secretary/Manager Brian Lovelock sometime in 1984 during the period immediately following the redemption of the bonds . |
| 15 | Obviously , having two amps means you 'll hear yourself better on stage , but I would have thought that a performer would prefer actual monitoring or foldback to come from a PA source ( ie. what the audience is hearing ) rather than a backline source . |
| 16 | The programme developed from a pilot study with four students per firm . |
| 17 | Somehow the chemical got from a storage tank into water supplies . |
| 18 | Two weeks before Christmas , however , an example of the feedback received from a school leaver was : ‘ I like the course very much , I like the autonomy it affords and the subject availability . |
| 19 | The driving power was provided by a slowly descending weight hanging from a cord wound round the axle , this being the earliest instance known of a weight drive in a clock . |
| 20 | But , with turnover down 31 p.c. , the North American side tumbled from a £5½m profit to a £1.83m loss . |
| 21 | It floods back to me in spasms , like blood spurting from a wound . |
| 22 | She ran round there and found a woman collapsed on the floor , blood oozing from a cut on her arm and another on her thigh . |
| 23 | Vegetables , milk and bacon come from a 400-acre prison farm , Hollesly Bay Colony in East Anglia . |
| 24 | The move came after three councillors from Stanley had resigned in protest at the council 's reversal of a vote to exclude from a £500,000 soil improvement grant farms owned by the Falkland Islands Company , which dominated the economy . |
| 25 | Corbett rode quietly between them , keeping a wary eye on Ranulf who , after staring round-eyed at everything , began to mimic the strange accents , and drew dark looks from a number of passers-by . |
| 26 | That 's a music lover , that is — a music lover returning from a trip to America , where he hoarded a vast stash of compact discs . |
| 27 | Fresh red blood dripped from a weal on his shoulders . |
| 28 | The wind dropped from a screaming , gusting gale to a fresh breeze . |
| 29 | The ley starts from a wayside cross next to a crossroads , goes through Saintbury Church , noted for its pagan survivals , through a Bronze Age round barrow , a Neolithic long barrow sited in the middle of an Iron Age fort , through a Saxon pagan cemetery , and an eighteenth-century beacon tower , ending at an ancient farmstead , Seven Wells — which was the subject of a fictional book on witchcraft by Hugh Ross Williamson entitled The Silver Bowl . |
| 30 | Dawson 's reply came from a distance ; he was holding the phone away from his mouth . |