Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] from a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These are essentially the notes of an F♯ minor arpeggio approached from a semi-tone below . |
| 5 | The programme developed from a pilot study with four students per firm . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Vegetables , milk and bacon come from a 400-acre prison farm , Hollesly Bay Colony in East Anglia . |
| 8 | The wind dropped from a screaming , gusting gale to a fresh breeze . |
| 9 | A line of washing , big white drawers and a pink headscarf hung from a Mamaluke window . |
| 10 | Although they do not need it to fight they are usually armed with a big club made from a tree trunk . |
| 11 | Each subject had 5 ml of blood sampled from a forearm vein immediately before and every 10 minutes for two hours after the onset of the meal . |
| 12 | Although infra-red light is invisible to the human eye , it can be detected by special photographic film ; in general , the amount of infra-red light reflected from a plant depends on its ripeness , so that infra-red photographs can produce good-contrast images of crop marks that may be hardly visible on ordinary photographic film or to the eye . |
| 13 | Each Landsat MSS measurement is proportional to the amount of light reflected from a ground area ( called a pixel , for picture element ) with a side-length of 79 m . |
| 14 | May 15 : ‘ Significant ’ quantity of cannabis resin , LSD , ecstasy and cocaine seized from a house in Belfast . |
| 15 | Tablets in a handbag stolen from a Teesside dentist 's waiting room could be dangerous , police have warned . |
| 16 | A stocky male figure entered from a room at the rear and began looking for something beneath the counter . |
| 17 | On 7 and 8 April this year Christie 's Amsterdam realised over £ 4 million for 28,000 pieces of Chinese export porcelain salvaged from a trading junk sunk off the coast of Vietnam in 1690 . |
| 18 | This view visualises workers and potential workers weighing up the pleasure gained from an hour of gardening , balancing it against an additional hour in the office or on the production line . |
| 19 | Figure 1 depicts a stereoview of 31 superimposed structures of the cyclosporin A ( CsA ) /cyclophilin ( CyP ) complex generated from a total of 2,115 NMR-derived restraints using a distance geometry/simulated annealing protocol . |
| 20 | The family firm of Swannson-on-Wheels made a contract with Computex Ltd by exchange of correspondence , The following extract taken from a letter dated 30 July 1985 on Computex Ltd headed notepaper gives the essential terms of the haulage contract : |
| 21 | The boat left from a quay near the High Dam . |
| 22 | The test is done on a small sample of blood taken from a vein in the arm in the standard way . |
| 23 | Villains snatched the rare bird when they entered Cockerton Aquatics in Darlington , using a spare key taken from a car two weeks earlier . |
| 24 | For example , a medallion composed from a Shou character for longevity does not have the same symbolic intent as one based on the peony , which indicates nobility , wealth and love ; the meaning of the inner pattern , rather than the medallion itself should always be read . |
| 25 | These engaged with a toothed wheel ( driven by a weight suspended from a drum ) which pushed the verge first one way and then the other , causing the foliot to oscillate . |
| 26 | Dry batteries for fencer units are outrageously expensive , so I have resorted to an old tractor battery , trickle-charged by a windmill made from a bicycle wheel with its dynamo hub : it cost nothing and worked without trouble for a year at a stretch . |
| 27 | In each room a naked bulb hung from a flex above the metal cots . |
| 28 | Commercial Liability suffered from a number of large losses during the year . |
| 29 | The dive from a cradle secured from a crane earned Liz £650 in sponsorship money which went towards her local sea cadet organisation . |
| 30 | But all the other pieces are proper ones , apart from a pawn made from a marble and a blob of chewing gum . |