Example sentences of "[noun sg] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then refers to the conference held in 1991 with some 300 theologians , historians , educators and lay leaders from 25 countries who endeavoured to disentangle what is considered legitimate use of religion from its apparent misuse . |
| 2 | The loss of speed from their rougher bottoms was compensated by the fact that they could be sailed harder than wooden ships in blowing weather . |
| 3 | Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland warned at the congress that Norway risked isolation from its Nordic neighbours if it failed to re-apply ( earlier applications having been made in 1962 , 1967 and 1970 ) . |
| 4 | The history of health in Africa has shown often that medical research in isolation from its social context had little benefit for indigenous peoples . |
| 5 | The Party 's increasing isolation from its natural constituency in the broad labour movement was threatening its viability . |
| 6 | Religion is not an individualistic affair ; it is not something that concerns a man in isolation from his fellow men ; it is not simply a matter for the individual soul seeking release , or mok a , from the endless cycle of birth , death and rebirth , or sa sāra . |
| 7 | One baleful glance from its enormous eyes could kill , as would its touch , while its breath would kill even birds which flew far overhead . |
| 8 | Roman Wyatt was way out of her league ; he was a high-powered business tycoon with beautiful women falling over themselves for a glance from his magnificent eyes . |
| 9 | Many postgraduate students will have proceeded without interruption from their primary degrees ; many other participants are seeking career-enhancing or professional development qualifications by either full-time or part-time attendance after deferring the desire to seek postgraduate entry for some years . |
| 10 | Pop 's role in this struggle is to lure us into truancy from our better selves . |
| 11 | Another development during the first half of the 1980s hastened the decline in ordinary charter-train operation : the wholesale withdrawal of ageing steamheated 90mph Mk 1 coaching stock from which such trains were usually formed . |
| 12 | Being a Silver Jubilee , passengers were serenaded by the Eccleston Silver Band as they rode behind four steam locomotives in a range of stock from our own home made coach to a Welsh coach from our No. 1 steam engine 's home of Llanberis to the diminutive but delightful Groudle Glen coach from the Isle of Man . |
| 13 | The only new Mission for the deaf that seems to have opened for the first time in the 1890s was that at Oxford , although the deaf people of Bradford almost lost their own when a fire was discovered in the coal cellar under the offices by one of the deaf members who ran to summon the fire brigade from its nearby station . |
| 14 | He , too , had powerful binoculars , with which he had noted the movements among the trees on the opposite side from his own position . |
| 15 | ‘ There is a new stock location in the warehouse from which these orders can be sent out . |
| 16 | Was it guidance from your Higher Self ? |
| 17 | Crimes against society , such as theft , murder and outright war , as well as bad actions against family and friends , spring from our inborn desire to get our own way and do what we want , however much we normally keep those feelings under control . |
| 18 | Up to two hundred old people will have to move if the council accepts a recommendation from its Social Services Director that the homes should close . |
| 19 | Since then , Bonar 's African operations — hit hard by political upheavals and devaluation — have largely had to survive on local earnings , with little or no investment from their Scottish parent . |
| 20 | This moral is highlighted by an episode from my own family annals which occurred when we were visiting my in-laws in Scotland . |
| 21 | After being a highly-prized mistress she was now little better than a common prostitute , and her owners were now interested only in squeezing the last drops of revenue from her tired body . |
| 22 | The sales revenue from their smaller circulations covered a much lower proportion of costs ; but the greater purchasing power of their readers , some of whom spent ‘ corporate ’ money , not just their own personal incomes , enabled the qualities to charge far higher advertising rates and break even at circulation levels completely unrealistic for the populars . |
| 23 | That too , perhaps , a throw-back from his regimental days . |
| 24 | Wearside , who host the Durham County championships in a fortnight 's time , have produced a book which chronicles the history of the club from its humble beginnings in 1892 to this their centenary year . |
| 25 | This time he did n't pretend to be other than he was , a writer in exile from his own class , setting out to see with his own eyes the state of emergency among the Northern unemployed . |
| 26 | Though Joseph spent much of his later life in exile from his beloved Wallowa Valley , he was never subjugated , possessing a kind dignity that was as powerful as his leadership when young . |
| 27 | THE motorway murder victim Marie Wilks used her Red Cross training to staunch the flow of blood from her jugular vein after being stabbed in the neck , a court was told yesterday . |
| 28 | ‘ They took the blood from her jugular vein . |
| 29 | Thick blood from its slashed throat appeared to buoy it up . |
| 30 | Should I cut off his fingers for daring to draw blood from your precious wife ? ’ |