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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | The history of health in Africa has shown often that medical research in isolation from its social context had little benefit for indigenous peoples . |
| 4 | The Party 's increasing isolation from its natural constituency in the broad labour movement was threatening its viability . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One baleful glance from its enormous eyes could kill , as would its touch , while its breath would kill even birds which flew far overhead . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That too , perhaps , a throw-back from his regimental days . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ They took the blood from her jugular vein . |
| 19 | Thick blood from its slashed throat appeared to buoy it up . |
| 20 | Should I cut off his fingers for daring to draw blood from your precious wife ? ’ |
| 21 | The thumb went out of his mouth , leaving behind the taste of blood from his injured tongue . |
| 22 | Blood from his torn ear was soaking his left epaulette with its tarnished chains and gilded eagle . |
| 23 | Keres were often described as hovering , on outstretched wings , above a battlefield , for their favourite pastime was to swoop upon a warrior at the point of his death and suck the blood from his mortal wounds . |
| 24 | The doc drained air and blood from his pleural cavity and … ’ |
| 25 | There he sat , cowering against the wall , blubbering like a child , the blood from his broken nose streaming down his face . |
| 26 | ‘ She locked the back , ’ said Frank Stark , wiping blood from his broken nose away with the back of his hand . |
| 27 | For she had taken her mind from his marauding hands and , with a low guttural cry , he had succeeded in stripping off her top and flinging it from them into the dark recesses of the room . |
| 28 | At least , he concluded , their journey to Woodforde had diverted the coroner 's mind from his constant agonising over the Lady Maude 's mysterious conduct . |
| 29 | I was nourished on stories like these ; William Wallace , slaying half a dozen English soldiers with his fishing rod ; Bruce , before Bannockburn , felling an English knight with one stroke from his slender battle-axe ; and when I was a boy I contracted a mortal dread of dying in bed . |
| 30 | Those who did not want to buy a bigger or better house were able to borrow more to extract equity from their fast-appreciating assets . |