Example sentences of "[noun sg] from a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In this paper , I have tried to suggest briefly some of the questions posed by the study of religion from a sociological perspective .
2 For many it transformed the view of religion from a confused mystery into a practical guide for everyday life .
3 In the twenties , both in England and in America , we have a situation in which the infant and child mortality rates are fast declining , mainly owing to new advances in medical knowledge ; at the same time , the world 's values have been shaken by the First World War , writers and journalists have both more freedom and more inclination than ever before to discuss religion from an agnostic point of view , and the vengeful God of heaven and hell no longer impresses in quite the old way .
4 The idea is not new — a Hungarian engineer designed the first photocomposing machine in 1894 — but its widespread adoption depended on the computer to select characters at high speed from an optical storage disc .
5 It takes the form of a long skyline-ridge linking five distinct summits , the whole rising abruptly and in complete isolation from a flat moorland .
6 A HUGE furnace from a once-mighty steel factory is this morning lying in four pieces on a Mersey dockside .
7 A HUGE furnace from a once-mighty steel factory is this morning lying in four pieces on a Mersey dockside .
8 But they wo n't be able to deal with their main sources of production , as er Professor Bradshaw said there , they 're going to have absolutely you 've got no control over the track on on which they operate , and they ar going to have to hire their carriages from and rolling stock from a separate leasing company , so their room for manoeuvre is limited to say the least .
9 In Allegorical Landscape with Narcissus Mirror , a river divides a landscape of dense wood on the one side from a barren heath on the other .
10 The memorabilia at the museum in Linthorpe Road includes copies of secret orders about the evacuation , a Christmas card from a German POW camp , a censored postcard , a host of medals … and Tom 's shrapnel .
11 this can be : a valid UK passport ; full driving licence ; photo-identity card from a well-known organisation or employer ; pension or benefit order book issued by the DSS or the Benefits Agency ; and , for children only , a birth certificate .
12 ‘ He said that he detected an implied suggestion that he might obtain another credit card from a different company and use it to pay off his card . ’
13 There is now a ‘ hassles and uplifts ’ scale with which ambitious social psychologists try to quantify everything from the down value of a lost shoe to the up value of a birthday card from an old friend .
14 In summary , studies of perception from a neurophysiological base are not conclusive .
15 But he began by scouting out the field of timbre perception from a Gibsonian perspective .
16 ANIMAL PERCEPTION FROM AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE VIEWPOINT Margaret A. Boden
17 The formulation of care plans is a valuable teaching and learning exercise , provided the student has guidance from an experienced member of staff .
18 Her movements all spring from a curving line as she pivots her body , turning on an axis from foot , knee or hand .
19 Recommendation from a previous user 8
20 Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form .
21 Perhaps consistent wins in the obedience ring or in trials by a breeder 's dogs inspires you to want to own a great working dog ; or perhaps the reason is just recommendation from a trusted friend .
22 As a result of an extremely adverse recommendation from an Independent Mediator with regard to AIB Great Britain Salaries , IBOA has recently had a meeting with AIB Bank Management .
23 It was decided to focus on women from African , Asian and Caribbean backgrounds , who had experienced domestic violence from a violent partner , be it emotional or physical .
24 However advantageous it may be either ideologically or strategically to view Nizan 's communist itinerary from a post-Stalinist perspective , the result of such perceptions is merely to obliterate the reality of Nizan 's lived experience beneath contemporary images and stereotypes .
25 THE death toll from a chemical plant blast rose to three yesterday when a girl died in hospital .
26 The instruction set of a computer includes a range of instructions , from simple ones such as to load an accumulator from a specified store location , to complex ones such as the edit and search instructions described earlier .
27 Axelrod draws a moving illustration of the importance of the shadow of the future from a remarkable phenomenon that grew up during the First World War , the so-called live-and-let-live system .
28 It was estimated that in addition more than 500,000 paediatric AIDS cases resulting from perinatal transmission ( spread of AIDS from an infected mother to her foetus or new-born baby ) , had occurred , with over 90 per cent of this total in sub-Saharan Africa .
29 Nigel Short 's defeat from a superior position swung the result against England .
30 However , like the transfer pricing initiative , this proposal could be attractive to the Clinton administration for its ‘ tax fairness ’ hue as well as the potential for raising substantial revenue from a non-voting constituency .
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