Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Communist Party could apparently hope for little from the Socialist League and for nothing from the Labour Party . |
| 2 | The Dean of York presided and addressed the gathering for nearly an hour on the subject of " The History of the Deaf and Facts about Them from the Earliest Era " . |
| 3 | It 's a very versatile shape for everyone from the slender to the grandest size . |
| 4 | Again it was as if something stared through them from the other side . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was inevitable that an attraction should have blazed between them from the first . |
| 6 | I tipped the wink to a pal of mine who 's big in local government , and he managed to fix it for someone from the public health authority to write a letter full of threats and demands and legal gobbledegook . |
| 7 | Instead of being cosily tucked up in her bunk near the bar , she surprisingly came walking towards me from the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's , her diamonds lighting small bright fires with every step . |
| 8 | Cheap petrol at present does not reflect the true environmental costs of global warming and the effects on the health of everyone from the atmospheric pollutants discharged by road vehicles . |
| 9 | Gradually Elizabeth and I got to know each other ; Elizabeth already knew something of me from The Last Enchantments . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , by 1911 there were only 89,000 12–14 year olds in such state-aided secondary schools , and 33,000 aged 15–18 , few of them from the working class . |
| 11 | Between 1914 and 1918 almost 900,000 British Empire soldiers had died in the trenches , most of them from the working class . |
| 12 | Gifts were part of the occasion too : 3,500 children gathered in the Town Hall on the morning of 1 August , 3,000 of them from the Baptist Sunday schools and the rest from the Lancasterian and Infant Sunday schools , and were each given a booklet commemorating the end of apprenticeship . |
| 13 | Richards and King put on 139 for the fifth wicket in just seventy-seven minutes , King annihilating the bowlers to the tune of three sixes and ten fours in his 86 , most of them from the three part-time bowlers who conceded , by coincidence , 86 between them . |
| 14 | Nor did he for any of the other hopeful interviewees , most of them from the national papers . |
| 15 | It will now be a limited handicap which should mean avoiding the farce of last year when only three went to the post , two of them from the same stable . |
| 16 | The article gives the possibility of legal action against individual sellers or suppliers , or groups of them from the same economic sector , or against their trade associations . |
| 17 | Perhaps after all it was nothing more than that the man reminded him of someone from the old days , and it was not unknown for people from the palace compound to slum in the harbour quarter now and then . |
| 18 | So the paper you 've got in front of you from the last meeting then . |
| 19 | The apex ( tip ) of the shoot continues growth by mobilising food and water towards itself from the older tissues behind . |
| 20 | The following morning , after breakfast , a bruised Clare cut a photograph of herself from the local newspaper ; luckily , her face was totally obscured by the banner , which had wrapped itself around her like a winding sheet . |
| 21 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
| 22 | And the one that had been writhing on the ground recovered itself , lunging towards her from the other side . |
| 23 | As she passed through the gate , to walk beside the stream , Bob Lamb caught sight of her from the other bank of the beck . |
| 24 | Of the other two paintings , one is a picture of a friend , a girl who was also a student , posing in the same life-room , and the other , a portrait I made of a fellow student and good friend of mine from the Royal Academy , James Tower , who became a noted ceramicist . |
| 25 | She could see the lights of it from the upper windows but never got any nearer . |
| 26 | Even today Ravenna is unique in the quality of its Byzantine work , particularly the mosaics , most of it from the finest period of the fifth and sixth centuries . |
| 27 | Given that about 7 million tonnes of surplus straw is produced each year , much of it from the cereal-growing area of East Anglia in my constituency , does my hon. Friend agree that it is an important source of energy ? |
| 28 | In a tough speech to the Crime Reporters ' Association he said the IRA would cease their evil trade if they could see the level of public support given to the police — much of it from the Irish community . |
| 29 | Yes , if one separates the controlling element , i.e. the timing , the sort of electro-mechanical aspect of it from the controlled interfaced circuits , i.e. the motors and the drive electronics that go with that , i.e. one compares the reliability of the let's assume the single chip microcomputer replacing the electro-mechanical conventional timer , then the reliability is n times better . |
| 30 | Aha and that gets rid of it from the front page . |