Example sentences of "[vb base] from the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be that support from the 13 Ulster Unionist MPs likely to be elected on Thursday would be enough to see Mr Major home . |
| 2 | They range from the impressive Eric Jones-Evans and Alan Tagg collections to a small but exquisite ( and previously unknown ) portrait of Ellen Terry , painted when this legendary actress was at the start of her career in Bristol and presented to the Collection by the artist 's granddaughter . |
| 3 | Hamdi Ali Abdel-Wahab al-Banbi , hitherto chairman of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation ( EGPC ) , took over as Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister from the long-serving Abdul Hadi Mohammed Qandil , whose dismissal had been widely predicted following criticism from foreign companies that he paid too little attention to exploration and production . |
| 4 | Does this shrill din really emanate from the top Praga Khan and Jade 4U ? |
| 5 | Please be sure to obtain your tickets direct from the Royal Albert Hall during February . |
| 6 | It 's early days yet … but it seems this fishy find from the outer Hebrides could bring fresh hope and health to many thousands of people . |
| 7 | Thousands of warriors collect from the huge Masai district to have their heads shaved by their mothers before undergoing rituals to launch them on their new — somewhat dull — life as elders . |
| 8 | In Bacon 's books , Sprat says , ‘ are every where scattered the best arguments , that can be produced for the defence of Experimental Philosophy ; and the best directions , that are needful to promote it ’ , while according to Glanvill ‘ all the main heads of natural history have received aids and increase from the famous Bacon , who led the way to substantial wisdom , and hath given most excellent directions for the method of such an history of nature ’ . |
| 9 | The church has other features too that come from the Moorish Spain of the Middle Ages : above all , the queer openwork stone screens that are set into the window embrasures , hewn crudely but winningly into geometric patterns . |
| 10 | Outputs rise from the standard SE 's lacklustre 111bhp and 117lb ft of torque to a much healthier 155bhp at 5500rpm and 169lb ft of torque at 3600rpm . |
| 11 | The later occupation was of a specialist technical nature , the manufacture of pewter vessels with the use of limestone moulds and lead from the local Mendip ores . |