Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [noun] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sense of humour redeems her designs from some of their associations . |
| 2 | Caught in the horse-herd , Joseph rescues his daughter from advancing troopers of the 2nd Cavalry , after General Miles ' attack in a snowy hollow of the Bear Paws Mountains , 8.00 a.m. , 30th September 1877 . |
| 3 | During the last year I have played in several fun competitions most of these were what was called Texas scrambles they are where everybody in the team hits a ball off the tee then where the best shot lands everybody plays their shot from that position this happens until the ball is in the hole the winning team is the team in with the lowest score . |
| 4 | Like the Swiss-German project Leigh 's space receives its money from European backers , around nineteen and mostly Italian , whom Leigh advises on art purchases . |
| 5 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp says its procurements from foreign firms in the year ending March 31 are expected to show a 23% increase to $850m , the highest since 1981 . |
| 6 | Lesbian and gay porn frees our imagination from such trickery . |
| 7 | The CCS computer gathers its information from various sources including steering , brake and engine sensors and accelerometers . |
| 8 | many ear that when the Home office cuts its grant from next April , local authorities wo n't be able to make up the shortfall . |
| 9 | She protects her charges from all hassle , handling every emergency with experienced unflappability . |
| 10 | The Indian child , however , once he is 5 , increases his expectation from 32 to 46 years ; the Mexican , from 39 to 55 years — and the 5 year old of the United Arab Republic can now expect to live to the age of 59 , having added 21 years to his total expectation of life by virtue of having survived the ‘ pre-school ’ period ( UNICEF , 1964 ) . |
| 11 | IFAs belonging to the association must also belong to a contributory compensation fund that protects your investments from unforeseen problems , such as fraud . |
| 12 | These are factors which could encourage de-hydration because they may destroy the natural hydrolipidic film which protects your skin from excessive evaporation of moisture . |
| 13 | She gets her reply from one of the players : " crablouse " ( said with Creole pronunciation , but by a speaker who anyway has a Jamaican accent ) . |
| 14 | The pass gets its name from two groups of deep limestone potholes set either side of the road . |
| 15 | Where the resource areas are widely dispersed , the territory is large , and where the territory is small , the same number or extent of resource areas are closer together , so that in both cases the predator gets its food from similar sized hunting areas but from quite different territory sizes . |
| 16 | Now interesting because erm one of the things I did before Christmas was I went out to and it I think it 's my memory it 's sixty percent of Scotland is , is , gets its power from nuclear power |
| 17 | It takes its cue from other kinds of liberation , and rests the call for Animal Liberation on the recognition of the rights of nonhuman animals , including in particular their right not to be treated as mere means to human ends . |
| 18 | Four of these are electric , each driven by a 40 h.p. motor which takes its current from overhead trolley wires . |
| 19 | IF THE PLAN has been for the Europeans not to show their strongest hands in the Freeport-McMoran Classic at English Turn , which takes its name from one of the sweeping bends in the Mississipi River , much has gone according to plan . |
| 20 | It takes its name from one of the first cases in which such an injunction was granted , Mareva Compania Naviera S.A . |
| 21 | This has the effect of diverting our attention away from previous cases where the method has failed and hence of escaping the sceptical argument which takes its start from those cases . |
| 22 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 23 | In Scotland there are two in particular — there 's the pop scene that draws its inspiration from American bohemians like Lou Reed , Arthur Lee , Tom Verlaine , and there 's your scene , which takes its cue from Bowie 's Young Americans , Average White Band , Steely Dan , Chic … |
| 24 | Dr Geoffrey Clements , leader of the party that draws its inspiration from transcendental meditation and the teachings of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , began by stating that it was ‘ time to bring the light of science into politics ’ . |
| 25 | The Group meets four times a year and draws its membership from senior members within the industry . |
| 26 | Again , one of the main sources of supply today and one that helped to put the Whitby industry out of business during the late nineteenth century , is centred on Oviedo in Spain , which draws its supplies from Lower Cretaceous marls in Asturias . |
| 27 | The haustorium penetrates no deeper than the host 's epidermal cell layer in most species , and the fungus obtains its nutrients from this sheet of living cells . |
| 28 | Perhaps the Egyptian goddess after whom she is named was watching over her — but she herself attributes her escape from serious injury entirely to Medau . |
| 29 | So when one producer or studio is responsible for a string of hits , it 's only necessary to find out what distinguishes its operation from that of other , less successful , operations , or what has changed when the same producer or studio hit a bum run , to discover what makes for successful film production . |
| 30 | This distinction will have some importance when we consider the grounds on which the attitudinist distinguishes his position from that of ethical subjectivism . |