Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [adj] [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The typical barnyard ( or factory-farm ) pig — whatever its breed — is almost certainly descended from the Eurasian wild boar Sus scrofa , whose natural range covers a broad sweep from south-western Spain to the Far East . |
| 2 | When a constable gives directions to a tourist , for example , or rescues a stranded cat from a tree , he is performing the sort of social service that the police are nowadays expected to undertake . |
| 3 | He wants a complete break from golf . |
| 4 | Nobody wants a florid letter from someone they have never seen before but as an actor your style and personality must come through sufficiently — a bare list of parts played wo n't convey much . |
| 5 | He wants a firm pledge from Labour that they will honour plans for a Cabinet Minster with a development brief . |
| 6 | someone 's obviously brought , obviously brought from Spain , from a holiday , who wants a secondhand bull from Spain ? |
| 7 | ( 4 ) If a party wants a definitive ruling from the Panel executive , it will usually only give this if the other party to the takeover has been consulted ( which itself is often conducted by telephone ) . |
| 8 | In my judgment , though the introduction of further admissible material will inevitably involve some increase in the use of time , this will not be significant as long as courts insist that Parliamentary material should only be introduced in the limited cases I have mentioned and where such material contains a clear indication from the minister of the mischief aimed at , or the nature of the cure intended , by the legislation . |
| 9 | Lord Browne-Wilkinson refers to material which ‘ clearly discloses the mischief aimed at or the legislative intention lying behind the ambiguous or obscure words ’ and which ‘ contains a clear indication from the minister of the mischief aimed at , or the nature of the case intended , by the legislation ’ . |
| 10 | The telephone line contains a ten-minute message from Reggie , 59 , and callers are charged at up to 48p a minute to listen . |
| 11 | The outcome , though , looks a far cry from the straightforward fight he faced in 1989 . |
| 12 | A pro knows within a few yards how far he can hit the ball with each club — unlike the club golfer who has a wide variation from day to day , and even from hole to hole . |
| 13 | Thompson & Morgan also has a new annual from America , Nemophila ‘ Pennie Black ’ , which has almost-black flowers with scalloped , silvery-white edges . |
| 14 | This road has a continuous history from the Bronze Age onwards . |
| 15 | It has a limited range from the northern and western Indian Ocean . |
| 16 | ( It is medically thought that only after the 28th week of pregnancy that the foetus has a separate existence from that of its mother ) . |
| 17 | Jacques Doucet has a pleasant collage from 1948 which depicts the Bal Negre in the rue Blomet . |
| 18 | This view has a strong support from molecular studies which show that the proteins from chimpanzees and man that characterize cell types are very similar . |
| 19 | The gravitational separation of helium is negligible and in this model always would have been , because the evolutionary sequence that yields this present state has a hot start from formation 4600 Ma ago , the atmospheric regulated loss of the heat of formation bringing Jupiter to its present state . |
| 20 | One has a withered leg from polio . |
| 21 | angora I has a great view from the bar across the harbour to the castle . |
| 22 | Angora I has a great view from the bar across the harbour o the castle . |
| 23 | Systemstar already has a full-time employee from Raima working in the UK , but has not yet worked out the details of its joint venture : a separate Systemstar operation could well continue to handle the distributor 's other product lines , which include a competitive product , the KnowledgeMan extended network database from Micro Data Base Systems Inc of Lafayette , Indiana . |
| 24 | Ferry : Brittany Ferries ( 0752 221321 ) has a daily service from Plymouth to Roscoff , crossing time six hours . |
| 25 | Zeebrugge Ferries : North Sea Ferries ( 0482 77177 ) has a daily sailing from Hull to Zeebrugge : crossing time 14 hours . |
| 26 | Rotterdam Ferries : North Sea Ferries ( 0482 77177 ) has a daily sailing from Hull to Rotterdam : crossing time 14 hours . |
| 27 | Brittany Ferries also has a daily crossing from Portsmouth to St Malo : crossing time about nine hours . |
| 28 | Apart from long-term absentee John McInnes , Brownbill has a full squad from which to select tomorrow as Town look to extend their eight-match unbeaten run . |
| 29 | Many expressed the feeling that Gorbachov is now more vulnerable than ever before , and that Yeltsin has a unique platform from which to attack the Soviet leadership . |
| 30 | Notice how the secretary of state has a different title from his department . |