Example sentences of "from the pages " in BNC.
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| 1 | A stylised mulberry tree from the pages of a 16th-century herbal and bestiary |
| 2 | For these people , the last word in radical chic is Brut Soap-on-a-Rope ; they dress as though they have stepped straight from the pages of a Seventies mail-order catalogue ; they consider a good night out to be crowding into the only working public telephone box , and , hyperventilating in their over-excitement , taking it in turns to listen to the talking clock . |
| 3 | Bring history leaping from the pages of those boring , old textbooks — Battle of Hastings , 1066 — Magna Carta , 1215 — Great Fire of London , 1666 . |
| 4 | She looked like a gypsy princess plucked from the pages of a storybook . |
| 5 | None of the young women you see in the photographs in this book is a model , and none had cultivated and practised the professional gaze we are used to seeing stare from the pages of a magazine . |
| 6 | I 'm not sure what Mr and Mrs Bloggs are supposed to gain from the pages of ticked sums and the often half finished pieces of writing . |
| 7 | Several of L'Orient 's editions of that autumn had also disappeared and in later issues , articles about the new Phalange party — the headlines still intact but the accompanying text missing — had been crudely cut from the pages . |
| 8 | The images of honour and assassination could have been culled from the pages of a novel by Mario Puzo . |
| 9 | One of the reasons for its greater size is similar to the justification of the computerization of the databases : the more information published in INFUSE , the less will be the need for subscribers to send in certain types of enquiries — they can be answered from the pages of INFUSE . |
| 10 | A Roger Rabbit-style cartoon , Evil Toons , released on video this month , promotes itself like this : ‘ Innocently the four girls unleash a nymphomaniacal cartoon monster from the pages of a spell-book which intends to scare more than the girls ' pants off . ’ |
| 11 | ONE MORE TIME There 's one section of the guitar market which seems to spend its time in permanent relegation from the pages of guitar magazines … |
| 12 | Hundreds of children do , and they vie to fly on the eponymous aircraft ; their very own character plane from the pages of the Joey books . |
| 13 | Top designer Gianni Versace has led the risque revolution with his strappy leather tops and studded jeans shouting loudly from the pages of glossy magazines . |
| 14 | The Victorian station is straight from the pages of Thomas The Tank Engine , and the steam railway is still operative . |
| 15 | A PARCEL winging its way around the country carrying a homing device may sound like something straight from the pages of a James Bond story but there is nothing top secret about the idea . |
| 16 | Vember , that legendary classic of the Rock and Ice years ; Vember , the route that had scoffed out at him from the pages of Hard Rock with the ultimate aura of impregnability ; Vember — probably the only E1 , 5b pitch he would ever lead ; Vember , oh no — he would never forget ! |
| 17 | The ridiculous talk of an anti-French conspiracy — borrowed from the pages of the political script writers — is rubbish and should be consigned to the dustbin . |
| 18 | EVERYONE must be wondering what is happening on the Mid-Hants Railway , the ‘ Watercress Line ’ , having received the startling news from the pages of a contemporary magazine that volunteers have been resigning from the work force in substantial numbers . |
| 19 | In striking contrast , both girls were immaculately clad : dressed in white blouses and white skirts , they could have stepped straight from the pages of Vogue . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , Craig , what conclusions do you draw from the pages I managed to ‘ borrow ’ from the firm 's accounting books ? ’ |
| 21 | Theories and information appear not to have been subjected to prior sorting and tumble forth from the pages , while the opinions of the authors remain submerged . |
| 22 | The Ukrainian Anton Solomoukha 's ‘ Mechanical Toys ’ , being shown by Philippe Gravier until 20 January , seem to have stepped from the pages of a 1930s toy catalogue . |
| 23 | The dog-handled pot-lids from Mochlos , for example , seem to show a particular dog relaxing on a particular afternoon in the hot bronze age sunshine ; the crowds in the miniature frescoes seem alive with the excitement of the spectacle they are witnessing , and seem to have been caught mid-shout ; the hoopoes in the Pilgrim Hostel fresco seem at first glance to have fallen from the pages of some bronze age edition of Audubon . |
| 24 | Condemnation was at once forthcoming from many politicians , but in the first few days after the murders Mr Kohl turned down invitations to appear on television , preferring to offer his denunciation from the pages of a newspaper . |
| 25 | Her designer clothes were from the pages of a glossy fashion magazine . |
| 26 | Just as her childhood amusements could have originated from the pages of a 1930s ' children 's book , so Diana 's upbringing reflected the values of a bygone age . |
| 27 | On one occasion they were comparing engagements in their respective diaries when two photographs of Camilla fell out from the pages of Charles 's diary . |
| 28 | Let's hear it for the Great British Biopic , based on the sort of real-life story which might have leapt straight from the pages of the tabloids , and which in some cases actually did : Ruth Ellis , who shot her feckless lover and paid the ultimate price , in Dance with a Stranger ; Sid Vicious , the smack-addled punk who stabbed his girlfriend in Sid and Nancy ; Joe Orton , the homosexual playwright whose lover battered him to death with a hammer in Prick Up Your Ears ; Josslyn Hay , twenty-second Earl of Errol , who was shot to death in Kenya , in White Mischief ; Christine Keeler , John Profumo and Stephen Ward in Scandal . |
| 29 | A number of concerned people have contacted me over the past few weeks over my absence from the pages of Shooting Gallery . |
| 30 | The girl whom he was to have married vanishes from the pages of history and we do not even know her name . |