Example sentences of "a [noun sg] be [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each time a bucket is passed from hand to hand , a little water is spilt . |
| 2 | When the ruling Emperor dies a successor is chosen from amongst the counts . |
| 3 | The dry store at Torness , on which a decision is awaited from the Secretary of State for Scotland , should also help reduce costs . |
| 4 | This is the author 's own statement of intent in the Introduction : Ryan sees the essence of fictionality as an act of " recentering " , whereby the world of reference of a text is shifted from the actual world to an alternative possible world , which functions as the actual world of the universe projected by the text ( Chapter 1 ) . |
| 5 | When a member of a board is disqualified from voting in a particular application , he should vacate his scat during the hearing : R. v. London County Council [ 1892 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 6 | A response is awaited from Lothian Health Board regarding their possible involvement in distributing the packs . |
| 7 | League president Gordon McKeag said : ‘ A response was received from Barnet to confirm that they will be able to honour their commitments to the Football League and , for the moment , we will have to accept that . ’ |
| 8 | Sarah Hughes mentioned that a response was needed from the Union to Tim Mould 's paper on career development/equal opportunities . |
| 9 | It should be pointed out that if a beginner is suffering from any illness he should not practise this exercise until he is well , as the sudden rush of oxygen can be harmful . |
| 10 | On 31 March a cheque was received from A. Debtor in settlement of his account less an agreed discount of five per cent . |
| 11 | Exposure to a drug was taken from the date of its first prescription to date of death or to 31 December 1990 , whichever came first . |
| 12 | Deletion where a nucleotide is deleted from the DNA , resulting in an altered RNA ; an incorrect protein . |
| 13 | The silence was broken by the clip-clop of hooves as a horse was led from its stable at the far side of the courtyard by an Indian . |
| 14 | A seat 's missing from there . |
| 15 | Throughout the 1970s he was involved in trade union activities in opposition to the communist regime , and as a result was dismissed from several jobs . |
| 16 | A reply was received from D.M. McBain , the secretary of Baberton Golf Club stating , ‘ The litter which contributes to this unsightly area is discarded by residents and not members of the Golf Club . |
| 17 | Instead a reply was sent from the Department of the Environment who have the job of implementing existing Conservative policy . |
| 18 | The BBC 's attempt to record a guitar recital in the small parish church of St Helen , at Brant Broughton , in Lincolnshire , was interrupted by a sparrow 's chirruping from the eaves . |
| 19 | A wind was gusting from the sea , it clasped small stones and dust , and threw fistfuls at my head . |
| 20 | I do n't remember what I recited , but I do remember being acutely embarrassed on another occasion when people were telling anecdotes , and I recounted one about a soldier being saved from a court martial because he had heard a clock strike thirteen at midnight , and this fact had saved him from being found guilty of sleeping on duty . |
| 21 | Where a defendant is debarred from defending altogether or the whole of his defence is struck out , the plaintiff may have judgment entered for his claim and costs ( N 30 ) ( Ord 22 , r 5 ) . |
| 22 | On Wednesday a purse was snatched from the counter of a shop in Alton High Street . |
| 23 | At Main Road , Bicknacre , a wheel was stolen from the boot of a Ford Escort XR3 . |
| 24 | This is in part due to practice ; but there is also an influence of maturation , for if a chick is prevented from pecking at food during its second day , it will still be better at pecking on its third than on its first day ( Figure 3.5 ) but it will not be as accurate as it would have been if it had been allowed to practise . |
| 25 | Also last week a handbag was taken from a classroom at Andrew 's Endowed School in Holybourne . |
| 26 | Several officers set out when a car was stolen from Gloucester City centre when a pedestrian had his foot crushed by a police car , then another vehicle crashed into the stolen Rapier . |
| 27 | The question will arise : should a re-investigation be conducted from scratch , avoiding in the first instance the records and materials created by the primary investigation or , alternatively , should it be started as a review of the previous investigation 's record ? |
| 28 | There has been considerable debate about the origins of the glassware found in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries ; some are Roman survivals , and a proportion was imported from glass-houses in the Rhineland and northern Gaul . |
| 29 | When a child is excluded from the ‘ common entitlement ’ of the National Curriculum , failure to reach a certain level of attainment will often be both the immediate cause and the justification for exclusion . |
| 30 | Her own childhood was evidence enough of the emotional harm which can be wrought when a child is passed from one parental figure to another . |