Example sentences of "from [art] [noun sg] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But last Friday he was astonished to receive a letter from the council saying a liability order had been granted by the magistrates and demanding payment of the £60 , together with £15 court costs . |
| 2 | Whilst I was working for the council , someone came to ask and we had some new o new officer appointed and he was very worried about getting ca er p permission from the council to launch a sewer scheme that was going to cost a quarter of a million pounds , a very large amount in those days . |
| 3 | JCI played a major part in the early years of mining this precious metal and its group metals , but the technology for extraction of PGM 's from the ore became a considerable problem for all the mining companies . |
| 4 | Common ‘ witticisms ’ range from the threat to send a student back to the ‘ chocolate factory ’ to be ‘ remade ’ to remarks about ‘ jungle-like behaviour ’ , ‘ Go back to the trees ’ , or ‘ Stop laughing like monkeys ’ . |
| 5 | The faint light from the dashboard caught a gold filigree ear-ring spelling ‘ Ivy ’ in flowing script . |
| 6 | The eye grows out from the stem to become a bud . |
| 7 | And for the mass of the petty bourgeoisie , which had from the beginning provided a backbone of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ , the period when , materially , the Third Reich turned to unmitigated disaster only seems to have set in from 1942 onwards . |
| 8 | Up from the river chugs a little blue train . |
| 9 | Not far from the river stood a statue to General Humbert , with Irish words underneath , and verses from a ballad . |
| 10 | The Energy Secretary , Mr John Wakeham , was obliged last month to remove nuclear power from the privatisationand announce a moratorium on the building of new power stations . |
| 11 | Leaky windows can be resealed by running a bead of silicone rubber — clear if possible — around the edges , pushing the window away from the structure to force a little into the gap if you can . |
| 12 | Cells were examined using a Biorad MRC 600 scanning confocal microscope equipped with an argon-xenon laser and printed from the computer using a Mitsubishi colour video copy processor . |
| 13 | Its grip is in the form of an eagle 's head with the beak turned down , and from the top springs a curved piece of solid bronze , in the shape of a Minerva head and bust . |
| 14 | I suppose I thought she 'd either be fantastically frosty and sit on one of those little gilt chairs with a fancy gilt mirror behind her , or else be quite fat and red-faced and come in from the stove holding a wooden spoon and give me a huge embrace smelling of garlic and stockpot . |
| 15 | Dangling from the hook came a length of rope and a piece of leather larger than a dog collar , large enough , indeed , to have fitted a goat . |
| 16 | Anyone can benefit from the Opportunity to work a programme that focuses upon honesty , open-mindedness and willingness and whose goal is the attainment of spirituality . |
| 17 | The truckloads of returned prisoners drove past the office and the girls draped the banner between two windows and hung from the window ringing a handbell so that the men would look up and see the banner and hear them cheering . |
| 18 | The view from the window featured a building site and a large collection of assorted earth-moving machinery and cranes , all displayed simultaneously . |
| 19 | The man from the newspaper wore a black trilby hat and a long black overcoat . |
| 20 | One of Beecher 's favourite oratorical gimmicks , which he used to great effect in England , was to lean down from the dais to tell a humorous story but only audible to the front row . |
| 21 | The potential for malignant transformation at the site of implantation as a result of chronic irritation from the metal remains a theoretical problem worthy of consideration . |
| 22 | A container hung from the belt containing a clue of garn ( ball of wool ) . |
| 23 | He also stressed that all valuables , including cash , ancient guns and swords , had been removed from the fort following a major burglary two years ago . |
| 24 | Bachert 's short survey of collection patterns demonstrates — perhaps unconsciously — a means of moving away from the tendency to create a monolithic interpretation of the ‘ artist and her work ’ . |
| 25 | The light from the bathroom leaves a rectangle of sense on the floor , but we like being in shadow . |
| 26 | The Foreign Office said last night that most of the people in the camps were fishermen and farmers from the north seeking a better life . |
| 27 | Sounds came from inside and from the darkness appeared a man holding a Kalashnikov rifle and wearing a Palestinian scarf . |
| 28 | The word ‘ sperm ’ is derived from the Greek meaning a ‘ seed ’ , and reflects the Aristotelian idea that the male semen ( the latter word being derived from the Latin word for ‘ seed , ’ ) contains the formative element which grows and develops inside the mother 's womb . |
| 29 | In that environment , the idea of seeking ‘ freedom ’ from the state had a real and concrete point of reference . |
| 30 | From the kitchen came a high whistle . |