Example sentences of "from a [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her dark head on one of the velvet cushions , Luce watched him move the huge bowl of flowers to a side-table , before producing some kindling and logs from a metal-bound oak chest . |
| 2 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper Julian Thompson , Chairman of Sotheby 's Far East operation , explained that the present scheme evolved from a successful charity sale held in Bombay in 1989 . |
| 3 | Worker ants sweep a rich flow of food from a wide catchment area into a central hoard which is a sitting target for freeloaders . |
| 4 | Barbados has benefited for a number of years from a wide treaty network , including treaties with the UK , the US and Canada . |
| 5 | As a general rule of thumb , darker meats and large joints benefit from a lower microwave power level than full . |
| 6 | Jan Fischer produced a transporter that might well have come from a professional machine shop . |
| 7 | We saw probably a total of 24 different young men from a professional model agency . |
| 8 | Benefit from a professional repair service previously only available to Granada/Visionhire customers |
| 9 | He retired at Christmas , 1990 , as parish priest of St Ignatius , Ossett , suffering from a chronic chest complaint . |
| 10 | From when he was a young man , Dr Carrington had suffered from a chronic lung illness . |
| 11 | As a result of over investment in the Japanese aphrodisiac market , the Maharajah fell upon hard times and suffered from a chronic liquidity crisis . |
| 12 | The next section examines evidence drawn from a three-year monitoring study carried out by the author and colleagues in the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts . |
| 13 | Videos worth around forty thousand pounds were seized from a mobile home rental business and a number of vehicles . |
| 14 | At one time tickets were issued at Wharf , Pendre and Abergynolwyn , and perhaps other stations as well , but in later years tickets were issued from a mobile booking office in the guard 's van . |
| 15 | BRITISH children are believed to be among 160 being held in care today after being rescued from a religious sex cult in Argentina . |
| 16 | The latter group was in fact Jack 's choir who were from a religious boarding school . |
| 17 | From a Religious News Service report which was printed in Lutheran World Information . |
| 18 | Mr Raper is believed to be in Switzerland , in hiding from a two-year jail sentence imposed for moving assets out of Britain . |
| 19 | A decree issued by the RCC on Feb. 13 warned that anyone violating fuel restrictions would face penalties ranging from a two-year prison sentence to fines of up to 3,000 dinars ( US$900 ) . |
| 20 | The ARR did not require the reporting accountant to report on controlled trust accounts , although Part II of the SAR contained rules determining how a solicitor should deal with the movement of controlled trust money , ie the circumstances in which money could be paid in or withdrawn from a controlled trust account , and the records that had to be kept . |
| 21 | Eighty-eight codices of extraordinary quality are on show until 10 January , ranging from a sixth-century codex purpureus to an Antiphonal belonging to the Medici pope Clement VII . |
| 22 | Traditional telecommunication links suffer from a restricted band width which means they are like very narrow pipes capable of carrying only limited supplies of water , even pumped at the highest possible pressures . |
| 23 | The most devastating critique of the proposal to create incentives to efficient behaviour from a modified profit system and ‘ deferred prizes ’ comes from Wade . |
| 24 | The story was that the party had landed to remove scrap metal from a former whaling station but their action seemed eccentric rather than threatening . |
| 25 | The Senate ethics committee rebuked Senator Mark Hatfield ( Rep. , Oregon ) on Aug. 12 for " improper conduct " in accepting and failing to disclose gifts and travel expenses from a former university president who had sought Hatfield 's assistance support in gaining a government grant . |
| 26 | Scientists from the National Rivers Authority are investigating possible leakage from a former nerve gas factory following the deaths of 10 dolphins , scores of sea birds and a giant leatherback turtle between Portreath and Newquay this year . |
| 27 | Perhaps the most fitting tribute to Billy Turner came from a former Palace Manager , Jack Tresadern . |
| 28 | But the nearest they came to scoring was in the forty third minute ; Neil Keller in the Rayners Lane goal saving brilliantly from a fifteen yard volley from Martin Shepherd . |
| 29 | MORE than 200 young dancers are expected to join a protest outside the BBC Television Centre in west London on Sunday after being dropped from a major TV tribute to the Queen . |
| 30 | The report also noted that levels of cover under insurance and compensation arrangements are well short of the costs arising from a major pollution incident . |