Example sentences of "of [noun] from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Bailiffs of Dunwich v. Sterry , the plaintiffs had the right to wrecks at Dunwich and the defendant took a cask of whisky from a wreck before the plaintiffs could get it . |
| 2 | Ash and I levered our way through the press of people while I undid my jacket and struggled to extricate my half-bottle of whisky from a side pocket . |
| 3 | When he came home , he took a bottle of whisky from a cupboard and began to drink . |
| 4 | He fished out a bottle of whisky from a kit-bag , and cleaned two glasses on his towel . |
| 5 | It is widely known that there are harmful effects from inhalation of outfall from a lead works ; for children who ingest it by licking lead-painted toys ; and for families whose drinking water is supplied through lead pipes . |
| 6 | The underlying approach was still remarkably uncritical and very much a matter of assertion and appeal to reason , the message couched in fairly bland terms and over-reliant on a concept of progress from a philistine past . |
| 7 | In one study , the essence of secretions from a female 's armpit were smeared onto the upper lips of other females who , perhaps fortunately , were not told of the origin of the smears . |
| 8 | The first of SERA 's seminars for 1993 is planned for April at Napier University as an important step in launching a research network ( see below ) The Gender in Education Network currently being established hopes to draw on a wide range of expertise from a variety of institutions . |
| 9 | The system is supposed to be organized hierarchically , so that the properties of the information processing units , presumably single cells , at one stage are due to the convergence of inputs from a number of units at the previous level . |
| 10 | Magnus was either dragged out of sanctuary from a church on Egilsay or he voluntarily surrendered himself to his enemies . |
| 11 | The withdrawal of solicitors from a scheme can lead to increasingly unacceptable burdens on the rest , and a number of local schemes have collapsed or come near to collapse . |
| 12 | The fall of Pamplona from a detail on Charlemagne 's tomb at Aachen . |
| 13 | Like the development of the original version of Illustrator from a font creation tool , Aldus 's recently introduced FreeHand product was developed by Altsys from a similar background , in this case their Fontographer product . |
| 14 | " Buy a pound of choucroûte from a village charcutier . |
| 15 | For example , to commemorate a wood anniversary , as well as using a wooden frame , you could make a collage with pressed pieces of bark from a variety of trees . |
| 16 | For example , they distinguished between a response of faith from a child seeking admission to the lord 's supper and a profession of faith . |
| 17 | The first , the response of faith from a child , would be identified in private consultation involving minister , parents and child . |
| 18 | Its instinct is to root itself in truth , to earth itself in reality , and it is this which distinguishes faith from fantasy , the object of faith from a figment of the imagination . |
| 19 | Lord Devlin , for example , could find ‘ nothing to differentiate a threat of a breach of contract from a threat of physical violence ’ . |
| 20 | As an example , in about 1500 Nicolas von Firmian , member of a noble Tyrolese family , commissioned a Book of Hours from a Flanders scriptorium . |
| 21 | Nynex Corp has reported first quarter net profit down 1.5% at $331.1m after a gain of $20m from a tax settlement , on turnover that rose 2.6% at $3,320m . |
| 22 | Do you have to give the capital sum to create this income , or is there ways of income from a set sum of money to the other person ? |
| 23 | This is no time for delicacy and posing , it is time for strong-arm stuff which would bring looks of admiration from a shark angler and cause a tiddler snatcher to cringe in fear . |
| 24 | The man then took an undisclosed amount of money from a metal box and escaped |
| 25 | I find it hard to think of any more splendid compensation than conferment of the power to transfer a very large sum of money from a newspaper which I dislike and despise to an organisation or institution which I love and admire . |
| 26 | Before a concert in Manchester on the ‘ Bizarro ’ tour , Gedge was holding court with about six fanzine editors while Solowka sat just outside the circle , counting out huge wads of money from a leather briefcase . |
| 27 | This will be so where he is reasonably satisfied that one of a group of two or more people , including yourself , must have committed an act of gross misconduct ( such as theft of money from a room to which only a very limited number of individuals had access ) , and yet he can not pinpoint the actual culprit , despite having examined all the evidence thoroughly . |
| 28 | This sharing of skills from a range of disciplines can not be anything but beneficial to children and their parents . |
| 29 | The total real value of exports from a selection of seven African countries rose three and half times from 1907 to 1928 , a further five times from 1928 to 1959 and a further four times from 1959 to 1982 . |
| 30 | ZEPPELINS of World War One by Wilbur Cross , tells of the little-known aerial battles that took place over England during the Great War , when Germany attempted to paralyse the British by dropping tons of bombs from a fleet of super-Zeppelins . |