Example sentences of "a [noun pl] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not the student returning but a flood of visitors — a lady coming to teach Hungarian to students about to visit Budapest , a social worker sorting out a student with severe memory loss whose phone is about to be cut off , a personnel officer from the Civic Offices to recruit potential employees from students on the scheme and one or two others who just seem to have wandered in off the streets . |
| 2 | ON SEPTEMBER 5 — a week before he was first seen on campus — Marc Lepine acquired a firearms certificate from the Sûreté du Quebec . |
| 3 | Two touchdown passes from quarterback Steve Bono — deputising for superstar Joe Montana — sparked a 49-ers come-back from 12-0 down . |
| 4 | I can , however , distinguish a sports car from a saloon . |
| 5 | Two more records , an LP from the avant garde group Psychic TV and a sound-effects disc from CBS , should soon be in the shops . |
| 6 | The John family were tenants for two generations around the turn of this century and ran a hauliers business from the farm , where they stabled thirty or more shire horses . |
| 7 | WHAT THE f— was that , asked Britain 's disoriented youth , as a bonkers DJ from New York made a record out of bits of other people 's tunes — splicing up Queen , Blondie and Chic , cross-referencing lyrics and scra-scra-scratching the needle back over the same stretch of vinyl . |
| 8 | By eschewing the obvious solution of a differential dividend payment , the group has had to fall back on the option of endowing the chemicals company with additional cash by way of a rights issue from Zeneca . |
| 9 | Other facilities include an LCD screen of traffic messages received via a communications antenna from radio stations and road-side beacons , plus a navigation system with road maps and traffic information . |
| 10 | The only described white man is a police man from Brooklyn who works with his black partner to try and extract information from a black boy , Imamu , after the daughter of the family he is living with goes missing . |
| 11 | The fact that a Marine battalion from Basilan and a police unit from Leyte were eventually used to confront the rebels , also suggested that the government lacked confidence in the reliability of the local units based in Mindanao . |
| 12 | It was decided to take the deceased to hospital by car , but on the way she collapsed and a police officer from a local police station made an emergency call urgently requesting an ambulance . |
| 13 | Protesting her innocence , she was taken in a police van from Heathrow to a police station , near the flat where Gemma was found alone after Ms Gibson left for the Costa del Sol with a male friend . |
| 14 | The caravan has a canopy , disabled access and has been painted to look like a police car from the back ! ’ |
| 15 | It means that the drug squad there can concentrate on harder drugs , and certainly I I pu , a recent interview with a a police inspector from Amsterdam said he would rather deal with , you know , he would rather have cannabis users than certainly alcohol , problems with alcohol . |
| 16 | Liverpool coroner Roy Barter heard a police statement from van driver Brian Antrobus that he pulled out to overtake and was unable to avoid the crash . |
| 17 | Appoint a systems manager from among the secretaries as a central point of contact between the firm and the supplier . |
| 18 | She has an arts degree from Sussex . |