Example sentences of "from a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It came with a job-lot of stuff I bought from a demolition firm , ’ Sam explained without stress . |
| 2 | The fittings here also looked as if they had been in service for a long time — probably salvaged from a demolition site . |
| 3 | Comments from a Lambeth spokesman bear out all PEN 's worst fears . |
| 4 | Holborn could be reached directly by the Central Line , she discovered from a wall plan . |
| 5 | A recorded voice crackled from a wall speaker . |
| 6 | From a wall niche , a pair of crystal decanters glittered like splinters of ice , and beneath them the object of my search , the pyx itself . |
| 7 | ‘ We had a photographer here , once , from a colour supplement , ’ Finn told Melanie one morning as she exclaimed over a fresh assortment of jumping-jacks ( soldiers in red jackets , each sporting a row of meticulously painted medals ) that they were too good for children . |
| 8 | The image on a colour screen and the output from a colour printer such as the Mitsubishi thermal engine used in both the Tektronix and QMS devices is acceptable but the system really comes into its own when used in conjunction with a high resolution typesetter such as the Linotronic 300 . |
| 9 | This interest only loan ties the profits from a unit trust savings plan to repay it at the end of term . |
| 10 | However , he got better results in his own TV film , The Ewok Adventure ( aka Caravan of Courage , 1984 ) , which he produced for Lucas , by shooting some action sequences with most of the picture area on the negative blocked off , then — working from a test strip just before the main action — matching the matte painting to the unexposed area and finally compositing action and painting together . |
| 11 | Thus , a microprogram may have a wait for a store read to be completed , or the result from a test function may not be available for the micro-instruction sequence until several micro-instruction cycles after the function was initiated . |
| 12 | Two days later , on 29 April , in a vain attempt to deflect speculation , MI5 , MI6 and NID persuaded the Admiralty to issue a seemingly casual press statement to the effect that Commander Crabb was missing , presumed dead , ‘ having failed to return from a test dive in connection with trials of certain underwater apparatus in Stokes Bay ’ . |
| 13 | Four trees were constructed from the same word lists , and candidate strings from a test sentence checked against them . |
| 14 | To counter this effect , a number of NLP systems were developed to extract information about terrorist incident from a test suite of 100 previously unseen news articles . |
| 15 | For the discussion today we are using examples that have come from a test version of the Derby files . |
| 16 | An aerosol from a test tube containing PCR products can contaminate gloves , hands , beards , benches , pipettes , and other equipment . |
| 17 | This is the rescue of Hesione from a sea monster . |
| 18 | From a village baker-woman of venerable age , he obtains an ancestral recipe for a cherry tart made on a basis of butter-enriched bread dough . |
| 19 | I 've come from a village background actually , and homelessness was n't a major problem in our villages because a lot of these sorts of characters somehow were adopted by the community . |
| 20 | " Buy a pound of choucroûte from a village charcutier . |
| 21 | FIREMEN spent nearly 40 minutes cutting a girl 's finger free from a park bench last night . |
| 22 | She copied her costume from a film poster in the bar-tabac in the village . |
| 23 | A few weeks after his escape from a film disaster , Dustin came shatteringly close to a disaster of a more fatal kind . |
| 24 | Coming in from a film background myself , and being film-minded , I found I was soon in demand to help out with film sequences — ultimately being asked to direct these sequences for Directors who did n't have much experience with the medium . ’ |
| 25 | ( vii ) After 5 — 10 min , drain off all excess fixative and wash the slide for 30 sec in 0.4% Photoflo from a wash bottle . |
| 26 | SHL Systemhouse Inc says it has reached agreement with the state-owned Canada Post Corp to negotiate a 10-year facilities management contract covering all of Canada Post 's data processing , telecommunications and system management needs , SHL said in a statement ; the value of the pact was not released ; it will provide full mainframe services from its data centres in Ottawa and Halifax and help Canada Post to accelerate the change from a mainframe environment to distributed client-server architecture . |
| 27 | Its products are aimed at companies wanting to move from a mainframe environment to mid-range open systems networks . |
| 28 | He joined us from a Derbyshire side near his native Tibshelf and made his Southern League debut at Bristol Rovers oh 7 December — and what a debut it turned out to be ! |
| 29 | It is important to distinguish the family assistance order from a supervision order . |
| 30 | SHAKMA ( 20/20 ) Roddy McDowall is a mild-mannered professor who accidentally makes a Frankenstein 's monster from a lab baboon . |