Example sentences of "a [noun] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is misleading to think of the Central Wales Line as having developed originally as a route from NW England to S Wales . |
| 2 | Even more decisively , it had been his message to monks or incipient monks who saw a duty in saving , as it might be , a sister from enslavement , or a call to take action in the world to prevent some evil . |
| 3 | The commonest is the routine sample of liquid drawn in a bucket from discharge or watercourse , transferred to storage jars and removed to the laboratory for analysis at the end of the day . |
| 4 | The succession from Bevan to Michael Foot ( Nye 's biographer and Neil 's patron ) to Kinnock may be seen as a progress from genius to talent to mediocrity . |
| 5 | Whether you are designing a kitchen from scratch or updating an old one you must think in terms of priorities , define your most pressing needs , and start from there . |
| 6 | This is a unique opportunity to contribute to building a function from scratch into a high-quality , effective clinical research operation . |
| 7 | Neither Owen nor Dewey Clarridge , the chief CIA man assigned to the contras , spoke Spanish ; North knew a bit from school . |
| 8 | I settled in pretty quickly , though suffering a bit from culture shock and more from the realisation that I was semi-illiterate in the Thai language : I had the ability to communicate verbally but at a child 's level and almost no ability to read . |
| 9 | Lavender again is good for headaches and it 's good if you ca n't sleep or you suffer a bit from insomnia . |
| 10 | ‘ It was before I came here , but I heard a bit from Bee Moore … |
| 11 | Tico , a winner from trap two last time ( 30.88 ) , wears the blue sheet again and it promises to be an exciting buckle between the pair . |
| 12 | If not really bad , certain conformational faults need not bar a mare from breeding but it is important to be aware of them in order to make sure the stallion you choose is strong in the areas where the mare is weak . |
| 13 | A Cleveland ( Ohio ) longitudinal study of a group of families of all social classes ( Dingle et al , 1964 ) , for instance showed that frequency in infectious gastroenteritis more than doubled with a rise from family size three to eight ( from .97 to 2.11 per person per year ) . |
| 14 | I take as typical of my difficulty a sentence from item six in your summary of your campaign : ‘ The need for the silent majority to assert itself in order that politicians and judges fully understand the true feelings of the public . ’ |
| 15 | Students are taught , for instance , to ‘ read ’ in a different way from that of everyday practice : rather than reading a text from beginning to end in the sequence in which the publisher has ordered it , they are urged to select what they want for particular purposes from different parts of the text , using the contents page , index , chapter headings etc. and moving backwards and forwards within that text and to other texts . |
| 16 | On one occasion when our boys were returning in the basket lift , which was the only way of reaching the top platform of a rig from sea level , the crane driver had temporarily suspended out crew a few inches above the water in mock punishment for their temerity in fining him . |
| 17 | There was a response from Government . |
| 18 | On July 8 he was quoted in Berne as saying that he was still awaiting a response from opposition groups . |
| 19 | I had 2 letters ( one about taking some more apparatus sessions ) and a cheque from Nan , so must get a reply off to her . |
| 20 | A decline of the sculptor 's reputation derived not only from the political discredit into which the regimes of the years before 1914 had fallen , but also from a distaste for allegory , and a revulsion from naturalist sculpture ( which the young Brancusi expressed forcefully as a dislike for ‘ beefsteak ’ ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Over the past twenty years or so ’ , he announced in a Daily Express front-page splash , ‘ there has been a revulsion from authority and discipline … |
| 22 | There is a kind of confidence , typified in the prayer to Christ the source of sweet honey-cells of devotion , which is at odds with the stark mood provoked by a revulsion from sin in the whole piece and which is very different from the whole thrust of the short version : The profound realisation of Jesus as a source of grace at the heart of this passage in the long version colours the meditator 's longing for it in the other expanded meditations that open out of this sequence of prayers . |
| 23 | that 's what I said , so that come like a prayer from heaven it did |
| 24 | For some , the spur to going abroad seems more of a push from frustration at bureaucratic regulations at home than a pull from market opportunity . |
| 25 | For example , a sufferer from alcoholism who still used sleeping tablets , a sufferer from any of the eating disorders who is not physically abstinent from sugar and white flour , a sufferer from workaholism who exchanges work for physical exercise in similar quantities and a sufferer from the family disease who still searches incessantly for treatment or other solutions to the problems of the primary sufferer rather than accept his or her own powerlessness over the lives of other people and accept the need for personal recovery , are all still in the active phase of the disease even if they are regularly attending meetings of an appropriate Anonymous Fellowship . |
| 26 | A sufferer from alcoholism given any one of these cross-addictive sub-stances will tend to revert to using his primary drug of choice , alcohol . |
| 27 | A sufferer from alcoholism may have no recollection of his or her behaviour the night before , nor of how he or she got home . |
| 28 | During this time of testing , a sufferer from alcoholism mat say that he or she can not be alcoholic because he or she does not drink in the mornings or is still in regular employment or still has a home and family or perhaps only drinks wine and beer but never spirits or only drinks at the weekends . |
| 29 | For example , a sufferer from alcoholism who still used sleeping tablets , a sufferer from any of the eating disorders who is not physically abstinent from sugar and white flour , a sufferer from workaholism who exchanges work for physical exercise in similar quantities and a sufferer from the family disease who still searches incessantly for treatment or other solutions to the problems of the primary sufferer rather than accept his or her own powerlessness over the lives of other people and accept the need for personal recovery , are all still in the active phase of the disease even if they are regularly attending meetings of an appropriate Anonymous Fellowship . |
| 30 | For example , giving Antabuse to a sufferer from Alcoholism , Methadone or Naltrexone to a sufferer from Heroin addiction , anti-depressants or tranquillisers to sufferers from eating disorders or to sufferers from the family disease or other addictions or giving behaviour therapy or aversion therapy or electro-convulsive therapy to anyone suffering from addictive disease is not only most probably inappropriate but cruel as well . |