Example sentences of "a [noun sg] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1790s Britain was still primarily an agricultural country ; it still appears to be so in the novels of Jane Austen twenty years later , and , after all , even today one could choose a route from East Anglia to Cornwall which would give a foreigner this impression . |
| 2 | There is also a route from Newcastle through Carlisle to Stranraer and/or Glasgow via Kilmarnock , which results from the combination of previously separate services . |
| 3 | Their task … to find a route from Manaus to Georgetown … a distance of a thousand miles … |
| 4 | However , it is misleading to think of the Central Wales Line as having developed originally as a route from NW England to S Wales . |
| 5 | Tour one will operate a route from Leicester to Derby , Nottingham and back to Leicester . |
| 6 | Were actually are making a profit we said at the beginning we do get a payment from petticoats so I do n't see that arrangement actually changing but it suits the trust were not very good at running restaurant 's . . |
| 7 | B subsequently became an employee of Pergamon , and on the completion of his contract with Pergamon received a payment from MGN in two instalments . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Three watercolours depicting Kora-kora from Gebe , North Moluccas by Alphonse Pellion , a warrior from Gebe by Jaques , and a cuscus by A. Prevost were executed for the Louise de Saulces de Freycinet 1817 voyage of discovery and were subsequently published as illustrations to the official account Voyage autour du monde entrepris par ordre du Roi execute sur les corvettes de l'Uranie et la Physicienne ( Paris , 1824–44 ) . |
| 10 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Notations 2.6.2 ( i ) If unc is a function from A to B we emphasise this by writing unc ( ii ) Given ( a , b ) ε f the uniquely determined b is most frequently denoted by either f(a) or af . |
| 15 | This is a unique opportunity to contribute to building a function from scratch into a high-quality , effective clinical research operation . |
| 16 | Another way of handling indexicals is to think of the specification of the content of an utterance as a two stage affair : the " meaning " of an utterance is a function from contexts ( sets of indices ) to propositions , which are in turn functions from possible worlds to truth values ( Montague , 1970 ; Stalnaker , 1972 ) . |
| 17 | Or symbolically , if we let $ be the set of sentences in language L , C the set of possible contexts , P the set of propositions , and U the cartesian product of S x C — i.e. the set of possible combinations of members of S with members of C , and we let the corresponding lower case letters stand for elements or members of each of those sets ( i.e. s e S , c e C , p e P , u e U ) : ( 16 ) f(u) =p ( or:f ( s , c ) = p ) i.e. f is a function that assigns to utterances the propositions that express their full meaning in context Gazdar ( 1979a : 4-5 ) , on the other hand , wishes to capture the ways in which utterances change the context in which they are uttered ; he shows that Katz 's formulation is incompatible with that goal , and therefore suggests instead : ( 17 ) f(u) c ( or:f ( s , c ) c ) i.e. f is a function from utterances to contexts , namely the contexts brought about by each utterance ( or : f assigns to each sentence plus the context prior to its utterance , a second context caused by its utterance ) The idea here is that the shift from the context prior to an utterance to the context post utterance itself constitutes the communicational content of the utterance . |
| 18 | Let f : unc and let S be any non-empty subset of A. The subset unc is the subset of f and is a function from S to B. ( Informally fs is just f except that the action of f on elements of A lying outside S is ignored . ) |
| 19 | , Alfred ( 1839–1899 ) , painter , was born in Paris 30 October 1839 , into a family of Anglo-French descent , the younger son and second of four children of William Sisley , director of a firm manufacturing artificial flowers , and his wife and cousin Felicia Sell , daughter of a saddler from Lydd , Kent . |
| 20 | Neither Owen nor Dewey Clarridge , the chief CIA man assigned to the contras , spoke Spanish ; North knew a bit from school . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Lavender again is good for headaches and it 's good if you ca n't sleep or you suffer a bit from insomnia . |
| 23 | ‘ It was before I came here , but I heard a bit from Bee Moore … |
| 24 | Opening postponed and Act obtained for a branch from Chirbury to Minsterley to join with the Welshpool line , not constructed . |
| 25 | Woomph , went a cushion from Julian into the back of Charles 's neck . |
| 26 | Woomph , went a cushion from Damian into Charles 's face . |
| 27 | Father James Morrow , a campaigner from Braemar , emerged from the 50-minute hearing of his application by magistrates at Bingley , west Yorkshire , and said : ‘ It is up to me now to pursue the matter in the next court . ’ |
| 28 | Phil Bell ; and student Claire Taylor from Belfast 's Queens University Air Squadron had pulled off a textbook forced landing when the engine of their Bulldog quit at 800 feet , a Puma from Leuchars was summoned to recover the undamaged trainer . |
| 29 | A winner from Oxford 's Andy Melville , an opening goal for Swindon 's Brian Marwood and a thunderbolt from Hereford skipper , Derek Hall . |
| 30 | 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 . |