Example sentences of "from a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a poor start , at the 10th , where he missed for his three from a mere 18ins , he did not let the birdies escape at the 11th and 12th . |
| 2 | It can locate a person from a thousand metres up and at distances of three kilometres away . |
| 3 | Smoke from a thousand chimneys strains |
| 4 | She is in fact perfectly ordinary , with nothing to distinguish her from a thousand others . |
| 5 | Slopes which are visible from a thousand feet looking straight down from above are far too steep for an easy or safe landing . |
| 6 | The glow from a thousand points of light seems less reliable than that from the lightbulbs of a well-financed bureaucracy . |
| 7 | A writer called Thomas Carlyle described it in 1824 as ‘ A frightful scene … a dense cloud of pestilential smoke hangs over it forever … and at night the whole region becomes like a volcano spitting fire from a thousand tubes of brick . ’ |
| 8 | But how could the Templars , operating in the early twelfth century , have acquired such familiarity with a cryptographic system dating from a thousand years before , whose practitioners had apparently long vanished from the stage of history ? |
| 9 | From a thousand voices came back the response : ‘ He is risen indeed , Alleluia ! ’ |
| 10 | The pale cement-coloured walls were streaked with dirt like snot running from a thousand noses . |
| 11 | The final day of the hearing has included evidence from a Metropolitan Police forensic expert , who admitted ammunition found at the scene of the crime did n't match that found at Marsh 's parents ' home . |
| 12 | Thieves broke into two premises in Drury Lane , Braintree , and attempted to get into a third.They stole £1,000 in cash and cheques from a dry cleaners , and £130 cash from a hairdressers . |
| 13 | Peter McBride , who has two young children , was hit in the back as he sprinted away from a Scots Guards patrol in Belfast 's republican New Lodge area . |
| 14 | They offer a range from a Combined Studies Certificate in Horse Husbandry and Secretarial Skills to British Horse Society Instructor courses . |
| 15 | Earlier , McWalters barrister , Hugh Vass , stressed his client 's ‘ exemplary character ’ and pointed out that letters of character reference included one from a retired police sergeant . |
| 16 | She would in fact be taking over from a male contracts officer who would be leaving the company in four months ' time . |
| 17 | This database would be created by three S3 pupils from a General Studies class . |
| 18 | They want to turn Sberbank from a dowdy savings bank into a universal bank that can compete with the likes of Germany 's Deutsche Bank . |
| 19 | A headmaster who resigned from a private girls ' school is waiting to see if he 's to be prosecuted for allegedly importing child pornography . |
| 20 | Brent Chemicals is raising £15.6m from a one-for-four rights issue and is using the money to buy a 75.1 per cent share in the German metals finishing chemical supplier , Hebro , for £10.2m . |
| 21 | Now although equation ( 4.29 ) is derived from a rational expectations model , it does not look like one on the surface . |
| 22 | A year ago they would have replied in kind ; now from a hundred throats came the new cry : ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ with if anything even greater fervour . |
| 23 | To cut a long short story ( ‘ yes , please ’ from a hundred throats ! ) , just before 11.30pm , victory was ours . |
| 24 | Perspiration poured from a hundred brows — though it was snowing steadily outside — as an official declared : ‘ We ask you to tell the world about Petr Uhl . |
| 25 | From a hundred feet he raked it from side to side and back again . |
| 26 | Heseltine was able to announce that he already had assurances of support from a hundred MPs when he formally declared his intention to contest the leadership . |
| 27 | Miss Dunstable surveyed this evidence of — to her mind — most proper domestic industry , from a hundred yards away , on the footpath to her favourite walk , and made up her mind on the side of tolerance . |
| 28 | I presently see a figure approaching from a hundred yards off , up the middle of the street : a tall young woman , in a close white cap , and a short frock of lilac cotton , and coarse sack-cloth apron , and strong boots . |
| 29 | The sounds had come from a hundred yards east of the dell . |
| 30 | Crooked stove-pipe chimneys sprouted from a hundred roofs , and families could be seen talking animatedly in rows of caravan windows . |