Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb base] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some manufacturers have overcome the latter factor by placing the batteries in a compartment separate from the control box ( eg Fisher 1266-X and C-Scope CS4ZX ) . |
| 2 | A group appear from the house , a motley collection like a troupe of clowns . |
| 3 | Not only would such a concept detract from the value of human existence , I feel it would also be extremely conceited of us to think that we are all there is . |
| 4 | The airfield 's codename was " Vino " and was near Epernay , the only thing I can remember of that occasion was that we got lost and had to ask for a radio steer from the ground station , We were anxious to get back there because the next evening Gracie Fields was performing for the troops in a local theatre , Of the visit to Prague ( which we never found ) . |
| 5 | The famous Chapter 5 of the first book , which deals with the transformation of labour from a stage where it is a ‘ part of life ’ to a stage under capitalism when it takes on the imaginary form of a thing separate from the labourer , when it can be bought and sold , is worked out in Formen , in the discussion of tribal , oriental , and ancient societies which it contains . |
| 6 | This was a third-trimester bleed from the placenta that was still positioned dangerously low in the womb , partially blocking the cervix , and Belinda knew it was potentially serious . |
| 7 | In Wimsatt 's definition irony is a ‘ cognitive principle which shades off through paradox into the general principle of metaphor ’ ( Wimsatt and Brooks 1957 : 747 ) ; according to Brooks , it is the ‘ most general term that we have for the kind of qualification which the various elements in a context receive from the context ’ ( Brooks 1949 : 191 ) . |
| 8 | It is in our power to develop our love and burnish it , for the image of love can have an existence separate from the beloved . |