Example sentences of "from a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 His postcard was drawn from a bulging bagful of entries — nearly all of them correct — after the closing date .
2 The first is worth mentioning only because it gave him his debut in a major studio , for a United Artists production of Studs Lonigan , one more Dean-like character taken from a successful trilogy of novels by James T. Farrell .
3 HAE customers benefit from a wide selection of leaflets to help them get the best out of their hire equipment : the association provides more than 350 operating and safety leaflets on specific items , and over 200 leaflets giving general information .
4 ‘ Mayfest is about people , ’ he said , by way of explaining why a picture of man in a dinner jacket spouting out the letters MAYFEST had been chosen from a wide selection of designs submitted by eight agencies .
5 Where the information is available , it shows that each modern nation is descended from a wide diversity of peoples , leaving aside all those who have joined or left down the years .
6 The core programme is enhanced by a series of specialist talks and seminars where assumptions and judgements can be challenged and shared with managers from a wide range of countries .
7 As with his architectural assaults , he trawled for information from a wide range of experts in the environmental field , including the pressure group Friends of the Earth , whose director at that time was Jonathon Porritt .
8 The Whitehall study of British civil servants , which started in 1967 , showed a steep inverse association between social class ( assessed by grade of employment ) and mortality from a wide range of diseases .
9 Initially , in-depth personal interviews will be held with a sample of senior marketing executives from a wide range of industries .
10 In the second year , two production units are supported by units in the theory and practice of acting ( the ‘ Stanislavski ’ tradition and the ‘ Brecht ’ tradition ) , a skills-based Stage Management unit and a further unit chosen from a wide range of electives offered by the Faculty .
11 Nowadays however , we have a vast selection of devices , manufactured from a wide range of materials that assure the fishkeeper of total elimination of fishwaste and associated products from their aquarium or pond .
12 Students study three areas of Philosophy , chosen from a wide range of options .
13 On return to Edinburgh , courses are selected from a wide range of options .
14 In the third year , a basic core is presented , while in the fourth year , courses are chosen from a wide range of options , according to the student 's interests .
15 Students are required to take courses in Social Theory and in Methods of Social Research but thereafter they are free to choose from a wide range of options .
16 Much of these data , however , are also suitable for hypothesis-testing — indeed the data are of higher quality than those generally used in research studies because it is not usually practicable to ask academics from a wide range of areas to adopt uniform teaching , assessment and reporting practices solely to permit educational research to occur .
17 Representations from a wide range of Denominations and Missionaries in BMS were introduced .
18 The main tools of AI have been borrowed from a wide range of disciplines including linguistics , mathematics , psychology and cybernetics .
19 What studies did contribute to was its amendment , its clarification , its reinterpretation , its revision , its incorporation and almost replacement by other perspectives , in light of accumulating evidence from a wide range of studies .
20 The teams have similar operational policies , including an open referral system , and accept cases from a wide range of agencies .
21 During the spring and summer of this year the Chairman and members of the committee have invited presentations from a wide range of suppliers of financial services products and it is hoped in due course to publish both recommendations as to the type of financial services products members of the Bar should consider taking up and details of advantageous group insurance schemes .
22 Ravi Shankar 's score , drawing elements in from a wide range of sources , is both seductively lyrical and at times rhythmically complex .
23 By being able , as a PLC , to choose and manage a supply of funds from a wide range of sources , we could ensure we offer mortgage loans at very competitive rates and the flow should be better protected against sudden economic changes .
24 The need for data integration arises because many of the questions which scientists and social scientists investigate require data from a wide range of sources which are only reported on disparate spatial bases .
25 It 's the sort of solution popular within large organisations , where there 's a need to consolidate information from a wide range of sources ; Andersens , BP , Compaq and Microsoft are examples .
26 The course contains analysis and practice of advanced grammar points ; reading and discussion material selected from a wide range of sources , including 19th and 20th century literature ; and extensive vocabulary work , focusing on the appropriate use of idiomatic expressions and subtle differences in meaning .
27 The data base of the project is being constructed from a wide range of sources , including reports , documentation on the development of the Political Studies Association , and interviews with early members of the association .
28 Fourth , there was anxiety over the extent to which the Gulf states , whether formal belligerents or not , had been arming themselves with the most advanced weaponry available from a wide range of sources .
29 Pollution , however , comes from a wide range of sources other than industry , such as domestic refuse and sewage , farming , mining , transport exhaust fumes and electricity generation .
30 Six units to be taken from a wide range of choices , plus a dissertation .
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