Example sentences of "[noun] from [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier Lewin and Nnah , 21 , took a high-powered Mazda MX3 sports car from outside a Liverpool hotel to ‘ show off ’ . |
| 2 | No , Gilberto would n't have had any problems stealing an unguarded car from outside a cemetery . |
| 3 | We can also recognise a letter , character or figure from just a part of the whole , or even a collection of dots that approximate what the letter should look like . |
| 4 | ‘ They 've got great stadiums , good rugby organisations and very astute administrators from both a corporate and organisations point of view . |
| 5 | Moreover , few families can have such secure or cheap fuel supplies today as those who can obtain their annual needs from only a few days work spent cutting , drying , hauling and stacking peat . |
| 6 | That seems a far cry from just a few years ago when the only diesels were lorries , buses and the occasional taxi . |
| 7 | The slope is found from and the intercept from Once a and b are known then the value of y corresponding to every integer value x lying between xmin and xmax is calculated from the equation of the line and a dot is printed at the point x , y . |
| 8 | In this way it has been shown , for example , that the muscles of the newt always come from a particular region of the early embryo , and the eye from quite a different region , and the gut from another . |
| 9 | Whether you are perceiving the planet from only a few feet up or from around the lofty peaks of mountains and hillsides , excellent sight ( or sonar ) is almost a prerequisite : there are hosts of obstacles to circumnavigate and far distances to discern if you travel by air ! |
| 10 | Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received . |
| 11 | Now a polymer represents a different state of affairs from either a crystal or a gas . |
| 12 | Reading around for background to Shakespeare is valuable , and you ca n't do better than begin with the Harley Granville Barker 's Prefaces to Shakespeare , which analyse the plays from both a scholarly and dramatic angle , without being ponderously academic . |
| 13 | Fuji Xerox Co Ltd plans to increase imports of parts to take advantage of the high yen in order to cut domestic production costs , Reuter reports from Tokyo : in the long term , it plans to raise the ratio to 30% from just a few per cent but the company is not rushing to achieve this as its export ratio of total products is low at around 20% and the high value of the yen is not severely damaging business . |
| 14 | For the moment , we repeat that there are two plausible stories to tell , one from outside about the human part of the natural world and the other from inside a separate social realm . |
| 15 | They offer simultaneous operation of a local network connection and two serial ports plus a separate parallel port for network printing , and xEasy software to help manage installation , operation , and remote administration of the X-station ; xEasy encompasses a range of X-station-specific processes , scripts and software features designed to enhance the installation , operation and maintenance of X-Windows-based terminals from both a system administrator 's and a user 's viewpoints . |
| 16 | But a Home Office pathologist said Grant had been shot in the back of the head from just a few inches . |
| 17 | If up to now you have thought of crime fiction in the traditional way , with a detective hero , with an attention-grabbing murder , you have now got to look on the art from quite a different angle . |
| 18 | Thieves also struck in Clarence Avenue earlier this week when they stole a boy 's Emmelle leopard mountain bike from outside a house on Tuesday evening . |
| 19 | Even so , a rise in the proportion of appliance sales on hire purchase from only a tenth on nationalisation to nearly a half ten years later enabled them to retain their share in the growing retail market for electrical goods at about the 25 per cent level which they inherited on nationalisation . |
| 20 | He can expect solid support from about a third of the 1,000 delegates , with a third belonging to the camp of malcontent communists and nationalists , and about a third undecided . |
| 21 | Heads it 's Spring … a lovely display of Easter bonnets from just a few of the 25 children who took part in a magnificent parade at the Sally Ann Playgroup , Amery Street , Alton on Friday morning . |
| 22 | From a height of 90 metres one looks down on an emerging pattern of roads , lakes and gardens , which will shortly be lined with pavilions from over a hundred countries . |
| 23 | Since one usually needs to measure emission from only a small area of the viewing field rather than the whole field , a fibre-optic probe inserted in the light path would probably be the best method , with the light-pipe output directed on to a highly sensitive photoelectric cell or photomultiplier , whose output would also have to be calibrated against some standard phosphor . |
| 24 | It was said that he could estimate the structure of the whole creature from just a single bone . |
| 25 | By making products sound as if they are good for the environment , manufacturers can ‘ attract extra sales from around a third of the population ’ . |
| 26 | And another instance of that was well this was not so long ago when we had a loan of a barge from just a mini landing craft sort of thing where the front of it folded down . |
| 27 | A man stole a £5,500 caravan from outside a vets ' practice for his homeless girlfriend York Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 28 | I once defended a small village on Trieste from over a hundred of these things . |
| 29 | Later it may drop on prey from above a game trail . |
| 30 | No doubt from only a few yards out of the clearing , to get a straight view . |