Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anna 's blue eyes seemed to see too much , and Merrill had already had enough of that discomfiting shrewdness from Luke . |
| 2 | ‘ Gallagher made Luke confess in front of about twenty witnesses — that bloody rabble from the pub and the cottages . ’ |
| 3 | Do you swallow that bloody smoke from them buggers . |
| 4 | He would drag that bloody friar from his stars and they would go back to the Springall mansion and this time demand answers to their questions . |
| 5 | Du n no what that is , I mean oh we have n't got a clue , he 's not got a clue on car , do n't know where he 's got that bloody lot from , so besides other things that want checking for MOT , I think he wants them to check |
| 6 | Other countries use bells to summon people to church but only the English go in for that cascading sound from a ring of six or more bells — ‘ change ringing ’ . |
| 7 | In her study of young unemployed men and women of Asian descent , Brah ( 1986 ) indicates that they received that emotional support from various numbers of adult relatives . |
| 8 | We reported recently that colonic mucosa from patients with ulcerative colitis produce high values of platelet activating factor ( PAF ) , a potent proinflammatory lipid mediator . |
| 9 | This does not mean that total abstinence from all potentially mood-altering substances and behaviours is necessary before one can even begin to experience any recovery . |
| 10 | The electors to the philosophy chair might also recall , as symptomatic of his inclinations , that striking formula from his inaugural lecture : " all philological activity should be embraced and defined by a philosophical outlook " . |
| 11 | The first time I murdered it was because of rabbits meeting a fiery death , and meeting that fiery death from the nozzle of a Flame-thrower virtually identical to the one I had used to exact my revenge on the warren . |
| 12 | A record of that momentous adventure from launch to recovery . |
| 13 | Later , people spend hours reconstructing that brutal transition from the nowhere to the everywhere , when nature can destroy you . |
| 14 | Also whilst Women 's Studies , particularly in Higher Education , appears to have achieved a certain respectability and is flourishing , Black Studies is on the decline and receives little public support from those concerned about racism . |
| 15 | Whether as a direct result of this or not , the treatment of the antislavery agent and later rhetorician of radicalism , George Thompson , was noticeably cool ; he was eloquent but lacked education and was thus in ‘ entire ignorance of the tone of that high society from which the great bulk of our parliamentary men are taken ’ . |
| 16 | There is little exciting news from German publishers on the whole ; no experiments or adventures are in sight . |
| 17 | Another cause is that complete regions of DNA are transposed from one part of the molecule to another , or that foreign DNA from a virus has been inserted . |
| 18 | ‘ Where 's 'er got that old nag from ? |
| 19 | It will be recognising that social workers need to spend time on practice placements abroad , and that social workers from other countries need to come here . |
| 20 | ‘ The smiling meadows of Worcestershire and the noble line of the Malvern hills that I love so dearly ’ , he wrote to a member of that titled family from the swamplands of British Guiana in January 1933 , missing and yearning for a home he knew could never be his . |
| 21 | I ca n't help wondering , too , if that weekly maggot-eater from Darnall is still living . |
| 22 | Where 's that damp coming from ? ’ |
| 23 | Tables II and III show the absolute and percentage values respectively of each phospholipid class from the gastric mucosa of the three groups studied ( controls , patients with duodenal ulcer , and patients with gastritis ) . |
| 24 | It is not surprising , therefore , that cultural influences from Italy have , until comparatively recently , had a greater effect than have those emanating from the Balkans . |
| 25 | He thought , I know what my idea of heaven would be , if by heaven we mean a place of bliss in which to pass eternity : a sanctuary where one might chain-smoke without impairment of breathing , destruction of the lungs or damage to the heart , light each fresh cigarette from the glowing butt of its predecessor , and drink ice-free but hundred-proof chilled vodka laced with two drops of angostura and a gill of newly opened Perrier endlessly , with increasing euphoria until a peak of joy and ease was reached but without any sub-sequent nausea or pain or dehydration or oblivion … |
| 26 | Networking , I said , is what you do in the corridor outside the plenary session of the annual conference with that interesting chap from Stanford working on a similar problem . |
| 27 | And keep that lanky rich-bitch from your thoughts . |
| 28 | Aristotle , who lived during the 4th century BC , said that there was a fundamental ‘ living principle ’ — or ‘ life force ’ — that distinguished living from nonliving material . |
| 29 | In them the one certain thing about man is his mortality , and this temporal restriction was the decisive factor that distinguished men from gods . |
| 30 | It was not the overlap timing in general , but the timing of resource commitment that distinguished Japanese from US projects . |