Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police said the arrests came after a tip-off from a member of the public . |
| 2 | This is just next door to his old address at No 76 , where he managed to evade a High Court Deputy Tipstaff last week after a tip-off from the landlord , apparently by climbing through a back window and shinning down a drainpipe . |
| 3 | One Tory rebel , Michael Carttiss , who caved in after a plea from the Prime Minister himself , candidly admitted : ‘ It would have been the end of John Major . |
| 4 | This is a far cry from the procedures under the Police Act 1964 , where mutual aid may be provided by one force to another , but only after a request from the latter . |
| 5 | In the following year , American marines landed in the Lebanon after a request from the Lebanese President , whose authority was threatened by an internal struggle between Moslems and Christians . |
| 6 | The government had originally planned to launch the review in June , but it backed down after a request from the Gujarat state government , which supports the huge Sardar Sarovar irrigation project of which the Narmada dam forms a part . |
| 7 | UEFA also agreed to put back the forthcoming tie 24 hours after a request from the Blues who were concerned about the damage live TV would inflict on gate receipts . |
| 8 | Mr Doherty , also a patient at Gartnavel Royal , died after a fall from the Erskine Bridge . |
| 9 | Though BP joined the Business Leaders ' Forum ( the international network of chief executives organised by BITCI ) after a call from the Prince of Wales , it admits its support is not purely philanthropic . |
| 10 | Having fallen sharply on Thursday , Lightship , the financial services group formerly known as Harvey & Thompson , recovered 7 to 73p after a statement from the company saying it knew of ‘ no justification ’ for the share price fall . |
| 11 | It was revived in 1948 and the present law emerged in 1964 after a report from a Congressional Commission and Advisory Committee on International Rules of Judicial Procedure . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , I 'm so sick , ’ came a wail after a moment from the other side of the door . |
| 13 | Peter Moran , one of five Limavady United players in the Irish side , scored Ireland 's equaliser two minutes later with a fine glancing header after a cross from the left from Linfield Swifts ' Mark Anderson . |
| 14 | BRIGHTON Mark Steel is a comic who should be returned to at irregular intervals : see him too often ( and he is all over London ) and you tire of his south London patter , but go back to his schoolroom lesson after a break from the circuit , or see him off his home patch and you 'll enjoy an exercise bookful of character face-pulling , energetic storytelling and witty , like-it-is observations . |
| 15 | After a denial from the Barclay brothers and from Charterhouse , the story was dismissed . |
| 16 | But Gravesham Council planning officers arrived with their tape measures after a complaint from a neighbour . |
| 17 | Several years later , after a recommendation from the World Wildlife Fund , the Government established part of the Indus river in the Sind Province as a dolphin reserve , where 400 of the 500 remaining dolphins are reasonably well protected . |
| 18 | The number of safety advisers working in the field in SWWA 's region was reduced from six to two after a visit from the government 's ‘ flying accountants ’ , brought in to see that the Authority met its ‘ performance aims ’ after financial cuts in 1980 . |
| 19 | There are several in Winchester , mostly mediaeval bishops whose stone effigies look like undernourished third-world corpses after a visit from the vultures . |
| 20 | The discredited Balliol was eventually released from his comfortable English captivity after an appeal from the Pope , and passed the rest of his days on his ancestral estate at Bailleul in France . |
| 21 | The proposal was widely criticized and on Nov. 19 a Miami District Court judge granted a temporary injunction forbidding further repatriations after an appeal from the Haitian Refugee Center in Miami . |
| 22 | An Argentine judge ordered work in the area , the second most important penguin sanctuary in South America , to be suspended following a petition from a Buenos Aires animal rights activist , supported by the World Wide Fund for Nature . |
| 23 | Currently the course covers PostScript as the de facto standard for page description languages , and introduces ODA and SGML as examples of standards for structured documents and as a vehicle for illustrating how to derive multiple views of a document from a single logical description . |
| 24 | Nikola ( Figure 4.3 ) is a straightforward case of a transfer from the first year of one degree course direct into the second year of another . |
| 25 | Jimmy Phillips gave Middlesbrough brief hope of a revival from the penalty spot two minutes later after Mike Hooper hauled down John Hendrie , but Steve McManaman restored respectability to the scoreline when he turned home Liverpool 's third on the stroke of half time from Don Hutchison 's raking pass . |
| 26 | The flight right through France down to Geneva , over the Alps down to Genoa or Turin , was something of a rest from the normal German targets . |
| 27 | The derivation of a sample from the Moon poses staggering dynamic problems . |
| 28 | The engines were developed by a commercial company with the backing of a $700,000 from the California Energy Commission . |
| 29 | It confirms our impression of a girl from a well-to-do background . |
| 30 | It was a macabre sight , strongly reminiscent of a scene from a TV western — or at least it would have been . |