Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police said the arrests came after a tip-off from a member of the public . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But Gravesham Council planning officers arrived with their tape measures after a complaint from a neighbour . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It confirms our impression of a girl from a well-to-do background . |
| 7 | It was a macabre sight , strongly reminiscent of a scene from a TV western — or at least it would have been . |
| 8 | If s320 is considered to apply , then , in the case of a buy-out from a private company , the requisite resolutions should not be difficult to obtain . |
| 9 | Where there is more than one policy in force covering the same Insured the loss shall be shared on the basis of independent liability e.g. a claim for the theft of a watch from a holiday villa following forcible and violent entry would be covered under a Travel policy and a Home policy . |
| 10 | It was decided in that case that a court of summary jurisdiction had no power under sections 91 to 96 of the Public Health Act 1875 ( now replaced by ss.92–99 of the Public Health Act 1936 ) , on proof of a nuisance from a sewage disposal works , constructed under that Act , to make an order for its abatement . |
| 11 | Peter Samuel of Kingfisher cited two different routes : a recommendation of a consultancy from a referral source , i.e. an executive who has come into contact with the headhunter on a previous assignment ; and by direct experience of a particular search firm from the user point of view from a Kingfisher executive who had employed that firm on a previous occasion , before he worked for Kingfisher . |
| 12 | Some weeks previously we had discovered from Louise Hay 's booklet , The Mental Causes for Physical Illness that fibroids represented the nursing of a hurt from a partner . |
| 13 | Changing the content of a problem from a stereotypically ‘ female ’ setting such as nutrition to a ‘ male ’ setting such as building can reverse the rank order of the success rates of groups of boys and girls . |
| 14 | One is of a man from a Bronze Age burial site at Kellow Law near Trimdon , the other of a woman from Binchester fort near Bishop Auckland . |
| 15 | On the strength of a prayer from a loving soul , she would suggest an unfortunate soul be reborn and given a chance to reform , rather than be doomed to purgatory . |
| 16 | The storming of the college gates locked by the authorities — had been accompanied by the death of a porter from a heart attack . |
| 17 | ’ … thus to take a case like that in question of a purchase from a retailer the reliance will be in general inferred from the fact that a buyer goes to the shop in confidence that the tradesman has selected his stock with skill and judgment . ’ |
| 18 | The move up to verse can be made for the exit of a person from a lower but also for the entrance of one from a higher rank . |
| 19 | And Ace had dropped to one knee , raised her arm , pulled back her sleeve and launched a sliver of a projectile from a harness strapped against her skin . |
| 20 | It was the result of a fall from a camel on her way to Mecca . |
| 21 | They also " took up the case of Archibald McGreggor , Beadle , of whom an account of a fall from a horse while attending a funeral , a surmise had gone abroad that he was in a state of intoxication " but they found that " nothing could be made a ground of process against him . " |
| 22 | That is , later transformations tend not to interfere with or undo the effects of earlier ones in the generation of a surface from a deep structure . |
| 23 | Not sure of the music policy , but the name sounds like the ingredients of a takeaway from a less salubrious Chinese . |
| 24 | Thus the criminal law defines only some types of avoidable killing as murder : it excludes , for example , deaths resulting from acts of negligence , such as employers ' failure to maintain safe working conditions in factories and mines ( Swartz 1975 ) ; or deaths resulting from an organization 's reluctance to maintain appropriate safety standards ( Erickson 1976 ) ; or deaths which result from governmental agencies ' giving environmental health risks a low priority ( Liazos 1972 ) ; or deaths resulting from drug manufacturers ' failure to conduct adequate research on new chemical compounds before embarking on aggressive marketing campaigns ( Silverman and Lee 1974 ) ; or deaths from a dangerous drug that was approved by health authorities on the strength of a bribe from a pharmaceutical company ( Braithwaite and Geis 1981 ) ; or deaths resulting from car manufacturers refusing to recall and repair thousands of known defective vehicles because they calculate that the costs of meeting civil damages will be less ( Swigert and Farrell 1981 ) ; and in most jurisdictions deaths resulting from drunken or reckless people driving cars with total indifference to the potential cost in terms of human lives are also excluded . |
| 25 | If there were space travellers on this planet , and it seemed that there were , their forward flight through the wastes took on a more logical purpose than the pursuance of a prophecy from a discod sleeve . |
| 26 | Last night , three young men were being hailed as heroes after a dramatic rescue of a newsagent from a flooded shop . |
| 27 | He eventually managed to secure some work in the form of a commission from a surgeon with the Dutch East India Company at Mannheim , an amateur flautist , to compose ‘ three short , simple concertos and a couple of quartets for the flute ’ ( 10 December 1777 ) , for which he was to be paid 200 gulden . |
| 28 | The image shown left reveals the nucleus , clearly visible , at the centre of a cell from a human cheek . |
| 29 | It is significant , too , that the Crofters Commission , even during the period when the scheme was viable within the curriculum , could only operate it because of a gift from a private individual . |
| 30 | Unable to visualize plans or even to judge the success of a design from a scale model , Ceauşescu demanded larger and larger mock-ups . |