Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] from [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The PBS , which came to power soon after its formation in 1985 , gained most of its support from the mainly Christian Kadazan ethnic group and from the Chinese ; however , the party also made some inroads into what had previously been USNO-controlled Moslem constituencies . |
| 2 | Princeton University Press is offering Fields of Vision : Landscape Imagery and National Identity in England and the United States by Stephen Daniels ( £32.25 , $45 ) , in which the author explores the ways in which artists from the later eighteenth century to the present day have used landscape as a way of embodying their national feelings , and how painters like Turner and Constable contributed to a ‘ myth ’ of national identity . |
| 3 | This gives the bird only about 10 seconds to make its escape from a wide bodied Boeing 747 . |
| 4 | The work which has , since 1986/87 , been achieved by Action for Governors ' Information and Training ( AGIT ) took its beginnings from a very wide range of agencies : both through its original base at the Community Education Development Centre in Coventry and through its non-governmental funding , it has been able to take account of differing interests and pressures . |
| 5 | New movements of student protest , militant trade unionism , and urban struggles drew their inspiration from a distinctively intellectual Western Marxism contained in the writings of Gramsci , the Frankfurt School and Sartre . |
| 6 | The judges of the Court of Appeal , by contrast , took the view that the proceedings before Barnett J. , being concerned only to review the order of Judge Cameron and having no independent existence of their own , took their character from the entirely criminal nature of that order . |
| 7 | Established as a Schallplatten Spezialhaus as early as 1927 , it derives its name from a once well-known record label on which the HMV catalogue was distributed in various European countries , with a huge manufacturing plant in Czechoslovakia . |
| 8 | It gets its name from the very large , sail-like , first dorsal fin . |
| 9 | Land varies in its quality from the highly fertile soils in equitable climates to the poor , thin or peaty soils in the uplands and hills . |
| 10 | But how can the advice ‘ Do this ’ or the decision ‘ I will do this ’ derive its authority from a purely factual claim , whether theological ( ‘ The creator of the universe commands this ’ ) , sociological ( ‘ It 's the law ’ , ‘ It 's the custom ’ ) or psychological ( ‘ I desire it ’ ) ? |
| 11 | She got no further , the words swallowed up as he bent and took her mouth in a punishing kiss that stole her breath from the very first touch of his lips . |
| 12 | The medical profession was about to be excluded by its ignorance from an almost universal practice . |
| 13 | Although Landry approaches her subject from a very different perspective than does this study , her work is certainly bold , thoughtful , and provocative . |
| 14 | Their financial status seems to have varied at different times in her life from the reasonably comfortable to the distinctly shabby genteel . |
| 15 | The Christian Bible with its progression from a wholly imaginary Garden of Eden to an authentically historical Roman Empire by way of a geographically very mixed up Land of Egypt and Land of Canaan is prototypical of a species of origin saga which can be encountered in all parts of the world among all kinds of people . |
| 16 | Sympathy began to flow their way from a normally sceptical press . |
| 17 | At any one time , the new and growing ( or even merely relocating ) parts of an economy will be selecting their locations from a highly complex geography . |
| 18 | They recruited their soldiers from the more adventurous or the more unruly on their route . |
| 19 | In a month when Harpers & Queen magazine devotes several pages to the lost art of manners , it may seem strange that parents should send their daughters from the most polite nation in the world to this newly graceless country . |
| 20 | McAllister looked at him from under the long dark eyelashes which had won his heart from the very first moment when he had seen them , on his sofa , adorning the unconscious girl he had carried in from the street . |
| 21 | Ford , distrusting such easy agreement , would seek support for his views from the more experienced officers of the battalion , but those officers , such as Peter d'Alembord , doubted whether the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers could truthfully be called a veteran battalion . |
| 22 | Churches : A Question of Conversion was produced with Derek Latham , an architect who specialises in historic buildings and runs his practice from a skilfully adapted church in Derby . |
| 23 | But he may have taken his reference from an even earlier source . |
| 24 | Stewart Wilson , Branch Manager , collected the award on behalf of his team from the well known TV personality and garden designer David Stevens , at the awards luncheon held at the Crest Hotel , Bristol . |
| 25 | While he continued to press the court against the excise and against France , he seems to have maintained his distance from the most prominent of the government 's opponents , Anthony Ashley Cooper , first Earl of Shaftesbury [ q.v. ] , and Buckingham . |
| 26 | Mr Yeltsin , in the middle of a 12-day holiday from battling to save his authority from the more conservative parliament , stayed away from the wreath-laying at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier . |
| 27 | The good old pre-Taylor Report surge occured , I was flung about fifteen foot in the air , the soap box splintered , my dad acrobatically caught me in his teeth , and this big evil looking bloke got a nail in his leg from the now flattened soapbox.It was better than staying up late to watch an American Werewolf in London.The rest is history , and I 've been going ever since . |
| 28 | Entry to the libertarian , undisciplined and nakedly elitist lifestyle of the Ecole Normale Superieure inevitably led Nizan to take stock of his situation from an entirely new perspective . |
| 29 | Like many Welshmen in and around the Neath and Swansea valleys , he had made his way from the more rural communities of West Glamorganshire and Carmarthenshire , up the valleys towards Brecon , and then moved eastwards towards the concentration of new industries at Dowlais , Merthyr , Rhymney , Tredegar , Beaufort , Ebbw Vale , and Pontypool . |
| 30 | When the hundred came up it weas from a very different Hick and Worcestershhire to what we 'd seen this morning . |