Example sentences of "[noun] a [adj] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 31 | Charles was taking the job a long way from the safe arena of charitable patronage and ribbon-cutting and into politically dangerous areas , where constitutionally , he ought not to be . |
| 32 | Miss Davison , who was standing close to the rails a few yards from me , suddenly ducked under the railings as the horses came up . |
| 33 | What , after all , had she expected in the Church of England in a provincial town a hundred miles from London and the Midland conurbations ? |
| 34 | So I 'd like to reflect that against what the government has done since our unique November conference they have cut the Health and Safety Executive 's budget for nineteen ninety three ninety four by five percent , that 's a total of thirteen million pounds the Department of Employment have already admitted this will lead to less inspections and less prosecutions they have introduced a market tex market testing exercise into the H S E in other words they 're saying what parts of the Health and Safety Executive can be privatized into , no doubt , their friends in industry they have made sure that Health that the Health and Safety Commission will work slower in the future by making the chair which is currently a full-time post a part-time post from September this year . |
| 35 | The latest 280sq miles of fields stretch from the Red Wharf Bay area of Anglesey to a point a few miles from Crosby . |
| 36 | Apart from whether or not these exercises are effective ( they are certainly found to be enjoyable and relaxing by many pupils ) , they have given the teacher a secure base from which to work , for the teacher can be very much in charge , dictating the choice of exercise , controlling the length of time for each , selecting the background music where felt to be appropriate or even dictating the moment-to-moment activity within the experience . |
| 37 | The army occupies an area of land the size of Torness turbine hall with each soldier standing stiffly to attention a few inches from his neighbours . |
| 38 | Tabor , named from a hill a few miles from Bethlehem , was founded in 1420 by the Taborites , the radical wing of the Hussite movement . |
| 39 | With cinema admissions expanding rapidly , Rank was not only in a buoyant financial condition , but also in a strong position to negotiate a deal , which would secure his films a fair return from the US market , with major American companies increasingly concerned to protect their UK earnings . |
| 40 | Amongst these were Dr.Patrick Solomon , who had been out of politics for five years ; Dr.Winston Mahabir , an East Indian physician , and Gerard Montano a popular businessman from the San Fernando district . |
| 41 | The only source of water was a horse trough a hundred yards from the building , there was no electric light anywhere , and we dressed in the dark . |
| 42 | Former Welsh international Steve Lovell , on a month 's trial , slid in to give Bournemouth a 19th-minute lead from Kenny Rowlands ' cross , and Denny Mundee paddled in with the dexterity of a sculler to score their second after Mick Bodley 's back pass stuck in a puddle . |
| 43 | But Marion Kemp could not , in my view , have killed her husband , and quite certainly she could hardly have moved the body a single centimetre from where it lay . |
| 44 | Later vehicles have a braided earth lead running to the body a few inches from the motor . |
| 45 | In the long run administrators try to make capitalism a positive-sum game from which all classes can gain . |
| 46 | Cloistered in converted farm buildings a few miles from York … craftsmen breathe new life into Fairford 's medieval glass . |
| 47 | Upright chairs were placed around the walls of the drawing room a large distance from one another . |
| 48 | The men were waiting for Karen in a hotel room a few miles from the accident . |
| 49 | 26 year old Georgina Robinson an occupational therapist from Gloucester was slashed across the throat by a male patient wielding a kitchen knife.Nurse leaders are concerned about this attack and others like it . |
| 50 | At my next attempt I passed into Eton a whole form from the bottom of the school . |
| 51 | The reason for this was the bright point of light that had popped into existence a few feet from his eyes . |
| 52 | Mr Dayton currently co-chairs a committee seeking to raise $50 million for endowment a far cry from the $30,000 annual drives he remembers leading in the 1940s ! |
| 53 | The Ugandan government had suspended five of its pilots for apparently carrying weapons on board a Ugandan-registered aircraft from Bophuthatswana to Zagreb , where they had been impounded by the Yugoslav authorities . |
| 54 | Carlos Pizarro León-Gómez , 39 , the leader of the guerrilla April 19 Movement ( M-19 ) and its presidential candidate in the elections scheduled for May 27 , was shot dead by a contract killer on April 26 while on board a commercial flight from the capital Bogotá to the northern Caribbean port of Barranquilla where he was to address an election rally . |
| 55 | As well as the waterway , Healings own a fleet of road tankers for grain transport , and the location of motorway junctions , built in the 1970s and 1980s near Tewkesbury , has also been of great advantage a far cry from the early years of the century , when deliveries were made by a 12 mph Foden lorry . |
| 56 | Stray shots buzzing all around , Ace threw herself behind a large fallen stalactite a few yards from the sandbags , just as her ammunition ran out . |
| 57 | Chief Constables , for example , are n a different position from other chief officers by holding executive authority in their own right ( and not derived from councillors ) , an arrangement which lies at the heart of suggestions that the police are less accountable for their actions than other local-authority employees ( Oliver , 1987 ) . |
| 58 | But Florida has two other prominent international junior training centres — the Rick Macci International Tennis Academy at Grenelefe Resort a few miles from Orlando and Disney World ; and Harry Hopman/Saddlebrook Resort in the town of Wesley Chapel near Tampa . |
| 59 | Toilets a long distance from the classroom and shared with older children |
| 60 | Waterford as highly encouraging — exploration between Kilmeaden and Kilmacthomas found primary gold traces of nearly two ounces per tonne — though this is of course a long way from a commercial proposition . |