Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [noun] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after 6 a.m. the rebels took control of Radio Nigeria ( situated 300 metres from the barracks ) , announcing that Babangida had been deposed and the governing Armed Forces Ruling Council ( AFRC ) dissolved , and stating their political objectives . |
| 2 | She commutes 30 miles from the outskirts of Kidderminster , crossing slow , steep byways over the Malvern Hills to Bishop 's Frome on the Hereford-Worcester border . |
| 3 | Six rounds after the Skeletal Dinosaur springs up , two Bloodletters appear 12 yards from the arch ( between the arch and the adventurers if they are still heading for it ) and attack any characters still present . |
| 4 | According to the council , the garden was indeed large but much of it was paved ; the property was in an urban area where the speed limit was 30mph ; the shops were located 700 yards from the property ; |
| 5 | Colleague Nurit Tzabar , from the settlement which is located six miles from the biblical town of Sodom , said : ‘ She was a modest girl who kept herself to herself . |
| 6 | There are direct regular air services into Leeds/Bradford Airport ( located 7 miles from the city ) from Aberdeen , Amsterdam , Belfast , Cardiff , Dublin , Edinburgh , Glasgow , Guernsey ( summer only ) , Jersey ( summer only ) , London ( Heathrow and Stansted ) and Paris . |
| 7 | England 's Under-21 squad for tomorrow 's match against Poland contains six changes from the original 16 . |
| 8 | The mass of the Moon has been obtained from the position of the centre of mass of the Earth and the Moon which lies 4748 km from the centre of mass of the Earth . |
| 9 | On Monday , more academics swam in Johnson 's travelling aquarium : Principal Campbell , Professor Ross and a Dr Gerard , who had ‘ come six miles from the country on purpose ’ . |
| 10 | He strode in purposefully then stopped three paces from the T'ang , clicking his heels together and bowing his head . |
| 11 | But he persevered and now has three assistants from the students at the university helping him . |
| 12 | A bankrupt is automatically discharged three years from the commencement of the bankruptcy unless a certificate for summary administration has been issued and not revoked , in which case the period is two years ( s 279(2) ) . |
| 13 | The findings show that Labour would win 76 seats from the Conservatives , giving them 305 seats overall , six or seven more than the Tories , but 21 short of an overall majority , with the Liberal Democrats holding the balance of power . |
| 14 | Only after he finished in his world 's best time of 4 minutes 12¾ seconds did George learn that the tenacious Scot had collapsed sixty yards from the tape and had fallen on the grass . |
| 15 | If one can hazard one generalization from the responses to this question , it is that the early enthusiasm for undergraduate interdisciplinary ventures which was evident in the 1970s has now given way to a more ambivalent attitude , perhaps because the practical institutional and professional problems have become more evident , a view found also in the OECD ‘ Interdisciplinarity Revisited ’ report ( Levin and Lind 1985 ) . |
| 16 | Then he subsequently moved one person from the ground floor onto the first floor , which meant that he did require a fire certificate . |
| 17 | Flavia stuck to her guns and when she turned up next morning was told by the Loulou boys that she did n't know one wind from the other . |
| 18 | Since lions always like to isolate one individual from the herd before attacking , this theory also makes sense on paper , but reality does not bear it out because lions can all too easily single out animals for the kill . |
| 19 | Another example of the multivariate approach is provided by Webber and Craig ( 1978 ) who used 40 variables from the 1971 Small Area Statistics Census data to classify the British population into six main family types and a number of sub-clusters , making 30 groups altogether , as shown in a simplified form in Figure 5.6 . |
| 20 | In Chipping Camden , where CR Ashby moved 150 people from the East end of London onto a small very peaceful country town in 1901 , the reaction was stronger . |
| 21 | And she only lives two doors from the shop . |
| 22 | He told the coroner how he and a local farmer struggled to pull two people from the burning Metro . |
| 23 | An alleged joyrider who was seriously injured in a crash in a stolen car was carried two miles from the scene by his passenger . |
| 24 | The undergraduate body also contains two students from the university of Catania in Sicily on an Erasmus exchange , while there are two graduate Soros scholars , a neuroanatomist from Hungary and an astrophysicist from Poland . |
| 25 | The team has four changes from the opening game which sees Jim Dryden ( South Shields ) make his first appearance for Durham since being reinstated as an amateur some years ago . |
| 26 | I tackled up with a simple running bullet stopped two inches from the size 6 hook . |
| 27 | ‘ In 1969 , an American jet crashed 200 yards from the school in Steeple Aston . |
| 28 | As part of this work the Committee subsequently considered two papers from the Efficiency Commission . |
| 29 | Bryan Robson 's injury , a legacy of previous combat , was diagnosed when he had to be substituted 20 minutes from the end of the first leg at Portsmouth only 13 days ago . |
| 30 | Its presence in everyday life became so large and so intense , and in such a short space of time — say 20 years from the Coronation in 1953 , acknowledged as the ‘ take-off date — that its influence is strictly incalculable , over other media and over most facets of life . |