Example sentences of "[conj] a [adj] [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a Neil Pink corner , the ball was cleared to outside the penalty area , where a strong shot from Minto flew over the defence into the net . |
| 2 | Currently , where a joint team from a number of JAA states are engaged in JAA certification of a new aircraft or power-plant type , each state charges the applicant according to its national scheme , which may vary from zero to £100 per hour . |
| 3 | This story concerns a location about ¾ mile west of Ashton-under-Lyme station where a freight-only line from Denton Junction on the Stockport to Stalybridge line bifurcates to join the Manchester to Huddersfield Trans Pennine route by way of west and east facing curves . |
| 4 | Angelica Kauffman 's history is bound up with the elite classes whose rituals of social dominance included visiting her in her fashionable studio in Golden Square , Soho , or commissioning a portrait or a decorative ensemble from this latest London novelty ( who was , of course , a really fine artist and being fashionable then was not a pejorative condition when fashionability was synonymous with being part of ‘ society ’ ) . |
| 5 | At first this might sound a little too simple — or a clever exit from responsibility — but if thought about can be seen to be true . |
| 6 | Thus the Profitboss is meticulous in replying to correspondence , whether it be a brief memo from a junior clerk in accounts or a personal letter from a salesman prospecting for business . |
| 7 | The operation resembled a nineteenth-century historical painting of the Israelite slaves of Pharaoh pulling great slabs of stone to his monuments or a similar scene from a Hollywood Biblical epic , except that the raw energy to pull the building was provided by puffing steam-or diesel-engines rather than human slaves . |
| 8 | He saw human beings not as a mass of contradictions but as a particular sort of person — a great nobleman or a poor scholar or a spotty-faced announcer from the BBC . |
| 9 | Ask a grown-up for a shallow plastic container — a seedling tray from a garden centre or a pasting tray from a decorator 's shop would be ideal . |
| 10 | For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached , or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received , or a different gospel from the one you accepted , you put up with it easily enough . |
| 11 | Barnardo 's ‘ Positive Options ’ or a social worker from the home finding unit of your local social services department can give you more information about how this might work . |
| 12 | Every five minutes they would cadge a Bisonte from me , or a Lucky Strike from Dana . |
| 13 | Whether it is a spur of useless stem which does not , can not , heal quickly , or a bad cut from blunt secateurs , disease spores are ever ready to accept the invitation of a door carelessly left open . |
| 14 | A hilar stricture produced by sclerosing cholangitis may easily be confused with a cholangiocarcinoma or a distal stricutre from chronic pancreatitis with a carcinoma of the pancreas . |
| 15 | Historic Maritime Greenwich is just four miles downstream from Tower Bridge or a short drive from the M25 ( exit 2 ) . |
| 16 | Select a holiday or a short break from the established specialists in French hotels and châteaux off the beaten track . |
| 17 | Instead , until further co-ordination can take place , the right of a member state to forbid a takeover offer launched by an offeror which is a national of , or a corporate body from , a non-EC country will continue . |
| 18 | Lunch can be a sandwich filled with vegetarian cheese or a ready-made spread from a health food shop . |
| 19 | A lower interest rate or a special deal from another lender may make a remortgage worthwhile . |
| 20 | Whether Hewlett-Packard will actually licence System V.4 or a subsequent implementation from Unix Labs remains to be seen , but its intent is to step up from the current Unix V.3.2 , System V Interface Definition 2-derived HP-UX version 9.03 operating system — which includes multithreading support from AT&T Unix — to a COSE-compliant , Unix Labs Unix-based system during the first half of next year is clear . |
| 21 | Whether HP will actually licence SVR4 or a subsequent implementation from USL remains to be seen , but its intent is to step up from the current Unix V.3.2 , SVID 2-derived HP-UX version 9.03 operating system — which includes multithreading support from AT&T Unix — to a COSE-compliant , USL Unix-based system during the first half of next year is clear . |
| 22 | He had , he said , received little of ‘ Africans ’ , except a small parcel from Petrus Hotton of Leyden , who had in turn received them from Denmark , ‘ one of their ships touching last year at the Cape ’ . |
| 23 | There was little else , except a small bookshelf from which he took one of several charts . |
| 24 | There has then little clinical research in this field , although a recent paper from appeared in Aviation and Space Medicine . |
| 25 | It plans to do it with a range of shoes , which although a complete change from last year , still concentrates on the technical merits of StableAir . |
| 26 | Edberg 's rise to No 2 , although a welcome gesture from Wimbledon in recognition of his two titles , could backfire , with the chance that today 's draw could place him in the same half as former champions Boris Becker and Michael Stich . |
| 27 | Benny went on down the street , past the empty shop which people said that a real Italian from Italy was going to open up . |
| 28 | A Super COMPstation 7/30 with a 36MHz CPU , 520Mb disk , 32Mb memory , on-board GX graphics accelerator and a 19″ colour monitor will cost $13,490 in the plan ; the Taiwanese company reckons that a similar system from Sun Microsystems Computer Corp is currently list-priced at $20,500 . |
| 29 | The Taiwanese company reckons that a similar system from Sun Microsystems Computer Corp is currently list-priced at $20,500 . |
| 30 | The Ball State researchers concluded that a one-week rest from running boosts the ability of leg muscles to recover quickly after a marathon . |