Example sentences of "[prep] an [adj] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eastern Electricity gained 3p to £4 , after an interim rise from £15.4m to £26.1m . |
| 2 | Yet the First World War produced exactly the opposite result : after an initial rise from 120,000 in 1914 to 600,000 in 1915 the number of children taking meals fell to 75,000 in 1918 — caused , of course , by the fact that improved employment opportunities and higher real wages brought about by the war economy lifted an increasing number of parents above the eligibility level . |
| 3 | The pound climbed strongly against the dollar , jumping nearly three cents to $1.61 in New York trading , but in Europe it fell back almost three pfennigs against the Deutschmark after an initial boost from ERM speculation . |
| 4 | In women , however , the data suggested an increased risk of gastric cancer after seven years where the relative risk was 4.7 ( 1.7–10.3 ) after an initial decrease from 12.6 in the first year to 1.9 4–7 years after start of cimetidine use . |
| 5 | The Milk Race comes to town as riders vie for position on the Liverpool city centre circuit after an exciting chase from Sheffield . |
| 6 | Yesterday 's explosion occurred soon after an express train from the northern city of Jammu had pulled up at Sealdah , Mr Biswas said . |
| 7 | Five months later the government gave twelve of the pits a reprieve after an unprecedented outcry from the public and M Ps . |
| 8 | After Rosenthal 's double strike , Boro 's Jimmy Phillips pulled one back from the penalty spot after an acrobatic dive from John Hendrie but Steve McManaman restored the advantage with a thumping drive . |
| 9 | The decision by Timothy Renton , Minister of State , came after an urgent representation from the London office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees on Wednesday . |
| 10 | The 22-year-old Norwich forward sank the Yorkshiremen with his 80th-minute goal , after veteran substitute Alan Cork had equalised following an own goal from defender Paul Beesley . |
| 11 | Despite an immediate reprimand from Chamorro , Godoy 's statements during the strike reportedly encouraged the formation of right-wing armed groups . |
| 12 | But , despite an opportunist try from pacy full-back Alan Hunte and two superb touchdowns from wing Les Quirk , Saints simply had no answer to Bradford 's fast , ball-handling pack stars and midfield maestro Fox . |
| 13 | Despite an earlier suggestion from Jacques Delors , president of the European Commission , that the summit should focus on the originally scheduled topics of aid to the Soviet Union and the Gulf crisis , all the member countries except the UK used the meeting to state their agreement that Stage 2 of economic and monetary union ( EMU — see p. 36598 for three-stage Delors plan for EMU ) should start on Jan. 1 , 1994 , and established an effective negotiating brief for the intergovernmental conferences on political , economic and monetary union due to begin on Dec. 14 . |
| 14 | The most recent issue includes a piece on the plight of Sudanese refugees and an examination of an anti-racism initiative from the USA . |
| 15 | The characters in the novel are that of an extensive range from the proud , head high Mr. Darcy to the clever Mrs. Phillips who is affectionate of talking ; from the sweet Jane Bennet to the most jealous Miss . |
| 16 | A windfall of an annual £8m from satellite-television royalties dropped into racing 's lap . |
| 17 | At a meeting on April 21-22 the Democratic Platform 's co-ordinating council was divided over the question of whether to begin creating a new party immediately , with those in favour of an immediate split from the CPSU forming a steering committee chaired by Nikolai Travkin . |
| 18 | Obligations and rights arise for States members of an international organisation from the provisions of a treaty to which that organisation is a party when the parties to the treaty intend those provisions to be the means of establishing such obligations and according such rights and have defined their conditions and effects in the treaty or have otherwise agreed thereon , and if : |
| 19 | Editor , — The prevalence study of Gilbert and colleagues , aimed at identifying the possible connection between toxoplasma seropositivity and ethnic group and place of birth of an antenatal population from west London , was of considerable value as it is the first study of its kind to be published . |
| 20 | John received a hi-fi system and a picture of an African scene from the Company . |
| 21 | The technical officer could not fail to be conscious of the lethal potential of an electrical discharge from the platform . |
| 22 | St Melangell was the daughter of an Irish king from whose court she fled to avoid marriage . |
| 23 | The rebellion in Dublin at Easter 1916 commenced with Patrick Pearse reading the Proclamation of an Irish Republic from the steps of the General Post Office . |
| 24 | The stunning realism that he offered was not that of any old son of an Irish barman from New York but more precisely his own realism , in part natural and in part perfected by the very conscious application of technique . |
| 25 | When presented in this way the proposed merger appears to be based on clear industrial logic , although it was considered by some to be partly a defensive move on the part of the companies involved ( especially Imperial , which was hoping that , by increasing its own size , it would help to reduce the chance of an unwanted takeover from a third party ) . |
| 26 | The Good God knows I would dismiss the matter as fanciful and accept that the Scottish King died of an accidental fall from his horse except for what I found , those little shreds clinging to a thorn bush on Kinghorn Ness crying out ‘ Murder ’ to the world . |
| 27 | In Britain , however , English has functioned to provide a substitute for any " theory " of the national life in the form of an imponderable base from which the quality of the national life can be assessed . |
| 28 | Thus the action failed and the case is authority for the immunity of an assignee of an equitable lease from liability on the covenants . |
| 29 | Isolated blastomeres can be labelled and their fate followed after reaggregation with unlabelled cells or the reagent may be used to label the entire outside cell population of an intact embryo from the 16-cell stage onwards . |
| 30 | Seven-year-old Sonia Altman had a guarantor in Middlesbrough but , having missed one transport date because she had to have her tonsils out , there seemed little prospect of an early escape from Vienna . |