Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [noun sg] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This section provides cover for Capital Benefits and also a weekly benefit relating to total disablement from the Policyholders usual profession or occupation . |
| 2 | At that moment the camera tracked to the left and zoomed in to reveal that Nicola had a tube of paper up her left nostril and was pretending to sniff cocaine from the table top . |
| 3 | Now Gwynedd County Council have announced their intention to commission a comprehensive feasibility study into re-opening the whole line in conjunction with the 1964 Comp[any who have steadfastly maintained their stance of wanting to start reconstruction from the southern end where they are operating a three-quarter of a mile line along former British Rail land beside Porthmadog station . |
| 4 | He simulates the picaresque ingenuousness of the alien , pretending to learn English from the children in order to gain their confidence , and gradually modifying the historical account he gives of himself to meet peoples ' changing conception of him . |
| 5 | A campaign to prevent the desecration of the holy mountain was inevitably going to receive support from the Catholic Church . |
| 6 | Over Rancho Cienega Park , a few dozen black people were playing basketball or waiting to buy food from a catering truck in the car park . |
| 7 | This is an important consideration when attempting to interpret palaeoecology from the composition of fossil faunas that are derived from predator activity , and it has been treated in some detail in the appendix , where comparative data for a number of the predator species has been summarized . |
| 8 | ‘ Try to tell me again , Lacuna , ’ she asked , attempting to divert attention from the battle on the planet ‘ What exactly is Pool ? ’ |
| 9 | In attempting to deflect opinion from the disappointments of the previous winter and the lack of prospect of an early end of the war and to revamp morale through blaming others for Germany 's misfortunes — much as he had done in the years before 1933 — Hitler had lifted a corner of the veil of the ‘ Führer myth ’ and revealed a glimpse of the arbitrary , dictatorial , and irrational way he responded to the first reverses he and the nation had had to suffer . |
| 10 | IF I WAS GOING TO take money from the public for the privilege of sampling my cooking , I would do it in a pub . |
| 11 | ParcPlace Systems is starting to ship ObjectWorks C/C++ 3.0 this week , having delayed delivery from the summer to add significant features like C support . |
| 12 | In fact the1880s main building , a Grade I listed extravaganza modelled on Chambord , is in a structurally sound condition , having had money from the Pilgrim Trust , the Wolfson Foundation and the University Funding Council spent on it over the last ten years . |
| 13 | Confident that your market research tells you that peoples ' houses are overrun with mice , and having used technology from the nuclear industry to develop a better mouse trap , you still have to tell people about it . |
| 14 | At the Huntingdonshire Eyre in 1255 , for example , Norman Sampson , a riding forester , was convicted of having extorted money from a man in his bailiwick by making him sit upon a harrow . |
| 15 | With the brimming in-tray on his desk and his faintly harassed short-sleeved appearance Tom always gave the impression of having snatched organisation from the brink of chaos . |
| 16 | He turned back towards the stands , jumped nimbly over the thirteenth and fourteenth and soared over the Chair with Sebastian V , Royal Stuart and Zongalero keeping him company and Spartan Missile starting to make ground from the rear . |
| 17 | Having relied for a lifetime on hearing to give information from the environment , it is not easy to replace the instantaneous warning system . |
| 18 | They would be voting to divert attention from the one place where the merits or otherwise of fox hunting should be decided and considered amongst M Ps , you will note amongst MPs not by government , this is a matter for a free vote of conscience . |
| 19 | From this account of 1773 , two things can be noted : the miners first offered a price , and the objects of their anger were merchants intending to remove corn from the locality . |
| 20 | INVERLEITH , who are currently fighting to avoid relegation from the Torrie Stockbrokers National Men 's Hockey League , yesterday received news they could well have done without . |
| 21 | The story concerns Crowland 's bailiff , Ashford of Helpstone , who in 1076 was summoned by Ingulph before the King 's Justices at Stamford for trying to extort land from the abbey . |
| 22 | Mary Tyrone , perhaps the central character of the play but certainly not the sole source of discord , is a fading beauty trying to find solace from the harsh realities of the external world and internal torment in steeping herself in lost ideals and numbing herself with drugs . |
| 23 | About 1820 , possibly due to the persuasion and influence of William Gilkison , Galt became the London agent for people in Upper Canada who were trying to obtain compensation from the British Government for losses they had sustained in the 1812/13 war with the U.S.A. He submitted a plan to the Government which led to the creation of the Canada Company , and , as its first Secretary , he was sent to Canada to acquire land . |
| 24 | Some start complaining about staff harassment while the others are trying to nick stuff from the other end of the shop . ’ |
| 25 | Fleury , unaware of the Collector 's plans for a graduated retreat because he was not supposed to be in the Residency anyway , had dashed upstairs carrying the fifteen-barrelled pistol with which he was hoping to do battle from the upper storeys . |
| 26 | A Trust spokesman said the volunteers were hoping to remove grass from the marsh so reeds can spread across the water . |
| 27 | In The Lost Ship , for instance , a couple of merchant navy apprentices , overboard by accident from a tanker , are picked up by a sinister couple planning to snatch gold from a wreck on a Caribbean island , and in Horseshoe Reef a similar young couple is rescued from shipwreck by a strange , isolated family with criminal intentions . |
| 28 | To halt the decline the Hereford Herd Book Society is planning to label beef from the breed in butchers shops.It says Hereford beef tastes better than meat from Continental breeds.And it 's cheaper to produce , because Herefords are fattened on grass rather than on expensive cereals . |