Example sentences of "[v-ing] an [adj] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was going to die saving an entire planet from the Daleks . |
| 2 | On July 16 a Warsaw court acquitted Jerzy Urban , the former spokesman for Poland 's communist government , of spreading pornography by reprinting an explicit picture from Penthouse magazine in his satirical weekly magazine Nie ( " No " ) . |
| 3 | The police have declined to comment , but in a brief statement Mr Girven said he was conducting an inquiry to ensure that officers in the force have behaved correctly , and that in the circumstances he was seeking an independent investigator from another force to undertake it . |
| 4 | The police have declined to comment , but in a brief statement Mr Girven said he was conducting an inquiry to ensure that officers in the force have behaved correctly , and that in the circumstances he was seeking an independent investigator from another force to undertake it . |
| 5 | Hence the Queens of Avelorn have always been the Everqueens of Ulthuan , forming an unbroken chain from ages past . |
| 6 | Mr Freeman said he would come to the town after meeting an all-party delegation from the council in London . |
| 7 | Even more notably it was the speech , not of a subordinate minister , but of a leader , striking a new note , and invoking an enthusiastic response from a broad segment of the electorate . |
| 8 | In theory , the planned village would absorb the people displaced by the new , more commercial economics of farming ; the population would be kept in the countryside , thereby impeding an early flight from the land . |
| 9 | Many LDO beds ( for example , 4.4Myr ) have a very sharp base marking an abrupt transition from nannofossil ooze to diatom ooze . |
| 10 | Zen watched Patrizia Valesio removing an invisible hair from her coat . |
| 11 | Apart from making sure that permanent mains-voltage lights are installed by a competent electrician , the main way of protecting yourself against getting an electric shock from garden lights is to install an RCD . |
| 12 | If all else failed I could usually rely on Massimo getting an ego-boosting tip from Helga , who was n't allowed to take part herself . |
| 13 | Windeler paused , as one might when humouring an over-ambitious suggestion from a bright child . |
| 14 | ‘ Shearer is only 21 and Blackburn might not be one of the glamour clubs , but they will be expecting an awful lot from him . ’ |
| 15 | Other works use polythene sheeting , stretched across the surface ; this acts as an almost unseen barrier to perception , further emphasising an over-industrialised distance from nature . |
| 16 | No , Gilberto would n't have had any problems stealing an unguarded car from outside a cemetery . |
| 17 | This is also true in sugar maples , where it has been claimed that undamaged plants near the damaged ones have increased levels of phenolics and hydrolyzable and condensed tannins , suggesting an airborne cue from the damaged to the undamaged , which then become less attractive to herbivores . |
| 18 | ‘ Rudolph Valentino ! ’ he exclaimed , drawing an odd look from the Captain . |
| 19 | He was drawing an interesting image from the mythology of another culture and it had seemed to him fresh and new . |
| 20 | He tried out a badly scratched recording of Dame Nellie Melba singing an operatic aria from Pagliacci which he had found tucked away between a box of rusting tools and a sack of potatoes in the corner of his shed . |
| 21 | James had for some time been accepting an annual pension from Elizabeth in return for promises of assistance against foreign invaders — meaning , at this period , Spain — and on the tacit understanding that he would in no way connive at his mother 's return to Scotland . |
| 22 | But it is not right for a member of the teaching staff to so present that disciplinary framework that the student is unable to view it from the outside or is discouraged from officering an alternative perspective from another discipline . |
| 23 | He pointed out quite reasonably that defending an old lady from assault on a tube train could conceivably be described as extremely responsible behaviour and doubtless would be by most right-thinking members of society , Polly 's opinion notwithstanding . |
| 24 | Cornwall will be fielding an unchanged side from the semi-finals and Glyn Williams , their captain , stressed the importance within the county of the ADT championship , which is derided by some for its supposed second-class quality . |
| 25 | The dedicated effort of the members is creating an enchanting base from which Spanish cricket will flourish . |
| 26 | RUSSIA and Ukraine were on a collision course last night as President Yeltsin signed a decree that would put the Black Sea fleet into Russian hands , directly contradicting an earlier order from President Leonid Kravchuk . |
| 27 | RUSSIA and Ukraine were on a collision course last night as President Yeltsin signed a decree that would put the Black Sea fleet into Russian hands , directly contradicting an earlier order from President Leonid Kravchuk . |
| 28 | And the couple are now taking an early-break break from their civic duties to patch up their differences . |
| 29 | Advocates of this type of curriculum not only have the problem of deciding who can speak for the culture ( or cultures ? ) and making an appropriate selection from it , but of deciding to what extent the curriculum should attempt to conserve , reform , revolutionize or even reverse cultural patterns and trends . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm afraid you 're making an illegitimate leap from fact to value . |