Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So observed income in period is a reflection of a base earning from an individual 's raw uneducated ability or talent and past investments times their rates of return minus any current investment ( which usually is in the form of forgone earnings ) . |
| 2 | At the bottom of the forge was a water trough whilst some two feet in front of this stood the anvil , on a base cut from an elm trunk some three feet in diameter and two in height . |
| 3 | I had also learnt not to waste energy making excuses , and to recognize the signs and symptoms of a sister suffering from an attack of acute haema-dementia . |
| 4 | On my way to my London flat , as I walk through a passageway leading from the Strand to Charing Cross underground station , I pass two young men sitting on a sheet on the floor and begging . |
| 5 | The dive from a cradle secured from a crane earned Liz £650 in sponsorship money which went towards her local sea cadet organisation . |
| 6 | There was a cabinet on the pavement beside the traction pole , in front of Holy Trinity Church , with a cable emerging from a hole in the top , which passed over a pulley near the top of the post and worked the overhead point , in conjunction with the rail point . |
| 7 | Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey . |
| 8 | Such a case emerges from the diary of my great-grandfather , James Taylor , who was a doctor as well as an Evangelical . |
| 9 | Coburn v. Colledge was a case arising from a contract for services and it is well established at common law that the cause of action in such cases accrues when the work is complete . |
| 10 | He also seems to have donated his belt and hose , as a twelfth-century account of their treasures lists a girdle made from the one and an alb decorated with gold thread from the other . |
| 11 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 12 | We were seated downstairs at an inglenook table , ideal for lovers but a bit isolated from the humanity of the dining-room which hummed with mix of city and creative folk sharing confidences about God and Mammon . |
| 13 | I have a built in um caution of those who wander in the groves of academe I always feel they 're a bit divorced from the real world |
| 14 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 15 | A branch falls from a tree , letting fungal decay into the heart of the trunk , and there is a home for owls and flying squirrels , lemurs , parrots and toucans . |
| 16 | The world bank , the world bank is actually a branch started from the U N. Yes ? |
| 17 | The nearest he gets to his usual form is during a discussion about the Mondays ' donation to the Hard Rock Café , coming to the grinning conclusion he should send ‘ a bong made from a Boddingtons beer tin , a packet of Rizla , some tinfoil , an empty skag packet and the sheet me and Bez slept on when we shared a flat together . |
| 18 | ‘ A runner came from the front trenches , down the communicating trench . |
| 19 | She did her best , and bound the stems tightly together with a thread split from a New Zealand flax — nothing must delay her now , or breakfast in the dining room would be over . |
| 20 | Hussa arrived with her mother and while Shama eased herself on to the carpet and settled against a cushion , Hussa picked up one of the newspapers which a driver brought from the village each morning . |
| 21 | Dry batteries for fencer units are outrageously expensive , so I have resorted to an old tractor battery , trickle-charged by a windmill made from a bicycle wheel with its dynamo hub : it cost nothing and worked without trouble for a year at a stretch . |
| 22 | Whether you use a shell to hide from the C : > prompt or as a useful tool , you will probably want to customise it to suit your system and personal preferences . |
| 23 | A year and a half earlier , she had lost her previous camp home when a shell fired from the Israeli-armed Lebanese Christian enclave to the south hit the roof . |
| 24 | But manager Maurice Setters knows his side have a struggle to qualify from a tough section — Germany are the other team in five-nation group three . |
| 25 | However , the latter have a part to play from the period of nursery rhymes and finger and other basic-activity games . |
| 26 | Thus reaction time in this situation would be slower than when a response originates from the directly stimulated hemisphere . |
| 27 | Although Molins ' aim is to capture the ‘ small — and often unacknowledged — details of life ’ , her eye ranges from broad vistas noting the peculiar effect of a lamp-post Lurching up into the sky or of a statue gesticulating from the top of a building , to close-up studies of various corners of interiors . |
| 28 | Thus it has been possible to study the behaviour of the basin basement using a measure derived from the basement formations . |
| 29 | It was here that Arthur fought and killed the giant Ritho , a fierce character who lived on the slopes of the mountain and wore a cloak made from the beards of chiefs he had slain . |
| 30 | It was just after 9 p.m. that a PC arrived from the railway station carrying a small brown envelope , which Morse accepted with delight , smiling radiantly at Lewis but saying nothing as he slit open the top and looked briefly inside . |