Example sentences of "to an [adj] [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sufficient for that person to establish that he or she has been prevented to an appreciable extent from enjoying the ordinary comforts of life ; there is no need to establish direct injury to health . |
| 2 | Innocent 's reply to an enquiring letter from Bishop Eustace of Ely , who was requesting clarification and help on a number of problems in order to act as a papal judge delegate , did exactly this . |
| 3 | At length the big green truck arrived and we were bumping off to an anxious reception from Mrs. Anxious about her fragile porcelain , I should say . |
| 4 | Also the purchaser is likely to assume responsibility for past liabilities through the assignment or novation of contracts ( see Chapter 4 ) , subject to an appropriate indemnity from the vendor . |
| 5 | Mr Milburn said he had spoken to an 81-year-old lady from Harrowgate Hill who has got steadily more blind while waiting two years for treatment for cataracts . |
| 6 | In the common approach to hypertext a block of text has a button which corresponds to an unlabeled link from the button to another text block . |
| 7 | According to press reports Karami believed that his government had been penalized by the West for its close links with Syria and for its strong commitment at the Middle East peace talks to an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon . |
| 8 | It was not properly inflation proofed , but anyone who paid national insurance contributions , even at the reduced rate , during that period will have a right to some graduated pension , however small , or to an equivalent amount from an employer 's scheme . |
| 9 | The chances of going on to an additional baby from a given family size ( ‘ parity progression ratios ’ ) can be calculated from past data for women who have completed their families . |
| 10 | With the edge of the island visible on either side , Manhattan sits in murky river , an absurd chunk of metropolis looking like a Gothic spaceship working up to an explosive departure from the planet . |
| 11 | Ultimately , the Campaign for Real Soul amounts only to an ostrich-head-in-sand retreat from the future : a future pop based in soul-less , ground-less dis-corporation . |
| 12 | The environmental impact of the Braer oil tanker disaster in January appear to have been relatively mild , according to an interim report from the Scottish Office . |
| 13 | The Swede went down yesterday 21–17 25–23 21–16 to an inspired display from the Belgian . |
| 14 | The steward , responding to an icy enquiry from Burun , looked flustered . |
| 15 | Two excellent goals from Steve Aries added to an early strike from Liam Herbert to put Town back on the winning trail . |
| 16 | The NRPB fibres , however , refer to an average release from a 500m high stack in central southern England . |
| 17 | We observed that the bacterially expressed RAP74 protein forms a tetrameric aggregate in solution , and this property was assigned to an internal region from 73 to 356 ( data not shown ) . |
| 18 | The ombudsman claims that the jurisdiction and duty to investigate conferred and imposed on him by the scheme enables and requires him to investigate and determine complaints in relation to valuations made by employees of a building society of properties to be charged to the building society to secure further advances to an existing borrower from that society . |
| 19 | Then when you divorce him they say it 's a tragedy because love has failed , when really it 's all due to an eventual recovery from infatuation , which is a sort of brain disease . ’ |
| 20 | His secular critics saw the misguided attempt of an evangelical Christian to adapt his theology to an insuperable threat from science . |
| 21 | ‘ And — ’ to an approving nod from Omi she added , ‘ do n't say them about Mother and Father . |
| 22 | In 796 Charlemagne was giving shelter to an important exile from England , the priest Odberht , almost certainly to be identified with the Eadberht Praen who was accused of being an ex-priest and who subsequently seized the Kentish kingdom at some point after the death of Offa . |
| 23 | referred to an earlier passage from the judgment of Dixon J. , 63 C.L.R. 649 , 684 : |
| 24 | Responding to an open letter from the recently established Democratic Renewal Party , the government on April 10 confirmed that the principal plotters in the May 1977 coup attempt [ see p. 28489 ] had been executed . |
| 25 | Professor Tim Webb and Pippa Bagguley had recruited a number of leading national poets to read their own works , culminating in an evening with Tony Harrison when he read his poems to an enthusiastic audience from the city and University . |
| 26 | The Fermanagh-born priest dispatched a copy of his book last week in response to an angry letter from Carrick Council condemning the ‘ unacceptable interference ’ of the Caucus in the affairs of Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | Motor Racing : Michael Horst , vice-president of corporate affairs , Philip Morris [ Marlboro ] , is reported to ‘ admit that the removal of corporate or brand images would lead to an enforced evacuation from sport in general , and the Philip Morris subsidiary , General Foods , incorporating Kraft and Jacobs-Suchard , could decide part of the vacuum was worth filling ’ [ Glasgow Herald , 20.1.91 ] |
| 28 | ‘ I Can Do This ’ was her exit visa , a put-down to the backbiting London crews set to an infectious loop from The Whispers ' ‘ And The Beat Goes On ’ . |
| 29 | The division 's profits edged up from £10.6m to £11.3m thanks to an excellent performance from the Hammerite protective coatings business in Britain . |
| 30 | In February , control equipment failure on a lime dosing system , coinciding with blockages in the back-up caustic system , led to an acidic discharge from a lagoon . |