Example sentences of "from a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statistical approach reduces the problem facing the syntax analyser from a logic-based task to one of pattern recognition . |
| 2 | Friends of the Earth accused the government of retreating from a firmly-stated commitment to identify contaminated land . |
| 3 | Rory had waited with the older man — silent for quarter of an hour apart from a whispered hello and a quick explanation of what was going on — until the herd of deer appeared , brown shapes on the brown hill . |
| 4 | Palmer looked at three hundred and five patients , in an M R C study , and from a multivariate analysis , he found the number of tumours from that diagnosis was the single most feature . |
| 5 | This comparison , however , does not take into account the duration of follow up , and the number of patients who had previously had recurrence is too small to permit valid conclusions from a multivariate analysis . |
| 6 | Anyhow the upshot is , one way or another I 'm lying in the front seat of the Boomerang with my trousers round my knees and copping a twenty-dollar blowjob from a speed-fuelled Zulu called Agnes . |
| 7 | From a refereeing point of view , when the maul becomes stationary the time allowed for the ball to emerge is the equivalent of the time currently allowed for the emergence of the ball from a collapsed maul . |
| 8 | Glass , like toffee , has no sharp melting point but changes gradually , as it is heated , from a brittle solid to a viscous liquid and during this process there is no important change of molecular structure . |
| 9 | His postcard was drawn from a bulging bagful of entries — nearly all of them correct — after the closing date . |
| 10 | It is intensely personal , but again one can detect in it mechanisms used to control the feeling and turn it from a mere discharge of personal feeling into a genuine expression of emotion . |
| 11 | It is quite obvious that each type of violence varies considerably in its degree : physical force can be anything from a mere push to a brutal beating which leaves the victim close to death , and a sexual assault may be anything from a brief touching to a gross form of sexual violation . |
| 12 | There was no question of his telephoning Émile Chaillot : he was not going to take orders from a mere administrator . |
| 13 | The features that had appeared fierce and uncompromising from afar , here , from a mere metre away , were even more so . |
| 14 | But should such an undertaking be implied from a mere invitation to the reader to seek advice ? |
| 15 | It is not so much that curriculum is the ‘ what ’ of education and teaching the ‘ how ’ , as that the teacher 's classroom strategies are what transform curriculum from a mere bundle of inert ideas to experiences through which children learn . |
| 16 | This still falls well short of supporting the English law of manslaughter , where the ‘ unlawful act ’ doctrine allows a manslaughter conviction if death results from a mere assault or battery . |
| 17 | My step brother , Tommy , do you know the original well Mr was a sales rep for Bokes couriers , and er his wife used to make pickles , homemade , and she us Mr used to give his friends a jar of pickles occasionally and er from that the idea of selling them , cos it ou after they 'd started distributing amongst his friends he got the idea that there was a market for it , so my step-brother Tommy er started to work with Mrs we used to call them Mrs but her name was , Street you know where Street is , well on the left hand side of Street about oh at the back of the first row of houses in Street , there was a , a small open space and Mr had a big shed put there , and er started buying the pickling onions and er all the women who wished to started skinning onions at so much a bag for Mr and er he 'd gradually built himself up but me step- brother Tommy was er working full time helping Mrs to pick the onions and , and that , that 's how Mac 's Pickles started was just from a mere fact of him being a commercial traveller and he 'd di distribute them to his friends and created the , a market for himself really ac actually they , they , they did have a van driver and a van , a van to deliver them as they gradually increased the supply and they used to deliver them all , all around the area . |
| 18 | This idea of the representative having a right , and even a duty , to exercise an independent judgement , with this independence being the core of what is held to distinguish a representative from a mere delegate , is a notion which has long survived Burke 's formulation of it . |
| 19 | The duties of a trustee may be indefinitely varied by the terms of the instrument which creates the trust , and may range from a mere duty to make a legal conveyance to the beneficiary at his request , and in the meantime to permit him to possess and enjoy the property , to extensive and onerous duties of management , sale , investment , and application of capital and income . |
| 20 | Her dark head on one of the velvet cushions , Luce watched him move the huge bowl of flowers to a side-table , before producing some kindling and logs from a metal-bound oak chest . |
| 21 | The fact that the narrator evaluates the story from a patriarchal perspective only compounds the issue . |
| 22 | A delegation of lawyers from the British Romanian Law Association has just returned from a successful trip to Romania , having given seminars in two Romanian cities and met with representatives of the Romanian Bar Association . |
| 23 | The first is worth mentioning only because it gave him his debut in a major studio , for a United Artists production of Studs Lonigan , one more Dean-like character taken from a successful trilogy of novels by James T. Farrell . |
| 24 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper Julian Thompson , Chairman of Sotheby 's Far East operation , explained that the present scheme evolved from a successful charity sale held in Bombay in 1989 . |
| 25 | In the shadow of their ancestors , right wing Afrikaaners muster to protest at their governments so-called betrayal of the white man , but the man responsible , President F W de Klerk , was himself being welcomed from a successful tour of Europe , where he said ‘ South Africa 's commitment to reform was believed ’ . |
| 26 | So this was how a submarine came back from a successful patrol ! |
| 27 | Instead of resulting from a successful use of pressure by a group on a reluctant government , the relationship derives from the government 's need for specialized information which the group possesses and its co-operation in the eventual implementation of policy . |
| 28 | And helping with the handover to assistant chief housing officer Neil Schneider , were two young girls regarded by Stockton Borough Council as typical of the youngsters who would benefit from a successful bid . |
| 29 | He saw the advantages that England might gain from a successful coup in Scotland by them , which would take their political pressure off him at home . |
| 30 | Engine and transmission are the most difficult bits for emerging car makers to get right , but those two have done what embryo tractor makers in Europe did years ago — repackaged ‘ last year 's ’ mechanicals from a successful make . |