Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [adj] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would be no excuse for a large order from Neil Kinnock : John Major took delivery of 10 boxes last December . |
| 2 | That might seem reasonable , except that in China it is quite normal for ailing politicians to be filmed for the evening television news on their sick beds , perhaps receiving wishes for a speedy recovery from solicitous friends . |
| 3 | Lest anyone doubt the validity of these observations in England and Wales , consider the following admission about a custodial sentence from the Home Office : |
| 4 | I borrowed a copy of a registration chart for a previous symposium from Norma Gregory , and Julia used this as a model for this one . |
| 5 | Also , in May this year , British Rail submitted to the Secretary of State for his approval route proposals for a high-speed link from the channel tunnel to central London and a comparative analysis of other routes . |
| 6 | There is no need for Nigel Lawson to resign , although he and the Prime Minister share responsibility for a disastrous lapse from Thatcherite principles . |
| 7 | This failure to explain the enforceability of contracts as a logical derivation from liberal principles foreshadows the emergence of the two interpretations which dominate current discussions of the substance of the modern law of contract . |
| 8 | The old lane was in use down to comparatively recent times as a through road from Northampton to Banbury . |
| 9 | Then last year Charlie made it two when the Arthur Moore trained Ninepins came home at 14–1 in the Oddbins Handicap Hurdle after a terrific ride from Swan . |
| 10 | ‘ I felt good when I returned in March after a long absence from the game with a knee injury . |
| 11 | ‘ I felt good when I returned in March after a long absence from the game with a knee injury . |
| 12 | And five minutes from time , he cheered a meagre 2,363 crowd — Pompey 's lowest ever for a competitive game at home — with a clinical winner after a right-wing burst from Warren Aspinall . |
| 13 | There is an 82-member National Assembly elected by universal adult suffrage for a three-year term from a list of candidates drawn up by the party , based on local branch committee nominations . |
| 14 | There is an 82-member National Assembly elected by universal adult suffrage for a three-year term from a list of candidates drawn up by the party , based on local branch committee nominations . |
| 15 | American soldiers are killed by ‘ friendly fire ’ due to incompetence , and indulge in pot-smoking parties for a temporary relief from the pain , tiredness and boredom . |
| 16 | — Israel 's absolute monotheism — belief in the one true God — and the ritual as a direct revelation from him . |
| 17 | In their treatment of this theme both Cassirer and Hallowell point out that the crucial link between the inner world of representation and the outer ‘ reality ’ lies in the human capacity to symbolize percepts ; symbolization of events in the perceptual continuum provides the units for a pictorial logic from which the abstraction of grammar eventually emerged as a concomitant of sound production in the development of verbal communication . |
| 18 | In Fig. 3.3 , for example , the characteristic is approximated by a straight line with slope T' , so the motor torque is : A motor with a high stiffness develops a large torque for a small displacement from equilibrium . |
| 19 | To be totally deaf was bound to be a professional handicap , and after some difficulty , Frank managed to secure the post of assistant doctor in the South Wales coalfield of Aberffrwd , where he served his apprenticeship as a general practitioner from 1908 until 1915 . |
| 20 | Police are hunting two teenagers after a failed snatch from a woman carrying cash in Loftus Market Place . |
| 21 | Farnham took the lead just after the interval when Musgrove netted at the second attempt after a good save from the 'keeper . |
| 22 | An Italian , Bartolomeo Gosio , in 1896 , described the extraction of a crystalline substance from culture filtrates of a Penicillium : the substance was later shown to be a compound called mycophenolic acid , with interesting biological properties but no valuable antibacterial ones . |
| 23 | On the recommendation of a 1958 report from the Commons Select Committee on Estimates , a technocratic team had been commissioned to build on the forward looks for social-service and defence spending pioneered by the Treasury in the mid-fifties . |
| 24 | ( iii ) It is impossible to divorce the general appreciation of a literary work from the appreciation of its style . |
| 25 | The incorporation of a long passage from a Board of Education memo on evening schools indicates that the Committee feels itself to be in consonance with the Board " s thinking , not only on the inadequacies of vocational education , but also on the value of English as a force for cultural nationalization . |
| 26 | Off Sable Island — Clerke maintained as the result of a changed order from Gilbert — Delight went aground , losing most of her men and all the data so far collected . |
| 27 | The PageMaker User Group ( now universally known as PMUG ) was established in the spring of 1989 as a result of a direct request from Aldus to a group of independent users to see if it would be possible to establish such an organisation . |
| 28 | The 1991–92 Hickinbottom fellowship for research in organic chemistry ( established as a result of a generous endowment from the will of the late Prof W. J. Hickinbottom ) has been awarded to Dr C. Abell of Cambridge University ( see below ) . |
| 29 | Only spirited defending of the highest order and considerable good fortune enabled Manchester United to progress beyond Silesia in 1968 : despite losing 1-0 to Gornik , Sir Matt Busby 's vision of winning the European Cup was still intact as the result of a two-goal advantage from the first leg . |
| 30 | Unless the inviting church can show that it has the capacity within itself to attract and retain the outsider , it is unlikely to do so as the result of a brief visit from an itinerant evangelist , no matter how gifted . |