Example sentences of "[noun sg] from [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is the case the economy will move with great speed from point A to point C , completely bypassing point B. At no stage in the rapid transition from A to C has any criterion of the rational expectations hypothesis been violated . |
| 2 | United deserved this ; a burst of speed from Dave Penney and a winning shot from Joey Beauchamp . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the vastly expanded social contacts removed a shield of isolation from village life . |
| 4 | You can not , in isolation from church doctrine , and in isolation from the plain facts of literary history , say that Jesus said this ming or that thing . |
| 5 | Secondly , library skills are seen as part of a group of several related skills , suggesting that library skills should not be taught in isolation from study skills , learning skills and communication skills . |
| 6 | The strong rural support for the Party is recognized by a call for ‘ a realistic return for the farming community , with special measures to offset the disadvantages , especially in the intensive livestock sector , resulting from our isolation from Great Britain ’ . |
| 7 | FRESH GARBAGE from Frank Zappa 's bulging tape archive which takes us on a trip to the heart of greasy rock ‘ n ’ roll in the company of his much-maligned Flo & Eddie ensemble . |
| 8 | A loud , rather slow thudding drew a questioning glance from Bill Hamilton , but Tom shook his head . |
| 9 | She suppressed it quickly and guiltily , but not before she had been rewarded by an equally amused glance from Dr Russell , which had the unfortunate effect of turning all her limbs to jelly at once . |
| 10 | Or , to put the matter more honestly , thought Dorothea Gilberd , tearing her glance from Tom Tedder , why do n't they prescribe books that Burleigh School has already got copies of ? |
| 11 | The servant who passed the story on to the firefighters had been standing nearby taking in all that was being said until a glance from Meredith Putt through the partly open door sent her scuttling upstairs to complete her work , filled with apprehension by what she had just heard . |
| 12 | Pearson 's plan to send people ‘ like so many parcels in a pneumatic tube ’ met with mockery from Henry Mayhew , the journalist and sociologist . |
| 13 | The same may be said for Confucianism , which has dominated Chinese philosophical thinking from times BOO years before the birth of Christ . |
| 14 | They used fishing rods and hooks , those cunning , black , nocturnal anglers , and they were blamed for the disappearance of booze from liquor cabinets and sugar from pantries . |
| 15 | Representing a more traditional form of British cinema , John Schlesinger 's Madame Sousatzka ( Virgin ) has a stand-out performance by Shirley MacLaine and a keen eye for varied London locations , while A Time Of Destiny ( Vestron ) is a baroque romantic melodrama from Gregory Nava ( El Norte ) , which despite the miscasting of William Hurt as a Basque immigrant 's son seemed to me to have been unfairly downgraded . |
| 16 | The top Shire Horse from William Tudor Jones , of Llanfihangel-y-Pennant , Tywyn , lined up with the supreme champions in the cattle and sheep sections to compete for the show 's super supreme title . |
| 17 | Among animals the graceful horse from Les Espélugues , Lourdes , and the mammoths from Predmost in Moravia are outstanding . |
| 18 | There are none of us , including Cliff , a concrete contractor from Washington state , and his wife Sandy , who wanted to go to Paris this summer but lost the toss of a coin ; Bill , who writes travel guides and is comfortable only in his own company ; and Ken , a semi-retired naval man from Oregon , who spends most of the time wrestling with the impossible task of capturing the gigantic scenery in photographs . |
| 19 | , William Brooke ( 1906–1946 ) , Fascist and wartime broadcaster in English from Nazi Germany , was born in Brooklyn , New York , 24 April 1906 , the eldest of three sons ( there were no daughters ) of Michael Francis Joyce , an Irish Catholic building contractor from county Mayo who emigrated to the United States , and his wife Gertrude Emily Brooke , the daughter of a doctor of Irish Protestant descent living in Shaw , Lancashire . |
| 20 | An assistant geologist in the Karachi office and the first employee from LASMO Pakistan to attend a full-time degree course in the UK , he graduated at the end of October . |
| 21 | Barnet sent the League documents confirming a £250,000 loan conditional on aid from Lytham St Annes . |
| 22 | Colour Sticks are a new sales aid from Stoddard Templeton replacing the outdated colour cards with a more convenient and stylish method which strongly brands the company name . |
| 23 | If it merely has a few extra grammes of plutonium squirrelled away ( something explicable as an oversight — or the ‘ oops ’ factor ) , then it might be ready to end its quarrel with the rest of the world in return for a deal that could even bring diplomatic recognition from America , together with trade and aid from South Korea and Japan . |
| 24 | It is hoped that , in addition to grant aid from government agencies , the project will be funded by donations from the National Trust for Scotland members and benefactors . |
| 25 | Even before the upheavals in Europe they were warning against attempts to subtract environmental aid from development aid . |
| 26 | Iraq 's oil production is some 1 million barrels per day less than Iran 's but its war effort has been supported by aid from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait both by direct practical aid and by gifts of oil , sent out from Saudi and Kuwaiti ports , but marketed by Iraq . |
| 27 | Bennet continued to be a travelling preacher , hoping at first to obtain aid from George Whitefield [ q.v. ] and his Calvinistic Methodist connection . |
| 28 | THE British Red Cross in Powys are seeking grant aid from Powys County Council to provide a holiday for 12 physically and mentally handicapped children at a total cost of £1,505 . |
| 29 | Two historic sites in Whitby are to get grant aid from Scarborough Council . |
| 30 | An enterprising parents ' association at one primary school took on the short term lease of a shop in the local High Street in the pre-Christmas period and made a substantial profit by buying in stock from discount warehouses and retailing in competition with other traders . |