Example sentences of "[noun] a [adj] [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were speedily , if only temporarily , relieved of their worries when a head appeared amidst the gently rolling waves a short distance from the beach , which soon resolved into the — quite pleasing — shape of a woman struggling exhaustedly out of the sea and up the beach beside the jetty . |
| 2 | I took a seat a little way from the knot of people that formed the main body of our party . |
| 3 | Unknown to the army press office , the RUC had stopped the car , from which the shots had come , at a roadside vehicle search a short distance from the scene . |
| 4 | They found a cafe a short distance from the car park . |
| 5 | There does not seem to me to be anything in the policy of the new Act which suggests that in this provision Parliament was intending to give those words a different meaning from those which they had been held to bear under the Act of 1914 . |
| 6 | It is in this sense that Nizan 's revolutionary literature demands a great deal from the reader . |
| 7 | Emily Bond a new name from Gloucestershire did best of all … she beat Heidi Hogh 6-1 6-0 but just failed to make the quarter finals … |
| 8 | The mines inspectorate have admitted to Public Eye , the roof bolting method next to old workings underground made Bilsthorpe a different case from normal , but they stress the system was carefully examined before it was allowed . |
| 9 | As she put down her cases a large shiny 1935 Armstrong Siddeley car came around a bend in the station drive and braked to a halt a short distance from her . |
| 10 | In this way , the model can be brought to a halt a short distance from the ground with all of the blade energy and pitch range still available to make the landing . |
| 11 | The file brought with it a twinge of now familiar guilt ant a covering note from Army Intelligence : Will you please try and persuade the creepy-crawlies that we have neither the facilities nor any reason to investigate this lady 's apparent disappearance . |
| 12 | Relief work and voluntary aid continues , which is what brought truck drivers Dick and Ray a long way from their Oxford homes to deliver important equipment to the struggling hospitals and orphanages . |
| 13 | He rose and staggered out and we followed him into a stinking alleyway a short distance from the tavern . |
| 14 | These cells have their origin a long distance from the sex organs . |
| 15 | Like Britain , Mr Bush may find Russia a useful diversion from talking about a recession . |
| 16 | In the opening minute of the second half a good pass from Johnny Gregg to Ritchie Moffett inside the visiting circle opened the score for Newry . |
| 17 | If you do much watering by can a long way from a tap , get a matching pair , each holding 2 gallons . |
| 18 | Keith Pennyfeather , a senior countryside officer with the commission said : ‘ Much of the restoration being carried out on the Pennine Way inevitably occurs at remote sites a considerable distance from the nearest road . |
| 19 | She dyed some of the rice grains a different colour from the background , these grains were easy to see : she dyed other grains the same colour as the background , which made them difficult to see . |
| 20 | Charles was taking the job a long way from the safe arena of charitable patronage and ribbon-cutting and into politically dangerous areas , where constitutionally , he ought not to be . |
| 21 | So I 'd like to reflect that against what the government has done since our unique November conference they have cut the Health and Safety Executive 's budget for nineteen ninety three ninety four by five percent , that 's a total of thirteen million pounds the Department of Employment have already admitted this will lead to less inspections and less prosecutions they have introduced a market tex market testing exercise into the H S E in other words they 're saying what parts of the Health and Safety Executive can be privatized into , no doubt , their friends in industry they have made sure that Health that the Health and Safety Commission will work slower in the future by making the chair which is currently a full-time post a part-time post from September this year . |
| 22 | Apart from whether or not these exercises are effective ( they are certainly found to be enjoyable and relaxing by many pupils ) , they have given the teacher a secure base from which to work , for the teacher can be very much in charge , dictating the choice of exercise , controlling the length of time for each , selecting the background music where felt to be appropriate or even dictating the moment-to-moment activity within the experience . |
| 23 | With cinema admissions expanding rapidly , Rank was not only in a buoyant financial condition , but also in a strong position to negotiate a deal , which would secure his films a fair return from the US market , with major American companies increasingly concerned to protect their UK earnings . |
| 24 | Amongst these were Dr.Patrick Solomon , who had been out of politics for five years ; Dr.Winston Mahabir , an East Indian physician , and Gerard Montano a popular businessman from the San Fernando district . |
| 25 | Former Welsh international Steve Lovell , on a month 's trial , slid in to give Bournemouth a 19th-minute lead from Kenny Rowlands ' cross , and Denny Mundee paddled in with the dexterity of a sculler to score their second after Mick Bodley 's back pass stuck in a puddle . |
| 26 | But Marion Kemp could not , in my view , have killed her husband , and quite certainly she could hardly have moved the body a single centimetre from where it lay . |
| 27 | In the long run administrators try to make capitalism a positive-sum game from which all classes can gain . |
| 28 | Upright chairs were placed around the walls of the drawing room a large distance from one another . |
| 29 | At my next attempt I passed into Eton a whole form from the bottom of the school . |
| 30 | Mr Dayton currently co-chairs a committee seeking to raise $50 million for endowment a far cry from the $30,000 annual drives he remembers leading in the 1940s ! |