Example sentences of "[noun] from [pos pn] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , it is as a participant in the Hindu way of life that he understands what it means to talk of Religion ; he understands the meaning of the term Religion from its use in his own form of life . |
| 2 | Claudia did n't like this Roman ; he had changed with bewildering speed from her lover to a man who was withdrawing more and more from her with every word he uttered . |
| 3 | If it is obvious that US policy towards Indo-China could not be considered in isolation from its policy towards the rest of Asia , it is even more obvious that the integration of US policy for Vietnam came about at the same time as the disintegration of its policy towards China : the most traumatic episode in US power-war policies in Asia , at least until the outbreak of the Korean war . |
| 4 | ‘ The only disappointment from my point of view was that the timetable for my leaving was chosen for me . |
| 5 | However , the outcome will be interpreted as a considerable victory for WPP in its attempt to stop the movement of staff and advertising clients from its subsidiary to the rival shop . |
| 6 | Business in Scotland has received a boost from our creation of Scottish Enterprise and the Local Enterprise Companies . |
| 7 | M Pelat , an old friend of President Mitterrand from his days as a Resistance fighter , was charged with insider trading in 1988 after making a profit of more than £800,000 during the acquisition of the American Triangle Industries by Pechiney , the French state-owned aluminium and packaging company . |
| 8 | Mr Pelat , an old friend of President Franois Mitterrand from his days as a Resistance fighter , was charged with insider trading in 1988 after making a profit of more than £800,000 during the acquisition of the American Triangle Industries by Pechiney , the French state-owned aluminium and packaging company . |
| 9 | One day in early spring from her perch in the beech Marian saw something white moving in a gash in the forest where a tree had fallen in the winter gales . |
| 10 | Meryl was still puzzled by the lack of feedback from her consultant with respect to her failed job application . |
| 11 | Shapes move forward in the fading light to collect their pile of puris , the due from their offerings of flour and oil , and a few small pieces of meat , prasād . |
| 12 | And when he 's fishing close inshore , watching the signals from his huer on the cliff path and ordering his boats to cast their nets to enclose the shoals of silvery fish that dart and move just beneath the surface , you look down from two hundred feet and you think to yourself , perhaps , perhaps … |
| 13 | The Allies would be still at war with Japan , while Russia and China would be at peace — a situation which would be fraught with obvious dangers and embarrassments from our point of view . |
| 14 | For an hour they flew a repetitive zig-zag from their base to the Front and back , until Callaghan 's neck was stiff and his eyes ached ; but when he suddenly spotted an aircraft he wanted to shout the news . |
| 15 | mind you , you 'll be surprised how wide it is you know from your steps from your pipe to your wall there Ken |
| 16 | In a move that runs counter its commitment to clean up the environment in former East Germany , the German government has agreed to exempt a huge rubbish tip near Schonberg near the Baltic coast from its regulations for a five year period . |
| 17 | A very unhappy MicroMuse Ltd was bemoaning the theft from its stand of a Toshiba Corp laptop computer at the Software Tools show in Wembley , London last week : the machine looks identical to a Toshiba 5200 but was in fact a Sparc LT engineering sample with Solaris loaded and the company warns the thief that it is the only one of its type in the UK and is very traceable . |
| 18 | As a Harijan he benefits from the Government 's reservation scheme for these ‘ backward classes ’ and is thus assured of his job : there were only 40 eligible candidates from his category for 100 posts , whereas there were 5,000 higher-caste Hindus contesting the remaining 80 posts . |
| 19 | It is often extremely awkward for people to take time off work , and it is probably the very people who would be most reluctant to lie or make excuses for their absence to their present employers who will be the best candidates from your point of view . |
| 20 | There are many pretty walks in the area , along the banks of the River Ouse , the Hereward Way , a 110-mile long-distance footpath which passes through Ely , and the medieval track known as Bishops Way which traces the 12-mile route used by the Bishops of Ely from their palace in Ely to their country residence in Little Downham . |
| 21 | In 1710 Prince Eugene ordered that all soldiers found more than a hundred paces from his army on the march and more than a thousand from it when it was in camp should be hanged . |
| 22 | I decided this would divorce the plants and animals from their niche in the system as well as from each other . |
| 23 | He dragged his eyes from her breasts to her long legs . |
| 24 | He dropped his watermelon slice and raised bulging white eyes from his issue of Spook Stories magazine . |
| 25 | In a further development on March 22 Lal , in his capacity as chairman of Janata Dal 's parliamentary board , dismissed Ajit Singh from his post as party secretary-general . |
| 26 | During the flight , Diana paid frequent trips from her seat near the toilets to her boys at the front of the British Airways 747 . |
| 27 | According to custom , they each contributed blood from their veins to a silver bowl and all drank therefrom . |
| 28 | When I was myself again , Silver was standing with his crutch under his arm , cleaning the blood from his knife with some grass . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're going to pay for that , you son-of-a-bitch , ’ the man hissed through clenched teeth as he wiped the blood from his cheek with the back of his hand . |
| 30 | He was also a regular contributor to Radio 4 's Moneybox programme from its inception in 1977 , and joined David Dimbleby 's panel of experts every year commentating on the Budget . |