Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] from [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | AIDS victim John McGugan has died after making British legal history — by becoming a key witness in a forthcoming sex pervert trial from beyond the grave . |
| 2 | the man said , lifting the card machine from behind the counter and slamming it down on the top . |
| 3 | That Memorandum is a mishmash of out-moded economic ideas and warmed-up Great Serb and Serbian Cultural Club ideas from before the war . |
| 4 | Mark Twain was so impressed he included a description in his work The Innocents Abroad : ‘ I watched the Silver Swan which had a living grace about his movements and a living intelligence in his eyes — watched him swimming about as comfortably and unconcernedly as if he had been born in a morass instead of a jewellers ' shop — watched him seize a silver fish from under the water and hold up his head and go through all the customary and elaborate motions of swallowing it ’ . |
| 5 | It was acknowledged that some of the party 's previous policies had been potentially divisive , and the review was widely seen as both an attempt to attract new voters and as a means of attracting potential coalition partners from among the opposition parties . |
| 6 | PRETTY WOMAN star Julia Roberts has snatched a multi-million pound movie role from under the nose of Demi Moore . |
| 7 | It would be possible to mount two sorts of argument against the Protocols style of conspiracy theory from within the conspiracy tradition itself . |
| 8 | Third , it defined the immediate tasks of the Iraqi people once Saddam Hussein had been overthrown , including the formation of a provisional coalition government from among the opposition forces , which would find a " just solution " to the Kurdish question and guarantee the rights of nationalist minorities such as the Turkomen and the Assyrians . |
| 9 | The Professional version offers the additional feature of being able to make adjustments to the stitch layout from within the COLOUR PATTERN section , so you can edit your colour pattern and stitch layout at the same time if you want to . |
| 10 | Left alone , Meredith ignored her shaking legs and managed to strip off and ease herself into the heavy waist petticoats from beside the chest . |
| 11 | Dry ice curls from beneath the door . |
| 12 | The festivities to mark the occasion on the weekend of 5 and 6 December were attended by museum directors from around the world , a valuable boost to a city which is only now emerging from the destruction of World War II and the Communist austerities which followed . |
| 13 | Tennis is incredibly entertaining and will emulate most tennis championships from around the world . |
| 14 | A GROUP of 11 major law firms from across the UK has joined forces to form a unique quality network . |
| 15 | In the past five to ten years general interest in the deep structure of fold belts has led to the publication of the results of a number of seismic reflection surveys from around the world which provide useful analogues . |
| 16 | Typically it means that steps are taken to ensure that women do not take away a proportion of the kin group 's resources when they marry — which can mean variously , that women 's sexuality is tightly controlled , that women are given little choice about whom they marry , that there is a preference for choosing marriage partners from within the kin groups ( Tillion , 1983 ; Goddard , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | The prosecution is allowed to fly in expert witnesses from around the country . |
| 18 | Bishop Harris led the celebration of the Vestment Guild 's Thanksgiving Mass with Guild members from around the Diocese gathering from the occasion with musical accompaniment by the Cathedral Choir with Director Pat Ryan . |
| 19 | A 90-YEAR-OLD Japanese man will be among more than 5,000 former rugby players from around the globe who will be re-living their youth in Dublin later this week . |
| 20 | Inside the grand , evil smelling hall , a cassocked figure could be seen panting and swaying as it heaved a paper sack of chicken pellets from off the hall table onto the floor . |
| 21 | Mary stood on tip-toe and plucked dry cotton dreff from among the spinning wheels . |
| 22 | In addition to the competing 23 national ( plus Barbarian ) teams having an appropriate will to win , there exuded a true rugby camaraderie from amongst the players of a kind that other global rugby events have failed to match . |
| 23 | The machinery of identifying and training field workers from among the community groups , and in some areas , college students , of the selection of regional staff and State co-ordinators was set in motion even though the ARC delayed in granting approval for the funding . |
| 24 | Only yesterday , my hon. Friend and I met a number of eminent representatives of the tourist industry from across the European Community . |
| 25 | He wants OSF to move to the position most companies adopt when bringing new products to market : at the same moment they back their latest technology releases with endorsements and supportive product announcements from across the industry . |
| 26 | An outspoken environmentalist prior to his appointment in 1990 , " Lutz " had continued to criticize the government 's failure to curtail forest destruction from within the Cabinet . |
| 27 | The mad moon flares from behind the racing clouds . |
| 28 | At 11am taxi drivers from throughout the town will form a cavalcade to escort Kim Theaker 's coffin to a memorial service at St Mark 's Church in North Road . |
| 29 | Many cities are sinking either because of natural land movement or because of water extraction from beneath the city . |
| 30 | Fumbling , panicking , he got the grey metal wastebin from under the desk and set it on top . |