Example sentences of "a [noun] from [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were actually are making a profit we said at the beginning we do get a payment from petticoats so I do n't see that arrangement actually changing but it suits the trust were not very good at running restaurant 's . . |
| 2 | Both times it was retrieved but in 1966 , while it was lying in the field just three days before it was due to be raised , the top half was stolen by a gang from Aberford again . |
| 3 | A parcel from London recently landed on my desk with what turns out to be the best analysis of it , Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution by Professor R W Davies of Birmingham University 's Centre for Russian and East European Studies ( Macmillan , hardback £29.50 , paperback £7.99 ) . |
| 4 | OIL giant Shell is to cut the price of petrol by 18p a gallon from midnight tomorrow . |
| 5 | A change from times when she felt she ‘ had to act like she knew everything ’ . |
| 6 | would you like a change from Wales then ? |
| 7 | The Census , which until ten years ago existed only on index cards and photographs in the Warburg 's Photographic Collection , seems to have had its origins in a project allocated by Fritz Saxl to Alfred Scharf who had come to London as a refugee from Vienna around 1935 . |
| 8 | This grew with the realization that deep chemical weathering would be the norm in many tropical areas and that many temperate areas included tor-like residuals which were a remnant from times when climatic conditions were warmer and wetter . |
| 9 | Well , she should come and have a break from work really . |
| 10 | His foster parents say they 're giving him a break from events back home . |
| 11 | His foster parents say they 're giving him a break from events back home . |
| 12 | ‘ I needed a break from routine rather badly , ’ he said as he drew up a chair and sat down . |
| 13 | Yeah , erm I have n't had a reply from Stan yet , |
| 14 | The likelihood is that had the matter come before the courts in the nineteenth century , they would have held that the mistake had to be reasonable , for it was generally considered at that time that mistake was a defence which would excuse a defendant from liability only where it was based on reasonable grounds . |
| 15 | Imagine a world in which gold and silver were cheap but iron and aluminium were rare , what advantages would there be making a car from gold instead of iron and saucepans from silver instead of aluminium . |
| 16 | Marcus ( 1990b ) reports that a group from IBM informally surveyed a number of parsers that claimed to be ‘ broad coverage ’ . |
| 17 | Berry plays Nick , a bobby from Hackney somewhat improbably posted to the remote village of Adenfield ( ’ I 'm your new village copper , ’ he obligingly explains to a local ) and equally improbably married to a posh doctor played by Niamh Cusack . |
| 18 | I shall give a quotation from Sayre simply to show the difference between the approaches to such issues as consciousness in the AI tradition and in the cybernetics tradition ; both , after all , are concerned with the implications of intelligent machines for consciousness , etc . |
| 19 | The fears of retribution were heightened by a directive from Washington not to assume any responsibility for the rehabilitation of Japan nor to assume the obligation to maintain any particular standard of living . |
| 20 | One day a trunk-load of winter woollens turned up , a gift from Johannesburg where a news item in the local paper had inspired a ladies ' circle to start knitting . |
| 21 | They came by coach , car and on foot from all corners of the country , and from France with a team from Faverolles once again supporting the event . |
| 22 | The old lady would n't reach him in that time ; but the assistant saw her swing her right arm forward , the hand clutching a furled umbrella by its ferrule. the crook of the umbrella hooked inside the front of the little boy 's blazer and hooked him like a fish from water out of the path of the skidding car . |
| 23 | You bring a request from Dora not to deprive her of — what is the English expression — her meal ticket ? ’ |
| 24 | It 's not that I t I my friend come cos I do have her little boy now straight from school , she pays for him to have a taxi from Endrodenny down to my house and I do have him until she finishes work and she said oh coming out tomorrow ? |
| 25 | But with Leicester needing quick runs , Benson chopped a ball from Ambrose on to his stumps before he had scored . |
| 26 | There is no record of a dram-bottle from Darwin ever having been in the family ; there is , however , a beautiful silver compass inscribed ‘ Mr. Gould from C. Darwin Esq ’ . |
| 27 | Just three plants can be used to make a cool and colourful corner of a border from spring through to summer . |
| 28 | The first , through Irons , came a minute from half-time when he hammered in an unstoppable drive after a good run into the penalty area by Harvey . |
| 29 | Oldham did not threaten until a minute from time when Ian Olney looked as though he had equalised . |
| 30 | To get to Girran you 've got to go into Glasgow and get a train from Glasgow down to Girran you see ? |