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 | would you like a change from Wales then ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well , she should come and have a break from work really . |
| 8 | ‘ I needed a break from routine rather badly , ’ he said as he drew up a chair and sat down . |
| 9 | Yeah , erm I have n't had a reply from Stan yet , |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Marcus ( 1990b ) reports that a group from IBM informally surveyed a number of parsers that claimed to be ‘ broad coverage ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | You know that you 've got , the fact that you can get current statements at the press of a button from July onwards , we should be able to say that means that on the teams that have n't got ta control the work going round to quotes and back again , having it typed and back again , |
| 18 | ‘ He gets a remittance from England once every three months . |
| 19 | But you can not understand or study a subject from notes alone , as too many students try to do . |
| 20 | However , a free-kick from Nevin nearly brought them a goal immediately before Pearce should have given Forest the lead . |
| 21 | In the same letter to Nannerl , of 3 or 4 November , 1785 , Leopold was grumbling that he had n't heard a word from Wolfgang recently , but that a journalist friend had mentioned something about a new opera . |
| 22 | A volunteer from Kettering also made the journey . |
| 23 | ‘ So I 've arranged you 'll take a statement from Hawick tomorrow afternoon , then . ’ |
| 24 | I had a letter from LAPTC yesterday about the threatened closure of Garstang Magistrates ' Court . |
| 25 | One day the law may re-examine the place in our law of combination and of the ‘ chasm ’ between lawful and unlawful acts which exists in the case of an individual , but the latest judicial pronouncements suggest a retreat from liability rather than an advance towards a principle that the intentional infliction of harm without justification is actionable . |
| 26 | The thought of a visit from Esther slightly cheered Alix , who was feeling , despite her smiles , extremely unhappy , extremely apprehensive . |
| 27 | However , that was to prove costly as from Spurs next attack , Pemberton slid in to intercept a cross from leeds right , the ball came off him awkwardly , Beeney , when under no real threat , handled the ball . |