Example sentences of "[verb] from an " in BNC.

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1 The interim dividend is being lifted from an adjusted 2.7p to 3.02p on June 18 .
2 Like a cigarette lifted from an ashtray
3 Kerry Evans said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that he asked Edward Browning about the blood , and was told that it must have come from an animal he had hit while driving to Scotland .
4 The observation of the Great Wall has come from an ambitious project to map the positions of all visible galaxies which are brighter than a specified minimum .
5 Any radical critic of society has always come from an unattached group of artists and intellectuals .
6 All the same , the feather in his pocket could hardly have come from an imaginary swan .
7 Part of this has come from an influx of retired people , and it has therefore accentuated the already very unbalanced age composition of the population resulting from the emigration of the younger people .
8 Essentially identical results have come from an experiment by Hall and Honey ( 1989 a ) , which used quite different procedures .
9 Impressive though this result is , the transplanted nucleus had come from an early embryonic stage .
10 Darwin at the end of one of his books wrote that according to the unchanging world of his critics , there had been the fall of man into sinfulness and mankind were forever doomed to hopelessness , whereas in his ( Darwin 's ) theory of evolution , man had come from an inferior form , and because of this continuous progress , he commands a limitless potential .
11 I knew then that it was more inspiring than if the sound had come from an orphean bird .
12 After that would probably rank the new Cobe evidence , together with earlier results from the same satellite , which showed that the background radiation was indeed thermal , that is it had come from an explosion and was not produced by some other mysterious microwave source .
13 The Museum is a registered Charity with no public funding and Mick Miller , Finance Trustee , said : ‘ This sponsorship is a very generous gesture and we are delighted that this has come from an enterprising local company which has pledged support for our activities for the next three years . ’
14 Yes I know because it 's come from an old an old word an old .
15 Cuvier had claimed to be able to reconstruct an animal from a single bone , but it was Owen who did it , working out that a bone from New Zealand , broken at the ends , must have come from an enormous flightless bird , and being vindicated when the complete skeleton of a moa was found later .
16 Comparable units in the two ranges seem to have come from an oceanic trough that was torn apart and thrust in opposite directions .
17 It has already been suggested that comment in C under 1020 , 1023 and 1030 was added from other sources , and E's entry on Archbishop Wulfstan 's death in 1023 could have come from an Easter Table entry , although the additions made by D and E to 1022 , and by D alone to 1023 , seem too extensive to be from such a source .
18 The leaks are believed to have come from an HGV carrying diesel .
19 In fact there was a , I think some of the recent erm concerns about schools have come from an image that 's been built up over a period of time that the schools spend very little time on the , on the three Rs for example .
20 Now one can say well what are we aiming for in terms of the sexual harassment free environment , and I think that what one would be aiming for is if not the atmosphere of a girls ' convent school one 's certainly aiming at an environment where women can work and study and interact without the sense of being constantly on display as sexual objects , and , you know , to that extent I do n't know if it is the case that a large number of the respondents are saying , you know , ‘ I have come from an environment when I have n't had to deal with this before , and I do n't expect to have to deal with it ’ then we should certainly sit up and take notice of that .
21 What do they need from an induction course ?
22 A sample weighing about 30 mg is drilled from an inconspicuous area of the object , usually the base .
23 The kind of descriptive approach already widespread in schools — and for which there is plenty of published material available — needs from an early stage to be supplemented in an important way .
24 Ten miles distant , Sandweg church loomed into view ; it rose from an ocean of grain like a vast liner in the doldrums .
25 On yesterday 's new grey market , the shares rose from an issue price of 585p to 612p .
26 Then , as slowly and deliberately as before , Macmillan drew from an inside pocket of his coat a smallish piece of paper and raised it to within a couple of inches of his right eye .
27 She drew from an enormous hold-all an array of archaeological cakes and buns , and displayed them with pride .
28 Car 7 , as rebuilt from an open-sided car , at Layton terminus .
29 They were shocked by the failure of the Secret Service to stop the attack on Mr Reagan , who survived a bullet wound from an assassination attempt in 1981 during his first term as President .
30 The 27-year-old suffered a nasty head wound from an object thrown by the burglar , but caught up with him and rugby-tackled him to the ground .
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