Example sentences of "[vb past] from [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The joy and gaiety seeped from that hall as the masked player 's irritation became obvious . |
| 2 | As he peered through his mind 's eye it seemed rather that the deepest water changed into a different type of material which sank down and down forever , tossed by its own fierce storms , swayed by its own currents that were swifter than any ocean 's — until far off elsewhere there surfaced from this immaterium yet other seas of life , which were other worlds . |
| 3 | At constant ( 1976 ) prices , the sales of all the industrial co-operatives rose from 5,200 million pesetas in 1965 to 28,750 million pesetas in 1979 ; and their share of the domestic market rose from less than 1 per cent in 1960 to 10.6 per cent in 1976 . |
| 4 | A heart-breaking wail now rose from those who had not been killed outright . |
| 5 | State employment rose from some 11½ per cent of total employment in 1960 to some 14½ per cent in 1974 . |
| 6 | Host government ownership of oil production in OPEC rose from some 2 per cent in 1970 to 60 per cent in 1974 and 80–90 per cent in 1980 . |
| 7 | Among clearing banks ( the big high-street names ) and insurance companies the proportion of public-school products among directors actually rose from half in 1957 to three-quarters in 1970 . |
| 8 | Though Cranmer drew from many sources , it was his own touch which gave the Prayer Book the charm , perfection of form and expression which were to endow the Church of England for centuries with unity , strength and a way to the hearts of men . |
| 9 | Davidoff et al have shown that the Beau Ideal was underpinned by a morality of mutual duty and service , although the benefits and freedom which each participant drew from such an arrangement varied directly according to their position in the hierarchy . |
| 10 | Using the golfing tips he gleaned from such fine players , Andy soon had his handicap down to two . |
| 11 | Between 1840 and 1880 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels criticized and restructured the ideas they gleaned from all three sources , and combined them into a potent synthesis which they acclaimed as the first ‘ scientific socialism , . |
| 12 | The book he gleaned from all of this , Woodbrook , his masterpiece , draws a beautiful parallel between personal destiny and ineluctable social forces . |
| 13 | The nine gleaned from this encounter puts Essex ahead of the field on 30 points , with Norfolk one-and-a-half behind as the six-time winners prepare for a final match against Cambridgeshire . |
| 14 | The qualitative impressions ( trade gossip ) gleaned from this often provide valuable insights . |
| 15 | What I got was a group of men who ranged from those with a more developed line on women 's issues than mine to those who were frankly misogynistic , and a woman who went on record as saying that , in her opinion , feminism put women off being lesbians . |
| 16 | Even within more formal patterns of education , initiatives ranged from those which tended increasingly towards the institutionalization of a national system overseen by the state ( Education Acts from 1870 to 1902 and beyond ; the formation of School Boards and Education Authorities and a national Board of Education ( 1899 ) ) to a number of semi-state programmes such as , from the 1870s , the national " extension movement " , the National Council of Adult Schools Association , and later , the Workers ' Educational Association . |
| 17 | In Ceylon , stations ranged from those which served the elegant bungalow coastal suburbs of Colombo and those used by Europeans seeking refreshment at the hill stations or at Mount Lavinia to special ‘ coolie ’ stations , where the Tamil labour migrants introduced from South India to the tea plantations could be detrained and kept in quarantine until health requirements could be met . |
| 18 | Though the areas with organized cattle stealing ranged from some of the least to most prosperous in Sri Lanka , they had in common an economy based largely on the production of rice and other grains for local consumption . |
| 19 | The time ranged from half an hour a day to 13 hours a day , depending on whether devolution was viewed as a separate activity concerned only with finance or whether it was seen as being curriculum driven and/or inseparable from all the activities performed by a head in a working day . |
| 20 | From November , 1914 , Ruhleben ( racecourse stables outside Berlin ) housed for up to four years about 4000 Britons , who ranged from several honeymoon couples just arrived in Germany for their August holidays to dons and students on walking or reading parties , musicians and sportsmen snatched from festivals , and even a journalist with an ear supposedly close to the ground , Israel Cohen , a German correspondent for the London press who had cheerfully left on July 29 for his vacation near Dresden . |
| 21 | What what where did you move to when you moved from that school ? |
| 22 | what have you , and they moved from that really nice house |
| 23 | A place where men snatched from those they cared for could write cheerful , loving letters with no word of their secret worries . |
| 24 | After all , he had been baptised by John and his authority stemmed from that moment : |
| 25 | His style stemmed from that of Jan van Scorel , using a strong three-dimensional rendering of the features , modified by late Holbein with its concern for a dazzling and exact record of magnificent dress and jewels . |
| 26 | His opportunism , his cheating , even his charm , all stemmed from that one flaw of nature ; weakness of character . |
| 27 | Indeed , such conversations among the estate workers were not just gossip but an acknowledgement that all social relations stemmed from that source , the Dersingham family . |
| 28 | Some of the infected Spaniards joined his army as mercenaries and the massive spread of the disease throughout Europe stemmed from this time . |
| 29 | Other ideas stemmed from this original one and there have been suggestions that the reliquary contains other combinations of materials , some with thixotropic properties , including inorganic pigments in castor oil , real blood in a thixotropic honey , or a mixture of spermaceti , ether and red dye which is solid at 10°C but melts with body heat and froths due to the ether , a characteristic noted in the Naples liquefaction . |
| 30 | One of the classic confrontations of nineteenth-century ethnology stemmed from this very circumstance . |