Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had recently travelled from Tasmania to Norway in search of the perfect 2,000 metres of flat water . |
| 32 | No , because over the last six years we 've actually gone from bottom of the pile to tenth from bottom . |
| 33 | Charles Taylor , a former government employee who was charged in 1984 with theft of government funds [ see p. 32898 ] and had subsequently escaped from custody in the USA , claimed that a previously unknown group led by him , the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , was responsible for the rebellion . |
| 34 | On April 30 a television programme had claimed that the Labour Party had hosted secret fund-raising dinners for prominent business executives , that certain companies had made significant secret contributions to the party 's campaign fund , and that these had subsequently profited from sales of state assets . |
| 35 | Mrs Watson had never suffered from depression before and a pathologist confirmed she had no signs of natural disease . |
| 36 | The space between the fly sheet and inner dome also plays a major part in eradicating condensation , a problem which we have all encountered from time to time . |
| 37 | The violence in Belgium , India , Yugoslavia and the problems in Canada have all resulted from fear of domination by one group within the federation ( Walloons , Hindus , Serbs , English speaking Canadians , respectively ) . |
| 38 | As to the third point ( the reason why the court lacks jurisdiction to review ) , the views of Holt C.J. are supported by the passages I have already quoted from Rex v. Bishop of Ely ( inability to decide on the statutes of the college ‘ of which we are ignorant , and the construction of which has been confided to another forum ’ ) and Ex parte Buller , 1 Jur . |
| 39 | TWO new RSC shows that have just transferred from Stratford to the Barbican could not be more different . |
| 40 | Newspapers have traditionally moved from profitability to loss and vice versa at regular intervals as their costs and revenues — always delicately balanced — have come under attack from a variety of quarters . |
| 41 | Central governments elected in 1979 , 1983 and 1987 have clearly benefited from UDCs in general and especially the LDDC . |
| 42 | We have also suffered from rain in the wrong place and at the wrong time . |
| 43 | Its difficulties have partly stemmed from cuts in Medicaid , but also from political interference . |
| 44 | Many railways also have collections of historic coaches , freight wagons and other equipment and use the semaphore signals , most of which have now disappeared from use on the modern rail network . |
| 45 | Is it because I am consumed with envy when I pass the Woodborough bookshop , and there is Eleanor 's newest novel in a special display , and with resentment because I have n't heard from Mary for over a year because she is so busy now , commuting to Brussels being a Euro-lawyer ? |
| 46 | You have doubtless heard from time to time some little of my movements on this side of the globe and if I have not written more fully and frequently to my friends in England I trust this will be attributed to the very pressing engagements which have fully occupied my time and mind . |
| 47 | The excuse for this trip was to visit Val 's brother and his family , who have recently moved from Regina in the middle of the prairies , to these more temperate and scenically more exciting shores . |
| 48 | Charity workers have recently returned from Romania after completing a survey of the hospital and Mr Paul Stage , chairman of the organisation , said : ‘ It has nothing in the way of modern conveniences . |