Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] from [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 After the UN freeze on Iraqi assets at the time of the Gulf War , this packet of shares has not benefited from voting rights or dividends .
2 Phil Campbell , presenter of ‘ Folk Club ’ on BBC Radio Ulster , has just emerged from Spring Studio in Rostrevor with her first album of contemporary songs , and comes to the Harp Folk Club with husband Tom McFarlane on percussion and three other hand-picked musicians to showcase this debut offering .
3 Organic chemistry has also profited from matrix isolation techniques .
4 Extra income has also come from bank interest earned on appeal funds already deposited .
5 Since her arrest she has reportedly suffered from anorexia nervosa .
6 Going with her will be her latest creation , a counter for the cake-shop including cake stands cleverly made from glass buttons and anorak toggles and everything sweet and gooey imaginable on the shelves , from slices of battenberg to three-tiered wedding cakes — all looking good enough to eat !
7 NAM Chairman Roger Bryan felt it was very important to remember every effort made at fund-raising , while at the time the work might have seemed far removed from aviation preservation , this work was incremental in the success of the overall project .
8 Given that weak electromagnetic fields at the power frequencies 50Hz and 60Hz do pollute the environment in the sense that they make it hostile for the chemistry of body functions , there is no real choice other than making sure we live well removed from power lines or accept the higher incidence of cancer and leukaemia as tolerable .
9 Eamonn de Stafort , public relations officer for SPAG , said two cattle had already died from lead poisoning but it was not certain whether dust or water pollution was responsible : ‘ What we are worried about is what will happen when the lake starts to dry up completely ’ .
10 It argued that Africa had hardly benefited from Bank programmes : though exports had improved , there had been no perceptible impact on growth or inflation , and investment had suffered .
11 Many banks had also suffered from government measures to curb liquidity , including the tightening of reserve and liquidity ratios in April 1989 and the requirement introduced the following month that parastatals shift their deposits from commercial banks to the Central Bank .
12 Rabah Kebir , a senior figure in the Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) who had reportedly escaped from house arrest in August and was said to be attempting to form an Islamist government in exile , said in an interview with Le Monde of Sept. 18 that the FIS wanted a dialogue with the government , and denied that the party had been responsible for the Algiers airport bombing , or for the assassination in June of the former HCS President , Mohamed Boudiaf [ see p. 38981 ] .
13 Although the waterfront areas , under the auspices of MDC , have clearly benefited from government expenditure , the physical and social infrastructure of the wider city has been neglected .
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