Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first-generation immigrant , however zealously he or she tried to learn the techniques of the new life , lived in a self-imposed ghetto , drawing support from the old ways , the men of his kind , the memories of the old country which he had so readily abandoned . |
| 2 | It was paid for by the county using money from the national Transport Road Research Laboratory . |
| 3 | Will the Minister confirm that at least one Government Minister receives money from the set-aside scheme ? |
| 4 | This view has also received support from the Joint Nature Conservation Committee and from the environmental directorate of the European Commission , although in the UK government itself the Department of the Environment failed to acknowledge receipt of the FoE reports . |
| 5 | Far from co-operating , however , the Metropolitan sought to ‘ mislead , confuse and divert ’ investigators by , for instance , labelling objects from the Lydian hoard ‘ East Greek Treasures ’ . |
| 6 | The result was urban chaos but a richness of building styles which redeemed Brighton from the overbearing formality of its more classical contemporaries . |
| 7 | Gibson , deputy chairman of the Hardy Society , is now gathering opinions from the old boy 's contemporaries , many of which have never been published before . |
| 8 | When they return with the honey , they too will perform a dance so that , in a very short time , most of the worker force in the hive is actively gathering honey from the new source . |
| 9 | In addition , by washing the endocope twice before gastroscopy we avoided contamination from the endoscopic cleaning fluids , which contained high concentrations of most metals measured . |
| 10 | Adrian Sinfield has brought this analysis up to date by using data from the General Household Survey for 1975–7 and 1984 to measure the proportion of different social groups experiencing unemployment ( Press notice , 30 March 1987 ) . |
| 11 | Using data from the General Household Survey for 1972 on 6,873 male employees and using a method of analysis similar , but not identical , to that of Jencks , Psacharopoulos found ‘ that personal characteristics explain a higher fraction of earnings variance in the U.K. than in the U.S. and that education has a sizeable direct effect on income as well as an indirect effect through occupation ’ . |
| 12 | Several studies have recorded socioeconomic differences in the uptake of various forms of health care by individuals using data from the general household survey and the third national morbidity survey . |
| 13 | Such information allows them to plan ahead , using data from the previous period perhaps to make corrections after the next pass of the satellite over Chilton . |
| 14 | AN environmental group is demanding action from the National Rivers Authority to prevent further pollution of the Dee estuary . |
| 15 | But where else will the defence establishment turn if it wants to do its own brand of basic research , using spinoffs from the constant advances in high energy physics ? |
| 16 | In the gold-weight study there was no problem : by gathering data from the British Museum , the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin , and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford , over 2,500 objects were studied . |
| 17 | Aylwin , reflecting demands from the Catholic church and from left- and right-wing politicians for a full inquiry , stated on June 21 that , if the courts determined individual responsibilities for human rights abuses , one of the consequences would be " the retirement of those guilty of such responsibilities " . |
| 18 | We tend to describe our lives using images from the conceptual languages with which we are most familiar , and the metaphor of life as a novel or the world as a book has yielded in contemporary culture to cybernetic models . |
| 19 | A rough lane goes downriver from the bottom end of the street in Keld and this soon develops into a lovely path amongst trees from which Kisdon Force is reached by a shod detour . |
| 20 | For example , we have received data from the Regional Cancer Registry in Manchester comprising all cancers of the larynx and lung notified between 1974 and 1984 . |
| 21 | Mr Gilbert said the department had received guidance from the Scottish Office , and had access to guidelines used by other local authorities . |
| 22 | The process of extracting the silver involved smelting the ore , purifying the crude lead and recovering silver from the soft metal , notably by means of the cupellation process . |
| 23 | It is fair conjecture that the Chelsea porcelain painters working from live plants sought subjects from the nearby Physic Garden , where they might find many impressive exotics flowering for the first time in this country . |
| 24 | Because it is necessary to include subjects from the other discipline from the first year onwards it is very difficult , although not impossible , to complete a mixed honours degree programme incorporating all the ‘ professional ’ law courses . |
| 25 | The shining weapon flashed above , around and in front of her , catching light from the low sun and whistling as it rushed through the air . |
| 26 | Existing users can have their products upgraded for a cost expected to be some £500 per site ; new users can buy products from the wide-ranging series at between £900 and £50,000 . |
| 27 | After the occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 , the British government finally accepted the necessity of gaining support from the Soviet Union . |
| 28 | With passionate argument , he finally wrung permission from the British War Cabinet for three naval brigades to be dispatched to fortify the city , with himself in attendance . |
| 29 | By contrast , Britain did not find much support across the OEEC for its proposal to exclude agriculture from the free trade area . |
| 30 | Thus Lacey ( 1970 ) , in his study of a secondary school , had to obtain permission from the chief education officer and the headmaster before he entered the school , as did Burgess ( 1983 ) . |