Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] from the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In thinking about what Stalinism brought to his country , Kundera thinks of the support this despotism has received from the writers of his country , and of other countries . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what representations he has received from the chairmen of the north-west training and enterprise councils concerning the level of funding of training programmes . |
| 3 | The collection from Kenya came from owls roosting in an old well at the ruined town of Gedi , an old Arab town now being reclaimed by coastal forest , and the owls were roosting on ledges where stone has fallen from the walls of the well . |
| 4 | But in the past few years a phoenix has risen from the flames of Lakehurst . |
| 5 | A new self has risen from the ashes of the old body . |
| 6 | THE landmark spire of Colmcille Roman Catholic church in Holywood has risen from the ashes of the fire which virtually destroyed it four years ago . |
| 7 | The little church has suffered from the rigours of time and town planning , normally a lethal combination , and survived . |
| 8 | It was agreed that the Society would undertake a project to restore the bridge , which has suffered from the ravages of weather and plant growth for a long time . |
| 9 | EURO DISNEY has moved from the realms of make-believe to become reality . |
| 10 | The carcass is pale ad oedematous and the red marrow has expanded from the epiphyses into the medullary cavity ( P1.I ) . |
| 11 | Where the board can effectively determine its own composition it has generally been assumed that it becomes immune from direct shareholder influence and hence that control has shifted from the owners to managers . |
| 12 | When you listen to the Chancellor of the Exchequer sweeping aside concerns about the decision to put VAT on fuel bills with a casual assertion that it will help the national debt and so ultimately benefit every consumer , it gives you the clearest possible indication of how divorced this government has become from the concerns of millions of electors . |
| 13 | So much of modern astrophysics has sprung from the seeds of radio astronomy that I would recommend a session with this book for anyone currently involved in astronomy research . |
| 14 | It has emerged from the realms of sub-culture into the mainstream , and may yet , via Viz , be modish . |
| 15 | Indeed , if I may build on what they have said and sum up my position on the future of the European Community , it is this : in the new Europe that has emerged from the ashes of the second world war and now from the grim shadows of the cold war , new possibilities for peace and prosperity across Europe exist which have probably never before been seen on that continent . |
| 16 | The cash it has taken from the likes of you and me has gone to cover its losses caused by firms going to the wall because of the recession . |
| 17 | Within a matter of months , such talk — formerly condemned by middle-of-the-road Israelis as defeatist and unpatriotic — has spread from the fringes of the left to the cabinet table . |
| 18 | It has faded from the lips of those in the east , and the dying man on the right has his teeth bared and one eye half closed ; a kind of realism found in some late archaic and early classical vase-painting and sometimes in sculpture too . |
| 19 | The trouble has arisen from the policies of Labour councillors who control some London boroughs . |
| 20 | George Jones has quoted from The Times of 1880 to show that it existed before the creation of the present local authorities ( Jones 1969 : 150 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ But the other , the man , the forensic pathologist thought he 'd died from the effects of nerve gas . ’ |
| 22 | There was no tension in him : when he was tense there was a rigidity in his neck muscles , a rigidity I 'd watched from the depths of the crowd during the brief day of his trial and seen a few times since , as at Nottingham . |
| 23 | He looked as though he 'd stepped from the pages of a history book . |
| 24 | The practical effect of this provision is that if an MNP is formed by , say , a merger of a foreign legal firm and an English firm , the firm name used by either may be adopted as the name of the MNP if it is made up of the names of present or former principals who are or were lawyers ; a new name may be used derived from the names of one or more present or former principals of either firm ; a name previously approved by the Council may be used ; or application may be made for approval in writing by the Council of a name which does not otherwise comply with the requirements of rule 11(1) ( A ) . |
| 25 | One of the results is that synods have become the happy hunting ground of activists of one kind or another , and thus have become removed from the concerns of the ordinary man or woman in the pews . |
| 26 | Just as her childhood amusements could have originated from the pages of a 1930s ' children 's book , so Diana 's upbringing reflected the values of a bygone age . |
| 27 | Also , their inmates may often have come from the ranks of the noble and landowning class . |
| 28 | The vivid illustrations in the Blue Books of the 1840s could as well have come from the mines of Shropshire in 1770 . |
| 29 | He was a wealthy man , and although some of his wealth may have come from the profits of war , he benefited substantially from Edward 's patronage . |
| 30 | In fact , one way and another the food is very aptly named , having risen from the ashes in two senses ! |