Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] from [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many inquiries the ’ 199 ? ’ hotline has received from small businesses in Essex . |
| 2 | In the last decade , Denis Healey has developed from prop-forward bruiser to everybody 's favourite uncle . |
| 3 | In April 1990 the Guardian carried a leader in which it described the ideal citizen as conjured up by Mr Hurd as ‘ active but elusive ’ : ‘ Apart from a minor sighting in a speech by John MacGregor , the Active Citizen has vanished from public debate as if he had never been . ’ |
| 4 | Much of the improvement has come from increased sales into furniture foams , explained , commercial manager . |
| 5 | New and more productive cereal cultivars have contributed their share to improved yields , but the biggest share in developed countries like the United States has come from increased use of fertilizers — 55 per cent between 1965 and 1976 , according to the New Delhi paper quoting an FAO estimate . |
| 6 | In a recent study of all Higher Education Institutions it has become quite clear that the main impetus towards Equal Opportunity Policies has come from female members of staff or particular unions representing female members ( CRE , unpublished ) . |
| 7 | Metal Office Equipment Limited , which has operated from rented premises for about ten years , is looking to develop land at Chiswick Avenue , Mildenhall . |
| 8 | Susie , 41 , has suffered from multiple sclerosis for 20 years and knows from first-hand experience the difficulty in finding facilities geared up for those who actually gain most from regular exercise . |
| 9 | In the past few years it has suffered from serious errors in planning and a lack of investment . |
| 10 | The tribe has suffered from repeated massacres by prospectors and settlers and their land has been opened up by the construction of the Carajás railway . |
| 11 | Can the government that has been assembled around Mr Beregovoy , the man who has moved from Leftist doctrines to a belief in a mixed economy and who keeps a tight rein on public spending , still be called socialist ? |
| 12 | A small but destructive minority has turned from religious zeal to crime , or to insurrection against its own governments . |
| 13 | Former Test opener Graeme Wood , 35 , has retired from first-class cricket after being dropped by Western Australia . |
| 14 | ‘ Our mood has swung from deep depression to something approaching optimism . ’ |
| 15 | The pendulum has swung from silly dreaming to grinding pragmatism . |
| 16 | That overdraft has resulted from club-record spending by the Owls manager , who has splashed out £4.3m in his 18 months at the Hillsborough helm . |
| 17 | Pragmatism has also played a part here and when convenient the DST has been willing to do deals with other countries trading off information it has obtained from opposing factions in the Middle East . |
| 18 | Palynology has been adopted by many biogeographers and pollen analysis was the basis for the reconstruction of the detailed vegetation history of many specific areas although more recently emphasis has changed from individual sites to the reconstruction of patterns of change in Britain ( e.g. Barber 1976 ) and in the tropics ( e.g. Flenley , 1979 ) . |
| 19 | At the second stage , consciousness became separated from practical action through the division of mental and manual labour . |
| 20 | These South Slavs became separated from related groups in Poland , Czechoslovakia , Russia and the Ukraine by a wedge of non-Slavs — the Germans of Austria , the Romanians of Wallachia and the Magyars of Hungary . |
| 21 | And there had been no damage to any arteries , the small amount of blood there was had come from minor cuts from the broken bottle . |
| 22 | The emergence of speech might then have developed from neural systems for motor control already lateralised to the left half of the brain . |
| 23 | Elsewhere , much of the smooth plains material could have come from large impacts on the so far unseen hemisphere . |
| 24 | However , Lutz et al. ( 1975 ) recognise that southwest of the Groningen High reburial would have led to renewed gas generation from the late Cretaceous onwards ; Lutz et a/. record the initial generation phase as having occurred from late Triassic to mid Jurassic . |
| 25 | If you find on reading this that an existing process would have benefited from different values at . |
| 26 | He has confidence in his own ability and judgement , having climbed from humble beginnings on a small farm in County Sligo , in the west of Ireland , to a £100,000 a year job among the top decision makers in Brussels . |
| 27 | A positive experience of school was not only a reflection of examination success , but may also have resulted from good relationships with peers or a positive memory of several other aspects of school life . |
| 28 | Although it might seem highly unlikely , there are considerable similarities between the male and female genital anatomy — the different structures having started from similar beginnings during the development of the foetus of either sex . |
| 29 | However , the Commission did not find evidence of deaths having resulted from deliberate brutality by police or prison officers , as had been alleged by some of the victims ' families . |
| 30 | As we saw in Chapter 2 , many people find it hard to believe that something like the eye , Paley 's favourite example , so complex and well designed , with so many interlocking working parts , could have arisen from small beginnings by a gradual series of step-by-step changes . |