Example sentences of "[verb] from [art] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The passage of the Riot Act of 1715 , which made assembling for political ( as well as other ) purposes potentially a capital offence , reveals how far the Whigs had come from the early days when they had actively promoted political demonstrations and deliberately sought an alliance with " the crowd " . |
| 2 | It was a time of great British expansion and it is thought that , in the guise of ships ' cats , they were scattered from the British Isles all over the globe in a comparatively short space of time . |
| 3 | Ledeen always thought it self-evident that America should re-open contacts with Iran ; it could profit from the political fissures there , and could perhaps exploit the chaos that would undoubtedly follow the end of the Ayatollah 's rule . |
| 4 | And for those watercolourists who choose to stray from the white papers traditionally used with the medium , colour is a fourth factor to review . |
| 5 | Smoke from the burned rajathuks still coiled into the heavens . |
| 6 | Fine china and investment banking inevitably er , er er er er suffered from the economic conditions so did entertainment er , which also brought two extra burdens er , firstly the er marked reduction in tourism and , er , for the first time , a three and a half million pound er , bill for Alton Towers ' loss-making winter quarter which I think we , we 've flagged er , quite consistently . |
| 7 | ‘ Despite several rests ranging from a few days up to a whole week , I could n't shake off the injury and it just got worse . |
| 8 | These Crown lands were freed from the common rights hitherto exercised over them , in compensation for the extinguishment of royal forest rights : in Windsor Forest the Commissioners of Woods and Forests were given powers to purchase compulsorily the cottages built on them . |
| 9 | But how could the Templars , operating in the early twelfth century , have acquired such familiarity with a cryptographic system dating from a thousand years before , whose practitioners had apparently long vanished from the stage of history ? |
| 10 | I am sure the last named came from the sinister words occasionally overheard , ‘ If there were another war … . ’ |
| 11 | The wait would be well worth it for such a blind release ; and in this motley crowd , drawn from a dozen hamlets outside in addition to the town , her companion was nameless and faceless as a hunted man could wish to be . |
| 12 | The Israeli government insisted that while the Palestinian representatives should be drawn from the occupied territories rather than the Palestinian " diaspora " ( a term which included those who in 1948 had left what was then Palestine , and their descendants ) , they should not be residents of Jerusalem ( as were both Husseini and Ashrawi ) . |
| 13 | Watch from a few yards away and you will see an elegant rodent , about the size and shape of a hare but with long stilt-like legs , step daintily towards the hole , nose lifted warily . |
| 14 | Clearly I can not get along entirely on factual information , any more than I infer from the mere facts how to act here and now . |
| 15 | Obviously , if it ensues from the two variables originally considered , it does not need to be controlled . |
| 16 | The proliferation of ingenious conjectures within that framework-will lead to progress provided some of the predictions resulting from the ingenious conjectures occasionally prove successful . |
| 17 | * Russian scientists have reported large numbers of seals dying of blood cancer in the White and Barents Seas , allegedly as a result of radioactive waste resulting from the nuclear tests previously carried out on the Novaya Zemlya peninsula [ see Nuclear Power section ] . |
| 18 | All I 'm try we 're only speaking from the best interests here , speaking from the bloody heart rather than the head probably here but we we do want th we do want the best but it 's the old old story , it 's botching it up is n't it , it 's fudging it , it 's trying to fit a square pet into a role cos we pay crap money y'know |
| 19 | laughter so that by the time we came to do the five practical ev exercises you know everybody was in a very relaxed and jolly mood but I think that 's was it 's about but from the results that we were getting from the practical exercises clearly what he said had taken root you know roll key words , roll them around in your mind er try running through letters of the alphabet to match up with your key word chains and you know if if if the word is ball try roll see if you can get it to rhyme and ultimately the creme de la creme is if you can actually get the title of a song or |
| 20 | There are many local societies and missions provided for the benefit of the deaf and dumb which are controlled by hearing committees formed from the sub scribers thereto . |
| 21 | A detailed breakdown of the range and depth of experience is not attempted here , and should arise from the various questionnaires currently being circulated [ … ? ] . |
| 22 | Let me read you two or three other verses from that same book of Hebrews that we read from a few moments ago . |
| 23 | It is easy to spot from a few feet away . |
| 24 | A thing that I 've heard from a few directions recently is erm the thought of work shadowing . |
| 25 | I presently see a figure approaching from a hundred yards off , up the middle of the street : a tall young woman , in a close white cap , and a short frock of lilac cotton , and coarse sack-cloth apron , and strong boots . |
| 26 | Much of this material may have been copied from older sets of annals , and some conceivably derived from the brief comments sometimes made against individual years in the Tables which told churchmen the date of Easter . |
| 27 | At Forncett , the average rent per acre of lands leased was markedly lower in the fifteenth century than in the late fourteenth , although one can not tell from the published figures how far the fluctuations may have been due to variations in the quality of the particular pieces of land being leased at the time rather than to a general decline in rent levels . |
| 28 | The young people had gone upstairs , to bed , or not to bed : strains of music drifted from the upper regions plaintively . |
| 29 | DEC , which held the Dutch introduction to its new Alpha machines here , and Hewlett-Packard , had both spent a lot of money on assembling and staffing the stands , and were less than happy with the trickle of visitors descending from the various sessions down onto the show floor . |
| 30 | The activists ' message scrawled on a wall near the ground is some way removed from the burning passions normally aroused by football , while the T-shirts are more machismo than menace , and pop songs peppered with heavy breathing are apparently in vogue if not in keeping with pre-match entertainment . |