Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] from [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The waterproof feathers of many marine birds , underlain by a dense blanket formed from the aftershafts of individual feathers , enhance insulation and serve also to keep out wind and snow . |
| 2 | I worked my way along the haphazard-looking perimeter fence formed from the tombs of kings and bishops ; all one piece , all stitched together by a web of carved stone and iron railings . |
| 3 | The seats were made in a variety of materials , plaited with subtle variations in pattern : freshwater rushes gathered from the banks of the Rhône , rye straw ( top right ) , and wheat straw wrapped with raffia ( bottom right ) were left plain , or stained red , green , yellow , blue or pale purple . |
| 4 | The London International Opera Festival is now a regular fixture in the June calendar , and though its scale may be relatively modest — a skilful combination of performances annexed from the seasons of the Royal Opera and English National Opera with one- off ventures mounted by small-scale professional companies — it serves as a useful chance for the capital to catch up with a variety of new work that has failed to find a niche elsewhere . |
| 5 | Flame leaked from the nostrils of his proud old dragon . |
| 6 | Her eyes lifted from the books before her on the desk to the tall , powerful figure standing just a few feet away . |
| 7 | The Socialist parties suffered from the consequences of the Second International 's theory of revolution in stages ( which led the Argentine Socialist Party to support US interventions in the Caribbean ) and its under-estimation of the power of nationalism . |
| 8 | In the final stage , a combination of geographical and legal techniques will be used to set the data collected from the surveys against idealised patterns of both provision and demand . |
| 9 | The affair between Allen and Soon-Yi , a refugee saved from the streets of Seoul in South Korea by Mia , has grabbed the headlines for months . |
| 10 | We have therefore compared a group of coal miners and an age and sex matched group of subjects selected from the members of a general population screening study . |
| 11 | The neutral factions created a 1,000-strong force drawn from the provinces of Kabul , Logar , Wardak , Nangarhar and Parwan to police the truce in Kabul 's southern and eastern suburbs . |
| 12 | CLE does not charge a set fee , operating on the basis of sharing in the expected savings derived from the recommendations in the audit . |
| 13 | Here the camera measurements are in good agreement with the expected relationships derived from the ratios of the areas , except that the readings for one eighth of the total area are slightly high . |
| 14 | Three of these subclones ( R342A4-B14 , R342A4-B15 , and R342A4-C3 ) were found to contain only the short arm of chromosome 10 , as shown by chromosome painting ( Figure 4a , b ) of normal human metaphase spreads with DNA fragments derived from the hybrids by Alu-PCR ( 19 ) . |
| 15 | Their eyes migrated from the sides of their heads ( where their cousins still keep them ) , to look forward with acute stereoscopic vision , and their brains began to mushroom in proportion to their body-weight . |
| 16 | I here were fans suspended from the ceilings in each of the rooms but in Owen 's view all they did was to move hot air from one place to another and he very rarely switched his on . |
| 17 | It is the day when gossip is exchanged , slander is perpetuated , goods are bought and sold , refrigerators , deep freezes and wine cellars are replenished , bubblegum stuck to the more inviting parts of old ladies ' dresses , and money transferred from the coffers of the DHSS to the tills of the Red Lion in joyous cacophony . |
| 18 | It was here that Arthur fought and killed the giant Ritho , a fierce character who lived on the slopes of the mountain and wore a cloak made from the beards of chiefs he had slain . |
| 19 | She looked like a gypsy princess plucked from the pages of a storybook . |
| 20 | There are many designs of tripod varying from interlocking A-frames to simple uprights made from the tips of larch or spruce trees . |
| 21 | In 1968 the Council moved from the premises in Park Crescent it had inherited from the NCTA to larger offices in Devonshire Street ( formerly occupied by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations ) . |
| 22 | This desirable attitude dated from the days of the Victorian foundation of the system when dispersal of books which had been bought with ratepayers ' money would have seemed like culpable negligence . |
| 23 | He discovered that colchicine , a yellow alkaloid derived from the bulbs of autumn crocus ( Colchicum ) , will sometimes cause the chromosome number of plants to double . |
| 24 | Like a thunderbolt the Elves descended from the mountains of Caledor . |
| 25 | She described how over the next 24 hours her mother 's mood swung from the depths of depression to coping well . |
| 26 | Rumour was rife in 1588 and this was the time , armed with the deathbed testimony of Mrs Barnes , and the cutting taken from the drapes of Littlecote ( incidentally , the cutting was found to fit the curtains which were sold many years later as a memento to an American ) , that the lawyers , probably headed by Anthony Brooks , tried to charge Darrel in court . |
| 27 | The ‘ Cicerones ’ will be a team of experts drawn from the universities of Venice and Udine , and the electronics are by Telesia , part of Iacorossi . |
| 28 | Crewe as a previous reply rightly said are running away with the 3rd division , so a 3–1 defeat is a good result considering the mauling some other Premiership clubs got from the likes of Peterborough and Stockport . |
| 29 | The collections formed from the spoils of the Revolution were then augmented by bequests such as that of Jean-Baptiste Wicar , disciple of David and curator of the museum , whose collections included an outstanding group of 800 Old Master drawings , among them a number of superb sheets by Raphael , and by the bold purchasing of modern French art by the municipality in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | Wherever comprehensive psychogeriatric services have been developed , they have usually been organised around the activities of some sort of multidisciplinary outreach team drawn from the professions of nursing , occupational therapy , psychology , social work , and psychiatry . |