Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [verb] [prep] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | If truancy is defined as absence from school unauthorised by parents , then concentrating only on unauthorised absence could lull a school into a false sense of security . |
| 2 | His recital of the history of the archbishops ' exercise of authority over the whole of Britain over the centuries is punctuated by quotations from Gregory , proclaiming the claims of antiquity as a model for future conduct . |
| 3 | And he offers a telling counter-example : ‘ Because a work of art or some ancient monument is protected by law from injury , do we speak of the ‘ rights ’ of pictures or stones ? ’ ( 1976 : 182 ) . |
| 4 | Unlike at InterCity , little ticket revenue is considered at risk from taking this stance . |
| 5 | Now one compartment is filled with earth from Bethlehem . |
| 6 | There are antiphons , hymns , sequences and florid responsaries and the programme is linked by recitations from her books of visions , her scientific writing on the natural world and her writings on women . |
| 7 | The importance of economic considerations is supported by evidence from Burgoyne and Clark 's ( 1984 ) small-scale study of couples in second marriages . |
| 8 | The research is supported by grants from many external sources , e.g. research councils , charitable trusts , equine establishments , pharmaceutical companies . |
| 9 | Every bootie is tested for freedom from leaks by inflating with compressed air while being stood in a bath of water , but damage by nipping or cutting can occur when the booties are being fitted into the boot . |
| 10 | The idea that the right hemisphere may be involved in processing highly imageable words is supported by data from temporal lobectomised patients which show a deficit in recall of concrete , highly imageable , words , leaving abstract words unaffected , when the lesion is on the right . |
| 11 | Watertightness is achieved by thrust from hydraulic rams acting on the other end of the tank . |
| 12 | Once accumulation ceases the marram dies out and is replaced by lichens , mosses and other plants : the soil of the dune is enriched by humus from decaying plants and from rabbits and by lime from shell fragments within the sand , so that the nature of vegetation changes and a more complete cover finally appears on the dune . |
| 13 | As the details of the US involvement are revealed , the administration is coming under fire from normally dovish Democrats on Capitol Hill for not acting swiftly and decisively enough to take advantage of the opportunity to end General Noriega 's rule . |
| 14 | Heathcote Books is closed for stocktaking from 27th to 29th January . |
| 15 | Moving from left to right this establishes the proportion of each student registered on a field which is likely to contribute to each subject area 's FTE in each stage ( b , c ) , sets this against current FTEs ( agreed in the 1 November census — after some major ‘ servicing ’ arrangements are allowed for ; for example a high proportion of Stage I accounting is taught by staff from the catering fields ) ( a ) , and adds the likely effect of recruitment targets and combinations for September 1988 ( ij ) , to produce an FTE prediction for the next year ( m ) . |
| 16 | The path from the entrance is littered with remnants from these skips — birdseed , yoghurt cartons , broken glass and old crusts . |
| 17 | Another £100,000 was targeted from the National Union of Students , which as a federation of local student unions and associations is barred by law from spending or investing any of its constituent members ' money . |
| 18 | As for Gerstner , IBM is coming under pressure from the Securities & Exchange Commission to make an announcement to prevent a false market in the shares . |
| 19 | Our observation that female patients carry an improved survival after a curative tumour resection is supported by data from Japan . |
| 20 | In the north a constant war is waged against incursions from Naggaroth and the folk of Tiranoc and their kinsmen from the New World are always to the fore . |
| 21 | The altarpiece is made of wood from one of his ships , the ‘ Resolution ’ . |
| 22 | The backbone of relationships between extant phyla is based on data from molecular biology , especially the phylogeny of Lake ( ref. 7 ) . |
| 23 | The existence of large areas of apparently uninhabited forest , as seen from the air , is deceptive ; the largest areas of fertile soils are found along the main rivers and these are quite densely populated , while the forest beyond serves as an indispensable hunting-ground for people whose diet is based on protein from the wild rather than domesticated animals . |
| 24 | The less common Florida mustard is made with wine from the Champagne region . |
| 25 | The initiative is supported by funding from the government 's Department of Trade and Industry , and the Science and Engineering Research Council . |
| 26 | Mrs Willies-Williams is fighting for damages from the National Trust because she says they wrecked her business . |
| 27 | Neither of these are intended to achieve more than the ‘ break-even point ’ at which energy input to heat the fuel is equalled by output from the fusion reaction . |
| 28 | The rosary is made of stones from the Santo António river and anchor chains from the ships torpedoed in Funchal Bay during the First World War . |
| 29 | The arrangement of the works is chronological , from a late medieval mason 's drawing on parchment from Ulm ( c. 1470 ) to contemporary architect 's designs including Peter Cook 's ‘ Plug in City ’ to Nigel Coates 's 1986 design for the Jasper Conran shop , London . |
| 30 | The object 's surface is heated by radiation from the atmospheric shock front . |