Example sentences of "[verb] from [art] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Venables was lifted from a precarious 30-degree ice slope , by an Indian army helicopter pilot flying perilously close to his aircraft 's maximum altitude limit . |
| 2 | When the restriction was lifted from the Senior Chief Inspector 's annual report about examining the effect on maintained schools of local authorities ' financial and finance-linked resources , it became a report about national quality . |
| 3 | My father was a missionary had come from a dusty little town in South Africa , I 've got many wonderful experiences in my life , I 've had experience of heart transplant . |
| 4 | Most notably , the Spanish strategy was being implemented by a modernizing , socially reformist government , while in Britain the increasing pressures on the railways in recent years have come from a radical Conservative government hostile to the public sector in principle . |
| 5 | One night at a Sandinista party high on the mountains outside of Jinotega , I found out the advise had first come from a certain political adviser with offices in Old Compton Street , London . |
| 6 | The question then as to whether feminism and Christianity are compatible is that of whether the equality of women is compatible with a religion which has come from a past patriarchal age . |
| 7 | That herd was apparently shy , rather fierce and polled and it is possible that the Ardrossan was ancestral to the White Galloway , or its coat colour might have come from the other White Park herds in Scotland ( for example at Cadzow Forest near Hamilton , Blair Atholl in northern Perthshire , the Duke of Buccleuch 's estate at Dalkeith , the Cumbernauld estate or Cally Palace at Gatehouse-of-Fleet ) . |
| 8 | Apart from Mrs Thatcher 's unqualified declaration of support , the only other comment on the events in Panama has come from the Spanish Prime Minister , Mr Felipe Gonzalez , who told the Cortes in Madrid that his government ‘ condemned outright all foreign intervention ’ . |
| 9 | Much of the northern produce has come from the subpolar maritime fringe , notably whalebone and whale oil from the open sea , seal oil , hides and furs from islands and sea ice , fish , and , most recently , shrimps from the continental shelf and slopes . |
| 10 | Impressive though this result is , the transplanted nucleus had come from an early embryonic stage . |
| 11 | Cuvier had claimed to be able to reconstruct an animal from a single bone , but it was Owen who did it , working out that a bone from New Zealand , broken at the ends , must have come from an enormous flightless bird , and being vindicated when the complete skeleton of a moa was found later . |
| 12 | The Museum is a registered Charity with no public funding and Mick Miller , Finance Trustee , said : ‘ This sponsorship is a very generous gesture and we are delighted that this has come from an enterprising local company which has pledged support for our activities for the next three years . ’ |
| 13 | Maggie awaken from the damp heavy warmth of Ted 's body dead in sleep and the blankets piled on the single bed with a dip in the middle brushes her hair and clutches back at the ribbon of dreams from the night before . |
| 14 | She rose from the furry white armchair which he was sure was her choice . |
| 15 | Their hats sailed up , whirling black against the screen , as the dust rose from the red plush seating , while in the back rows the disapproving dentist 's wife , would shake their heads and tut tut at the rowdies down front . |
| 16 | In a second the blaze was over , the mixture and the wasp a single black lump of scarred and blistered debris cooling from a bright yellow heat . |
| 17 | Although Yates freely admits he was happy to pinch from the French New Wave — voice-over , jump cuts , freeze frames and a certain improvisatory quality — the techniques as used here are too self-regarding . |
| 18 | Views on tackling the demand for drugs varied from the liberal Dutch approach to the hard-line US attitude . |
| 19 | These questions have preoccupied fine minds for centuries , with interest intensifying from the late nineteenth century to the present day . |
| 20 | Bicker doctored the hurts of the horses with some strong-smelling salve which he gouged from a small wooden box and smeared on their wounds . |
| 21 | Pozsgay , the first senior Communist party official to admit publicly that the 1956 uprising was a popular revolt , had resigned from the Hungarian Socialist party in November 1990 because he no longer felt that any existing political party totally reflected his views . |
| 22 | The new Prime Minister and Finance Minister , Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller , a former Agriculture Minister , resigned from the conservative Popular Action party ( AP ) in order to take up his new government role . |
| 23 | Poati-Souchalaty , who had been Prime Minister since August 1989 , also resigned from the ruling Parti congolais du travail ( PCT ) . |
| 24 | The right-wing , ultra-nationalist Tehiya and Moledet parties resigned from the ruling Likud-led coalition on Jan. 19 , in protest at what they considered to be the start of autonomy negotiations with the Palestinians during the recent round of Middle East peace talks in Washington [ see this page ] . |
| 25 | Four days later he was also dropped from the ruling Military Committee for National Salvation ( CMSN ) . |
| 26 | They included reforms within the Inland Revenue Service ( raising $3,000 million ) and Bush 's controversial capital gains tax changes , dropped from the fiscal 1990 budget under congressional pressure [ see p. 37036 ] , which actually involved reducing the rate of tax , but were assessed as encouraging sufficient declarations of capital gains in fiscal 1991 to raise an additional $4,900 million . |
| 27 | The consultation on communication ethics , which was organised by WACC , was approached from a Latin American perspective . |
| 28 | The theme will be approached from a Latin American perspective , and representatives from some of the region 's many indigenous groups have been invited to lead one of the sessions . |
| 29 | Charles and Arthur Wilson were made full partners in 1867 and were by this time effectively running the company , which they transformed from a major European enterprise into an international one with routes to North America and India . |
| 30 | Usually on a Friday afternoon I would retreat from the busy main office to my own private one which had been constructed in one corner of the large open room . |