Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | mainly in those areas which concern women ; it is impossible for them to disappear from one day to the next . |
| 2 | Futurologists however continue as confidently as ever to predict what we shall soon be doing , and it has been very easy for them to extrapolate from contemporary trends , possibilities and experimentation into an even more thoroughly machine-using future . |
| 3 | The consultation comes after a night during which calls from well wishers flooded the hospital switchboard , said a spokesman . |
| 4 | The generation of 1898 redressed in literature the balance that had been upset in the economic development of Spain : with some exaggeration the rediscovery of the desolate attractions of Castile by poets and essayists , many of whom came from peripheral regions , can be seen as a repentant gesture to the centre , devastated for the greater glory of Spain . |
| 5 | The team was on the mountain — although on the opposite side — at the same time as Ulric and Cathy Jessop , the latter of whom died from pulmonary oedema during a retreat , unbeknown to the south face team . |
| 6 | Few of them recovered from this experience . |
| 7 | The number of people with AIDS varies enormously between countries , but most of them come from large towns rather than rural areas . |
| 8 | You have to remember that some of them came from remote parts of Scotland , and the stores catered for them . |
| 9 | The curator-in-chief in charge of sculpture , Jean-René Gaborit , asked that the courtyards of the Richelieu wing be covered so that his department might at last have the space to show pieces from stores and also sculptures brought in from the Tuileries gardens and elsewhere , many of them suffering from atmospheric pollution . |
| 10 | Around 20,000 of the cars are thought to survive today , many of them suffering from serious rust problems . |
| 11 | Around 20,000 of the cars are thought to survive today , many of them suffering from serious rust problems . |
| 12 | As a former psychiatric nurse , now a general nurse , I see many psychiatric patients , most of them heterosexual , most of them suffering from low self-esteem . |
| 13 | Easel Corp , Burlington , Massachusetts software engineering tools developer has filed to offer 645,266 shares , all of them coming from existing holders , who acquired the shares in connection with Easel 's acquisition of Enfin Software Corp . |
| 14 | ‘ Hey , Alec ! ’ one of them shouted from ten yards down the corridor . |
| 15 | They include inspectorates , audit bodies , scientific research bodies and management consultants , all of which come from different traditions of evaluation . |
| 16 | C. All these factories were using wool , most of which came from other parts of Britain . |
| 17 | Product sales generated £31.1m up from £30.1m in 1991 , some 58% of which came from overseas subsidiaries . |
| 18 | Before reaching the high sand , one had to cross a fifty yards wide trough of mud and water , the depth of which varied from six inches to six feet The trough was probably the only reason the area had not become a popular tourist resort years before . |
| 19 | This is crucial , as tumour samples are almost invariably mixtures of tumour cells , non-tumour epithelium , connective tissue , and inflammatory cells , the proportions of which vary from one sample to a nother . |
| 20 | The findings showed that nine out of 10 people were concerned about pollution caused by carbon dioxide and sulpher dioxide emissions , much of which comes from burning coal and oil . |
| 21 | Chemical seepage is starting to affect drinking water , 70 per cent of which comes from underground sources . |
| 22 | Whilst the law does not require disclosure of such an interest , as it does with the financial one , it may be prudent to indicate the existence of the interest and , because of it to withdraw from active consideration of the issue . |
| 23 | By 1985 the Really Useful Company was showing a £2.7 million profit incredibly , almost all of it coming from one source , Cats , Lloyd Webber 's biggest money-spinner yet . |
| 24 | Now , starts off , most of it taken from social psychology text books . |
| 25 | Wherever you take them , though , try , if it is possible and the weather is good , to arrange for them to spend some of the time out of doors — for the housebound elderly are often short of vitamin D , which most of us get from natural sunlight ( as well as certain foods ) and this deficiency can lead to the painful condition of osteomalacia , in which there is rarefaction of the bones . |
| 26 | Every one of us knows from personal experience , for example on dark nights , that there is an insensibly graded continuous series running all the way from total blindness up to perfect vision , and that every step along this series confers significant benefits . |
| 27 | Many of us escape from that problem by redefining our experimental paradigms and phenomena as things worthy of study in their own right , so we have a psychological literature that abounds in studies of ‘ classical conditioning ’ , the ‘ serial position effect ’ , the ‘ lateral hypothalamic syndrome ’ , and ‘ risky-shift ’ . |
| 28 | Mrs Frizzell was just beginning to feel like someone recovering from near drowning , when this remark sent her under again . |
| 29 | While some of the clearest evidence for localization of function came from neurological studies on humans with damaged or disturbed brains , some of the best evidence against it came from experimental studies on animals . |
| 30 | As in patients who have undergone splenectomy , alcoholics have a predisposition to pneumococcal infection and two of the current group had had pneumococcal disease , ( both with evidence of functional hyposplenism ) with one dying from overwhelming septicaemia . |