Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any issues affecting the relations of the Serbs with the imperial authorities or with their Muslim landlords and neighbours had to be dealt with by the Muslim authorities , most of whom operated from the cosmopolitan cities . |
| 2 | Governments and organizations such as the European Communities ( EC ) and the Council of Europe sought steps to contain both the influx of migrants , many of whom came from the Soviet Union and eastern Europe , and the rise of racist sentiment . |
| 3 | Others put the current figure for the Roman Catholics alone at about 1,500,000 , the majority of whom came from the Hungarian and German minorities . |
| 4 | Russian writers actually lived simultaneously in the two worlds — the ancient communalism of the peasantry , which so many of them knew from the long summers on their seignorial estates , and the world of the westernised and much-travelled intellectual . |
| 5 | Most of them came from the single European act . |
| 6 | They used to swap aluminium ore for shiploads of them imported from the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | Six of them originated from the same bar on Corfu — 500 miles from the island of Kos where Ben first vanished . |
| 8 | The result of this obvious strategy would be to spread the hydra around still further , so that more and more of it grew from the savaged fragments left behind . |
| 9 | It is conflict theory , much of it derived from the classic structural and historical writings of Marx and Weber , that is principally interested in these kinds of issues . |
| 10 | The green child in me slipped from the old woman . |