Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grace is claiming patents for products derived from the natural oils of neem , an evergreen tree , which are used locally for insecticides , contraceptives and soap . |
| 2 | ‘ 1(1) If a child is born disabled as the result of such an occurrence before its birth as is mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) below , and a person ( other than the child 's own mother ) is under this section answerable to the child in respect of the occurrence , the child 's disabilities are to be regarded as damage resulting from the wrongful act of that person and actionable accordingly at the suit of the child . |
| 3 | Mr Angell responded that it would not be feasible for Moscow to leap from the present unconvertible rouble to the complex Western system of floating exchange rates , or to a dollar or yen-backed rouble . |
| 4 | It 's been said although I would n't say it for myself that the lack of pressure for change stems from the Royal Family 's landholdings . |
| 5 | Forsaken as a route of any merit in ascent , it is the obligatory way down for parties summitting from the classic South Ridge of West Face climbs . |
| 6 | This holds even though much of the money for welfare programmes such as AFDC comes from the Federal exchequer ; the larger the average payment , above a Federally-prescribed minimum , the larger the proportion of it which has to be met from State revenues , so that generous State governments are taxing their own residents in order to support their generosity ( see Tresch , 1975 ) . |
| 7 | The crested ibis faces certain extinction in Japan after attempts to breed from the sole remaining pair have failed . |
| 8 | Beccaria 's reputation for humanity comes from the famous sections that oppose the use of torture and of capital punishment . |
| 9 | Similar evidence of unity emerged from the numerous ( about 600 ) Latin American bishops . |
| 10 | The increasing number of states , and the rising legitimacy of states resulting from the increasing democratization of governments ( as it appeared in 1968 ) were important reasons for this development , but the major reason was the new impossibility of actually using force in international relations . |
| 11 | Marilyn Thompson tossed her head and a lock of hair drifted from the elaborate structure . |
| 12 | For example , the large numbers of coins recovered from the Roman bath at Bath tapered off in number from the middle of the fourth century . |
| 13 | A less well-known example is of H. V. Hilprecht , an archaeologist at Pennsylvania University who in 1893 was given drawings of fragments of agate excavated from the Babylonian temple of Bal at Nippur . |
| 14 | The Migration Period in Scandinavia witnessed the production of objects made from the great quantities of gold accumulated in the Roman world , much of which moved north when the Empire collapsed . |
| 15 | Conversely , living in an area of less expensive terraced accommodation or of council houses ( estates composed of houses rented from the local authority are common ) reinforces one 's identification with the working class . |
| 16 | The specific social relations of such privilege are of course derived from the social order as a whole ; it is there that the patron 's powers and resources are enrolled or protected ; in the crudest terms , he is doing what he wishes with his own . |
| 17 | So there is some $24 billion available for intelligence operations which cover a vast spectrum of activities ranging from the covert and illegal to the overt and legal . |
| 18 | Walking down towards the pueblo again , seeing the roomy spread of small farms , the elegant eucalyptus trees which shade them , a handful of birds break from the tall lupins . |
| 19 | The crystallization isotherms of poly ( ethylene terephthalate ) can be fitted by equation ( 11.3 ) using n = 4 above 473 K and n = 2 at 383 K. The equation should be used with caution , however , as non-integer values have been reported and the geometric shape of the morphological unit is not always that predicted by the value of n calculated from the experimental data . |
| 20 | The government has thus attempted to restrict local authority discretion by reducing the level of income received from the central government via cuts in the RSG and through rate capping . |
| 21 | Since the actual value of income diverges from the expected value by only a random error it is tempting to replace the expected income term in equation ( 3.6 ) with actual income and rewrite equation ( 3.6 ) as : |
| 22 | The theory of integrative levels emerged , the essence being that the world of entities evolves from the simple towards the complex by an accumulation of properties or influences from the environment . |
| 23 | In Ulster a full panoply of institutions emerged from the dual pressure of the church 's concern for its people , and the Northern state 's discrimination against catholics . |
| 24 | ‘ Very often the amounts of money taken from the elderly in muggings is minimal . |
| 25 | : To assess the use in semantic analysis of definitions extracted from the CED and re-indexed using the 18,800-lexicon , to reduce the ambiguity of output from a text recognition system . |
| 26 | As Carson waited for Alison he wandered across to the kiosk , the floor was wet from swabbing down , and there was a faint smell of disinfectant rising from the glistening vinyl . |
| 27 | The choice of ordinate arises from the empirical observation that A2B 1 is required for chaos . |
| 28 | The kiln was then fired using bundles of faggots cut from the local woods . |
| 29 | One segment of drift-net recovered from the Alaskan coastline was 1.5 km ( 1 mile ) long and contained 99 dead sea birds , over 200 dead salmon and a seal skull . |
| 30 | It was the wholesale application to civilian society of the one-way chain of command learned from the military milieu into which Franco was born . |