Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Úvoz Street is of medieval origin and was of importance when the kings of Bohemia processed from the Royal Court in the Old Town ( see p. 131 ) to St Vitus ' Cathedral for their coronation . |
| 4 | Other deities recorded are the Mother Goddesses , the Fates , Mercury and Hercules , while a small lead statuette of Diana came from the supposed temple site in Keays Lane . |
| 5 | The University of Edinburgh benefits from the largest campus computing network in Britain , which is constantly being upgraded to provide students and staff with state of the art facilities . |
| 6 | But then they would have to tell shareholders why only half of the consolidated profits of MEPC comes from the 700 properties it has assembled — with the other half provided by the 20 or so Oldham properties . |
| 7 | Gena Corea , a co-founder of the National Coalition Against Surrogacy quoted from the American Fertility Society 's ethical report , ’ The primary medical indication for use of a surrogate mother is the inability of a woman to provide with the genetic ( the egg ) or the gestation component ( the uterus ) for childbearing ’ . |
| 8 | The charges against Enrile arose from the abortive coup attempt of December 1989 , the most serious military insurrection Aquino to date . |
| 9 | The first signs of a popular revolt against Saddam came from the southern city of Basra on March 1 . |
| 10 | Washington 's nuclear collaboration with Romania dates from the 1970s , when the West was vigorously encouraging President Nicolae Ceausescu to pursue policies independent of the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | This was partly because of their sensitive relationship with Israel arising from the Jewish Holocaust in Europe . |
| 12 | This intimate relationship with God comes from the Holy Spirit . |
| 13 | On the whole , there is very little variation between Authorities in the amounts per head allocated on the basis of total population figures , although Westminster provides a striking exception ; the very large amount for Westminster derives from the large daytime population , since all provision for library expenditure for commuters is transferred to their place of work ! |
| 14 | ‘ Of course we thought about political problems , but everyone in Israel suffers from the same ones , ’ says Igor , a railway engineer studying at the Mevasseret ulpan . |
| 15 | Does my hon. Friend agree that some of the best beef exported from Britain comes from the less-favoured areas and hill land ? |
| 16 | Japan 's interest in Manchuria dated from the Meiji period . |
| 17 | The sample from Wales came from the same locality as the short-eared owl and tawny owl pellet samples , and the kestrel was hunting over much the same area as these species . |
| 18 | Two of the most powerful directors in Hollywood graduated from the Happy Days academy . |
| 19 | It was taking time for Britain to recover from the First World War . |
| 20 | The information which appears on Skymaster comes from the same computers at Heathrow which churn out the printed stuff so you can guarantee that the data is accurate and changes reach you faster than they normally would on the paper system . |
| 21 | That common-sense approach to Brent came from the hon. Member for Brent , East ( Mr. Livingstone ) who , for those who may not remember , was the former leader of the Greater London council . |
| 22 | To begin with , literacy in general was not , of course , independently invented in Greece , as Goody and Watt recognise : the form of literacy particular to Greece developed from the Semitic writing system over a long period of time . |
| 23 | The town hall at Olomouc dates from the late fourteenth century . |
| 24 | No , there has not been another report saying how well she did in the South Atlantic , the European parliament has not ‘ liberated ’ Britain 's £500 million rebate from the European Community , nor has the opposition to the new nuclear power station at Sizewell withdrawn from the public inquiry The news that the Prime Minister has awaited with bated breath ever since she visited CERN last year comes from Switzerland , and it has nothing to do with Zurich , or gnomes . |
| 25 | S. Mary 's Church at Helsingør survives from the Carmelite Convent . |
| 26 | ‘ It is pretty clear they have got the message from institutional shareholders , ’ but he warned that it could take years for Barclays to recover from the bad lending made in the late 1980s . |
| 27 | Almost all petroleum imports by Yugoslavia come from the Soviet Union , Iraq , Libya , and Algeria . |