Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb pp] from [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Techniques " at the bell " are four ( 1 ) living with the headlines and main outlines of your subject by the use of swot cards ; ( 2 ) rehearsing old papers ( or papers concocted from textbook examples ) under examination conditions , with the deliberate aim of making these conditions so familiar that you will be at ease — with the " this-is-old-hat-to-me " feeling in the examination room ; ( 3 ) listening with a much more critical ear to your tutor and to the lecturer — especially if he is also the examiner ;
2 There is no evidence that books ordered from approval collections are any more successful than books ordered by other methods .
3 Ralph Berger has also found that subjects woken from REM sleep report colour in their dreams far more frequently than people do when asked about their dreams during the day — even subjects who claimed never to dream in colour .
4 Taylor begged leave to deny that analogies drawn from lead mines in stratified rocks are to be applied to deep copper mines and he considered it rather hard to have " crude suggestions of this sort pressed upon us " .
5 At that time the tax that banks deducted from interest payments to depositors was passed on to the taxmen each quarter .
6 The decision came after a year-long test to ensure that packaging made from pulp mould was strong enough to protect cameras should they de dropped or roughly handled during transport .
7 The decision came after a year-long test to ensure that packaging made from pulp mould was strong enough to protect cameras should they be dropped or roughly handled during transport .
8 Recent experimental work has suggested that lipoproteins ( VLDL ) obtained from diabetic animals ( streptozotocin diabetic rats ) may be more toxic to cultured porcine endothelial cells than lipoproteins obtained from control animals .
9 However , it should be noted that conclusions derived from mouse embryos are not necessarily applicable to mammals in general .
10 In this chapter , less emphasis is given to child than to infant mortality and , also , to morbidity , partly because the influence of biological factors becomes considerably weaker during childhood and , partly because the number of observed deaths decreases by age so rapidly that inferences drawn from survey statistics become less significant and the mortality figures more erratic due to increasing sampling errors .
11 If energy can be obtained from tides , waves and windmills that is better than energy obtained from fossil fuels , which are non-renewable .
12 Bedcover and canopy made from Charcoal Wheat Flower handprinted 70 per cent linen , 30 per cent cotton , 126 cm wide , £69 per m .
13 A concrete example of this was the number of corners won and goals scored from corner opportunities by Leeds .
14 Everyone knows the very elaborate silk blouses , often from the Far East , with collars and insets made from minute silk tubes , faggot-stitched together in elaborate whirling patterns .
15 Fifty two serum samples from patients with Crohn 's disease , 24 from patients with ulcerative colitis , and 12 from patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis were analysed for the presence of anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibodies ( ANCA ) of IgG and IgA class by means of enzyme linked immunosorbent assays using lactoferrin , myeloperoxidase , and antigen extracted from azurophil granules , ‘ αantigen ’ ( that is , an antigen preparation containing proteinase 3 ) as substrates .
16 I used many things to make them cane and dowling and metal coathangers and aluminium tent-poles , and paper and plastic sheeting and dustbin bags and sheets and string and nylon rope and twine and all sorts of little straps and buckles and bits of cord and elastic bands and strips of wire and pins and screws and nails and pieces cannibalised from model yachts and various toys .
17 Their military appearance was emphasized by the fact that some of the girls wore scout knives , compasses , even tin mugs , hanging from their belts , and they carried haversacks and sleeping-bags bought from Army Surplus shops .
18 In the accounts system the cash and discount received from credit card sales would be debited in the cash book and credited to the sales account .
19 Croatian forces then took advantage of the lull to begin moving heavy artillery , vehicles , armoured personnel carriers and tanks seized from army bases into combat positions , particularly around Vukovar and Novska ( near where the motorway was cut ) .
20 And to do so by all possible means , including photographs , videos , audio tapes and , above all , artefacts — not copies but objects collected from extermination camps , ghettos , Slovak villages , Danish ports .
21 Surrounding roads were jammed and buses were filled to over-flowing as commuters switched from Underground lines following the coded warning .
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