Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] from a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently , in a series entitled , ‘ Scenes from the intimate life of CMA ’ she uses six small-scale canvasses , each focussing on a film still , randomly appropriated from a narrative sequence . |
| 2 | Almost at once , the decibel level inside soared from an angry mumble to a full-blown shouting match . |
| 3 | You must realise that the King not only fell from a great height but the sea pounded his body to and fro against the rocks . ’ |
| 4 | As Ian Brown , of Lee Moor Farm in Northumberland , noted : ‘ A fact that saddened me lately came from a recent survey which suggested that the average family business — not just farms but all family businesses — lasts only 25 years , which I guess is only a generation . |
| 5 | Wilson 's disinclination to protest against the inquiry probably arose from a reasonable belief that any senior politician who did not want such an inquiry had something discreditable to hide . |
| 6 | Australians were still the butt of English condescension but he clearly came from a different mould from his fellow Australian Barry Humphries ' Private Eye creation , Barry McKenzie . |
| 7 | A monthgoing longcase clock of about 1710 by Daniel Delander also profited from a good footnote , selling for £104,500 ( estimate £45,000-£55,000 ) although the case which was originally ebonised is now painted blue . |
| 8 | The companies also profited from a bizarre system whereby shipbuilders who exported were given import quotas for raw sugar , which could be sold at a hefty profit . |
| 9 | He also suffered from a morbid fear of castration which lingered with him throughout his life ; possessed of plenty , as he saw it , he realized how much he had to lose . |
| 10 | Cave was older than the rest of the party , and the only one with knowledge of Iran ; he also suffered from a bad back , and must have landed with a fierce combination of jet-lag , suspicion and pain . |
| 11 | The Darlington group also suffered from an extraordinary charge associated with the imminent sales of £2.5m . |
| 12 | If trams no longer had an obvious technological advantage they also suffered from an institutional disadvantage-of having to pay for the upkeep of the roads they used , up to a distance of 46 cm ( 18 inches ) either sides of their tracks literally paving the way for motor buses . |
| 13 | Alastair Campbell , for example , thought that a verse supposedly from Thord Kolbeinsson 's Eiríksdrápa , which connects Earl Eric of Lade with the battle of Ringmere in 1010 , is a fabrication , and that lines about an attack on Norwich said by the thirteenth-century Knytlinga Saga to be from Ottar the Black 's Knútsdrápa probably came from a different poem on Swegen , who is known to have sacked the town in 1004 . |
| 14 | The two men , who both came from a small village in Lithuania , almost hero-worshipped the handsome Italian with his love of liquor and of women . |
| 15 | Caroline had suffered a double loss in that following separation and divorce from her husband , he later died from a sudden heart attack . |
| 16 | Professor Andrew Greeley extended this by drawing attention to the special sensitivity of the sufferers , by which they are easily hurt , which he found often resulted from an unhappy childhood . |
| 17 | The assumptions which derived from scientific sources were more heavily accentuated in English racial nationalism than in nazism and ultimately stemmed from an Anglo-American tradition rather than from continental sources . |
| 18 | Eastern never recovered from a crippling strike in 1989 and now faces liquidation . |
| 19 | Prestwick 's David Gourlay , jun , and Robert McCulloch never recovered from a disastrous start against the Welsh pair of Stephen Rees and John Price who held a 15-0 six-end lead and went on to win 28-11 . |
| 20 | Professor Mark Pollard recently returned from a snowy weekend in Athens , courtesy of the British School at Athens . |
| 21 | The professor who recently returned from an extended visit to Australia and New Zealand said he found very good examples in Australia of what not to do in the field of child welfare . |
| 22 | Long regarded as one of Dublin 's quirkiest and fieriest outfits the Ministers recently re-emerged from a 12-month exile with a new vocalist in the shape of Gerardette Bailey . |