Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] from the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These institutions are among some 200 ‘ unverified and lost ’ , and so excluded from the 11th edition of the Directory of British Associations , just out . |
| 2 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 3 | Mash tuns or Kieves ( a Dublin term possibly inherited from the 17th century Huguenot brewers ) are essentially great big strainers or filtering vessels where the mash is allowed to ‘ stand-in ’ , in much the same way as a pot of tea is allowed to ‘ draw ’ . |
| 4 | Vast stretches of mud , still wet from the last tide , glittered like a carpet of diamonds in the eerie light |
| 5 | Tusser called it the goef , and we can be sure that , like the word , the design of the barn itself and the work that went on in it had hardly changed from the sixteenth century to within living memory . |
| 6 | He was controversially omitted from the second Test even when captain Graham Gooch went down ill just before the start of that game . |
| 7 | There was another major upset when Ross Norman , the sixth-seeded New Zealander who won the world title in 1986 by ending Jahangir Khan 's 51 2 -year unbeaten run , was also eliminated from the first round . |
| 8 | The fact that the form of the polite or V pronoun is often borrowed from the second person plural , or third person singular or plural , pronouns , introduces considerable complexities into agreement systems ( Comrie , 1975 ; Corbett , 1976 ; Levinson , 1979b ) . |
| 9 | The Chairman , Colonel Sir Alan Sykes , read the lesson , appropriately taken from the 44th chapter of Ecclesiasticus , " Let us now praise famous men . " |
| 10 | Stunned that he had n't known from the first moment that something was wrong with her . |
| 11 | Governors need to know that savings remain with the school and that losses are immediately deducted from the next year 's budget total ; they must hold it important to understand the whole budget and grasp the concept of virement . |
| 12 | My injuries had not yet completely healed from the last fight , at school , with bully McNab — only three weeks previously . |
| 13 | In any case , the land and time left at their disposal was steadily reduced from the seventeenth century as pomeshchiks and monasteries expanded their demesne and exacted dues in labour ( barshchina ) rather than quit-rent ( obrok ) . |
| 14 | Geoffrey Bayldon was accidentally transported from the 11th century to the 20th as the wizard Catweazle , while vandals in Australia tried to kill Skippy the bush kangaroo at Watarah National Park . |