Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] from the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nothing today has added to or subtracted from the controversy of the closure announcement . ’ |
| 2 | We report here that ganglion cells near the fovea were allocated 3.3 to 5.9 times more cortical tissue than more peripheral ones , and conclude that the cortical representation of the most central retina is much greater than expected from the density of its ganglion cells . |
| 3 | The Builder pointed out that although Scott ‘ has sought not the style of any particular country , but Gothic in abstract , and gathered from the works of all countries ’ , perhaps because of the numerous secular mediaeval buildings in Italy , the character of his design ‘ is more Italian , or at least Continental than it is English ’ . |
| 4 | He knew the feeling of old — operating outside the rules and hidden from the surveillance of his superiors . |
| 5 | The study builds upon four recent small studies of the Norwich economy , financed under the ESRC Open Door Scheme , and undertaken from the University of East Anglia : by Moseley on unemployment , by Sapsford on the local government provision of sites and premises , by Seddon on the building up of an industrial data base , and by Townroe on the employment of 16 and 17 year old school leavers . |
| 6 | The final scheme would be a tribute to the vision of ‘ the greatest son of the Romanian people ’ rendered by their skill and hands and made from the fruits of their native soil . |
| 7 | Freed from restrictions about who to lend to or how much to pay to depositors , and freed from the responsibility of supporting their corporate clients through thin times , American and British commercial banks are weaker than at any time in the past 50 years . |
| 8 | He knew all too well what to expect : several hours of bad behaviour from the children — over-excited and freed from the constraints of routine — and importunate conversation from the parents . |
| 9 | Particularly divisive at a parochial level was the stress placed by the bishops on the need for a greater reverence in the communion rite , and their determination that the portable communion tables , which had been used since Elizabethan times , should be replaced by altars permanently positioned at the east end of the chancel and separated from the body of the church by altar rails . |
| 10 | The successful candidates more than the unsuccessful ones tend to be middle-aged , university-educated ( as well as public school-educated , in the case of Conservatives ) , and drawn from the ranks of business and the professions . |
| 11 | Bourdieu 's concept of habitus starts as constructivist rather than behaviourist , with the external environment being differentially absorbed and interpreted from the perspective of the subject as a member of a social group . |
| 12 | In 1979 Schanberg learnt that Pran had survived and escaped from the horrors of the Khmer Rouge camp . |
| 13 | Qaddafi 's expectation is unexceptional : when the necessarily unjust state is abolished and subtracted from the sum of available relationships in society , the remainder will be natural families . |
| 14 | It was a workman- like meeting which was well attended and benefited from the presence of a representative of the FUW . |
| 15 | Elsewhere , it was not Vikings but local producers and traders and lords who made and benefited from the growth of markets . |
| 16 | The task is to define the ‘ god ’ and lay down the precepts whereby the corresponding religion can be disciplined and protected from the kind of exploitation for political or financial advantage which in the past has corrupted or destroyed so many of the world 's religious activities . |
| 17 | The ravages committed by man subvert the relations and destroy the balance which nature had established between her organized and her inorganic creations ; and she avenges herself upon the intruder , by letting loose upon her defaced provinces destructive energies hitherto kept in check by organic forces destined to be his best auxiliaries , but which he has unwisely dispersed and driven from the field of action . |
| 18 | It does not seem to us to be particularly fruitful to discuss highly generalised theories of whether international law is or could be ‘ law ’ as such : if viewed from the perspective of ‘ effectiveness ’ , international law may have to be judged differently , depending on whether , for example , the focus is on regional economic relations regulated by treaties , or on customary law applicable to the laws of war on a universal scale . |
| 19 | Bake in the centre of a moderately hot oven ( 190°C , 375°F. , Gas Mark 5 ) for 25 minutes or until golden brown and shrunk from the edges of the tin a little . |
| 20 | They are given the status of goddesses by virtue of their being , in a Swedeoborgian sense , vessels of symbolic love and so they are mystified and removed from the realms of real , whole , sexual beings . |
| 21 | Richard Broughton , legal agent to the Earl of Essex and second justice in the Anglesey circuit , was fined £200 and removed from the commission of the peace for illegally taking bribes . |
| 22 | Haya Itzhaky was born and brought up in Israel and graduated from the School of Social Work at Bar-Ilan University in 1973 . |
| 23 | Paul Cornish , who contributes our Gallery piece on the tragic Russian soldier Andrei Vlasov , was born in Devon in 1959 , and graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1981 . |
| 24 | And nobody had seen her real face for years , for it was heavily rouged and powdered from the top of her eyebrows to where her wrinkled skin disappeared into the bodice of her bright-red velvet evening gown . |
| 25 | As I have already stated , I consider that that rule is merely a manifestation of the more general rule that the vessel must be operated from the flag state and that its use must be directed and controlled from the territory of that state . |
| 26 | Instead of taking the cases to the police , as he should have done and as any other hon. Member would have done , and certainly to the Home Office Minister , he found it more appropriate to come to the House and read from The News of the World to get as much publicity for himself as he could . |
| 27 | ‘ He it was who stood in the deepest Sorcery Chamber of tara and read from the Book of the Academy of Necromancers the incantation . |
| 28 | Brobdingnag is quite a large country , joined on to north-west America , but separated from the rest of America by high mountains . |
| 29 | A punitive approach to the poorest survived the accumulation of indications that much even of the worst poverty was not self-inflicted , but derived from the inability of the market to provide sufficient homes , jobs or adequate incomes . |
| 30 | The ballroom had been thrown wide to accommodate the funeral guests , and Mrs Diggory was busy serving refreshments to the gentlemen who had just a short time since returned from the graveside of the deceased Lady Merchiston . |