Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] from an [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His most striking example is derived from an experiment by Lackner and Garrett in which subjects heard sentences like ‘ He put out the lantern to signal the attack ’ ( which is ambiguous as between place outside and extinguish ) . |
| 2 | Such an undertaking can appear to be a matter of stating the obvious — that speaker J , in his first contribution , for example , is answering the ‘ what ’ question in terms of an understood-to-be-known location and a time which is known from an interaction between knowledge of J's age ( context ) and knowledge that J was at least fourteen ( domain ) . |
| 3 | The presence of Coal Measures and well-developed coaly intervals on the southern margins of the Southern North Sea Basin is known from an examination of available well data and recently acquired seismic data . |
| 4 | As in Histoire , the narrative framework is provided by a kind of meditation from a window : again , the text is generated from an exploration of both the processes of memory and the fertility of language . |
| 5 | Internally the gearbox is constructed from an assembly of gears , shafts , bearing supports , levels etc . |
| 6 | Using this method , the employee 's basic salary is determined from an assessment of his needs in the host country which are costed by both home and host country prices . |
| 7 | The maturity gradient defined for the Southern North Sea ( Fig. 4 ) is determined from an area of moderate heat flow and average present day geothermal gradients ( 70–75 , 30–35°C/km , Oxburgh and Andrews-Speed , 1981 ) . |