Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largest tortoises you will see in the park are descended from specimens from Aldabra Island in the Indian Ocean . |
| 2 | The only conclusion the meeting was able to reach was ‘ that guidance be sought from officers of DES as to ways in which greater academic autonomy might be achieved ’ . |
| 3 | All cars of this batch were withdrawn from service with the reorganization of services in the summer of 1927 . |
| 4 | The best measure of average grain size , the mean is computed from sizes of particles spread through a range of percentile values . |
| 5 | The very term ‘ lunatic ’ , which was widely used in this discourse , implies a lay psychological theory : the term denotes people whose thinking is disrupted from logicality by personality or stupidity . |
| 6 | So a degree of scepticism is required from practitioners towards their own forms of thought , with their associated practices and values . |
| 7 | The most vital thing is that the club is run from top to bottom just like a winning team . |
| 8 | Lava is formed from magma by cooling and the loss of gas . |
| 9 | Conventional cell : The conventional cell is made from wafers of monocrystalline silicon , the semiconductor material used in microchips . |
| 10 | Much of the methodology described in this chapter is derived from work in Dr Martin H Johnson 's laboratory , Department of Anatomy , Cambridge , during the past 10 years and I should like to express my gratitude to all members of the laboratory past and present for their contribution to it . |
| 11 | ‘ Indian industry is going from strength to strength . ’ |
| 12 | Few children interpreted the question as a physicist might , involving the way light is scattered from objects into our eyes . |
| 13 | the maximum amount of a week 's pay taken into account with effect from 1 April 1990 is £184 per week , but that figure is reviewed from time to time . |
| 14 | The figure is adapted from Maue at al. , 1990 ( 8 ) . |
| 15 | A few yards west is the dry entrance to the caves , which novices like myself can safely probe until confronted by difficulties ; daylight is admitted from manholes in the surface clints . |
| 16 | At its simplest the didactic element is shown in the way action is halted from time to time so that the author can explain , in plain , precise detail , a point of navigation , ship 's structure or deck organisation . |
| 17 | Although the commitment to religion was stressed from time to time , often in response to the charge of militarism , the CLB always seemed to emphasize matters of social discipline and conformity . |
| 18 | Yes , there is a ski garderie in Verbier ; unfortunately it is in the centre of the village , and since there was no snow in the village the Mini Champion Club was closed from January for the rest of the season . |
| 19 | An agent was despatched from London to Jersey to check on the dead activist Varienski 's daughter . |
| 20 | In particular , Thompson and Spencer 's list of the features of habituation was derived from studies of short-term examples of the phenomenon ; it may therefore be unreasonable to expect these features to be found also in latent inhibition ( see Lubow , Weiner , and Schnur 1981 ) . |
| 21 | In the face of the administration 's intense opposition , it cut $900 million from the amount requested by Bush , allocating $3,500 million for SDI , and also insisting that the emphasis of the programme was altered from research into space-based interceptors ( the " brilliant pebbles " concept ) to ground-based rockets and lasers . |
| 22 | , writes : MANY years ago I was told that Colgate toothpaste was made from pebbles from Chesil Beach , Dorset . |
| 23 | In Mr. Harper 's case , less than two years ago , his rent was doubled from £12,000 to £24,000 . |
| 24 | Blood was spouting from cuts on my right hand , and my left foot ached a bit and felt strange — no more . |
| 25 | In other words , how many bytes of data per second are moved from disk to memory . |
| 26 | Clauses referring all disputes under a contract to an expert are encountered from time to time in practice . |
| 27 | Vagrant birds of South American origin are reported from time to time on the South Orkney and South Shetland Islands ; their presence indicates repeated possibilities for colonization , but they invariably disappear quickly . |
| 28 | There are accounts of dogs of Mastiff type being exported from Britain to Rome through an agent known as the Procurator Pugnacium ( provider of dogs ) . |
| 29 | LIBERALDemocrat candidate Ian Cameron asked the police to intervene after a number of boards promoting his campaign were removed from land in the outlying village of Elwick . |
| 30 | Corporate overheads in the first half were cut from $8m to $7.7m , and total operating income rose from $13.3m to £16.2m . |