Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] from [noun pl] [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 | The best measure of average grain size , the mean is computed from sizes of particles spread through a range of percentile values . |
| 4 | So a degree of scepticism is required from practitioners towards their own forms of thought , with their associated practices and values . |
| 5 | Conventional cell : The conventional cell is made from wafers of monocrystalline silicon , the semiconductor material used in microchips . |
| 6 | Few children interpreted the question as a physicist might , involving the way light is scattered from objects into our eyes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | , writes : MANY years ago I was told that Colgate toothpaste was made from pebbles from Chesil Beach , Dorset . |
| 10 | Blood was spouting from cuts on my right hand , and my left foot ached a bit and felt strange — no more . |
| 11 | There has been considerable debate about the origins of the glassware found in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries ; some are Roman survivals , and a proportion was imported from glass-houses in the Rhineland and northern Gaul . |
| 12 | To keep costs to the minimum the pond surrounds of double row bricks and crazy paving were bought as hardcore , the main filter was constructed from a £3 expansion tank and the water mill was constructed from scraps of plywood and painted with left-over household paint . |
| 13 | There is a danger of closed-belief systems emerging in the social sciences , but this can apply to the way in which a thinker is excluded from debates about human society as well as to the strict adherence to one thinker , or type of thinker , alone , as a safe source of authority . |
| 14 | Informed consent is sought from parents on the basis of an information sheet entitled ‘ A new test for baby boys — Do you want it ? ’ printed on blue paper . |
| 15 | ‘ Rexroth 's review said that as the band had n't shown up a pick-up band was assembled from members of the audience , who just banged pots and pans and made odd noises . |
| 16 | The man 's body was hanging from swings in the Panton Road playground , Hoole , Chester . |
| 17 | WORRIED mum Pamela Pilbro spent three weeks searching for her 20-year-old son Philip — unaware that his decomposing body was hanging from rafters in the attic . |
| 18 | Not one single name was forwarded from branches to HQ , and so no action could be taken . |
| 19 | Not one single name was forwarded from branches to HQ , and so no action could be taken . |
| 20 | Supporting evidence was obtained from experiments in which the ability of a depolarizing stimulus to release radiolabelled glutamate was shown to be elevated in potentiated hippocampal tissue . |
| 21 | Film shows at school on the manufacture of coal gas intercut interesting views of hot coke being extruded from retorts with dull shots of gas scrubbers removing sulphur compounds from the hot gas . |
| 22 | Peeking around the kitchen door , they saw rubbish being emptied from dustbins into their home . |
| 23 | Most of the writing is taken from letters to members of Lifelines , a British and Irish-based organisation which puts death row inmates in touch with potential letter-writers . |
| 24 | Sediment cores were dated using and vegetation and land use were determined from pollen ; and lakewater pH was inferred from remains of diatoms . |
| 25 | The main chemical ingredients for life are derived from combinations of carbon , hydrogen , oxygen and nitrogen , which we can abbreviate to CHON . |
| 26 | Flakes of a fatty substance are excreted from glands between the joints on the underside of the worker bee 's abdomen . |
| 27 | Traditional ideas about the primitive vertebrate tail were derived from studies on pteraspid heterostracans . |
| 28 | Plasmid DNA was isolated from clones with reduced CytR regulation and the Eco RI fragments containing the putative mutations recloned in pJEL126 . |
| 29 | Normally , release prints are made from a duplicate ( 'dupe' ) negative , much as the pictures in this book are made from dupes of the ( expensive , irreplaceable ) slides borrowed from agencies . |
| 30 | I am trying to give you hard facts , tell you how the traits of human personality are carried from parents to offspring , tell you accurately how the environment modifies inherited characteristics . |