Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other points of reliance are ruled out from the start . |
| 2 | Professor Klaus Pinkau , director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics , points out that there are drawbacks to centralising research away from universities — for example , academics who in theory have time and resources for research are cut off from the best facilities . |
| 3 | When less fluid lavas are involved , which do n't break up into droplets , large gobbets of the molten rock are flung up from the vent , spreading out into irregular plates which may break up in the air into smaller bits . |
| 4 | A substantial part of this firewood is brought in from the villages to be sold in the cities , although nobody really knows how much . |
| 5 | The Reef is built up from the hard skeletons of dead polyps , and forms a base for the living coral . |
| 6 | If he takes an ( optical ) photograph of the wall he will have a snap of featureless plaster , as the light is reflected back from the surface and not from inside the structure . |
| 7 | Administration is carried out from the Head Office in London , where up-to-date office technology is very much in evidence . |
| 8 | An enormous tin trunk was brought down from the attic , and systematically packed with everything needed for a month 's holiday . |
| 9 | They are closed in the sense that the black child is cut off from the black community and all interaction takes place within a white social structure . |
| 10 | That winter , the Corsair was hangared at Southend , while a new engine was shipped over from the USA and fitted to the aircraft . |
| 11 | In the earlier book he had proposed an additional reversion to classical principles : that the focus of attention be switched back from the criminal to the crime . |
| 12 | Earlier , it was stated that the two circles cross each other in the shape of the ‘ Vesica Piscis ’ of sacred geometry , but that for this to be perfect , the radius of the second circle is marked out from the perimeter of the first circle at the same radius . |
| 13 | Shortly before the first autumn snows the flock is brought down from the high pastures . |
| 14 | The tax is claimed back from the Tax Office by either the college or the Association , or both . |
| 15 | Dennis Garvey 's body was washed up from the sea four days later . |
| 16 | The advantage the pure watercolour has over all other media is that it depends greatly on the light passing through the colour being reflected back from the white paper . |
| 17 | Because of LOFT 's small size , Fell says , previous tests in which coolant water is shut off from the core have overstated the effectiveness of emergency systems designed to keep temperatures down . |
| 18 | Water is pumped in from the River Nene , which is rich in farm nutrients , and sewage from Oakham , rich in phosphates from washing powders , goes direct into the reservior . |
| 19 | Kevin Price gave us a glimpse of what was to follow with a clever break and when the ball was set up from the resulting ruck , Paul Flood was equally successful with a drop goal . |
| 20 | The remains at Knossos show clearly how rain-water was led down from the roof by way of light-wells to flush out sewage from three lavatories in the East Wing ( Figure 20 ) . |
| 21 | However , the controls over local management in this respect were tightened up from the mid-1950s onwards . |
| 22 | This rim is marked off from the rest of the cranium by a groove or postoccipital sulcus which ends at the posterior tentorial pit on either side and along which are inserted the dorsal prothoracic muscles moving the head . |
| 23 | A special light-weight tripod was sent out from the UK ( and after much greasing of palms , finally made it through customs ) . |
| 24 | The position a reader will take up certainly can not in any simple sense be read off from the text considered in abstract . |
| 25 | It was the kind of sound that made you think of the noise lambs probably make when they can smell the mint being brought in from the garden . |
| 26 | One concern is simply the common withdrawal of headquarters functions from the North when a firm is taken over from the South ( Watts , 1989 ) . |
| 27 | Other devices are less consistently adopted , but it will be noticed that in ( 2 ) , as often , the non-restrictive clause is set off from the rest of the sentence by commas . |
| 28 | The only source of security , the sole refuge from this malevolent world , is in the kindred and the band , that tight little group of 100 or so other people with whom one 's life is bound up from the cradle to the grave . |
| 29 | The idea of a triangle is made up from the ideas of being a closed figure , and having three straight sides ; the idea of gold from those of yellowness , malleability , and fusibility . |
| 30 | At times my sleepy little daughter was brought down from the nursery and stood on a stool while John draped pieces of material on her and showed me how he wanted the costume move and flow , and so help to illustrate what he wanted to express and convey to an audience . |