Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Would Johnny appear to hang in mid-air , suspended on some invisible support hidden from the interested gaze of Cassie 's contemporaries ?
2 A less well-known example is of H. V. Hilprecht , an archaeologist at Pennsylvania University who in 1893 was given drawings of fragments of agate excavated from the Babylonian temple of Bal at Nippur .
3 The government has thus attempted to restrict local authority discretion by reducing the level of income received from the central government via cuts in the RSG and through rate capping .
4 The island community Nichols studied traditionally spoke Gullah , a creole variety developed from the African/English pidgin of early slave plantations .
5 I accept that on the River Creedy the foam comes from effluent discharged from the three sewage treatment works upstream .
6 Next , a story lifted from the Daily Mail about Professor Jerrold Petrofsky 's work in Dayton , Ohio , and the hope it gave to the paralysed PC Philip Olds .
7 The adverts are expected to reach 6.3 million readers in that period , a figure calculated from the audited circulation of each publication .
8 More often than not Ma starts me off only to leave me stranded above the waterdragon with my–backside wedged into the Young Person 's Patent Toilet Seat Adaptor ( another trophy won from the WI jumble by Pa ) .
9 In this respect equity differed from the common law .
10 For example , in the case of the wedding ceremony , one of the small ways in which Pul Eliya practice differed from the aristocratic schema described by D'Oyly was that , in Pul Eliya , the washermen were not paid in money but in grain paddy at the end of the year .
11 Asger Jorn 's interest in folk cultures and tribal societies which lacked a notion of ‘ art ’ as a distinct intellectual practice separated from the common culture , was based on an understanding of the extent to which the spheres of art and work have become conflicting practices within bourgeois relations of production .
12 but she had , they have to have a fence built from the back garden , because there 's , there 's an opening from the back garden and it 's onto the drive and then it 's onto the road , even though it is a quiet road
13 Ayesha reintroduces the central figure reborn from the apparent death at the end of She and now the sole survivor of the cult of Isis , living in a volcanic mountain fortress , this time in Tibet , and with some difficulty holding her power against a wild tribe in the valley , partly consisting of survivors from Alexander 's army , under the control of Queen Atene , who proves to be a reincarnation of the Egyptian princess , Amenartas , beloved of Kallikrates .
14 At the end of 1864 the legal system was reformed and the judiciary separated from the administrative bureaucracy , as reformers had long urged .
15 With the ribber carriage separated from the main carriage ( without yarn ) take it slowly across these needles and you will note that ALTERNATE needles come higher than the others .
16 She had no need to tell him , for a buzz of talk sounded from the ground-floor room straight ahead , beyond the stairs .
17 In none of the patients at stage III was an infectious agent isolated from the gastrointestinal tract .
18 Moi , " he knew from his reading , was an Annamese term derived from the Chinese word for " savage , " and looking at the dark-skinned , low-browed men , he could see they were of a different racial stock from the Annamese ; they wore only breechclouts that left their haunches naked and they grinned and chattered animatedly in their own language as they moved quickly about their work .
19 The experiments using indomethacin to inhibit cyclo-oxygenase activity would support the above concept , since indomethacin suppressed all differences between the three experimental groups suggesting that in the absence of normal prostaglandin generation , there is no beneficial effect derived from the dietary supplement with polyunsaturated fatty acids .
20 Fig. 1 shows this fabric knitted from the basic punchcard design used as an example of basic slip stitch in my last article .
21 Michael Chance and Stephen Varcoe are both on characteristically strong form but my greatest pleasure derived from the eloquent declamation of recitatives by Anthony Rolfe Johnson .
22 The Paddy Hancox-trained flyer led from the first flight to win by three lengths in 31.06 secs , clipping an astonishing 27 spots off the record , which had been held by Brough Park 's Jenks Challenger .
23 It was the wholesale application to civilian society of the one-way chain of command learned from the military milieu into which Franco was born .
24 Table 1 is an extract taken from the complete table , showing the distribution of turns greater than 40 , 60 , 80 and 100 words respectively .
25 a term borrowed from the Victorian pseudo-science of phrenology , the basic premiss of which was that character could be gauged from the shape of the skull , which phrenologists divided into some 40 sections or ‘ organs ’ , each one being the seat of a mental or moral faculty .
26 While he was detained at the police station a number of police-officers used a key taken from the arrested man to enter his mother 's home .
27 The next example is the catchy syncopated intro riff taken from the single Teaser .
28 At the end of 1989 a Taiwanese delegation returned from the Soviet Union after apparently fruitful discussions about prospects for trade in Soviet raw materials and Taiwanese consumer goods .
29 Her mouth burned from the angry possession of that kiss , her lips were swollen , throbbing with tempestuous heat , and in the momentary stillness that followed they stood apart , facing each other like warriors poised in the midst of battle .
30 The University dated from the opulent heyday of expansion and was now slightly grubby and tatty , mortared cracks grinning between the white oblongs under their urban plaque .
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