Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cult of the martyr became detached from the general cult of the community 's dead members . |
| 2 | In the later work , The Ego and the Id , the instinct theory of psychoanalysis had changed from the two instincts — sexual instincts and ego instincts — which were used in the paper ‘ On Narcissism ’ . |
| 3 | Chairman Roger Bryan said that the Museum had learnt from the sad example of others that the softly , softly approach was best . |
| 4 | The stories each picture told varied from the tragic to the hilarious : The expensive oil landscape which had had seagulls drawn on to the sky in ballpoint pen ; the ancient Highland cattle picture , swopped for food after the First World War by a travelling artist . |
| 5 | The town had suffered from the worst of industrial enterprise and was now the recipient of a major twenty-million-pound clean-up . |
| 6 | At the [ material ] time the plaintiff had come from the back door of the house and had walked diagonally across the first concrete area ; she was intending to go and have a chat with her neighbour at the next house . |
| 7 | They claimed the move had been simply to bring Scotland into line with England and Wales and that the initiative had come from the big bookmakers , who would be the main beneficiaries . |
| 8 | War had resulted from the separate acts of various leaders , none of whom wanted war as the outcome , and these separate acts so reinforced mutual fears and suspicions that war became , in a sense , unavoidable . |
| 9 | However , he thought that this meaning had evolved from the original word for a straight track , via the clearing of the woodland through which it passed , to the more common present-day meaning . |
| 10 | One corpse had slipped from the low single bed to the right of the door and lay staring up at her , the mouth open , the head almost cleft from the body . |
| 11 | By the time that his German State Workbook was issued on 4 October , Joyce and his wife had moved from the busy Friedrichstrasse area to the semi-wooded suburban avenues of Charlottenburg . |
| 12 | Thankfully , she had n't even noticed that Charity had changed from the blue wrap-around skirt and was now wearing red shorts with her white silk blouse . |
| 13 | When the train had emerged from the last tunnel on the Central Line between Stratford and Leyton , issuing with little more space to spare than toothpaste squeezed out of the nozzle of another kind of tube , somewhere past that point , though he was not sure yet where , he would climb out on to the roof of the car . |
| 14 | Much later , it seemed , she awoke and when she turned over and looked towards where the chanting had come from the African men and women had eaten and were packing away and decamping . |
| 15 | At this point the surgeon and the anaesthetist realised that this pharyngocele had resulted from the inflated cuff of the laryngeal mask used . |
| 16 | The lawyer was referring to training the captain had received from the British SAS and the New Zealand SAS . |
| 17 | He tried to imagine how she might be thinking : the sudden joy that the impossible had happened , that a man had returned from the dead . |
| 18 | Society had changed from the earlier structure where primitive valuables were of greater importance . |
| 19 | Jumblatt also announced that he was suspending his own participation in the Cabinet until the army had withdrawn from the National Library , the Emir Amin Palace and the Bayt al-Din Palace — buildings the PSP had recently been occupying . |
| 20 | In many respects this was a return to the position of the very last years of the fourth century ; the establishment of arian kingdoms on Gallic soil had removed from the catholic bishops sole authority over the definition of the Christian community , and it was only the conversion of Clovis and the expansion of the Frankish kingdom which gave the ecclesiastical hierarchy the authority once more to define the Christian life for all the members of the State . |
| 21 | The treasure had come from the French baggage captured at Vitoria in Spain , a country where Sergeant Patrick Harper had found both wealth and a wife . |
| 22 | In relation to transfer , about 50 per cent of employment had come from the local area and almost 25 per cent from the region . |
| 23 | Finance Ministers and central bank governors ( i ) commented that the United Kingdom was moving towards economic recovery , that recovery was under way in the United States , that growth was projected to pick up in Italy and France , and that in Japan and Germany growth had slowed from the rapid pace in 1990 to a more sustainable rate ; ( ii ) noted the importance of strengthening global savings ; ( iii ) reaffirmed the need for effective measures to avoid the recurrence of " recent irregularities that were revealed in some financial markets " ( a reference in particular to scandals in Japan — see pp. 38529 — and to the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International — see pp. 38396-37 ; 38355 ; 38545 ) ; ( iv ) called on the Paris Club to continue discussions on how best to implement promptly additional debt relief measures , on a case-by-case basis , which went well beyond the relief already granted under the " Toronto terms " [ see pp. 36123-24 ] ; and ( v ) noted that it was essential for developing countries to encourage private capital flows . |
| 24 | The shot had come from the left fork . |
| 25 | His training had benefited from the extra time , he was assured by any superior who could spare the energy to talk to him , and indeed he was an expert radio operator and cipherist , who could also — in theory — kill , survive , and use a parachute . |
| 26 | There was evidence that a tear had progressed from the corroded area across the face of the pressure dome , initially in fourteen separate steps , after which the critical crack length was exceeded and total disruption followed . |
| 27 | Indian officials said that the lack of greater progress had stemmed from the technical complexity of the problem . |
| 28 | Opposition to the ban had come from the traditional whaling countries of Norway , Iceland and Japan , joined by St Vincent and St Lucia . |
| 29 | Most funding had come from the Urban Programme , amounting to about £9 million per annum . |
| 30 | The only real Italian resistance had come from the 370 officer pupils of the School of Infantry , who were stationed in a building in the Giardino Pubblico . |