Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] from the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rhines sees the current semiconductor industry as being in turmoil , as the impetus in the industry moves from the vertically-integrated companies to functionally-defined companies — Japan being an exception to the rule however ; and the purchasing power of vendors such as Compaq Computer Corp , Dell Computer Corp and Apple Computer Inc for example , causing major growth in the merchant market . |
| 2 | Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore . |
| 3 | ‘ I myself can not even begin to imagine by what mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the reputed subtleties of Keynsian economics ( the process which has , apparently , saved the capitalist system from the collapse which would in turn have provoked a revolution ) to the blatant crudities of contemplating intercourse with a mindless whore . |
| 4 | Again , the term comes from the earliest attempts at explaining the disorder . |
| 5 | The power for the spring comes from the back legs and feet . |
| 6 | Saffron yellow comes from the dried pistils of the saffron crocus , but this plant is now extremely rare and the colour is exceptionally expensive . |
| 7 | Although it could be argued that it is not really chronology continuing ( as suggested by the chapter title ) because there had been insufficient time specification before 1950 , the sequence of this chapter proceeds from the basic foundations , to the alternative models , to sea level changes , Quaternary geography and hence to the prospect of environmental change . |
| 8 | I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there . |
| 9 | Beccaria 's reputation for humanity comes from the famous sections that oppose the use of torture and of capital punishment . |
| 10 | An old lady descends from the black branches of the fire escape every morning and wearily gathers it all up and clambers home with it in paper bags : the food left for her by the birds . |
| 11 | Both tweed and knitwear find it difficult to compete with production in the lowlands of Scotland , because of the high transport costs from the Western Isles . |
| 12 | These sources include articles and official statements published in ACCOUNTANCY , course and conference notes from the few delegates that still attend external training , and letters and reports already produced within the firm as part of normal client service work . |
| 13 | The contrasting colour in the room comes from the bright rugs and the furniture , and , Mary Jane says ; ‘ We love things with natural vegetable dye shades . |
| 14 | In most opinion reports from the last months of the war , there is little or no mention of the Führer and the attitudes of the population towards him . |
| 15 | The initiative comes from the Operational Requirements Staffs of the Naval , General , and Air Staffs ( now part of the Central Staff under the latest reorganization of the Ministry , but still carrying out the same function — see page 175 ) . |
| 16 | Thus , the danger arises from the unco-ordinated plans of individual governments towards their own national economies resulting , collectively , in the negation of EC trading objectives . |
| 17 | SUBLIME set of reggae covers from the cunning Brummies . |
| 18 | The most recent launch , the first flight of the second orbiter , Challenger , was delayed from January to April because of persistent fuel and coolant leaks from the main engines . |
| 19 | As Mr. Richards says , much of the procedure stems from the relevant statutes and regulations , and much can be gleaned from A Guide to the Award of Costs in Criminal Proceedings ( R.C.J. ( 1991 ) H.M.S.O. ) , which contains a section ( Section 6 ) on ‘ Wasted Costs and Orders … |
| 20 | How formal this take-over was is an open question ; to a large extent the evidence derives from the funerary inscriptions of fifth- and sixth-century bishops , where the epithet defensor civitatis might refer to the dead man 's achievements rather than his office . |
| 21 | More direct if under-stated evidence comes from the retrospective questions posed in the first official birth control enquiry in 1946 ( Lewis-Faning 1949 ) ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 22 | Since I mention native speakers ' feelings in this connection , and since I am elsewhere rather sceptical about appeals to native speakers ' feelings , I had better explain that in this case my evidence comes from the native speakers of English I have taught in practical classes on transcription over many years . |
| 23 | When an expert system is used to produce some advice or a report , the expertise underlying the output comes from the following sources : the experts who provided the knowledge , the persons ( sometimes called " knowledge engineers " ) who refined the knowledge and formalized it so that it could be installed in the knowledge-base , the persons who wrote the inference engine and the user interface ( or adapted existing ones ) , the user of the system . |
| 24 | Their family name comes from the Malay tupai , meaning small , squirrel-like animal . |
| 25 | The name comes from the Greek hippos ( horse ) . |
| 26 | The two singles wins for Berkshire left the reigning champions in an irretrievable position and the home side added a dash more salt to their opponents ' wounds as they clinched a full eight victory points from the remaining doubles victory . |
| 27 | One can only lament the fact that as Russian recording quality emerges from the Dark Ages so their orchestras are struggling to maintain standards in the face of diminishing resources and emigration of their best players . |
| 28 | Much of Greenfield 's paper derives from the theoretical foundations laid by Bernstein and she is surprised how closely the ‘ verbal deprivation ’ he identifies in working-class English youths corresponds to that which she found amongst the Wolof . |
| 29 | Safeguards for the Spanish steel industry were incorporated in an additional protocol , the talks having been held up over Spain 's concern that cheap steel exports from the three countries would disrupt its domestic industry . |
| 30 | Left The uneven struggle to read a newspaper on a train dates from the early days of rail travel . |