Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largest sectoral rise came from the independent fund managers where funds rose 30 per cent to £31.7 billion by the end of 1992 . |
| 2 | The ‘ enhanced Programme resulted from the 1978 Inner Urban Areas Act , based on a White Paper , published the previous year , on Policy for the Inner Cities ( DoE , 1977 ) , the first comprehensive policy statement on the subject to acknowledge it as a definable and cohesive problem . |
| 3 | The great cultural influence came from the monastic settlements , where the Cistercian Order was most active . |
| 4 | British foreign policy started from the incontestable and apparently unchanging facts that the United Kingdom was an island , depended on sea-borne commerce and communications , and had large overseas possessions . |
| 5 | The 21 year old student fell from the top floor window of this house , just yards from Oxford 's famous Bridge of Sighs . |
| 6 | I gave one deflection burst from port beam at about 350 yards and one careful stern burst from the same distance , but could not even keep pace with this shallow dive . |
| 7 | Stunted saguaro sprouted from the rusty dunes . |
| 8 | And a grievous weeping came from the last of the three reeds . |
| 9 | However , it is not always recognized that individuality is itself a cultural concept : there can be no private independent real person dissociated from the cultural values which define the society in which the individual lives . |
| 10 | As my honourable friend said from the front bench , the Labour party is absolutely firmly committed now both by the voices of the leadership and the votes and the resolutions at our party conference that we are in favour of a proportional representation system for the European parliament and I hope that when the elections come Mr Deputy Speaker , and people will be arguing about why they 're voting for Europe on June the ninth in one boundary as opposed to another and why they 've got erm erm different rules for this election of course as indeed for the last European election because the registration will be different , allowing all kinds of erm how can I put it foreigners in inverted commas , to vote in our elections in this country because it is the European elections that we will actually put the point across that er for the future there will be different arrangements made indeed . |
| 11 | Malevolent amusement gleamed from the shadowed eyes . |
| 12 | The residence of the pope in an ancient imperial city had from the first been fragile . |
| 13 | Ochre dust rose from the blazing pavements . |
| 14 | Although it is tempting to trace the historical antecedents of subcontracting to the pre-industrial ‘ putting-out ’ system , the crucial impetus came from the very rapid expansion in manufacturing output from the later 1950s . |
| 15 | An answering sigh came from the fair-haired girl standing next to her . |
| 16 | Most of the basic equipment came from the British General Post Office , then responsible for Britain 's telephone system . |
| 17 | National importance stemmed from the increasing contribution these areas were enabled to make to national output and from the growing share of the national population which they absorbed , not from the fulfilment of preconceived infrastructural provision . |
| 18 | As O'Grady and Kyle went down the 8th another sudden roar came from the expectant crowd waiting round the 11th . |
| 19 | A long forked tongue darted from the scaly mouth and licked the tip of the stammerer 's nose . |
| 20 | Colonel Fergusson , who could not quite bear to inform his daughter that the human family sprang from the same impulse which animated a beetle striking its head against the walls of its box , replied that in his view the Fergussons were a happy accident . |
| 21 | The part-braided ends of his long hair escaped from the busy fingers which were engaged in their intricate task . |
| 22 | Thick , sluggish blood seeped from the great jagged holes where his arms and legs had been and , with them , a watery pus . |
| 23 | A terrible laugh came from the younger man . |
| 24 | Reagan rarely used the term ‘ supply side ’ himself and in the long run shrank from the full implications of the theory . |
| 25 | His long nose came from the latter and more specifically from a genetic type unit near the Dead Sea . |
| 26 | They were listening to a speech by the Prime Minister relayed from the United Services Club . |
| 27 | She was still pondering on this mystery when a low whistle came from the other side of the ditch . |
| 28 | The biggest Nazi vote came from the rural districts , and the lowest came from urban areas , where the SPD , KPD and DNVP were still firmly based . |
| 29 | The international fame of Edinburgh as a centre of medical education grew from the large number of outstanding individuals who either studied or taught here . |
| 30 | Apprehensively , he pressed the firing-plate and a short burst boomed from the B-17 . |