Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ledro supplies water to a hydro-electric power station and when demand is high , and the water level correspondingly low , some 15,000 wooden stakes emerge from the waters . |
| 2 | ‘ Black and minority ethnic communities suffer from a services and resources deficit which urgently needs to be addressed ’ . |
| 3 | In our opinion , the following principles emerge from the cases and dicta to which I have referred . |
| 4 | Fine roots develop from the nodes and the plant develops rapidly and outgrows the tank . |
| 5 | Fine white roots develop from the nodes on the stems . |
| 6 | And cycle it certainly is : area tutors and in-bureau tutors come from the ranks of the advice workers . |
| 7 | The two elderly black gentlemen gleam from the shadows glowing with a fine sweat . |
| 8 | Over 2,000 plants which are being investigated for their anti-cancer properties come from the rainforests — as more rainforests disappear , so too might a possible cure for diseases such as Aids . |
| 9 | Black curtains hang from the rails atop the bed , and the side-curtains are each embroidered with four curious creatures — dog-sized bats with grinning Gnome heads . |
| 10 | Similarly , the poorer progress of Bangladeshi children could in part be accounted for by the fact that Bangladeshi communities suffer from the effects of poor housing , poverty and high rates of unemployment ( House of Commons Home Affairs Committee , 1986 ) . |
| 11 | Numerous shoots grow from the nodes of the rootstock . |
| 12 | In fact 98 per cent of Southern Californians suffer from the effects of photochemical smog — the thick pall of carbon monoxide , nitrogen dioxides and ozone which hangs over the 660,000 square miles around Los Angeles . |
| 13 | Other problems stem from the ambiguities of language and the complex rules of pleading . |
| 14 | If people accept that they are governed not only by explicit rules laid down in past political decisions but by whatever other standards flow from the principles these decisions assume , then the set of recognized public standards can expand and contract organically , as people become more sophisticated in sensing and exploring what these principles require in new circumstances , without the need for detailed legislation or adjudication on each possible point of conflict . |
| 15 | In the human world , potential dangers range from the non-kinsmen and non-band members whose intentions can never be known with certainty , to the homicidal mai kahnoh kuui — ‘ the cutting-off-head-strangers ’ — who are believed to lurk along forest paths to decapitate the unwary , selling the heads to lowland Malays for ritual purposes . |
| 16 | Yet when her salary cheque arrived she opened the envelope with trembling , hopeful fingers , and wept to find that the only other enclosure was a formal compliments slip from the accounts department . |