Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In practice , however , export-led growth in Europe is likely to be overwhelmed by problems left over from the late-1980s boom — especially the sharp rise in public-sector deficits between 1989 and 1993 ( chart 2 ) . |
| 32 | Archaeology has , however , revealed a growing number of very characteristic narrow rectangular structures stretching back from the available street frontages and often forming blocks or rows . |
| 33 | Darts spring back from the jumbled dial , |
| 34 | Business was brisk , shopkeepers even running out to grab Corbett by the arm and offer a pie , a piece of cloth , fresh fish from the Firth , almonds , nuts and raisins brought in from the nearby port of Leith . |
| 35 | There is another pair of climbers starting up from the same ledge . |
| 36 | The other passengers drew back from the dishevelled river dwellers , so far out of their element . |
| 37 | Last year NEC shipped 14,200 of the EWS4800 workstations , which was 120% up on normal sales for the previous year — excluding an extraordinary order for 6,000 units from Daiwa Securities carried over from the 1991-92 fiscal year — and anticipates growth to 20,000 shipments this financial year — growth which is stable in value terms , according to NEC . |
| 38 | Last year NEC shipped 14,200 of the EWS4800 workstations , which was 120% up on normal sales for the previous year — excluding an extraordinary order for 6,000 units from Daiwa Securities carried over from the 1991–92 fiscal year — and anticipates growth to 20,000 shipments this financial year — growth which is stable in value terms , according to NEC . |
| 39 | In winter , when the storms bluster in from the Mediterranean and the valleys glow green , the cloud comes down and Beaufort simply disappears . |
| 40 | ‘ After the quarantine period 's over , ’ he went on , with an air of simplifying an impossibly complex process , ‘ the containers are transferred into the decanning cave through a series of sub-ponds leading off from the main storage pond . |
| 41 | This lesson had been reinforced as far as the railways were concerned each spring from 1918 to 1920 , when urgent orders went out from the highest level to rehabilitate them in order to cope with the influx of vital foodstuffs and fuel to the towns . |
| 42 | With hands in sleeves , the old man looked extremely Oriental , long moustaches curving down from the upper lip . |
| 43 | When this happens it is time to celebrate and consider all the various offers raining in from the major labels . |
| 44 | Its white walls contrasted vividly with the black shutters latched into place over the numerous windows , and the heavy curtains drawn across the three dormer windows jutting out from the unpainted corrugated-iron roof only added to its forbidding atmosphere . |
| 45 | As we went to press , DEC was getting ready to set up nine new business units as part of its reorganization struggle , some of them reportedly headed by leaders brought in from the outside and others have yet to be chosen . |
| 46 | More and more monsters swarmed down from the glowing mountains . |
| 47 | ‘ We need to face the frustrations left over from the second world war ’ , he says . |
| 48 | Here , on all sides where this softer rock breaks or underlies the surface , streams flowing down from the upper slopes , aided and abetted by heavy rain , have , ever since the landscape was formed , been slowly penetrating the ground and eroding a honeycomb of underground caverns and passages of amazing dimensions . |
| 49 | But though the machinery of government is developing in this direction , there is insufficient willingness to face the facts , to give up some of the pretences left over from the old period of vigorous , participatory democracy in order to remove the anomalies and rationalize the system . |
| 50 | Along the western edge of the valley were tumbling glaciers and high rock ramparts sweeping up from the great moraines and scree slopes to culminate in lofty , snowcapped summits . |
| 51 | Two beetles start off from the same point in opposite directions . |
| 52 | If mind itself has a social origin — if , that is , it arises through the process of communication — and if thinking consists at bottom in the manipulation of generalized attitudes taken over from the social group as a whole , then there can be no question of the social determination , in some sense , of knowledge and thought . |
| 53 | At least fourteen more Palestinians were killed in subsequent clashes with the security forces and eight hundred were wounded ; the clashes spilled over from the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to Arab areas of Israel . |
| 54 | Ponds and lakes , too , benefit from their surroundings , as leaves and insects perish within them , and some nutrients run in from the surrounding land . |
| 55 | The archosaurs took over from the mammal-like reptiles about two-thirds through the Triassic . |
| 56 | In evidence earlier this week Lord Aldington , 75 , formerly Brigadier Toby Lowe , said the first he had heard that the men , women and children sent back from the British-occupied zone of Austria had been tortured and massacred was from Count Tolstoy in 1979 . |
| 57 | For a moment , the centuries seemed to roll away , and she could visualise grim-faced men in chain-mail racing to answer some alarm , while women in wimpled head-dresses leaned down from the Gothic windows to bid them Godspeed . |
| 58 | Wooden balconies jutted out from the upper storeys , giving the plaza not only a feeling of space but of intimacy . |
| 59 | There 's a school nearby and environmentalists are worried about the possible effects of fumes given off from the burning rubbish . |
| 60 | There is Israeli ‘ absentee ’ legislation and there are land expropriation laws passed on from the British mandate . |