Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figure 10 Crystal forms built up from spheroidal atoms from A. Ure , Dictionary of Chemistry , third edition , London , 1828 , after W. H. Wollaston whose models are in the Science Museum , London . |
| 2 | By concentrating on pebbles carried down from alpine sources in the beds of rivers and streams , full advantage could be taken of the erosive power of water in wearing away adhering rock and concentrating the sought after greenstone . |
| 3 | Afterwards Martha provided ham and a salad with hard-boiled eggs like gleaming bald heads sticking out from limp lettuce leaves for the few people who turned up . |
| 4 | Phosphorescent purple eyes peer out from beneath shells ; black sea urchins swivel their spines as they slowly perambulate on needle tip ; starfish of an intense blue spangle the sand ; and patterned rosettes unfurl from holes in the smooth surface of coral . |
| 5 | The most abundant isotope of oxygen , 18 O , has an atomic mass of 16 units made up from eight protons and eight neutrons . |
| 6 | The enormous edifice of presumed relationships built up from careful study of homologous structures , ( the supreme example is the study of bones in the skulls of reptiles ) may have to be re-examined , and if necessary dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up . |
| 7 | There is then not only a relative gap to be filled , in these new terms , but also , from the quality of some of the work on the arts carried out from other positions , a sense of challenge : indeed a sense that it may be above all in this still major area that the qualities of the kinds of thinking represented by the contemporary convergence stand most to be tested . |
| 8 | Unique Australian frogs die out from unknown cause |
| 9 | How long can it remain immune as the voices echo back from Eastern Europe ? . |
| 10 | How long can it remain immune as the voices echo back from Eastern Europe ? . |
| 11 | House sales over the six months went up from 357 units for the previous comparable period to 409 . |
| 12 | There are mingled in it , as only the greatest of rivers could be mingled , the fertilising influences flowing down from many countries and from many ages in history . |
| 13 | You are faced with half a packet of dusty dried peas , the unopened naan bread mix that seemed such a good idea at the time and the smoked oysters left over from last year 's Christmas hamper . |
| 14 | The signals reflected back from solid objects like these skulls form an image which can be enhanced by a computer . |
| 15 | One such system is based entirely on descriptions made up from planar half spaces . |
| 16 | We now had the air crews coming back from low-level sorties over France and Belgium and reporting damage they had seen to docks and military installations , and , much more upsetting , roads thronged with refugees all trying to get away from the zones of fighting . |
| 17 | Small flocks coming in from all directions joined the first arrivals until many thousands were stretched out in long parallel black lines . |
| 18 | The Communists held back from such attempts to draw the Liberal Party into a People 's Front . |
| 19 | With quality technicians creamed off from other studios , he could make cheap films so that they looked good and brought in a respectable profit . |
| 20 | The whole grief reaction often takes about two years to work through from initial denial to final acceptance . |
| 21 | Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . " |
| 22 | That traditional patriarchy , two classes walled off from each other yet co-existent , is disturbed by the elevation of a farmhouse into a cottage ornee ‘ with its viranda , French windows , and other prettinesses ’ , for this contends with the great house for the traveller 's eye . |
| 23 | There were numerous dirt tracks leading off from this road , but she did n't recall seeing it parked in any of them as she passed . |
| 24 | Congratulatory messages flooded in from senior RAF commanders , including the Chief of the Air Staff , Portal — ‘ I have just read first accounts of Bremen raid . |
| 25 | Children 's librarians have notoriously never sat still in their back rooms ( or anywhere ) but provide regular story-hours , give introductory talks to classes brought in from local schools , and get to know their young clientele very thoroughly indeed . |
| 26 | The news media learned of the arrests next morning and over a number of days outraged protests went up from loyalist spokesmen , including leaders of loyalist political parties and Andrew Beattie 's colleagues on the Constitutional Stoppage Central Co-ordinating Committee . |
| 27 | Evian water takes 15 years to filter down from Alpine snows to the town spring . |
| 28 | Unlike though it seems the horsetails are plants left over from prehistoric times , having survived almost unchanged for hundred of millions of years , judging by the evidence of fossil remains . |
| 29 | In the case of Statement B racism is entailed in a set of inherited predispositions passed on from one generation to another . |
| 30 | Each ten-acre field in turn was grazed bare — 'till; you could whip a mouse across it' — and the cattle moved round from one field to another so that they were always eating fresh , springing grass . |