Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diehard opinions ranged from the virulent obscurantism of Northumberland , Page Croft and Cooper , who saw politics as a black-and-white struggle between good British imperial-minded Christians and Jewish-dominated marxist wreckers , to the high-minded Association of Independent Peers , who were primarily concerned with the effect of coalition on the standards of public life and its failure to halt the drift towards class politics . |
| 2 | Provision was patchy , and professional attitudes ranged from a sensitive understanding of the issues to the blandly ignorant . |
| 3 | Such lack of interest in any active Turkish diplomatic relationship with the European states stemmed from a deap-seated view of the world . |
| 4 | Books came from the central library in Salisbury by the train load . |
| 5 | Many of the speakers came from a local government background , having spent years in social services or as councillors . |
| 6 | The rugs came from the antique department at Liberty in London . ’ |
| 7 | It was quite an exciting and exacting task to work out the meaning of basic Christian terms , for in Burmese almost all the abstract nouns and religious words came from the religious language of Buddhism . |
| 8 | St. Clement Danes was an old-fashioned school which would have liked to have been more middle class than it was Unfortunately most of the kids came from the White City Estate which is about as working class as you can get |
| 9 | Man 's early faith in the original ‘ god ’ forerunners came from the apparent success which on some occasions appeared to attend the involvement of them in the troubles that beset him . |
| 10 | Neither Matthew nor the girl was aware that she had come into the room , and as Beth 's eyes went from the unique expression of wonder on the boy 's handsome face , to the girl 's slender form … the small budding breasts , and the young limbs that were already shaping into those of a young woman … a strange sense of revulsion shivered through her . |
| 11 | Beyond the pine , and a little lower on the cliff , a dozen or so bushes grew from a wide fissure . |
| 12 | Dodging the shell bursts ' debris as branches fell from the large wahrazin trees above shallow trenches by the headquarters , Bernard Callinan could not make out what craft was shelling them , but through the mist he could hear the rumble of small boats ' engines . |
| 13 | If the key role in opposing James 's pro-Catholic policies came from the Anglican establishment , and in particular from the clergy , how did they justify doing this , given their professed attachment to the principles of non-resistance and passive obedience ? |
| 14 | Another view of the need to rebuild British cities came from an old school : the garden city movement . |
| 15 | Then incongruous suburban chimes jangled from the front porch . |
| 16 | Instead of being ‘ designed ’ , the mishmash of typefaces , type sizes , screaming headlines , jumbled-up articles and unrelated snippets came from an organic process . |
| 17 | Ions repelled from the solar surface rush radially outwards . |
| 18 | The advice on bending the rules came from the then Defence Minister , Alan Clark . |
| 19 | Direct exports by OPEC national oil companies rose from a negligible proportion of production within the area to some 50–55 per cent over the course of the 1970s . |
| 20 | His eagles came from a 15-yard bunker shot at the eighth and a putt of similar distance at the eleventh . |
| 21 | Most of the comments on links with parents came from the primary sector |
| 22 | Do you find that , as Adrienne Rich wrote of Marie Curie , ‘ her wounds came from the same source as her power ? ’ |
| 23 | Most of these belts came from a nearby village of Winshill . |
| 24 | During February visitors came from the Byelorussian Academy of Sciences and in the same month there was an official visit by the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Ministry for State Education . |
| 25 | Before the union was formed the tariff against all outsiders was not prohibitive , and the home country 's imports came from the lowest cost source namely , the rest of the world . |
| 26 | At which point two other giant rats sprang from the lower part of the building , jaws agape , and flung themselves at her . |
| 27 | Kevin 's amplified tones boomed from the public address system mounted on the roof of the recently-commandeered military vehicle . |
| 28 | In this case the offender was caught within minutes , his movements watched from a central control room a mile away . |
| 29 | Or rather : these planners started from a wrong assumption that the maximum rate of accumulation is also the optimum rate . |
| 30 | Rations were monotonous , sanitation was rudimentary , and many physical disorders resulted from the constant water and mud . |