Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] from [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since her captivity , a babel seethed around her constantly , the cries and demands of Sycorax , the commands of the men on guard over her , the hammering and planing of the pales for the stockade and for the settlers ' other plans ; the shouts of the men from the boat-building on the beach , the barking of orders to bondsmen brought from England on the ship that had returned , the yells of slaves whom they had loaded in Dahomey or Yoruba on the journey back , and roped and chained and put to work under the whip , and the bellowing laughter now and then of the overseer , a tall African who had been taken out of chains himself to hold the lash over his fellows . |
| 2 | There can be a tendency for such firms to collect details of all cash or cheques received from clients on the one hand , and all cash or cheques paid out for labour , materials , plant or services on the other , and pass the entire batch to the accountant at half-yearly or yearly intervals . |
| 3 | A clock-towered station in white stucco was built at Penang , the earliest British possession in Malaya , though the trains left from Prai on the mainland . |
| 4 | Stock may be acquired either as a stock order from a merchant or manufacturer or from surplus materials returned from site on the completion of a project . |
| 5 | Early work on the concept of WIMP user interfaces developed from research on the Smalltalk-80 project at the XeroxPARC in California in the early 1980s ( Goldberg and Robson 1983 ) . |
| 6 | In the geological field , Aberdeen University has produced a number of M Sc theses derived from research on the geology of North Sea oil fields , in part financed by the local oil industry , and most have been subject to restricted access at the behest of the funding authorities . |