Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] from a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arthur Kitson 's views developed from a generalized critique of the banking system and the role Jews supposedly played in it . |
| 2 | LIFESPAN is equally appropriate for controlling a large number of small projects developed from a common base of software . |
| 3 | An expressed desire for rigidly determined geographical units separated from a despised neighbour occurs again and again in my fieldnotes , and is clearly illustrated in a note made in 1981 , when a superintendent in a somewhat remote subdivision laughingly told me : |
| 4 | Complex words are of two major types : words made from a basic stem word with the addition of an affix , and compound words , which are made of two ( or occasionally more ) independent English words ( e.g. ‘ ice-cream ’ , ‘ armchair ’ ) . |
| 5 | The actinides are more variable in their oxidation states , and this gives them more varied colors , but again the spectra of compounds derived from a given oxidation state are likely to be very similar . |
| 6 | In the USA alone the output of doctoral theses on Russian subjects increased from a grand total of 45 before 1950 to four times that number in the decade from 1965 to 1975 . |
| 7 | The first list was a set of n-grams taken from a short dictionary ( 11,795 words ) , and the second was a list of n-grams taken from a larger dictionary ( 71,279 words ) . |
| 8 | The first list was a set of n-grams taken from a short dictionary ( 11,795 words ) , and the second was a list of n-grams taken from a larger dictionary ( 71,279 words ) . |
| 9 | Multiples are organisations with ten or more shops controlled from a central office . |
| 10 | By 1980 the river stank , the beaches nearby were covered at times by blobs of grease , fat and oils , and thousands of sea birds were poisoned by lead compounds released from a chemical works . |
| 11 | In the 17th and early 18th Centuries , Hawkshead was famous for linsey woolsey petticoats made from a mixed cloth of linen and wool , as the name suggests . |
| 12 | There are two bells hung from a stout beam , thought to be from the old church , and eight tubular bells given in 1888 . |
| 13 | The birds suffered from a snowbound February and a cooler than average spring and wet , cold June . |
| 14 | The water cascaded down the face of the spillway again , the noise like a million stamping feet heard from a long way off . |
| 15 | Some of the later pairs ‘ display a great variety and experimentation in the arrangement of motifs drawn from a widespread stock of artistic ideas ’ ( ibid. , p. 36 ) ; it is suggested that this may be the result of craftsmen working together in a workshop . |
| 16 | At least twice a week we 'd heard the sermons broadcast from a nearby mosque and were both sure that the preacher was Sheikh Fadlallah , one of the main spiritual leaders of Hezbollah . |
| 17 | It is proposed to focus on a sample of parents drawn from a multi-ethnic area , and on a sample of health visitors working in the area . |
| 18 | Indeed , one gets the impression that his painting of 1906 is in some ways a synthesis of elements derived from a whole variety of different types of ancient art : the drawings on Greek white-ground vases , archaic Greek and Etruscan marbles and bronzes , and Cycladic and Mesopotamian figurines . |
| 19 | It was created when 8,400 refugees returned from a 10-year exile in Honduras between November 1989 and February of this year . |
| 20 | Plastic mesh bags of peanuts suspended from a suitable branch , post or table are ideal , but you can also put out most kitchen scraps ( not salted nuts , desiccated coconut or uncut bacon rinds ) , suet , sunflower seeds and grain . |
| 21 | The investigators reported from a previous publication in which they had compared these thirteen subjects with twenty-nine borderline schizophrenics , thirty-four neurotics and twenty-three high-risk subjects with no mental illness . |
| 22 | Since the report of the Resource Allocation Working Party ( RAWP ) revenue allocations of regional health authorities for hospital and community health services have been moved towards targets derived from a weighted capitation formula . |
| 23 | If the upholstery is still in too good a condition to change , add plain coloured cushions in one of the colours taken from a patterned fabric or patterned ones if the upholstery is plain . |
| 24 | However , this investigation used collocations extracted from a domain-specific corpus , and test data taken from the same domain . |
| 25 | Said in yesterday 's paper that someone had had a wheelbarrow valued at thirty pounds stolen from a back garden and it was somewhere at Kirk Hill . |
| 26 | To the surprise of the police all eight panels from Weimar were recovered , together with eleven paintings stolen from a private home near Stadthagen . |
| 27 | Between five and 15 consultants chosen from a large pool of employees are typically called upon to review any given idea memorandum . |
| 28 | There is no evidence at this stage to suggest that the expansion of definitions derived from a different dictionary would descend into generality at a significantly different rate . |
| 29 | The number of items recalled from a certain position in a list over successive trials was measured , where recall was immediate or delayed , using a between subjects design . |
| 30 | ( These are analogous to slopes calculated from a resistant line . ) |