Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour and Conservative Parties who benefit from the present system have set their teeth against a change which would undermine their prospect of regularly forming a government on their own . |
| 2 | It was a surprise because the candidates who emerged from the famous political machine put together by his late father ( also Richard Daley ) did poorly . |
| 3 | There she quit the throughway , to race along feeder lanes , dodging through refugees who shrank from the fleeting , faceless , coaly-skinned woman . |
| 4 | J. Three of the trading estates have had New Towns built with them to house workers and their families who come from the larger towns or from villages where there is no more work . |
| 5 | As a bizarre amalgam of egalitarianism , rebellion , idealism , moral sloth and wanton self-indulgence , rock generated the literati it deserved , from the early-1960s generation of giggly pop scribes ( who pushed the old-school showbusiness correspondents aside ) to the ‘ serious ’ boy obsessives who stumbled from the 1970s ' underground , wielding big neuroses and even bigger words . |
| 6 | The squadron also flew the Iraq Levies , A sort of RAF Regiment of the day , they were mainly Kurds who came from the far north of Iraq excellent soldiers but poor airmen who generally laid their breakfast on the cabin floor whilst we were taxying , to take-off . |
| 7 | The farmers remember the lawless boom times a decade ago , when they grew as much coca as they could manage for the drug traffickers who came from the other side of the continent to their market town . |
| 8 | With the exception of Speshnev 's subsection , the " Petrashevtsy " ( as Petrashevskii 's associates came to be known ) were no more radical than others who dissented from the administrative and social practices of Nicholas I. The Dictionary of Foreign Words was one of a number of indirect criticisms of the regime to find its way into print in the 1840s . |