Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently , in a series entitled , ‘ Scenes from the intimate life of CMA ’ she uses six small-scale canvasses , each focussing on a film still , randomly appropriated from a narrative sequence . |
| 2 | Almost at once , the decibel level inside soared from an angry mumble to a full-blown shouting match . |
| 3 | You must realise that the King not only fell from a great height but the sea pounded his body to and fro against the rocks . ’ |
| 4 | The metopes presumably came from an earlier monument of the same city , not apparently a treasury but an open colonnade , perhaps a baldacchino to shelter but not conceal some large offering . |
| 5 | The sound of a typewriter rattling away came from the little office and Gerald said : ‘ Gina — catching up on the correspondence . |
| 6 | As Ian Brown , of Lee Moor Farm in Northumberland , noted : ‘ A fact that saddened me lately came from a recent survey which suggested that the average family business — not just farms but all family businesses — lasts only 25 years , which I guess is only a generation . |
| 7 | Elevating deck ferries , introduced in 1890 , finally vanished from the river-crossing scene in 1966 . |
| 8 | The boats thus grew from no clear design — but emerged organically , with asymmetrical spars , as if barely freed from the forms of the forest . |
| 9 | On Dec. 29 Eitan 's right-wing nationalist Tsomet Party formally withdrew from the ruling coalition . |
| 10 | The two leaves and the gates had gone long since , for it possibly dated from the sixteenth century — nevertheless there was a distinct something about it and Mr. Hibberd , the antique dealer often asked my mother if she would consider selling . |
| 11 | While it was obviously impossible to claim that literary art still sprang from the general community , this could be accounted for by the gulf between literature and life caused by the processes of industrialization . |
| 12 | Anchovies — an important source of protein for animal feed — also mysteriously disappeared from the Peruvian coast around this time . |
| 13 | When the Labour Party returned to the electoral politics in 1945 , Common Wealth rapidly disappeared from the political scene . |
| 14 | He lived chancily , moved into many crises , both business and legal , but always emerged from the other side safely — and usually richer , more powerful . |
| 15 | It would be unfair to say that I have formed a low view of the Foreign Office ; rather I have formed the view that Foreign Office activities have in some way become totally disconnected from the human race . |
| 16 | Gastric pits become progressively deeper and more convoluted from the proximal cardia to the distal pyloric region . |
| 17 | They ate less and less , never venturing outside the villa , the physical aspect of their relationship consuming them both as Damian began to take her beyond her new-found sensuality , smashing barriers as he went , teaching her everything about her body and his until she thrilled to the power of knowing how to touch and kiss him to make him breathless with ecstasy , whispering incoherent , urgent words of encouragement to her until they both fell into their usual sleep of pleasurable exhaustion , completely united by the passion that raged just as highly between them now as it ever had from the very beginning . |
| 18 | Wilson 's disinclination to protest against the inquiry probably arose from a reasonable belief that any senior politician who did not want such an inquiry had something discreditable to hide . |
| 19 | The Tutbury bull was provided by the Duke of Devonshire and the famous Haxey Hood game in Lincolnshire probably arose from an earlier bull-running custom which involved the donation of a bull . |
| 20 | Australians were still the butt of English condescension but he clearly came from a different mould from his fellow Australian Barry Humphries ' Private Eye creation , Barry McKenzie . |
| 21 | Evidence that consumers are shaking off their spending caution after the election also came from the biggest credit information group , Infolink , which reported a rise in credit inquiries . |
| 22 | Most of the farm weights and unofficial weights are of the crude variety ( compared to the loom weights ) but when you add their existence to the three bronze coin weights that also came from the same field something of a picture starts to build up . |
| 23 | He was quite capable of building a locomotive as I have a working steam model threshing engine , on about the same scale , that also came from the old office . ’ |
| 24 | A monthgoing longcase clock of about 1710 by Daniel Delander also profited from a good footnote , selling for £104,500 ( estimate £45,000-£55,000 ) although the case which was originally ebonised is now painted blue . |
| 25 | The companies also profited from a bizarre system whereby shipbuilders who exported were given import quotas for raw sugar , which could be sold at a hefty profit . |
| 26 | He also suffered from a morbid fear of castration which lingered with him throughout his life ; possessed of plenty , as he saw it , he realized how much he had to lose . |
| 27 | Cave was older than the rest of the party , and the only one with knowledge of Iran ; he also suffered from a bad back , and must have landed with a fierce combination of jet-lag , suspicion and pain . |
| 28 | The Darlington group also suffered from an extraordinary charge associated with the imminent sales of £2.5m . |
| 29 | If trams no longer had an obvious technological advantage they also suffered from an institutional disadvantage-of having to pay for the upkeep of the roads they used , up to a distance of 46 cm ( 18 inches ) either sides of their tracks literally paving the way for motor buses . |
| 30 | Alastair Campbell , for example , thought that a verse supposedly from Thord Kolbeinsson 's Eiríksdrápa , which connects Earl Eric of Lade with the battle of Ringmere in 1010 , is a fabrication , and that lines about an attack on Norwich said by the thirteenth-century Knytlinga Saga to be from Ottar the Black 's Knútsdrápa probably came from a different poem on Swegen , who is known to have sacked the town in 1004 . |