Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] from [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industrial revolution of the eighteenth century brought England into the ranks of major European powers , and although the English were somewhat detached from the affairs of the continent , and more concerned with imperial expansion overseas , the events of the French Revolution and the wars with Napoleonic France forced them to play an ever increasing role in Europe . |
| 2 | She was too small , too weak , too long sheltered from the harshnesses of the world . |
| 3 | Dynjandi is almost frozen at its sides , the light brilliantly reflected from the rivulets of snow and ice . |
| 4 | And biological means of treating pollution are routinely used in modern sewage works , where billions of bacteria — admittedly cosseted in concrete tubs and so protected from the ravages of the natural environment — busily consume waste . |
| 5 | The receipts from his shows have long since moved from the realms of the fantastic into those of the ludicrous . |
| 6 | Torturers die — in agony — hundreds , maybe thousands of times , before their ravaged souls are finally dropped from the jaws of a fearsome and vengeful God . |
| 7 | ‘ Thousands of businesses , large and small , have already suffered from the activities of unscrupulous photo-copier salesmen , and unclear contracts . |
| 8 | The deserts of the world which comprise this empty quarter demonstrate a sensitivity to human impact but one which is not easily separated from the effects of fluctuations in climate , as studies of arroyo development have clearly shown ( Cooke and Reeves , 1976 ) . |
| 9 | One difference between a vintage wine and any other is that it is generally made from the grapes of only one year , rather than a blend from several . |
| 10 | An umbrella stand conversation piece , largely fashioned from the remains of some unfortunate denizen of the rainforest in imperial Ilorin , but lately conquered somewhere north of Lagos , was dappled in a garish replica of its native twilight . |
| 11 | We need greater co-operation in Europe in these matters , because immigration and asylum flows are a major political concern , as we have just noted from the exchanges about Le Pen and the way in which people are feeding upon his visit . |
| 12 | Never mind that this idea destroys the fundamental premise of J. M. Barrie 's story , which ends with a vision of Wendy 's descendants continuing to visit the Neverland with an eternally youthful Peter ‘ so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless ’ ; nor yet that Captain James Hook has somehow escaped from the jaws of the ticking crocodile to dream of a return engagement with the leader of the Lost Boys . |
| 13 | Never mind that this idea destroys the fundamental premise of J. M. Barrie 's story , which ends with a vision of Wendy 's descendants continuing to visit the Neverland with an eternally youthful Peter ‘ so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless ’ ; nor yet that Captain James Hook has somehow escaped from the jaws of the ticking crocodile to dream of a return engagement with the leader of the Lost Boys . |
| 14 | There , one is largely protected from the extremities of nature . |
| 15 | I held up the intact bottle of rice wine I 'd finally recovered from the depths of my parka . |
| 16 | There the young Coleridge would read anything he could find , and at the age of six had already progressed from the tales of Tom Hickathrift and Jack the Giant-Killer to Robinson Crusoe and The Arabian Nights . |
| 17 | Stendhal immortalized the city in La Chartreuse de Parme , describing the beautiful women who walked in the streets as Madonnas who had just emerged from the paintings of Correggio and Parmigianino . |
| 18 | The dominant factor , in relation to poor housing conditions , lack of proper sanitation , food shortages and growing unemployment , was the fact that the country had just emerged from the horrors of the First Great War . |
| 19 | A pilot course for the training of potential leaders , conducted entirely in BSL has already resulted from the recommendations of a working party , chaired by Bob Peckford . |
| 20 | One was the common ostrich ; the other was the smaller ‘ petise ’ version that Darwin had only just snatched from the jaws of his shipmates . |
| 21 | Les Stocker , the animal saviour from St Tiggywinkles Wildlife hospital at Haddenham has just returned from the islands after a fortnight 's hard work . |
| 22 | To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point , which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again , whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power . |
| 23 | And , with that , I stalked out into the corridor , as pansy , still dazed from the effects of the explosion , meandered feebly after my mother , muttering about notes and the headmaster 's policy on being excused important school activities . |
| 24 | But those in this tradition wildly overestimated the friendliness towards revelation that human reason would feel , once freed from the shackles of a state compulsion to believe . |
| 25 | Many canal companies continued independently but , as the rail network grew , passengers and perishable goods traffic together with many bulk cargoes gradually transferred from the canals to the railways . |
| 26 | The courses focus on specific areas where expatriates are to live , with course tutors usually drawn from the areas in question . |
| 27 | New inspectors and advisers , who are usually drawn from the ranks of teachers , are rarely trained , it says . |
| 28 | Another fine sight is Catrake Force , quickly reached from the cottages on the left at the bottom of the street in Keld . |
| 29 | In Northern Nigeria , he succeeded in detaching the judicial system and the technical departments from the grip of the administrative service , whose claims to omnipotence and omnicompetence were thereby permanently reduced from the heights to which they had risen a decade before . |
| 30 | Small businesses were , however , specially protected from the effects of the squeeze , the domestic banks being instructed to reserve at least 20 per cent of their available credit for smaller commercial borrowers , with particular favour to be shown to those in eastern Indonesia . |