Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | High fertility in Ireland ( by modern standards ) depended upon the institutionalized pattern of high emigration which prevented population rising from the 1840s until the 1950s . |
| 2 | These included the treeless spaces north and south of Brocklebeck ; he recommended places sheltered from the northern blast and with ‘ commanding prospects of that noble lake , ’ ‘ the hollow between Derwent Park and Castlehead , and the fields extending from Castlehead to Keswick . ’ |
| 3 | It is unknown whether low amplitude propagated contractions and high amplitude propagated contractions have the same physiological basis and serve the same function — that is , whether they are parts of a continuum of propagated contractions. ( 3 ) High amplitude propagated contractions start from the ascending colon ( old observations also suggest that the appendix may be involved in such forceful activity ) , and most are propagated in an aboral direction . |
| 4 | I went and got the pressure-cooker to brain him with and was just about to bring it crashing down on his bonce when I heard Mike calling from the next room . |
| 5 | These digital and digitally remastered recordings date from the late ‘ 70s and '80s and information/presentation/quality are up to the usual Chandos high standards , although playing times tend to be short . |
| 6 | Bryan Robson began a move which saw Webb run from the halfway line down the right . |
| 7 | The Americans watched the bamboo rod rise and fall and heard the sickening thud of wood on flesh and bone ; as the fallen Annamese struggled to raise himself from the dusty road they saw blood welling from the crimson weals on his back . |
| 8 | Gunpowder : the smouldering disbelief of McFall during his long and lonely vigil at the belay ; Treason … that Velcro-like Cloggy turf which sent Hebbert plummeting from the easier pitch above : Plot : read on … |
| 9 | As she turned into the lane leading to the village , she gradually slowed and came to a halt as she saw Leo descend from the local bus . |
| 10 | In fact , Henry the Lion ruled territories extending from the Baltic and the North Sea to the Adriatic , but his period of favour and amicable relationship with Barbarossa was not to last long . |
| 11 | Now the movements of whole groups of galaxies are providing estimates of W. At Brighton , Avishai Dekel of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Nick Kaiser of the University of Toronto presented maps derived from the peculiar velocities of galaxies using different methods . |
| 12 | What then did Innocent gain from the long struggle ? |
| 13 | Paisley had Craig expelled from the unionist coalition . |
| 14 | We had coal to carry from the top pasture by the road where the coalman used to leave it , and I do n't think it would have been possible but for that snow bridge . |
| 15 | The experience reported suggests that the method is effective in that at the end of the rotary lithotrite procedures 17 patients had a gall bladder clear of stones , and with subsequent proceduressuch as cholecystoscopy , endoscopic sphincterotomy , and percutaneous cholecystolithotomy all but two patients had stones cleared from the biliary system . |
| 16 | Of these , 134 ( 96 per cent ) patients had speech controlled from the left half of the brain and 6 ( 4 per cent ) had right hemisphere speech . |
| 17 | Among 122 non-right handers , left and mixed handers being considered together , 86 ( 70 per cent ) patients had speech controlled from the left hemisphere , 18 ( 15 per cent ) had right hemisphere speech and in 18 ( 15 per cent ) speech was bilaterally represented . |
| 18 | The exploration company said artifacts recovered from the new expedition will be housed in a permanent museum and exhibited around the world . |
| 19 | Until now they have made a tidy profit from selling re-issued pop hits from the fifties , sixties and seventies . |