Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb pp] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such people think that native Australian species are usually driven extinct by superior competitors or enemies introduced from the outside world , because the native species are ‘ older ’ , ‘ out of date ’ models , in the same position vis-d-vis invading species as a Jutland battleship contending with a nuclear submarine . |
| 2 | In due course the usages of the frontier included regular meetings of Wardens from either side , seeking to control unrulier elements in their own jurisdiction and obtain redress for robberies or killings inflicted from the facing March . |
| 3 | Towyn north beach good for dogfish but flounder and dabs reported from the southern section at Penllyn and the rifle range . |
| 4 | In pursuance of this last , they waited until the first yells and screams sounded from the unhappy village , followed quickly by the glow of fire . |
| 5 | Soon after the match we were strolling companionably through the handsome streets of the town , past a striking collection of houses and shops built from the mellow , biscuit-coloured local stone . |
| 6 | So too in some degree are the internal workings of hospitals , prisons , asylums , factories and offices screened from the public gaze . |
| 7 | The group — all males — were wearing either knee-length shirts or what looked like the jackets and trousers left from the last church jumble sale . |
| 8 | It could , however , easily leave the impression , especially with Western children , that religion is a matter of irrational feelings and sentimentality divorced from the real world and divorced from truth . |
| 9 | Cholera epidemics happened regularly in my early years , when the filth from one village would be thrown into the river and water drawn from the same river for the villages downstream . |
| 10 | Here , COURSE and LECTURER come from the original entities and TIMETABLE stems from information about the coincidence of the two , that is , their relationship . |
| 11 | While admitting that the US company 's board had discussed winding up the Irish operation a number of times , he emphasized his gratitude and that of the board for the help and co-operation received from the Irish government and the IDA . |
| 12 | During laparotomy , 2 cm of more proximal bile duct was missing and bile leaked from the common hepatic duct into the abdominal cavity , explaining the absence of obstructive jaundice . |
| 13 | The above costs and profit deducted from the gross return will provide a residual valuation of the site . |
| 14 | The children were selected from the representative sample studied in a previous phase of the Bristol Language Development Project and included an equal number of boys and girls drawn from the full range of family backgrounds . |
| 15 | The establishment of serfdom conditioned the way in which the relationship between State and society developed from the seventeenth century onwards . |
| 16 | This museum will feature information boards and relics recovered from the old quarry . |
| 17 | The grain-short areas of the north and east benefited from the low price of grain . |
| 18 | An army will normally comprise elite foot companies of White Lions , Phoenix Guard , Sword Masters and the like forming the core supported by squadrons of Elven cavalry and larger regiments of spearmen and archers drawn from the Elven citizens of Ulthuan . |
| 19 | But they are also caused by a deep intellectual failure and fatalism inherited from the earliest Tory analysts of poverty . |
| 20 | H.M.S. Cossack arrived in Leith Docks on 17th February with 300 British seamen and others rescued from the German raider ‘ Altmark ’ . |
| 21 | Stories , myths and history poured from the eloquent tongue of Quirke , holding me spellbound . |
| 22 | They were built mainly of brick but had columns , capitals , entablatures and wall coverings of marble and stone taken from the numerous ruined Roman secular buildings ; most floors were of Roman mosaic . |
| 23 | For our present purpose we have examined 145 autobiographies written by men and women born from the 1830s to the 1870s . |
| 24 | There 've been a lot of valuable plants and bulbs stolen from the Botanical Gardens during the last few weeks . |