Example sentences of "[vb past] from the [num ord] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt even sorrier for him with that stammer when he went up to read the first lesson , and had to announce that it came from the eighth chapter of Deuteronomy , a word which took him four goes . |
| 2 | The only optimistic statement came from the third cadre of military transport , which had recently held two cell meetings . |
| 3 | Sponsored by UNESCO , the meeting followed up initiatives that sprang from the Third Consultation of Ministers of Culture of Latin America/Caribbean in September last year . |
| 4 | There were reports that Iraq had received another Russian system , the SS-21 , though specialist circles are uncertain about this and arrival was not independently confirmed — perhaps the confusion arose from the last digits of the SS-12 having been inverted . |
| 5 | As was the case with the West Coast main line , the Great Western sub-sector was also badly affected by recession , but the decline at the start of the decade was matched by a spectacular recovery which started from the second half of the 1980s . |
| 6 | The CNAA knew from the first meeting of its sub-committee to discuss courses in education , in July 1965 , that the DES was moving towards a policy of teacher education in some technical colleges , and that the DES thought it reasonable that they should come to the CNAA for validation . |
| 7 | The agreement resulted from the third meeting of the Lao-Chinese Joint Border Committee . |
| 8 | The Big Four emerged from the second phase of headhunting : they developed from the search departments of the major management consultancies and accountancy firms . |
| 9 | Increasing pressure on the Poles to Germanise themselves , and the corresponding Polish reaction in both compliance and defiance , were all part of the impact of capitalist industrial organisation as it spread from the first comers of Western Europe , to the second rank of industrialising nations — to Germany , Japan and Italy in particular — and through them to their potential empires and marcher territories . |