Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had come to England from Berlin in the 1930s and had begun her studies at Central School of Arts and Crafts . |
| 2 | Of even greater interest was the flat statement that the BKA , working with German intelligence , had established that the bomb had been carried to Frankfurt from Damascus via Cyprus . |
| 3 | The Government of India had only moved to Delhi from Calcutta in 1911 , and the magnificent Lutyens buildings which today dominate New Delhi were still being built . |
| 4 | The sand — housed in what was claimed to be a mock-up of a nuclear flask [ two old oil drums sporting radiation stickers and lined with plastic bags ] — had been collected by Greenpeace from beaches near Sellafield . |
| 5 | ( Since UN sanctions against Iraq were imposed , over 4,300 people have died in Iraq from lack of medicines . ) |
| 6 | Next year 's exhibition schedule at The Royal Academy includes a survey of eighteenth-century Venetian art which will be shown in London from September to December before moving to the National Gallery of Art , Washington , from January to April 1995 . |
| 7 | Of the 21 attacks attributed to Iran from January to May 1986 , over half occurred in this area and many involved helicopters . |
| 8 | By 960–1126 there was trade in these between China and south-east Asia generally and it was extended to caradamons , which had been exported to Europe from India since Roman times , rattans , camphor , dammars , bananas and Dalheroia parviflora ( Leguminosae ) a liane with heartwood used in joss sticks ; the seeds of Adenanthera pavonina ( Leguminosae ) came into use as weights for goldsmiths and a system ( Ganda ) based on seeds half as heavy ( another legume , Abrus precatorius ) in India is derived from it . |
| 9 | Les , with the active support of his wife Pam , has spent several years listing the 1,000 prisoners , 600 of them RAF and himself among them , who were drafted to Ambon from Java in April 1943 . |
| 10 | Nate Cocello , President of United Motors , had flown into London from Detroit with a posse of Vice Presidents to attend the bi-monthly meeting of the European Planning committee . |
| 11 | Ruth Hilali , who founded a Kurdish refugee charity in Worcester , should have flown into Heathrow from Turkey at midday to face questioning about the withdrawal of £130,000 from a Worcester charity for Kurdish refugees . |
| 12 | Gunmen crossed into Israel from Jordan on April 17 and attacked a kibbutz in the Bet She'an Valley , killing one person and injuring three others . |
| 13 | A uniformed gunman crossed into Israel from Egypt on Nov. 25 and opened fire on several Israeli military and civilian vehicles . |
| 14 | On pain of loss of temporalities which you hold from us , we strongly inhibit you in the council now called at Lambeth from presuming to attempt anything to our prejudice , or that of our realm , or against us or our rights which our predecessors , kings of England , enjoyed by ancient and approved custom , or to assent to any such move . |
| 15 | hero of the puppet play introduced into England from France in the late seventeenth century , and performed in the streets by itinerant showmen . |
| 16 | Allard had arrived in Paris from Lille in the spring of 1910 and his first contacts were with the future Cubists ; because of this , his criticism is doubly interesting as representing their ideas unclouded by outside opinion . |
| 17 | The next step in Hocazade 's career was that he was brought to Istanbul from Bursa by Mehmed II to dispute again with Molla Zeyrek , the latter having incurred the sultan 's displeasure by claiming one day in his presence that he — Molla Zeyrek — was superior to the highly revered scholar al-Sayyid al-Sharif al-Jurjani ( Seyyid Serif : d. 816/1413 ) . |
| 18 | Although its collection of relics contained many choice items , such as pieces of Aaron 's rod and Christ 's foreskin , the piece de resistance was undoubtedly the arm of St James , brought to England from Italy by Richard 's grandmother , the Empress Matilda . |
| 19 | He painted with the meticulous craft of the Elizabethan limner in a style derived from the elaborate concoctions of mannerist court portraiture ; a style soon to be swept away by the tide of the baroque brought to England from Flanders by Rubens and Sir Anthony Van Dyck [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | She 's been brought to Banbury from Newcastle on Tyne where she was arrested . |
| 21 | Bogdan was brought to Teesside from Romania by Convoy Aid Romania suffering water on the brain . |
| 22 | The leader of the Union of the Gabonese People ( Union du peuple gabonais — UPG ) , Pierre Mamboundou , who had been accused by the Gabonese government in October 1989 of planning a coup attempt against Bongo [ see p. 36967 ] , was expelled to Senegal from France on Feb. 28 , 1990 , on the orders of the French Minister of the Interior . |
| 23 | The former , a native of China , was introduced to Britain from Japan via the United States in 1754 ; the latter , also from China , via the United States as recently as 1948 . |
| 24 | While the native people were fairly evenly distributed across Siberia from west to east ( but with a greater concentration in the south than in the north ) , the distribution of the incomer population from west of the Urals was always very uneven . |
| 25 | The large arrows indicate the positions protected by cAMP-CRP from attack by the hydroxyl radicals and the small arrows the positions protected by CytR . |
| 26 | Additional cover may be demanded by LCH from time to time in respect of initial or variation margin , as new contracts are presented by the member for registration , as the market price moves in relation to subsisting open contracts or when something occurs that might affect the member 's performance . |
| 27 | This year 's rate was increased in December from 1.81p to 1.86p . |
| 28 | The Chadian embassy in Paris described the allegations as " without foundation " [ for attack led by Guët from Nigeria in January see p. 38710 ] . |
| 29 | A large English naval campaign in 1372 had proved abortive , an expedition to relieve Brest in 1373 ineffective , a progress led by Gaunt from Calais to Bordeaux that same year a ‘ grandiose failure ’ , and a costly expedition to Brittany in 1375 too late to achieve its aim of influencing peace negotiations at Bruges . |
| 30 | There is plenty of documentary evidence that brass objects were imported into Benin from Europe by sea and no one doubts that this was the main source of the metal from the 16th century onwards . |