Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [num] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment of Jesus ' death the curtain of the Temple was torn in two from top to bottom . |
| 2 | It maintains that they can only benefit if it secures the return to Turkey of the so-called Lydian hoard : Lydian , Archaemenid Persian and other Anatolian artefacts dating back to 600–500 BC which , it contends , were looted in 1960–66 from tombs in the Ushak region of Turkey . |
| 3 | On the eastern extremity of the county , the Royal Military Canal was built in 1804 from Rye to Shorncliffe in Kent ; its function was not for transport but to provide a moat across the flat marshlands where invasion was most expected . |
| 4 | The pastor of Nottingham 's Broad Street Chapel had his salary raised in 1892 from £250 to £300 . |
| 5 | Completed in 1879 from designs by Sir Gilbert Scott , the Episcopal Cathedral is one of the most impressive ecclesiastical buildings erected in Scotland since the Reformation . |
| 6 | Grenada had withdrawn in 1981 from membership of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court ( ECSC ) , which automatically granted such a right of appeal , and the government was thought to have deliberately delayed re-entry to ECSC membership , originally scheduled for Aug. 1 , to obstruct this process . |
| 7 | The level of cabbage and Brussels sprouts consumption has decreased since 1982 from 3.81oz per week per person to 3.05 for cabbage , and from 1.54oz to 1.02oz for Brussels sprouts . |
| 8 | Tony Weller 's variant of Regent 's Park , north-west London , begun in 1812 from designs by John Nash ( 1752–1835 ) , but not completed until 1838 . |
| 9 | Noble had returned in 1894 from Liverpool to London and , after some months attending the fashionable Bloomsbury Square chapel where Stopford Brooke preached to a large intellectual gathering , had decided to join the Unitarian chapel close to their new suburban home at 6 Patten Road , Wandsworth Common . |