Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The invasion never came and the tower was left to decay until 1850 when it was renovated by the Royal Engineers and occupied by artillerymen from Leith until 1869 . |
| 2 | Deaf people are effectively discouraged by regulations from training as teachers of the deaf . |
| 3 | Since — outside the public sector , or some industry-wide schemes — only Britain offers ‘ portable ’ pensions , carried by employees from job to job , British pension funds can expect to win recruits from other countries . |
| 4 | The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission , now headed by that great Canadian , Mr Hector Charlesworth , was beset with complaints from Quebec about English being spoken on national network stations in their province , while listeners in the prairies , maritimes and west coast regions cursed the CRBC when the French-Canadian announcers said ‘ Ici Radio Canada … ’ and went on to announce the programme in French . |
| 5 | This process is slow in unmyelinated fibres but quicker in myelinated ones , when the action potential is transmitted by jumps from node to node . |
| 6 | Duddingston village owes its existence to a church built by monks from Kelso in 1143 . |
| 7 | The monopolist would have to adjust output to Q1 and the gap in satisfying market demand in the UK at this price would be met by imports from Germany of Q1 — Q3 . |
| 8 | This is arranged in encyclopaedic form , in loose-leaf binders , some statutes being reprinted with amendments from time to time . |
| 9 | Throughout this book , however , we have drawn on examples from research in other sign languages and found parallel or identical structures . |
| 10 | In the face of continued violence by armed bands the Army commander , Lt.-Col. Desi Bouterse , agreed to requests from Brunswijk for direct talks and a meeting between the two was held in Paramaribo on Dec. 19 . |
| 11 | Though Dr Runcie and his party could not take Holy Communion at the papal mass , he had earlier celebrated the eucharist at the Anglican church in Rome after three demonstrators rose from the congregation as he ascended the pulpit ; the visit has been dogged by protests from supporters of the Rev Ian Paisley . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ Inspectors sent to investigate the premises then found it was infested with cockroaches from infant to adult stage , alive and dead , on work surfaces , in the waste bins , around the cooker and behind two storage freezers . ’ |
| 13 | So we started by asking our friends , who in turn asked others , until we were eventually inundated with testimonies from witnesses around the world who provided popular proof that there is something about the cinema that encourages , right there in the picture house , thoughts , feelings and behaviour in its patrons by turns enigmatic , terrifying , erotic , sad , hilarious and poetic , often triggered by uncanny interplay between screen image and real-time events in the auditorium and in the world beyond the muffled doors . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ We were inundated with calls from members of the public and newsagents desperate for copies . |
| 15 | The postbox at Israel Radio is filled with letters from Arabs in Israel and Palestinians from the occupied territories . |
| 16 | Further they are in recognised literary genres , such as the diary — The Diary of Laura Palmer , for example — and , apart from the obligatory cover photograph , are filled with words from cover to cover . |
| 17 | The comments I made about the narrowness of Nicolson Street at the Community Centre was based on observations from Highways to the effect that it would not be possible to fit in a northbound bus lane unless there were only a single southbound lane and no bus stop . |
| 18 | Throughout the period of the Royal Tournament the Association stand , sponsored by British Telecom , was staffed by members from branches in the South Eastern Area , to whom Central Council extends its grateful thanks . |
| 19 | He was America 's most prominent conductor and known for compositions from symphonies to musicals ; his most famous was West Side Story . |
| 20 | We should be proud of the English qualities to be found in writers from Chaucer to Dickens , from Shakespeare to Jane Austen , from Milton to Pope . |
| 21 | However , in the USA , the chemical fallout from industry and agriculture has prompted an environmental expert to warn of the many unseen air pollutants which are not covered by the Clean Air Act and are damaging not only to human health — linked to ills from leukaemia to heart disease — but are implicated in the formation of ‘ acid rain' which has devastated vast tracts of forest ( Begley , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | The Slovenes and some Croats had been converted during the time of Charlemagne , and the Croats of Dalmatia were converted by missionaries from Rome during the early seventh century . |
| 23 | But as they waited to be escorted by police from Waterloo to the concert , they were confronted by a crowd of anti-Nazi protesters . |
| 24 | The Digital Compression Facility — which runs at seven to nine frames a second — is designed to shorten the time taken to hours from days of encoding digital movies for rapid decompression in applications such as video-on-demand and CD-ROM recording . |
| 25 | It is true that demand for coarser gauges of knitwear has fallen off and that the export market has been infiltrated by products from countries with lower wage rates . |
| 26 | Non-core activities will have to be funded through subscriptions from students of roughly £70 a year . |
| 27 | She herself was dressed in sequins from head to toe . |
| 28 | The extreme anti Jewish sentiments expressed in letters from soldiers at the Front , though evidently a small minority of the overall services ’ mail , also sometimes included direct references to Hitler 's stance on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , interpreting the war in classical Nazi fashion as a struggle brought about by the Jews and destined to end in their destruction . |
| 29 | A pleasure boat was moving upriver , ropes of coloured lights strung on poles from prow to stern . |
| 30 | It uses information about the arrival of visitors that is sent on cards from points of entry to the Home Office 's immigration and nationality department at Croydon . |