Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | After all , the 26 tracks on the album have been whittled down from a huge figure . |
| 2 | something to be dropped on from a great height as frequently as possible er particularly if it 's the G L C. In the United States , however much the federal government is irritated by the state government , it can not attack its constitutional powers nor can it undermine its financial base so that 's a different relationship , it 's a relationship based , not on dominance , but on partnership and there has to be an understanding , a trade off between federal and er a and state government . |
| 3 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 4 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 5 | Either a spark had come down from the old fellow 's hole up there or him with hobnail boots had trod on er black powder and set it off and his hole went out underneath his feet . |
| 6 | At the 40th session of the UNHCR Executive Committee in October 1989 the 43 member states adopted a general programme budget of $190,000,000 for the first six months of 1990 only ; after extensive debate at an extraordinary session in May 1990 and at the regular session in October , the Executive Committee finally adopted a general programme budget for 1990 amounting to $378,885,900 , including the $38,000,000 deficit carried over from the previous year . |
| 7 | They would have preferred process control and development staff to have established the new processes , and would have preferred to recruit ‘ green labour ’ to the new machines so that ‘ bad habits ’ would not have been carried over from the old production process . |
| 8 | Sorry , the ghost has n't come over from the other side of the door , it just keeps moving by itself . |
| 9 | ‘ They seemed convinced a whole lot of people had come up from the big city to show off , to be grandees , which was far from the truth . |
| 10 | Philip Swallow finds the VC 's memorandum , its envelope still unopened , at the bottom of his In-tray , trapped between the pages of a brochure for Bargain Winter Breaks in Belgium which he had picked up from a local travel agency some weeks ago . |
| 11 | I have what I believe to be a very important piece of information for marine fish keepers which I have picked up from the marine scene in the USA . |
| 12 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |
| 13 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
| 14 | Radio waves are used rather than em waves of other wavelengths because over suitable wavelength ranges they readily penetrate planetary atmospheres and because natural emissions at such wavelengths tend to be weak thus enabling the echoes to be readily picked out from the natural background . |
| 15 | But since interviews can be carried out from a single base , it is a very economical and efficient way of contacting a large number of speakers from a wide geographical and social sample . |
| 16 | Administration is carried out from the Head Office in London , where up-to-date office technology is very much in evidence . |
| 17 | In general , all restores would then be carried out from the optical disk , minimising the number of mounts needed for the magnetic media . |
| 18 | The chamber is then flooded from below with 3375 litres ( 750gal ) of dip , which is pumped in from a nearby vacuum tanker . |
| 19 | ( 8 ) For the purpose of this rule : ( a ) pleadings shall be deemed to be closed 14 days after the delivery of a defence in accordance with Ord 9 , r 2 , or , where a counterclaim is served with the defence , 28 days after the delivery of the defence ; but in an action which has been transferred down from the High Court , pleadings are deemed closed 14 days from transfer . |
| 20 | But in that case the very idea of the postman 's work occurring in isolation is incoherent since , as a matter of logic , it can not be separated off from a whole range of activities beyond itself . |
| 21 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 22 | You had to be the , the perfect woman who was one , who had grown up from the little girl of the eighteen-thirties who was all bouncy and skippy and optimistic ; now she had to be very quiet , she was admired for her innocence , for her delicate nature and her dainty physique . |
| 23 | It is reasonable to suppose that a sense of what is usual or unusual or noticeable in language is built up from a lifelong experience of linguistic use , so that we are able to affirm with reasonable confidence and without resort to a pocket calculator ( to take a simple case already mentioned ) that Hemingway favours short sentences . |
| 24 | The claim is that these rules can be built up from a simple base . |
| 25 | A feeling of belonging to a community , or as it has been described here , of citizenship , is built up from a whole range of social , economic and psychological components . |
| 26 | For example , the genetic material is made up from a complex molecule known as DNA ( deoxyribonucleic acid ) . |
| 27 | All counting numbers , or " natural " numbers are made up from the same group of symbols or figures : 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 . |
| 28 | Among other things , that paper proposed that sewerage charges should be separated out from the new council tax in the same way as water charges are at present separately levied . |
| 29 | However , since personal and social difficulties are experienced by most people , the problems addressed in primary prevention in social work also include those complex processes whereby individuals become separated out from the general population , entering client careers with welfare agencies ( Greenley and Kirk , 1973 ; Hardiker and Barker , 1985 ) . |
| 30 | There are one or two passably funny lines which fail to make up a coherent , witty whole but are suddenly shot out from an invisible pea-shooter as if whipped from Ms Rudner 's stand-up routine . |