Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had indeed caught on from the bad vibes the driver had been giving out — the nervousness , the pale sweat-beaded face , the rapid eye movement towards the back seat — that something was bothering the guy . |
| 2 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 3 | A lot of flood water had come down from the upper reaches of the Cherwell , and a body placed in the river , say , at Lonsdale Road … |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Administration is carried out from the Head Office in London , where up-to-date office technology is very much in evidence . |
| 14 | In general , all restores would then be carried out from the optical disk , minimising the number of mounts needed for the magnetic media . |
| 15 | ( 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You can shoot the material in any order , the edited movie can be built up from the best parts of the recording , and the overall shape of the movie can be finally determined when the material to be retained is known . |
| 19 | The Reef is built up from the hard skeletons of dead polyps , and forms a base for the living coral . |
| 20 | Analysis sheets ( Fig. 6.15 ) are written up from the duplicate copies of the bills . |
| 21 | These total plans are made up from the individual plans of every business activity of the corporation . |
| 22 | The former is a collection of the more interesting statistics published by the state , and the latter is made up from the same sources , but is presented in a more varied and readable form , including charts and diagrams . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | Those people whose families had moved out from the inner areas still retained some ties with relatives in the inner city , but clearly such ties are by definition weaker in quality than ties with immediate neighbours , and they were dismissed as relatively weak in our inner-city network analysis . |
| 27 | Information can then be fed back from the cognitive system to the logogen system to influence the response of this system to the word which is going to be misread . |
| 28 | ‘ What has happened is that we have been clawed back from the disastrous level of whitefish we started at to a position in line with the top end of scientific advice . ’ |
| 29 | There 's a school nearby and environmentalists are worried about the possible effects of fumes given off from the burning rubbish . |
| 30 | His assertion that the problem remains and is handed down from the first generation of Homo sapiens to the present one in the institutions of religion and art seems to be , prima facie , very plausible . |