Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [noun] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Entrants had to pick one of the four sections and develop their design from the abstract ideas that they found there . |
| 2 | King Priam 's widow Hecuba and other women await their fate from the victorious Greeks . |
| 3 | He supported the Pope , of course , and sent his own embassy to the Lombards demanding that Desiderius remove his forces from the occupied papal cities , and comply further with the Pope 's original demands for Ferrara and Faenza . |
| 4 | List your liabilities from the above column which involve behaviour |
| 5 | List your assets from the above column which involve behaviour |
| 6 | The green tree ants of Australia construct their homes from the living leaves of trees . |
| 7 | Now that when , as soon as I get my cheque from the British Legion for two hundred , roughly . |
| 8 | Erm in the American system of government the state governments draw their authority from the same source as the federal government , that is the constitution of the United States . |
| 9 | Spanish children get their presents from the Three Kings . |
| 10 | Mrs talked about four , we 've actually agreed that there should be more homes on the list than four er for prospective refurbishment and Mr has stood up and protested that he did not produce the figures , but Professor still says you will produce figures for this and you will produce figures for that , none of us do that we all get our figures from the same place but we all get inconsistent figures . |
| 11 | While there are a few things in digital technology which have no possible representation in analogue form — infinite impulse response filters are a good example — most digital blocks derive their shape from the original analogue function . |
| 12 | The government and President Mubarak derive their legitimacy from the overwhelming support of the Egyptian people . |
| 13 | Assigns acquire their meaning through association with other signs or words and so are more complicated than signs , which derive their meaning from the direct experience of the individual ( Rivers 1964 ) . |
| 14 | First , because the defendants being an emanation of the Crown , which is the source and fountain of justice , are in my opinion bound to maintain the highest standards of probity and fair dealing , comparable to those which the courts , which derive their authority from the same source and fountain , impose on the officers under their control : see In re Tyler [ 1907 ] 1 K.B . |
| 15 | All moral rules it seems , derive their strength from the original incest taboo and lose their reliability if this taboo is weakened . |
| 16 | One approach is to time the passage of the Sun , from one side ( or — limb ’ ) to the other , across a fixed meridian ( north-south ) wire , and calculate its size from the known rotation rate of the Earth ; another depends on measurements of the solar disc using a micrometer screw at the eyepiece of a telescope . |
| 17 | Now settled here , she is helping Bunty Matthias with co-ordination for Harlemation , and has danced on Neneh Cherry 's video for ‘ Inner City Mama ’ , putting into practise her experience from the early Manhattan break-dancing scene . |
| 18 | If you rent your home from the local authority and want to move within your present locality , the housing department may be able to recommend a housing association in addition to their own accommodation . |
| 19 | This season 's eye and lip colours take their cue from the current international designer collections . |
| 20 | Sevillana are similar to Flamenco and take their name from the Andalusian city of Seville , from which they originate . |
| 21 | In kung fu the hands take their shape from the particular animals whose fighting techniques the practitioner is imitating . |
| 22 | The White Lions take their names from the fierce predators which stalk the mountains of Chrace . |
| 23 | Mr Nikiforuk informs us that they ‘ take their names from the busiest of all Roman goddesses , Venus … |
| 24 | Josef gave us a thank you letter from the Red Cross , and a teacher told us that Britain supplies more aid to Croatia than any other country . |
| 25 | This concept has been refined over the years into ‘ How well do our Raphael holdings reflect his styles from the varying stages of his career ? ’ , leading in a recent , and extreme case , to the Italian government spending $1.5 million at Christie 's in 1991 on a St Catharine , a badly damaged sliver of a juvenile Raphael that had most of its surface paint washed away in the 1966 Florence flood . |
| 26 | So , take your fingers from the outside and move them in towards the nose and round so that you do n't stretch the skin even more . |
| 27 | Choose a dressing table to match the style of your bedroom — just take your pick from the wide variety available . |
| 28 | Make a loose fist with your right hand and firmly slide your knuckles from the outside edge of the heel to the base of the toes . |
| 29 | This process is guaranteed by the spirits of the earth , who withdraw their protection from the human community when it is divided by quarrelling . |
| 30 | In the event of any attempt to commence dumping we will recommend that the parents withdraw their children from the National Schools of Shanbally and Ringaskiddy , in view of the proximity of these schools to the site ; |