Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the reduction came from the limited move away from the smaller sets towards the more advanced 60MW and 100MW designs which was possible within the conservative framework . |
| 2 | Strong opposition against the measure came from the Hindu communalist Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) and other Hindu groups . |
| 3 | Technically , it is on commercial grounds , and they can not recoup the money made from the everyday operation of the reactor to pay for the refurbishment of the reactor , that is true . |
| 4 | Mr Gummer said the proposals resulted from the agri-environment regulation agreed in last year 's Common Agricultural Policy reform package . |
| 5 | The Masai moved from the great river of the north , freely interpreted as the Nile , says the professor in a note , down towards their present location . |
| 6 | The advice on bending the rules came from the then Defence Minister , Alan Clark . |
| 7 | The sum of £250 had been borrowed from Joseph Barnard , the treasurer , to make good the actual deficiency which ‘ had not arisen from any defect or negligence whatever in the management of the institution , but on the contrary arose from the great success of the Infirmary and the high reputation it had acquired , so that the number of patients had increased rapidly ’ . |
| 8 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |
| 9 | He was tumultuously cheered in the House of Commons that afternoon , although a good part of the enthusiasm came from the Labour benches . |
| 10 | The study was empty ; the light came from the adjacent room . |
| 11 | The rugs came from the antique department at Liberty in London . ’ |
| 12 | As his principal example ( to which the effacement of the jongleur persona could be added ) he noted the removal of deliberate and witty echoes of the characteristic diction of the Breton lay from the French version of Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons : the fairy lande disappears in the Anglo-Norman version , the magic don , " gift " , becomes a mundane guerdon , " reward " , and the fées , " fairies " , become desmoisselles . |
| 13 | The fighting spread from the two helpless ships to the third rammed behind them , now cramped fast with a grappling-iron and rocking with incomers from the two dying vessels ahead . |
| 14 | St. Clement Danes was an old-fashioned school which would have liked to have been more middle class than it was Unfortunately most of the kids came from the White City Estate which is about as working class as you can get |
| 15 | In the UNIP contest for the 1979 presidential nomination , when both Kapwepwe and Nkumbula challenged him , Kaunda showed that he was not prepared to tolerate any real alternative to himself , even when the bid came from the two most experienced politicians in the country . |
| 16 | The Admiralty had from the first a ‘ prize ’ jurisdiction , i.e. a jurisdiction to determine all questions as to the ownership of ships and goods captured at sea by a belligerent . |
| 17 | But anthropologists proved his theory was wrong ; the islanders came from the western Pacific . |
| 18 | There were reports that Iraq had received another Russian system , the SS-21 , though specialist circles are uncertain about this and arrival was not independently confirmed — perhaps the confusion arose from the last digits of the SS-12 having been inverted . |
| 19 | Part of the confusion came from the unworthy pleasure given him by the prospect of holding onto his ward a little longer . |
| 20 | But yesterday the horse ran from the little known stable of Roger Ingram . |
| 21 | There are small helically-coiled shells present even in Cambrian rocks , and it seems likely that the gastropods diverged from the other molluscs late in the Precambrian . |
| 22 | However , in this case , it would not be necessary to determine that all the quanta came from the same direction : it would be enough to observe that they all arrived within a very short time interval to be reasonably confident that they were coming from the same burst . |
| 23 | The jaw movements of some dinosaurs could have a grinding motion like mammals , but most of the mobility came from the upper jaw as it virtually expanded over the lower one . |
| 24 | The oxygen evolved from the two samples can be collected and tested for the heavier isotope using a mass spectrometer . |
| 25 | The CNAA knew from the first meeting of its sub-committee to discuss courses in education , in July 1965 , that the DES was moving towards a policy of teacher education in some technical colleges , and that the DES thought it reasonable that they should come to the CNAA for validation . |
| 26 | Questions about Mr Major 's style and the way he was fighting the battle arose from the evident disarray in the Conservative campaign . |
| 27 | While the proportion received from the various sources will obviously vary from authority to authority , virtually all will receive some revenue from all three . |
| 28 | Last year , the Chancellor broke from the simplified two-tier tax rate by introducing a 20p rate to be levied on the first £2,000 of taxable income . |
| 29 | He argued that the NHS suffered from the following : |
| 30 | ‘ The Rosenblooms came from the opposite end of Eastern Europe . |