Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [vb past] from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A funnel of light fell from a circular ceiling hole , drawing attention to the skeleton of an ornate spiral staircase . |
| 2 | The number out of work fell from a seasonally-adjusted peak of 3.1m ( 11.2% of the workforce ) in July 1986 to a low of 1.6m ( 5.6% ) in March 1990 , while the rise in earnings jumped by only two percentage points over the same period , to 9.5% . |
| 3 | Ten years of work on the river Tamar on the Devon and Cornwall border were destroyed when 25,000 gallons of slurry escaped from a nearby dairy farm . |
| 4 | Evidence for a form of context-specificity came from a final test stage of the experiment in which all the subjects experience the CS again in the original context ( A ) . |
| 5 | Well by now it 's perfectly clear that the suggestion that these characteristics rest in the blood and in race is wrong , but there remains this enormous field of characteristic garnered from a long historical process . |
| 6 | Her own motivation has been , she says , her background — a strong sense of injustice felt from a working class family in Cornwall . |