Example sentences of "have [vb pp] from [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last decade , Denis Healey has developed from prop-forward bruiser to everybody 's favourite uncle . |
| 2 | The number of those less optimistic has fallen from 30 p.c. to 24 p.c. , while a significant 9 p.c. say they are uncertain about the outlook and four in 10 are uncertain about their own company 's prospects . |
| 3 | In April 1990 the Guardian carried a leader in which it described the ideal citizen as conjured up by Mr Hurd as ‘ active but elusive ’ : ‘ Apart from a minor sighting in a speech by John MacGregor , the Active Citizen has vanished from public debate as if he had never been . ’ |
| 4 | New and more productive cereal cultivars have contributed their share to improved yields , but the biggest share in developed countries like the United States has come from increased use of fertilizers — 55 per cent between 1965 and 1976 , according to the New Delhi paper quoting an FAO estimate . |
| 5 | Much of what we now know , in a still difficult and very controversial area , about different kinds of ‘ televised violence ’ and their differential effects on differently situated children , or about the effects of different kinds of political broadcasting — party statements , electoral reporting , definitions of the ‘ main issues ’ — has come from this kind of research . |
| 6 | They showed the proportion of directors reporting improved order books has risen from 28 p.c. in February to 43 p.c. this month , while 37 p.c. say profits are higher compared with 30 p.c. two months ago . |
| 7 | Susie , 41 , has suffered from multiple sclerosis for 20 years and knows from first-hand experience the difficulty in finding facilities geared up for those who actually gain most from regular exercise . |
| 8 | A small but destructive minority has turned from religious zeal to crime , or to insurrection against its own governments . |
| 9 | As they squabble , the estimated time of arrival for the first train has shifted from next summer to the autumn , just in time to miss the holiday rush and about £200m revenue . |
| 10 | Former Test opener Graeme Wood , 35 , has retired from first-class cricket after being dropped by Western Australia . |
| 11 | It is therefore difficult to convince a farm worker 's wife , who may have to walk two miles down a muddy lane in the pouring rain to catch the Mondays and Thursdays only ( except Bank Holidays ) under-threat-of-closure bus to do her weekly shopping , that she has benefited from any improvement in the provision of rural amenities , when her access to them is increasingly denied . |
| 12 | Victoria has slipped from that part of the head where pressing thoughts gather , taking with her a lot of the baggage that was cluttering up the hallways . |
| 13 | The new feature that has emerged from this study of the parallelistic couplet is not so much the identification of a particular relationship of the lines of the couplet ( greater precision ) as a movement towards a statement of relationships within the poetic couplet . |
| 14 | This is an issue to which we shall return at the end of the chapter ; first , however , we must explore the broad classification of degree courses which has emerged from this analysis of their relationship with employment . |
| 15 | ‘ Our mood has swung from deep depression to something approaching optimism . ’ |
| 16 | The pendulum has swung from silly dreaming to grinding pragmatism . |
| 17 | That overdraft has resulted from club-record spending by the Owls manager , who has splashed out £4.3m in his 18 months at the Hillsborough helm . |
| 18 | This process has continued from one generation of Homoeopaths to the next so that instead of the new discoveries sweeping away all the previous ideas , as commonly occurs in many ‘ scientific ’ studies , the knowledge of remedies , known as Materia Medica , is continually being added to , developed and refined . |
| 19 | ‘ I was sharing a cell with an Irishman and he reckoned he 'd heard from another man in there that there was a plan to kill MacQuillan . |
| 20 | The revolutionaries might as well have come from another planet for all the relevance their schemes had to the real concerns of the peasantry . |
| 21 | Cnut may well have profited from this sort of process , for the sources are scanty and their silence on the matter of simony is not enough to rule it out . |
| 22 | However , the Commission did not find evidence of deaths having resulted from deliberate brutality by police or prison officers , as had been alleged by some of the victims ' families . |
| 23 | Pupils will now be tested when they are deemed to have moved from one stage to another and the teacher will be free to determine when this is the case . |
| 24 | ‘ We 're the only thing to have happened from this part of town for ages , he says . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're the only thing to have happened from this part of town for ages , he says . |
| 26 | As a result there were a number of unsatisfactory features of arts projects which appeared to have arisen from this lack of knowledge . |
| 27 | In the hot big bang model described above , there was not enough time in the early universe for heat to have flowed from one region to another . |
| 28 | I 'm not suggesting that legislators woke up one morning and said : ‘ We must abolish slavery ! ’ or ‘ Bear baiting must cease ! ’ , but for the position to have changed from tacit acceptance to wholesale condemnation , there must have been a fulcrum point when the arguments tipped decidedly in one direction . |
| 29 | He was probably far gone enough not to realise yet that he had jumped from one box into a smaller one . |
| 30 | Nyamwisi Movingi had resigned from this post on March 22 , accusing the government of leading the country to disaster . |