Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry of Colden returned from the Crusade to help Philip , and Richard I , Otto 's main supporter , died on 6 April 1199 . |
| 2 | The discovery , in 1945 by Brotzu in Sardinia , of antibiotic activity in a species of Cephalosporium recovered from the sea near a sewage outfall was brought to Florey 's attention by a former British public health officer and led to work at Oxford and elsewhere on this and similar organisms . |
| 3 | A cry of horror came from the artist when he saw the terrible face in the portrait . |
| 4 | A fairly dispassionate analysis by Best ( 1980 ) indicates that the initiation of area bombing of cities resulted from the rejection of strategic in favour of indiscriminate bombing by those in charge of British Bomber Command , and the acceptance of their arguments by Churchill in August 1940 , when the Luftwaffe 's attacks on British airfields in the Battle of Britain was threatening to damage irretrievably the RAF 's powers of retaliation ( Best , 1980 , p. 276 ) . |
| 5 | Great groans and gnashing of teeth emitted from the ranks . |
| 6 | The milk of paradise came from the story of the Old Man of the Mountains , Hassan , who drugged men and sent them forth as assassins . |
| 7 | In Wester Ross only 29% of income came from the farm and in North Yorkshire only two of the nineteen farms provided more than 50% of the total taxable income . |
| 8 | The customs duty source of revenue arose from the adoption of the CET . |
| 9 | At the same moment , a rush of flame came from the rear , followed by a flock of fire-arrows streaming into the rigging . |
| 10 | Hundreds of voices whispered from the walls , the ceiling and the floors . |
| 11 | One interesting source of feedback arose from the EIS survey of its members in Further Education on the operation of the National Certificate : the survey was conducted during November and December 1987 . |
| 12 | Explosions : red flames and chunks of rock spouted from the slopes where the Counsellors had been standing . |
| 13 | A tiny point of light shone from the centre of its forehead . |
| 14 | A point of light shone from the centre of its forehead . |
| 15 | At one and the same instant the audience burst into a thundering shout ; the orchestra pealed forth the strains of the Hallelujah Chorus ; the wheels of the great Ellis engine in Machinery Hall commenced to revolve ; the electric fountains in the lagoon threw their torrents towards the sky ; a flood of water gushed from the McMonnies Lake and rolled back again into the basin ; the thunder of artillery came from the vessels in the lake ; the chimes in Manufacturers Hall and on the German building rang out a merry peal , and overhead , the flags at the top of the poles in front of the platform fell apart and revealed the gilded models of the ships in which Columbus first sailed to American shores . |
| 16 | A couple of silhouettes emerged from the glare of light . |
| 17 | A huge torrent of blood streamed from the locket . |
| 18 | Gouts of blood erupted from the wound and hit the windscreen with a loud splash . |
| 19 | As a status it is already evident in the Greek polis as that form of polity emerged from the mists of the Homeric age . |
| 20 | Even the royal family changed its name to Windsor and Prince Louis of Battenberg resigned from the Admiralty as a result of this climate of thought . |
| 21 | The gun went off again , and chips of marble flew from the steps ahead of us . |
| 22 | As the last of the militiamen were swallowed up by the forest a great roar of delight rose from the gipsies and they crowded around Noah to congratulate him on the unexpected victory he had scored over the Burford magistrate . |
| 23 | In 1990 around 58 per cent of exports went to EC countries and 74 per cent of imports came from the EC , while the country 's five EFTA partners accounted for only 7 per cent of trade . |
| 24 | It was during the reign of Dieter that the city of Marienburg ceded from the Empire in return for a huge donation to the Imperial coffers . |
| 25 | A loud outburst of laughter came from the bar . |
| 26 | There would be a fierce ignition , but in the zone of contact with the road , a thin smear of rubber would be combusted in the small amount of oxygen adsorbed from the air onto the surfaces . |
| 27 | The late Earl of Iveagh and Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden retired from the Board on 27 May 1992 , and Sir Anthony Tennant on 31 December 1992 . |
| 28 | Utilities supplying large cities were given six years to meet the standards by taking chemical action to reduce the acidity of their water , which should cut the amount of lead leached from the pipes . |
| 29 | But these were only partially successful and a much more systematic assault on the question of poverty came from the capital , with a mixed reception from the local gentry . |
| 30 | McShane , one of the driving forces behind the Hunger Marches of the 1930s , and Milligan , a founder member of the British Communist Party , hid in a pub and downed a few pints until a party of workers arrived from the Gorbals to rescue them . |