Example sentences of "it [vb past] from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a rival party in the field , the Ghana Congress party ( GCP ) , founded in 1952 by Dr Busia ; it included several of the erstwhile UGCC leaders , but despite some impressive names it operated from a narrow base . |
| 2 | D. B. MacDonald has speculated on the difficult question of the origin of this view in Islam and has suggested that it arose from a Muslim heresy ‘ in that dark but intense period of theological and intellectual development which stretched from the death of Muhammad for at least two and a half centuries ’ . |
| 3 | The angular resolution of the observations was inadequate to show that the source was definitely located at the nucleus , but the strength and variability of the line suggested that it arose from a compact source . |
| 4 | Rather it arose from a fortuitous combination of circumstances which bore little relation to the long-run economic costs of producing and distributing electricity . |
| 5 | It arose from the recent conquest of the northern coastal area as far as Anglesey by his friend Hugh , earl of Chester . |
| 6 | The Marxist value system arose in this vacuum of values and it arose from the multiplying effect that machinery had on man 's labour . |
| 7 | We referred in Section 9.6.1 to the growing current account deficit of the USA , and Table 9.2 shows this clearly : it moved from a current account surplus of $6.9 billion in 1981 to a deficit of $ 154 billion in 1987 . |
| 8 | I can still remember how good that coffee tasted , and how different it tasted from the common-room coffee I was used to . |
| 9 | It rose from the demolished vastness of the old Army Clothing Depot . |
| 10 | Giray publicly attributed his resignation to personal differences with Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut , but sources within the ruling Motherland Party claimed that it stemmed from a factional rift concerning the organization of delegate elections for the party congress due in January 1991 . |
| 11 | In the first instance it stemmed from an understandable utilization of familiar forms to furnish a reassuring and acceptable face for the new means of locomotion and thus allay the fears of travellers for whom speed was a new and potentially alarming phenomenon . |
| 12 | The track had , he recalled , two branches , separating as it dropped from the heathy ridge that looked down upon the river . |
| 13 | It dropped from an annual increase of 15 people per 1000 until now , when the increase is about 3 people per year for every 1000 already in Britain . |
| 14 | At that time the party seemed to have many of the characteristics of a party which did not expect to win elections : it had changed its leadership only a few weeks before the general election was called , Lansbury having resigned and been replaced by Attlee on a temporary basis ; and it suffered from a good deal of internal factionalism , and found its major policy demand — collective security through the League of Nations — ‘ scooped ’ by Stanley Baldwin , the Prime Minister . |
| 15 | The previous owner tells me he thinks it came from a 1976 vehicle but the distributor and starter motor are dated 1972 , 1971 . |
| 16 | I was about to return fire but saw it came from a Croatian position . ’ |
| 17 | She sucked again from the tea-bulb , feeling its plastic smoothness dent as it emptied , knowing it came from a floating colony like she did but not knowing why it should be used on a steady-gravity planet like Mars . |
| 18 | No school-children so far , but I can hear the first faint scrapes and slushing of householders beginning to clean their pavements , and the sound is strange and hard to recognise in the almost silent air , seeming as if it came from a long distance , a country sound in the wrong place . |
| 19 | It is an area I do not know and the reason for choosing it came from a close friend who has put up with the knowledge of my obsession for many years now and still remains the closest of friends . |
| 20 | But it came from a reliable source . |
| 21 | And an achene is a small , single-seeded fruit that does not open , which you might mistake for a nut unless you know that it came from a single carpel . ) |
| 22 | After entering I found it came from a little sister of those drowned Children , that was singing to a bundle of clouts , rudely put together to look like a Doll , which she held in her arms . |
| 23 | It came from a wooden hut at the edge of a field . |
| 24 | It came from the far side of the hotel ; I walked along the balcony to the far end . |
| 25 | Howard Barker is described in the programme as a playwright ‘ known for his robust stance ’ — feet apart , biceps raised ? — ‘ against the tide of TV obsessed populist drama , ’ but the dialogue in A Hard Heart sounds as if it came from the violet-ink-filled pen of Oscar Wilde . |
| 26 | It came from the top floor . |
| 27 | She felt even sorrier for him with that stammer when he went up to read the first lesson , and had to announce that it came from the eighth chapter of Deuteronomy , a word which took him four goes . |
| 28 | You see , it came from the same thing . |
| 29 | It came from the slashed body . |
| 30 | Its arguments may raise a smile now , but it came from an experienced pastor to an intelligent and dedicated missionary , and was clearly directed to some of the major preoccupations of Germanic and other pagans . |