Example sentences of "[verb] from [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Import tariffs would be lifted from 170 classes of products . |
| 2 | With a bit of modification and improvement ideas lifted from all sorts of sources will help in improving the school . |
| 3 | They 'll be lifted from local papers . |
| 4 | If if erm a lot of these will probably be lifted from Yellow Pages . |
| 5 | It should not be supposed from such criteria for choosing Christianity or retaining paganism that pagans were so simple-minded as to think prosperity and material adversity automatic grounds for conversion or retention of paganism as the case might be . |
| 6 | Desert Orchid had often won from worse positions , but he seemed unable to quicken , and was half a length down on his two younger rivals as they landed over the last obstacle . |
| 7 | In Victorian times there was a flourishing ‘ marble ’ works here , of which only the site remains ; it engaged in the cutting , dressing and polishing of dark grey limestone won from nearby quarries to produce an appearance of marble , but which was made even more attractive by the presence of fossil patterns in the stone . |
| 8 | Heads as they appoint new staff have the chance to turn the long-term realization of a school 's plan into a shared reality , but the same commitment can also be won from those teachers who are at a school when a new head arrives . |
| 9 | In that year , also , L'Estrange 's ineptitude cost him control of the official news-books and Muddiman regained it because of the regard he had won from both secretaries of state . |
| 10 | A customer may buy from several competitors in a given field ; a supplier will invariably supply to more than one business and yet , depending on the facts , the employer may be able to argue that these connections are sufficiently special . |
| 11 | Thus the pressure to regulate consumer goods markets has chiefly come from industrial sources anxious to stabilize their market shares ( Prewitt and Stone , 1973 ) . |
| 12 | Left to themselves , folk musicians did what they could without the guidance which might have come from experienced musicians . |
| 13 | Inevitably , much of the stimulus for our changing views of the visual system has come from empirical studies but , over the past decade especially , attitudes have also been changed by the development of detailed theoretical models of how visual information processing might take place . |
| 14 | The antiquities for sale have come from private collections in London and New York , from auction rooms and the trade . |
| 15 | Much of the information has come from surviving aces and their families , giving an immediacy to the stories not always found in other books . |
| 16 | Many have come from outlying towns and villages , in fact , from across the wide catchment area of the hospital . |
| 17 | Three spurs have also come from late levels : they are uncommon finds on Romano-British sites and suggest the presence of a cavalry unit here in the late fourth century . |
| 18 | Professional services available to the carer come from various sources and vary a great deal from area to area . |
| 19 | Criticism of the team and its management has been stinging through the season and much of it has come from former players . |
| 20 | Some of these girls whose families have come from rural areas in Azad Kashmir or Mirpur feel that their parents allow them to go to school only because in Britain it would be illegal for them to remain at home . |
| 21 | However , because some of its Members of Parliament come from rural areas , they want those rural areas to be protected . |
| 22 | The UK division of FoE produces the Good Wood Guide , a simple run down of tropical hardwood products and their alternatives for consumers and manufacturers alike , so that all interested parties can be sure of buying hardwood that has come from sustainable sources . |
| 23 | Most of the applications , then , have come from prospective landlords ; most but by no means all of them being housing associations . |
| 24 | The competition was to take place in August and , although she was for ever panicking about what they still could n't do , she tended to overlook how far they had come from first beginnings . |
| 25 | In a recent study of all Higher Education Institutions it has become quite clear that the main impetus towards Equal Opportunity Policies has come from female members of staff or particular unions representing female members ( CRE , unpublished ) . |
| 26 | Most of the early topics for review , such as debtor management , payment systems and self-billing , were selected by head office , but as confidence in the technique has grown , suggestions for further reviews have increasingly come from individual sites ; programme and project management and risk evaluation in project appraisals are examples . |
| 27 | In fact it has nothing to do with political affiliations at all , since admiration and support for Rigoberta Menchu has come from all sides . |
| 28 | When we got there the street was crowded with people who must have come from all parts of the City . |
| 29 | Their attitudes were so different , they could have come from separate planets . |
| 30 | Since almost all those on death row come from impoverished backgrounds they lack the funds to hire their own attorney and will be appointed counsel by the Court . |