Example sentences of "[verb] from [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'll be lifted from local papers . |
| 2 | If if erm a lot of these will probably be lifted from Yellow Pages . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Thus the pressure to regulate consumer goods markets has chiefly come from industrial sources anxious to stabilize their market shares ( Prewitt and Stone , 1973 ) . |
| 5 | Left to themselves , folk musicians did what they could without the guidance which might have come from experienced musicians . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The antiquities for sale have come from private collections in London and New York , from auction rooms and the trade . |
| 8 | Much of the information has come from surviving aces and their families , giving an immediacy to the stories not always found in other books . |
| 9 | Many have come from outlying towns and villages , in fact , from across the wide catchment area of the hospital . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Professional services available to the carer come from various sources and vary a great deal from area to area . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , because some of its Members of Parliament come from rural areas , they want those rural areas to be protected . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Most of the applications , then , have come from prospective landlords ; most but by no means all of them being housing associations . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Their attitudes were so different , they could have come from separate planets . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Substantial balances have come from new customers while the overall average balances are higher than Gold 90 balances which are themselves significant . |
| 21 | Children whose families have come from other countries may have a whole range of skills that are not normally recognised in English schools . |
| 22 | This season , the newcomers have come from other clubs but Miles and Martin Offiah , who , like Bell , scored two tries , Billy McGinty and Neil Cowie all illustrate the point . |
| 23 | When referrals have come from other professionals it is important to get back to the parents ' view rather than working from the information in the referral letter . |
| 24 | The majority of English words of more than one syllable ( polysyllabic words ) have come from other languages whose way of constructing words is easily recognisable ; for example , we can see how combining ‘ mit ’ with the prefixes ‘ per- ’ , ‘ sub- ’ , ‘ com- ’ produced ‘ permit ’ , ‘ submit ’ , ‘ commit ’ , words which have come into English from Latin . |
| 25 | Surviving papers relating to the removal of 433 paupers and vagrants between 1740 and 1762 show that 40 per cent of these unfortunates had come from other parts of East Anglia , 15 per cent had travelled up to 100 miles , 6 per cent had started from London and Middlesex and 39 per cent originated elsewhere , including thirty-three people from Scotland and sixteen from Ireland . |
| 26 | The governor says that 's been stopped , but staff are worried that the young offenders they 're having to deal with have come from other prisons already wrecked by riots . |
| 27 | There is the fact that the very rocks on which we live — no matter where — may have originated through volcanism ; that much of the gold and many of the other economic minerals that we use every day are linked with volcanic activity ; that most of the world 's best coffee and tea come from volcanic areas , and that there may be areas on the Moon and Mars which are analogous to terrestrial continents and oceans . |
| 28 | In general , Ollero believes that European countries have similar opportunities to the US for developing innovative software , and says that many important ideas have come from small companies . |
| 29 | The vehicles had come from diverse locations such as stately homes , shooting estates , garages , scrap yards and castles . |
| 30 | Elsewhere , much of the smooth plains material could have come from large impacts on the so far unseen hemisphere . |