Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working on the template agreed with his fellow coaches , McGeechan and Douglas Morgan , Dixon has brought a dynamism to the driving mauls , mostly triggered from clean lineout ball , which had seemed largely beyond the Scottish Exiles — four of whom are in the pack — when they attempted to deploy that tactic during the inter-district championship . |
| 2 | Very high rates of tariff covering about 7 per cent of goods in the United States and United Kingdom almost disappeared , and the proportion of trade ( excluding agriculture and fuels ) which attracted tariffs of 15 per cent or less rose from 54 per cent to 85 per cent in the USA , from 37 per cent to 85 per cent in the United Kingdom and from 71 per cent to 97 per cent for the EEC . |
| 3 | After all , her young people all came from good families . |
| 4 | Let loose on the family estancia during the holidays , he and Pedro had played cops and robbers on horses , and later polo with his cousins , who all came from large houses nearby . |
| 5 | I had never seen them before and they obviously came from some very rural place in the Apennines . |
| 6 | It amazes me just how much was achieved , with such positive results , especially as we only dug from 2.15 to 6.00 P.m . |
| 7 | They greatly benefited from certain ‘ economic conditions ’ during the period — namely , the existence of a large and concentrated urban population , the rise in real incomes and an increase in leisure time — which made the ‘ mass entertainment industry ’ possible . |
| 8 | It is generally agreed that the primitive mammals existing at that time were shrew-like creatures that lived by eating insects , and that the various groups of mammals that we see today , such as cats , rats , monkeys , whales , and horses , all evolved from this unpromising ancestor . |
| 9 | The reports , which apparently originated from Western diplomats in North Korea , were widely circulated by Japanese and South Korean news agencies but totally repudiated by the North Korean authorities . |
| 10 | Over the next hundred years a motley collection of military servicemen ( voennosluzhilie lyudi , fur-hunters , merchants , government officials , Orthodox clergymen , fugitive serfs , entrepreneurs and tradesmen ( promyshlenniki ) , convicts , religious dissidents , foreign prisoners-of-war ( generically known as Litva , ‘ Lithuanians ’ ) , cossacks , artisans , adventurers and vagrants ( gulyashchie lyudi ) steadily overwhelmed the indigenous Siberian native population and established a strongly defended network of wooden fortresses , outposts and stockaded population points , several of which swiftly grew from small military and administrative settlements into substantial , bustling frontier towns , a process described in more detail by David Collins in Chapter 2 of this book . |
| 11 | At the same time , as Figure 6 shows , its PAS-score only fell from 98 to a still very healthy 80 , and well above the industry average . |
| 12 | He led the Open at Muirfield by four shots and eventually came from two down with four holes to play to beat John Cook . |
| 13 | This meant that farming was the likeliest occupation for RCM boys , even though they mostly came from urban professional and commercial backgrounds and had a positive aversion to rural life . |
| 14 | Yeah , well we 'll take erm Michael gave us say erm a , an assembly sheet did n't he and we just read from that , and that got a lot of interest from that . |
| 15 | Confidence soon ebbed from Canadian railways . |
| 16 | Requests for samples of his mould soon came from several laboratories , including the pathology laboratory at Oxford . |
| 17 | Thereafter she largely faded from public life , though she continued to befriend and correspond with many younger feminists . |
| 18 | The immediate roots of British fascism thus grew from those who tried to ignore the real consequences of the first World War . |
| 19 | Easily reached from most parts of the country , short sea crossings to Fleetwood , Stranraer and Cairnryan , coupled with up to 34 ferry arrivals and departures daily illustrate the Port of Larne 's importance to Industry and Commerce . |
| 20 | The numbers of people aged 65 and over grew from 1.7 million to 8.8 million between 1901 and 1991 , increasing as a proportion of the total population from 4.7% to 15.8% . |
| 21 | ‘ I have a business engagement , ’ she excused , and wondered for a moment if Lubor had guessed that her business engagement for that evening was with his employer , or if perhaps he already knew from some office discussion with him that she was dining with Ven ? |
| 22 | But things just went from bad to worse . |
| 23 | Similar differences between relapsing and non-relapsing polyp patients ahve already emerged from previous studies , although other investigators have found no significant differences whatsoever . |
| 24 | He then laid the tape across the diameter so that it exactly stretched from one side of the circle to the other . |
| 25 | When the Board finally shifted from historic to current cost accounting in the same year , this had dramatic effect on the comparative costs . |
| 26 | ‘ Her dreadful friends started to take advantage of her , persuading her to spend her savings on them , and finally stole from one of her flatmates . |
| 27 | We used to regard any inflation as an evil ; there were years in living memory when prices hardly moved from one year to the next . |
| 28 | A third stent was deployed more proximally and the stents further dilated from 8 to 10 mm resulting in a satisfactory pressure gradient of 14 mm Hg . |
| 29 | The successful working-class children — that is , those who stayed the full seven-year course to Higher School Certificate or A levels — usually came from small families and often lived near to a primary school serving a predominantly middle-class area . |
| 30 | Many more came from other parts of Orkney — Orcadians and incomers together creating an atmosphere of community and caring support . |