Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its spine was missing , or rather protruded from amongst the leaves like a bulky marker . |
| 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 | Nor did he see another consequence , as his nephew Mauss confessed , shortly before going mad : ‘ how large modern societies which have more or less emerged from the Middle Ages in other respects , could be hypnotized as aborigines are by their dances and set in motion like a child 's carousel . |
| 4 | In 1966/67 and 1973/74 six or more birds wintered in the county , but the autumn and winter of 1974/75 were quite remarkable , with a total of 45–50 birds altogether , of which at least 20 wintered ; 15 or more arrived from the south at Beachy Head on 22 October 1974 . |
| 5 | How many Russian soldiers were killed or later perished from their wounds in the dark glades of the forest is not precisely known , but the Germans took prisoner 92,000 unwounded men , some 30,000 wounded and 500 guns . |
| 6 | Most studies do not use representative samples , and personality traits are typically assessed after the eating disorder has developed , thus making it difficult to determine whether the personality features caused , maintained , or simply resulted from the eating disorder . |
| 7 | Although little emerged from the conference in terms of new financial proposals , it was agreed that there should be nationwide targets for literacy , scientific and mathematical knowledge , vocational training , better teacher training , a reduction of dropout rates , and drug-free schools . |
| 8 | And that only lasted from mid-February to late April . |
| 9 | The communist regime that finally fell from power last week was , in many respects , a repetition of Amanullah on a grander , and far bloodier , scale : the war provoked by the 1978 ‘ revolution ’ , and the reaction to it have left up to a million dead , a third of the 16-million population displaced . |
| 10 | It was all so innocent but Fred 's face had darkened and he had become quiet as he went about his work , the occasional grunt of irritation replacing the tuneless whistling and humming that usually emanated from the kitchen . |
| 11 | The best topographic candidates for volcanic activity of Mercury are a handful of small rimless craters and certain ridges that could be solidified lava that once rose from fissures . |
| 12 | Ellen was laughing as she tried to stop the gunk that still spewed from the cylinder . |
| 13 | Within the pale the strangers entering were observed immediately , and approached with an alertness and efficiency that probably stemmed from the fact that the earl himself was in residence . |
| 14 | Once , he licked his finger and held it aloft in the airstream before lowering it to point decisively along a corridor that appeared to Bernice no different from the other two that also ran from the junction . |
| 15 | Most of the farm weights and unofficial weights are of the crude variety ( compared to the loom weights ) but when you add their existence to the three bronze coin weights that also came from the same field something of a picture starts to build up . |
| 16 | Cynthia could not speak for the sobs that now came from her throat . |
| 17 | Observing that Tschudi can be shown to have made keyboards with ‘ skunktail ’ sharps ( quite exceptionally on the 1766 instruments for Frederick the Great ) , Dale rashly conjectures that the instrument seen in the Mercier portrait might be by Tschudi even though it bears no resemblance to the 1729 harpsichord or anything that subsequently emerged from the Meard Street or Great Pultney Street workshops . |
| 18 | He led the Open at Muirfield by four shots and eventually came from two down with four holes to play to beat John Cook . |
| 19 | He became ill , and eventually died from ‘ a twisted bowel ’ , which frequently is another way of saying that a horse died from psychological stress . |
| 20 | He was quite a disciplinarian and rarely deviated from what had been the conventional 3Rs school of teaching . |
| 21 | These are now privately owned and only emerged from obscurity again a few years ago : sphinxes and winged sirens , the heads of minotaurs and owls , personifications of night and masks with invisible eyes . |
| 22 | He refused to rule out the military option , while Gorbachev stressed the need for a " political solution " and pointedly refrained from expressing support for a military move against Iraq . |
| 23 | Lisabeth and Fenella were being moved out of the way and generally harried from pillar to post . |
| 24 | In 1952 Hall became a reporter on the Sunday Mirror , and soon moved from there to the Daily Sketch as woman 's editor . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | Wee Charlie shrieked a last time , and promptly vanished from view . |
| 27 | Gastric pits become progressively deeper and more convoluted from the proximal cardia to the distal pyloric region . |
| 28 | She took the infant from Terry and quickly walked from the bedroom making , not cooing noises , but a ‘ kind of shrill moan ’ . |
| 29 | So I did , and I managed to rise a little way , but my wing hurt and the sea wind tugged at it and below me there suddenly flew some hooded crows and I was afraid and panicked , and nearly fell from the sky . |
| 30 | The firm 's pattern of growth , as in the case of Heidrick and Struggles , was very dependent on individual personalities , and also suffered from the fact that the most successful headhunters are usually the worst managers . |