Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er as far as out-sourcing is concerned , when we learned that there could be two thousand jobs lost or out-sourced from British Aerospace , it was my opinion in line with those of our representatives that we ought to convene a meeting immediately of all shop stewards and representatives who would be covered er through those discussions and arrange and organize a strategy to oppose it . |
| 2 | Around the same proportion of the population , according to the same surveys , never thought of giving up the struggle to the end — or recovered from such defeatist notions — and it is fair to presume that for them Hitler remained the symbol of continued hope and determination . |
| 3 | The second rotary pot marked ‘ Vernier ’ allows the frequency of the note to be raised or lowered from A-440 concert pitch . |
| 4 | It is usually women who have left work , or moved from full time to part time employment , to care for a sick or frail elderly relative . |
| 5 | Media people , people from the advertising company Andy has just left , a few politicians — mostly Tory or Social Democrats though there are a couple of Labour guys — bankers , lawyers , business advisers , investment experts , actors , TV people — at least one film crew , though their lights are switched off for now — various other city types , a scattering of people who are , well , just professionally famous , and the remainder seemingly either part of some enormous floating meta-party or hired from some agency to impersonate people having a whale of a time : Rent-a-Hoot or something similar . |
| 6 | Many fairly recent objects can be found at home , bought cheaply in second-hand shops or borrowed from local people . |
| 7 | Ferkhan 's main business , he explained , was spare car parts which he either bought from abroad or took from wrecked vehicles he bought up cheap . |
| 8 | In ones and twos they jumped or fell from upper windows , some to death or injury and surrender ; others , more fortunate , were still fit to make a run for the woodlands to the north . |
| 9 | The largest of these groups , those born in or descended from those born in the Indian subcontinent , is itself divisible into sub-groups with important differences between them — such as language and religion . |
| 10 | The majority of the budget consisted of relatively uncontrollable expenditure ; uncontrollable in the sense of outlays for entitlement programmes , such as social security and unemployment benefits , and outlays that arose from previous electoral obligations . |
| 11 | The problems and criticism that arose from this decision , however , reflected the varying sizes of the administrative units . |
| 12 | A partnership practice that operated from two offices ceased to be carried on when the partnership was dissolved and the two main equity partners continued as sole practitioners from their respective offices . |
| 13 | Indeed , during almost a thousand years the only important legislation concerning English highways was a statute dating from the reign of Edward I. It required lords of manors to supervise the felling of trees and undergrowth up to 200ft on both sides of any ‘ highway ’ that led from one market town to another . |
| 14 | It was full of long tables that seated from six and eight to a dozen or more . |
| 15 | Alfaro 's descendants in next-door Nicaragua include the Somoza family that ruled from 1933 to 1980 , displacing their cousins , the Lacayos and the Chamorros , who had provided ten previous presidents . |
| 16 | In the case of oil , for example , the raw material was in one republic , the petrochemical plants were in another , the scientific research was conducted in a third and the extracting equipment was in a fourth ; and who owned the pipelines that passed from one republic to another ? |
| 17 | The cheerful noise that emanated from that hall would n't have left any German in doubt that these recruits were all united against a common enemy . |
| 18 | Of course , one technical advance that emanated from Cornish mining played a key role in stimulating the Industrial Revolution 200 years ago . |
| 19 | I have read his highly critical speeches in the other place about the difficulties that he repeatedly encountered when trying to pursue European legislation and the obstruction that emanated from senior Ministers . |
| 20 | Over this unimaginably ( for humans ) long time , each of the two lineages that branched from that remote ancestor has preserved 305 out of the 306 characters ( on average : it could be that one lineage has preserved all 306 of them and the other has preserved 304 ) . |
| 21 | There was also a form of opposition to perestroika that stemmed from outdated patterns of thinking and the self-interest of those who had become used to living at the expense of others . |
| 22 | And she had also begun to observe what a miracle the whole Hochhauser Operetta Company was — a miracle that stemmed from two people . |
| 23 | Sections were examined and scored ‘ blind ’ by two experienced observers , using a scoring system that ranged from negative , through intermediate , to strongly positive ( +++ ) . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , down in the deep south — at TVS studios in Southampton to be precise — there was a 4th July menu that ranged from real Texas burgers to an adventurous Lousiana duck . |
| 25 | Despite press coverage of closures and cut-backs , real and imagined , there was no mention of the dispersals , or of the more worrying phenomenon of the general dissolution of libraries that seemed from local evidence to be taking place . |
| 26 | That was dwarfed by the $85 billion of extra help that came from European consumers , whose food prices were rigged way above world-market levels . |
| 27 | Most of the women were secretaries , models of deferential , under-educated Englishwomen who filed and typed and processed the enormous piles of bumph that came from many quarters . |
| 28 | A comparable slab of slightly less educated people , but including many of those who are educated , love quasi-science : books about bits that fall off Jupiter and the pyramids that came from outer space . |
| 29 | In the comments that came from some sixteen of the presbyteries who were against the amendment , two things are significant as our report points out . |
| 30 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |