Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] from [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Because of tightening central government controls on borrowing , the proportion of local authority capital income derived from borrowing fell sharply during the 1970s and 1980s ( from 83.7 per cent in 1974/5 to 48.4 per cent in 1984/5 ) ( all figures for England are calculated from Travers , 1986 , tables , App. 4 and 5 ) .
2 The financial criteria are altered from time to time by regulations .
3 Thus , the pressing of a large computer-linked key identified by a pattern that the chimpanzee has been trained to associate with the availability of bananas , is no more surprising than its ability to associate the presence of bananas with the shape of a banana plant on which the bananas are hidden from view .
4 Frequently however these problems go unnoticed or are hidden from view Only the nurse herself is aware of the difficulty .
5 The complexity of this issue lies in the fact that the TNCs are themselves directly and explicitly responsible for the ways in which such processes work out in most societies , but they are also often indirectly and implicitly responsible in ways that are hidden from view .
6 One view of local budgeting is that officials are largely influenced by the advice they are given from Whitehall and that local councillors largely follow that lead , tempered only by party politics .
7 Undertakings are given from time to time in personal injury cases .
8 Examples of this sense are given from Addison and Pope .
9 Unlike many generative systems which are developed from scratch , probabilistic systems tend to utilise existing resources .
10 Invaded by photographs the toys are decontextualised from childhood , sinister , tragic recollections of a half-forgotten adventure .
11 Interest rates are adjusted from time to time to reflect market conditions , and will be chosen to balance long-term inflows of deposits with the demand for loans : higher interest rates attracting more deposits and reducing the demand for loans .
12 shall also cause the trade mark registration symbol to be placed next to such of the Trade Marks as are registered from time to time throughout the world .
13 There are three issues associated with institutional aims and objectives : ( i ) the extent to which they are aims and objectives rather than social platitudes and/or moral aspirations ; ( ii ) the extent to which objectives are differentiated from aims and are capable of implementation ; and ( iii ) the extent to which they refer to teaching and non-teaching staff as well as children .
14 However , as further proceeds are received from disposals already agreed , the high level of indebtedness will reduce .
15 The investigation will begin when details are received from Valenciennes over the allegation from defender Jacques Glassmann that he had been offered a bribe from a Marseille official to take it easy .
16 But as news of this service spreads , and more referrals are received from GPs and district nurses , the hospice needs more volunteers .
17 The team members are themselves significant contributors to the discussion , drawing on their own first-hand experience as they play their county roles , but written reports are received from Area School Inspectors , Area Education Officers and DCSLs , and comments from such people are also reported verbally by members of the project team .
18 They will suffer still more communication deprivation if ‘ uneconomical ’ public telephones are withdrawn from villages ; yet , sadly , in the early 1980s many rural public telephone boxes are being removed by British Telecommunications , in spite of campaigns to retain them , because they are not felt to be economically viable .
19 If we do not use these medications properly then it can only be a matter of time before they are withdrawn from availability and we lose a precious treatment for our fish .
20 Most adverbs in this category are formed from adjectives and the -ing form of verbs : pleasing-pleasingly .
21 Presumably the remaining 20% are formed from combinations of these four classifications :
22 They are formed from megakaryocytes which , in the final process of maturation , become amoeboid in shape and their pseudopods penetrate the marrow sinusoids .
23 It is important to emphasize that accompaniments based on motifs or , as in the previous section , on brief rhythmic cells , can not be successful unless they are formed from well-sculptured , distinctive material .
24 Colloids are distinguished from suspensions by the size of the dispersed particles .
25 They are distinguished from village and nomadic rugs in both their overall character and appearance , and in the way they are made .
26 Professions are distinguished from trades by the length of training , the depth of special knowledge and by codes of behaviour .
27 He explained that there was a difference between a statement such as : ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by embodying the spirit of cathood , as opposed to that of doghood ’ , and a statement such as ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by a combination of characteristics ( such as the possession of retractable claws , … and the inability to swim … ) which , in the aggregate , describe the genus Felis as opposed to the genus Canis ’ .
28 He explained that there was a difference between a statement such as : ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by embodying the spirit of cathood , as opposed to that of doghood ’ , and a statement such as ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by a combination of characteristics ( such as the possession of retractable claws , … and the inability to swim … ) which , in the aggregate , describe the genus Felis as opposed to the genus Canis ’ .
29 Grain size , form , roundness and sphericity data are supplemented from grain orientations measured and mineralogical composition established .
30 I am trying to give you hard facts , tell you how the traits of human personality are carried from parents to offspring , tell you accurately how the environment modifies inherited characteristics .
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