Example sentences of "[vb past] from [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SARHWU claimed that 500-800 of its members were attacked by 1,000 strike-breaking vigilantes as they disembarked from trains at Germiston . |
| 2 | WELDER Ron Seal and son David enjoy canal cruising — on the boat they built from sheets of metal . |
| 3 | The economies made on collective consumption and their effects on the family ranged from cutbacks on savings , which had little immediate impact but rocked their sense of security , to cutbacks on essentials like food , which signalled hard-hitting poverty . |
| 4 | ( The old technology was not without its hazards — which ranged from burns from molten metal to eye-strain caused by reading metal type in poor light . ) |
| 5 | The policies of the metropolitan powers ranged from thoughts of withdrawal to the desperate efforts of the French to hold Algeria . |
| 6 | Criticisms by parents ranged from sweets at supermarket checkouts to lack of toilets , changing facilities and unfriendly staff . |
| 7 | The garments ranged from waistcoats to adult and children 's jackets . |
| 8 | BRIG JACK WINCHESTER , who has died aged 80 , had an active military career , which ranged from battles on the North West Frontier and campaigns in the Middle East to Arnhem in 1944 , when he won a Military Cross . |
| 9 | These ranged from fires to defects in pumps and insulation materials . |
| 10 | Purchasers ranged from dealers to those who simply wanted to re-live some happy moments from their childhood . |
| 11 | I moved from Women to God , ’ he explained to Kate . |
| 12 | Hohne , the EAT reached a similar conclusion in that when the employer moved from premises in High Holborn to Regent Street , the move itself did not constitute a fundamental breach because the new premises were just as easily accessible to Mrs Hohne as she travelled by underground . |
| 13 | Last year the Government abolished the allowance that mothers who moved from benefits to work could claim . |
| 14 | She moved from handbags through gifts to the flower shop and eventually reached a men 's outfitting department where , suddenly , she saw Edward . |
| 15 | A related concern stemmed from predictions about the direction of health care funding . |
| 16 | The postponement , decided on Sept. 16 by the presidents of Byelarus , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Russia and Ukraine , apparently stemmed from disagreements between Russia and Ukraine over control of the nuclear weapons stationed in Ukraine . |
| 17 | The fall stemmed from remarks by Ali al-Baghli , Kuwait 's oil minister , that his country would exceed its quota if others did so . |
| 18 | He restated the government 's view that township violence stemmed from confrontations between ANC and Inkatha supporters and proposed that therefore he , Mandela and Inkatha leader Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi should meet urgently to consider establishing " an active full-time monitoring mechanism " on the efficacy of existing measures to combat violence " . |
| 19 | Much of the appeal of official Labour condemnation of the United Front in all its forms stemmed from recollections of these manoeuvrings for power . |
| 20 | I used to work with an ex-BBC engineer who revelled in the fact that , in his day , Radio 3 , which was deemed by many hi-fi buffs as tonal nirvana , emanated from studios with ageing turntables and consoles , odd lengths of disparate signal cable were employed and much of it was held together with string and Sellotape . |
| 21 | To get round this uncomfortable fact Fforde would have to argue either that all collectivist legislation emanated from governments of the left , or that all Conservative governments before 1979 were in some way not truly Conservative . |
| 22 | Coloured paint or ink dripped from straws onto wet blotting paper will produce radiating patterns . |
| 23 | They sailed , they landed , swam from rocks in clear water . |
| 24 | However , during the last few decades a further , more marked , decrease occurred from values around pH 6 to the present-day values of about pH 4.5 ( figure 4.8 ) . |
| 25 | He suffered from bouts of indigestion . |
| 26 | From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years . |
| 27 | He had been with UNACO now for three years and although he still suffered from bouts of homesickness he never allowed those feelings to interfere with his work . |
| 28 | argues that er , Wilson suffered from strokes throughout his life , not even emotionally recorded due his psychological condition . |
| 29 | The building was always damp , cold and we always suffered from chilblains in winter … ’ |
| 30 | Yet the boy had insinuated so knowingly that the Commander had begun to wonder if perhaps he suffered from lapses of memory . |