Example sentences of "[vb past] from [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Total mortgage debt in Britain rose from 32% of GDP in 1982 to 58% in 1989 , by far the highest ratio in the big economies . |
| 2 | Similarly , responses to us in writing within six weeks of referral rose from 25% of cases in the first audit to 60% in the second . |
| 3 | WELDER Ron Seal and son David enjoy canal cruising — on the boat they built from sheets of metal . |
| 4 | Conclusions ranged from condemnation of general practitioner care as ‘ erratic , ’ of ‘ generally poor standard ’ and ‘ less satisfactory than care by the hospital diabetic clinic ’ to a view that organised general practitioner diabetic care ‘ can achieve a degree of glycaemic control … equal to that reached by a hospital clinic . ’ |
| 5 | The policies of the metropolitan powers ranged from thoughts of withdrawal to the desperate efforts of the French to hold Algeria . |
| 6 | During one of his many civil disobedience campaigns , which ranged from non-payment of taxes to blocking border posts into the US , he led a hunger strike in protest at alleged vote rigging in the presidential race . |
| 7 | Much of the appeal of official Labour condemnation of the United Front in all its forms stemmed from recollections of these manoeuvrings for power . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The function of SBATs changed from review of the application of discretion by the SBC to interpretation of rules of law . |
| 10 | had a most successful year and increased profits , but suffered from lack of demand in Europe . |
| 11 | He suffered from bouts of indigestion . |
| 12 | From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yet the boy had insinuated so knowingly that the Commander had begun to wonder if perhaps he suffered from lapses of memory . |
| 15 | The music came from members of the school orchestra who , with Erika on the flute , were rehearsing the ‘ Musical Offering ’ by Bach , an unusual piece as it was Bach 's only work written for five instruments . |
| 16 | The uninformed criticism of the narrow-minded , whether it came from members of the cooking profession or from old-fashioned gourmets among his own colleagues , did not worry Dr de Pomiane one jot . |
| 17 | The final obliteration came from development of the railway on the site . |
| 18 | Most of the textbooks , were handed to us came from cupboards of storage , of which they must have had about sixty each , those classes were always , from then on , sixty boys in a class for one teacher . |
| 19 | Some of these rulings ( as in Gilbert 's collection ) came from sections of the papal registers that no longer survive ( particularly from the lost fourth year ) and some of the chapters ( as with Gilbert 's ) Innocent denied ever having issued . |
| 20 | Some details came from inscriptions of lunar and solar phases on clay tablets dating from between 700 and 50 BC . |
| 21 | The latter came from revenues of £142m ( £124.9m ) . |
| 22 | The birds live on three small Indonesian islands and until recently the main threat to their survival came from loss of habitat . |
| 23 | The three-day clash grossed £5 million which mostly came from acres of private hospitality tents . |
| 24 | He came from Wales of course , from the valleys and that . |
| 25 | Certainly some of the tension came from implementation of a restructuring programme . |
| 26 | OSF turned over $55m in 1992 , of which $28m came from sales of technology licences — predominantly for the Motif graphical user interface — the other $27m being the $4.5m a year membership dues paid by each of the six remaining founders , Digital Equipment Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Hitachi Ltd , IBM Corp , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG and Groupe Bull SA . |
| 27 | For the converted and those seeking to become so , the necessary support and pressure came from membership of the Society and participation in the regular local " class meetings " into which it was divided . |
| 28 | Even the new silent propulsion system seen on some new Russian submarines was not their own invention but came from Toshiba of Japan . |
| 29 | As Lancaster put it , ‘ We both came from sort of humble beginnings , were both young , brash , cocky , arrogant . |
| 30 | Further evidence of the extent of poverty in the period came from data of sickness and mortality . |