Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [noun] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a potential 900,000 pounds to be earned from ticket sales alone , the rave scene culture is now moving into the world of big business . |
| 2 | To a population existing on ‘ Dr Negrín 's Resistance Pills ’ — lentils — leaflets dropped from Nationalist aircraft , informing them of the plentiful food in the Nationalist zone , were weapons as potent as bombs . |
| 3 | A key characteristic of information technology is the decentralisation of computer operations — computer terminals have moved from specialist data processing departments into the rest of the establishment . |
| 4 | By becoming a patient , not only treatment is sought ; comfort is also sought from nursing staff , and information-giving seems to be an important component of comfort . |
| 5 | In the construction of the recombinant plasmid with the wild type hsd operon , a Hin dIII digest of the plasmid pVMD14 ( the structural analogue of pVM11 ) , prepared from plasmid pMS K 14 [ 28 ] by Hpa I- Eco RI deletion , was ligated to the Hin dIII fragment described above ( Figure 1 ) , again restoring an intact hsdS gene . |
| 6 | Yesterday it announced figures for the first half of 1989 so late in the day that the London market had mostly packed up and gone home by the time the screens showed that profits had risen from Ir £109m to Ir £121m and earnings were up from 21.7p to 25.4p basic . |
| 7 | Many more life-saving drugs are waiting to be made from rainforest species . |
| 8 | But estimates can be made from period data e.g. the ‘ Total Quantum Fertility Index ’ ( Brass 1989 ) . |
| 9 | In this chapter , less emphasis is given to child than to infant mortality and , also , to morbidity , partly because the influence of biological factors becomes considerably weaker during childhood and , partly because the number of observed deaths decreases by age so rapidly that inferences drawn from survey statistics become less significant and the mortality figures more erratic due to increasing sampling errors . |
| 10 | The third generalization is drawn from survey data . |
| 11 | Hosts are volunteers , drawn from University staff and the wider Edinburgh public . |
| 12 | Consequently inferences made about the main sources of morbidity in later life drawn from mortality data will be misleading . |
| 13 | This is a very wide range of services indeed , and the main responsibility for selection , at least in public libraries , seems to have shifted from library staff to library supplier staff . |
| 14 | in 1987 , though our figures , gleaned from police statistics , were much lower , see Table 3 ) . |
| 15 | Residential staff have tended to become isolated from field staff and their training and pay have lagged behind those of field social workers . |
| 16 | The idea is to repay the bond with cash raised from asset sales . |
| 17 | O. glacialis can be distinguished from O. purpureus by the absence of tentacle scales ; the shape and position of the second oral tentacle scales and by a lack of dorsal arm plates . |
| 18 | In the second year the summarized transactions of the business were as follows : Sales , all on credit £70,000 : Moneys received from debtors £62,000 : Purchases , all on credit £40,000 : Moneys paid to creditors £38,000 : Moneys introduced by new partner , Bob , £5,000 : Other Expenses incurred and paid £7,000 : Drawings by Susan £7,000 and by Bob £5,000 : Goods in stock at the end of the year £9,000 . |
| 19 | In the quarter ending June 1989 , 37.5% of night visits in Berkshire and 45.6% nationally were done by deputies ; these proportions dropped to 14.8% in Berkshire in the year ending September 1992 and 28.1% nationally in the year ending March 1991 ( calculated from payment data as the health service indicators no longer record the percentage of visits done by deputies ) . |
| 20 | he 's heard from insurance people for cos I 've already asked Mike |
| 21 | The following sections analyse the types of errors found from test data from the script recognition system , and discuss the feasibility and effectiveness of applying standard spelling correction techniques . |
| 22 | The lamp-post in the new King 's Road is one of the type adapted from London cannon bollards . |
| 23 | The letter was brought from PLO headquarters in Tunis by Norwegian Foreign Minister Johan Joergen Holst , who played a key role in secret Israeli-PLO contacts which lead to the agreement . |
| 24 | The figures imply that up to 80% of Sun Microsystems Inc 's total revenue was derived from workstation sales alone in 1992 — though Sun claims to have sold some 10,000 server systems in the last year or so — while IBM Corp 's $668m share is only around a third of the business it claims to have done on the RS/6000 line over that period . |
| 25 | The figures imply that up to 80% of Sun Microsystems Inc 's total revenue was derived from workstation sales alone in 1992 — when Sun claims to have sold some 10,000 server systems in the last year or so — while IBM Corp 's $668m share is only around a third of the business it claims to have done on the RS/6000 line over that period . |
| 26 | 60% of the Progress ' revenue is currently derived from Unix sales : he anticipates sales of Progress on proprietary operating systems to increase , and a port to Hewlett Packard Co 's proprietary MPE-based 3000 systems is planned for the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 27 | One in every four purchases from your local chemist contains compounds derived from rainforest species . |
| 28 | A combination of a well planned and executed programme , better than expected weather and operational benefits derived from onboard data processing meant that a planned two-summer programme was completed in just 4½ months . |
| 29 | Yet , increasingly , arguments about the effects of privatisation on the state 's finances , rather than discussion about the appropriate role of the state , have come to the fore as the revenue gained from asset sales has become sizeable . |
| 30 | It is not easy to measure at local scale because the 1981 Census did not contain an ethnicity question , but an impression can be gained from birth-place data in the Census . |