Example sentences of "[v-ing] from [art] end " in BNC.

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1 In Carting Lane , off the south side of the Strand beside the Savoy Hotel , is an ornate iron gas lamp dating from the end of the nineteenth century , and a survival of J.E .
2 America 's interest in the Pacific , dating from the end of the eighteenth century , was almost certainly fired by the telling in dockside bars and merchants ' cafés of gaudily embroidered tales of the explorations of Captain Cook : why , the mariners of Boston and New York wondered out loud , should the Ocean that washed their continent 's western shores be traversed and charted by a navigator all the way from North Yorkshire , and by Frenchmen and Portuguese too ?
3 An inscription on a stone at Nin , dating from the end of the tenth century , refers to a Slav prince ( 'Slavenski Knez' ) .
4 If you allowed for the shape of two paper-backs , between them and jutting from the end was a two-inch pack of what could be paper money .
5 Both ends of the building were on fire , flames pouring from the end windows of all three floors and licking their way hungrily towards the roof .
6 Glycine at position 79 , which is present in all H1 molecules , is involved in making a sharp bend in the polypeptide chain , in going from the end of helix III into the β -hairpin .
7 The government , which controls around 85 per cent of the country , has turned to logging as a way of making up the shortfall in revenue resulting from the end of Soviet aid , and its loss of the Palinn gem mines in western Cambodia to Khmer Rouge forces .
8 Concession B18 is therefore a vital concession and taxpayers are warned that there is a six year cut-off period beginning from the end of the year of assessment in which the income arose .
9 I said , well that 's not much good when you 're hanging from the end of a rope .
10 The window actually overlooked the top of the yard where the lavatories and the coalhouses were situated , and it was the white material fluttering from the end of the coalhouse that attracted his eye .
11 The scorpions that live today have not only fearsome-looking claws but a large poison gland with a sharp curving sting drooping from the end of a thin tail .
12 The difference was that , having applied my colours in the same direct way , drawing from the end and edge of the pastel stick .
13 With the faint light coming from the end of the alley catching the gold of the embroidery , it looked like a man trying to climb into the space between the timbers .
14 It provides one of Scotland 's classic hillwalks with a popular route starting from the end of the ski road running from Loch Morlich .
15 Each office in Scott 's design consisted of a central block , with parallel wings extending from the ends of the block to form a three-sided court .
16 The small crystals melt about 30 K lower than the large ones due to the greater contribution from the interfacial free energy in the smaller crystallites , i.e. there is an excess of free energy associated with the disordered chains emerging from the ends of ordered crystallites and this is relatively greater for the small crystallites , resulting in lower melting temperatures .
17 ‘ There 's some more of her stuff through here in the living-room , ’ he called , beckoning from the end of the passage .
18 Dexter looked up expectantly , a loop of ash dangling from the end of the cigarette he had lit in her absence .
19 He 'd crept through Twists and skulked along vaulted Straights , jealously admiring the feeble radiance diffusing from the ends of glass cables , the memory of a ghost of daylight .
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