Example sentences of "[vb -s] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was worse , with impossible moves on gritty walls and creaks and trickles from the cliffs of ice . |
| 2 | Early in 1991 odour violation notices from the emissions regulatory authority were arriving at the plant at a rate of four a month — and to trigger a notice there has to be at least five complaints from neighbours . |
| 3 | The students not only tore down the separate ‘ Ladies ’ and ‘ Gentlemen ’ notices from the lavatories … but they even painted out the distinction between first floor and second , between second and third and so on : even purely functional classifications of space had to go , just as the watches and clocks had to be discarded in order to free time . |
| 4 | I have learnt that the sun and the stars are eternally good , and that my body leaps in contact with this sparkling world and everything that it contains from the minds of Beethoven and Shakespeare to food and drink and a soft night 's sleep . |
| 5 | They almost ran down the road , drawing looks from the passers-by . |
| 6 | The former chairman of the Independent Appeals Tribunal said to me recently ‘ I wonder why it is that no benefit starts from the premises ‘ What can we do to help ? ’ but always seems to be ‘ How can we stop the bastards getting away with it ? ' ’ — coarse , but true ! |
| 7 | In this view he is completely at odds with Chomsky ( 1965:31 ) , who assumes that actual language is ‘ degenerate ’ and deviates from the rules of grammar . |
| 8 | It will also avoid situations where , on final repudiation , a Writ is served which markedly deviates from the facts and grounds of fault upon which the original investigation is based — thus leaving your solicitors , in essence , to investigate ‘ from scratch ’ . |
| 9 | This was received in the next room on Creed teleprinters from the wires of the Canadian Press . |
| 10 | The girl whom he was to have married vanishes from the pages of history and we do not even know her name . |
| 11 | He seemed bereft of sense as he pulled ribboned holly sprays from the walls and fed them to a sulky fire , cheering as they crackled and spurted heatless flame up the chimney . |
| 12 | I shook my head and was saved from further entreaties by the arrival once again of the children who all wanted choice titbits from the grownups , ‘ table ’ , kisses and praise . |
| 13 | Such a performance deserves recognition and that is exactly what the Tennis World fan club service offers to Michael 's fans … detailed , statistical information and quotes from the tournaments . |
| 14 | They passed other barges carrying heaps of peat , or bullrushes from the marshes . |
| 15 | But their recent tour received rave reviews from the critics . |
| 16 | In January 1862 he convinced the tsar of the need to permit Russian jurists to derive their reform plans from the examples of west European states . |
| 17 | Brig Ramsey arrives from the Women 's Royal Army Corps ( WRAC ) , where she was the final director before its abolition last week under Options for Change . |
| 18 | Water drips from the ledges of white hail caught on the straw roofs . |
| 19 | The chaos then results from the compilers ' eagerness to compress his discussion of several variants into one example burdened with exceptions and qualifications . |
| 20 | government passes from the lions to the foxes . |
| 21 | The approach originates from the insights of Coase ( 1937 ) but has largely been developed by Williamson ( e.g. 1971,1975 , and 1985 ) . |
| 22 | As the SNP reels from the resignations and the prospect of a concerted campaign which will deepen the divisions within the party in the coming months , many will reflect on whether the hoped-for foothold in Europe has cost the party too high a price at home . |
| 23 | Richard Dawkins explores our understanding of evolution and asks who , or what , ultimately benefits from the activities of living things ? |
| 24 | ‘ Deregulation ’ means many things to many people , but is generally , if inaccurately , understood to imply that the conditions of free competition within a perfect market are created through the removal of controls , regulations , so that the consumer eventually benefits from the advantages offered by the more efficient low cost producer and the withdrawal of the inefficient . |
| 25 | A team benefits from the differences rather than the similarities between people . |
| 26 | Thus it is essential to separate your firm 's profit costs from the disbursements . |
| 27 | For example , his mother finds it almost impossible to prepare Veronica 's tea , which she likes to feed to the child , because John empties cupboards upstairs , turns on taps , climbs on top of the wardrobe , hangs from the banisters and shouts at the top of his voice . |
| 28 | Jane Austen may seem in Sense and Sensibility to join with Edward in preferring cottages in good repair , even at the cost of the picturesque ; but on another occasion , in Northanger Abbey , she appears to side with Catherine , who is so delighted by the view of ‘ a sweet little cottage ’ among apple trees which she sees from the windows of the parsonage at Woodston that her enthusiasm even saves it from demolition . |
| 29 | Trim the leaf ends from the aubergines and immerse them in a large saucepan . |
| 30 | We can afford to supplement our diet with pineapples and crunchy caterpillar kebabs from the fishermen , tinned milk and plenty of beer — cheap and cold . |