Example sentences of "[vb -s] from the [noun] " 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 | We lie together beneath the crumpled warm sheet , and a tear trickles from the corner of my eye as if Jancey was dead . |
| 3 | The publication of interim and preliminary announcements and annual reports or precise extracts from them by listed companies is subject to the exemption contained in Section 58(1) ( d ) ( i ) of the FSA , as supplemented by SI 1992 No 813 , which exempts from the investment advertisement provisions any document required or permitted to be published by listing rules issued by the London Stock Exchange or any other market specified by the SI , which includes the USM , and most major overseas stock exchanges . |
| 4 | The disposal of such dwelling house within three years ( Housing and Planning Act 1986 , s2(3) ) from the date of purchase " triggers " repayment of the discount on the proportion still outstanding by reference to the number of years since purchase but s160(1) ( c ) of the Act , specifically exempts from the repayment provisions disposals in pursuance of an order under s24 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 , where continued occupation is envisaged ( see R v Rushmoor Borough Council ex p Barrett [ 1987 ] 1 All ER 353 ) . |
| 5 | The main information that the probabilistic syntax analyser needs from the lexicon is the grammatical tag of each of the candidate words . |
| 6 | ( Under the Act , the Central Authority had to discuss their forward programmes and gain approval for their specific annual investment needs from the Minister . ) |
| 7 | After external examination of the pubic region and vulva , the doctor will pass a speculum into the vagina and take the various samples that he needs from the vagina and cervix . |
| 8 | I recently took my beloved Washburn EA30 out of its case only to find that , somewhere between a local theatre and home , I 'd managed to lose one of the plastic slide covers from the EQ ; a tiny thing , I know , but unless you 're Superman , totally unnoticeable from more than a foot away . |
| 9 | The Jamaican unfolds from the divan . |
| 10 | I lie under the great sea almond tree which sprouts from the sand , looking up into its branches where light and shade dispute their rival territories . |
| 11 | Built of stone with long and short work on the corners , it is in four stages with pilaster strips from the ground to the belfry , round arches in the second stage , pointed arches in the third , and narrow window openings in the belfry . |
| 12 | Systematic multielement regional geochemical mapping of the United Kingdom landmass by the BGS 's Geochemical Survey Programme ( GSP ) has from the outset in 1968 provided regional data on the uranium levels of stream waters and on pH and conductivity , subsequently augmented by measurements of fluoride content and alkalinity . |
| 13 | With regard to the United Kingdom 's special treatment in the context of Economic and Monetary Union , it is sometimes forgotten that the EEC Treaty has from the outset required , under Articles 103 and 105 , co-ordination of economic policy and exchange rate policy , and in Opinion 1/91 the European Court also suggested that the attainment of Economic and Monetary Union was already a Community objective ; it should therefore hardly be a surprise that the ECU has been defined in a series of regulations enacted under Article 235 . |
| 14 | The three streams which once ran beneath it have long since vanished , but , at the back of the town , the water still finds its way to the sea , as it has from the beginning of time . |
| 15 | Guinness advertising , like the pint itself , has from the beginning fascinated by its uniqueness . |
| 16 | One , he has from the start recognized your talent ; and two , he is in love with you . ’ |
| 17 | Indeed , support for Salman Rushdie and all that his situation stands for has from the start been more vociferous and active abroad than in his own country , something he feels understandably bitter about . |
| 18 | It was held that an applicant for a patent has all the rights which a holder has from the moment the complete specification of the patent is published . |
| 19 | When a patent is granted in respect of the equipment , the law of confidence drops from the scene to be replaced by patent law and , possibly , trade mark law if a registered mark is to be used with the equipment . |
| 20 | It was like being in an elevator which suddenly drops from the top of a twenty storey building to the basement . |
| 21 | Clare described the kestrel 's hover as it hangs ‘ in the sky on narrow pointed quivering wings ’ , and its plummet to earth : ‘ The small hawk like a shot drops from the sky/ close to my feet for mice and creeping things . ’ |
| 22 | As for water , that would come in minute drops from the cactus . |
| 23 | The report goes on to say : ‘ Many professionals advise giving vitamin drops from the age of one month and we would support this practice , particularly if there is any doubt whatsoever about the vitamin intake at this time ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The county 's young men are taking the charts by storm as a string of young dance bands from the area have rocketed to stardom over the last 18 months . |
| 28 | Within bureaucracies alienation develops from the realization that the ‘ general interest ’ is a myth and that the state 's administration is parasitic and oppressive . |
| 29 | In the latter he or she develops from the moment of birth . |
| 30 | An example is the 17 ½ km ley that runs to the Nunwick and Thornborough henges from the Devil 's Arrows group of standing stones near Boroughbridge in Yorkshire ( Figure 2 ) . |