Example sentences of "[vb -s] from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hollow and fragile straw stalactites are formed when water drops from a cave roof , leaving a microscopic ring of calcite before it falls . |
| 2 | This picture of myself develops from a myriad of experiences , particularly from the feedback I get from other people . |
| 3 | A rosette of leaves develops from a stout , short rootstock . |
| 4 | The concept of the self develops from a child 's physical separation from the parents . |
| 5 | Where the present study differs from this previous research is in the way it develops from a comparison of alternative versions of the same story . |
| 6 | Corbett rode quietly between them , keeping a wary eye on Ranulf who , after staring round-eyed at everything , began to mimic the strange accents , and drew dark looks from a number of passers-by . |
| 7 | Defining what the user expects and wants from a service however is complicated by the fact that perceptions change over time , according to where people are in relation to the system . |
| 8 | The whole legend starts from a misinterpretation by John Wessington , Prior of Durham ( 1416–46 ) , of Bede 's eighth-century account of King Alchfrith granting Wilfrid land in ‘ Stanford ’ and a monastery in Ripon . |
| 9 | One fruitful form of classification starts from a keyword ( sometimes a historical term such as " Restoration " ; a conceptual term such as " nature " ; or a genre term such as " tragedy " ) . |
| 10 | Wordsworth deliberately rejects a traditional Christian way of describing the progress of the soul ; he starts from a kind of zero , as the French Revolutionaries had restarted the calendar with the Year One . |
| 11 | I have said that the anorexic starts from a position of helplessness and hopelessness , and I have tried to demonstrate that this was so in my case . |
| 12 | Cockburn 's analysis starts from a view of the local state ( which includes local government , but also other locally based state agencies including offices of central government departments ) as having a functional role within capitalism , principally concerned with capitalist reproduction . |
| 13 | The ley starts from a wayside cross next to a crossroads , goes through Saintbury Church , noted for its pagan survivals , through a Bronze Age round barrow , a Neolithic long barrow sited in the middle of an Iron Age fort , through a Saxon pagan cemetery , and an eighteenth-century beacon tower , ending at an ancient farmstead , Seven Wells — which was the subject of a fictional book on witchcraft by Hugh Ross Williamson entitled The Silver Bowl . |
| 14 | The process starts from a list of words for which collocation information is required . |
| 15 | Growth in nature starts from a seed and flowers into a variety of forms . |
| 16 | The ‘ happy family ’ view starts from a belief in ‘ social order ’ or ‘ industrial peace ’ : conflict is a threat to stability , and must be avoided or eradicated . |
| 17 | It starts from a belief that ‘ social order ’ or ‘ industrial peace ’ are themselves the problem : conflict is a way of instituting necessary revolutionary change . |
| 18 | Prices for a one-bedroom Penhurst style house currently starts from a shade under £50,000 , while the two-bedroom Ash house type is priced from £57,750 . |
| 19 | This is to be found to the west of the town and starts from a point on the A.16 . |
| 20 | Again , this starts from a point of origin and is divided into equal portions . |
| 21 | She nourishes them with a special fluid which exudes from a nipple on the wall of the pouch in which her larva lies . |
| 22 | God could so easily say that , too , but he does not ; he negotiates from a basis of weakness which becomes for us the power of God unto salvation . |
| 23 | The problem with the conclusions in both sets of experiments is that they are based on the assumption that we can infer when an experience occurs from a subject 's verbal report . |
| 24 | Figure 11.2 Extracts from a TV production estimate |
| 25 | Engels quotes from a description of one such development , produced by the cooperation of a carpenter and bricklayer , in which a whole street followed the course of a ditch to save the cost of excavating cellars in which people were to live . |
| 26 | In 1922 , he made The Man Without Desire , an imaginative account of a man who wakes from a sleep of several hundred years only to find he suffers from a lack of emotion . |
| 27 | It results from a transfer which in bringing the beneficiary 's total of votes up to the quota almost inevitably provides him also with more votes than he needed . |
| 28 | Later Turkish historians are thus almost universally in accord in naming Molla Fenari as the first Mufti and — on the assumption that Rifat Efendi 's version simply results from a slip which Ahmed Refik has not noticed in placing his appointment in the time of Murad II , with some historians giving the date 828/1424–5 for the appointment . |
| 29 | This results from a kind of double vision which blurs the difference between the historical interpretation of contemporary economic advice and the evaluation of ideas which subsequently proved to be significant in the evolution of economic theory . |
| 30 | There 's another cost of a million pounds which results from a change in government policy of the cost of government policy , now this is including the er unfair funding of G M schools and including the loss of that was just , just mentioned . |