Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result of this obvious strategy would be to spread the hydra around still further , so that more and more of it grew from the savaged fragments left behind . |
| 2 | The Alte Post is old , parts of it dating from the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 3 | Since Shaw and his team took over profits have recorded a sevenfold increase to £218 million — two-thirds of it emanating from the rich North American market . |
| 4 | A lot of these queries , or some of it stems from the fact that we 're also conscious of the fact that we ca n't keep passing things to Gary when he 's only got one person |
| 5 | Their main virtue in this respect is their currency , since they provide a pointer to likely public demand ( much of it stemming from the reviews themselves ) . |
| 6 | The smoke is drawn gently into the hole and then , several minutes later , wisps of it emerge from the top of a chimney twenty yards away . |
| 7 | Nitrogen , on the other hand , is a very inert ( nonreactive ) gas : the quantities of it emerging from the volcanoes might have been , in percentage terms , extremely small , yet they stayed in the atmosphere . |
| 8 | He ignites the imagination , nevertheless , with glancing observations of Skye ‘ … so much indented by inlets of the Sea , that there is no part of it removed from the water by more than six miles ’ . |
| 9 | Well up in Scotland of course we do n't need to save our rain water we get plenty of it coming from the unclear , but er one thing I would say would be that erm if we have a warm spell and the sun is beating on a bitumen roof and then of course suddenly a shower and that er goes into the water bucket or water barrel then it does give you maybe you know a few problems . |
| 10 | This water is not only derived from the food that we eat and the fluid that we drink : much of it comes from the multitude of secretions which enter the gut lumen . |
| 11 | From one point of view , this passage portrays a comedy of disappointed expectations , and the subtlety of it comes from the fact that not only Pemberton 's expectations are in question , but those of Mrs Moreen and her son , as interpreted predominantly through the mind of Pemberton . |
| 12 | He also makes the point that what evidence there is may be culture-bound , since most of it comes from the USA and possesses a dominant technological perspective . |
| 13 | Most of it comes think so , I mean so much of it comes from the North American Indians that |
| 14 | Some of it comes from the Government , and some from the local authorities , but it 's been cut back . |
| 15 | It is conflict theory , much of it derived from the classic structural and historical writings of Marx and Weber , that is principally interested in these kinds of issues . |
| 16 | The notes , if not all the articulation , may be reconstructed from the Oeuvres complètes ( illus.4 ) by taking the two violin parts and bass , and ignoring the rest ignoring , that is , the newly composed viola line , the first bassoon ( much but not all of it derived from the viola ) , both the oboe parts and those passages where flutes double the violins at the octave . |
| 17 | All the furniture in it hung from the ceiling by long mouldy ropes and did not quite touch the ground . |
| 18 | Then there is one big light airy sitting/dining room with the kitchen beyond it accessed from the sitting/dining room by part of the wall being taken away rather than a door , which allows the light from the equally tall and large kitchen window to permeate the sitting room , creating an airy light whole in a nice way . |
| 19 | By establishing the Centre in an academic institution it will be possible for it to benefit from the other resources of the University and at the same time enable the knowledge gained from the research to be linked directly to social work training . |
| 20 | The plant itself is a member of the lily family — our word for it comes from the Anglo Saxon gar , meaning spear , and leac , leek ; the French ail and Spanish ajo derive from the Latin allium . |
| 21 | It makes a change that the burden of more want is put on the central government instead of local authorities , because too often in the past , central government has said , in many issues , oh , we think you should have that , but the responsibility for paying for it comes from the local authority . |