Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of 1067 there had been a great fire which had made nearly all the buildings unusable except the dormitory , the refectory , and enough of the cloister to make it possible for the monks to walk from one building to another without getting wet . |
| 2 | ( For the moment we shall assume that the public 's payments for the bonds come from their expenditure on consumption goods . ) |
| 3 | The Court held on the one hand that the protection of the Directive was a matter of public policy and so the worker could not trade away his right under the Directive to the maintenance of the same terms and conditions , even if ‘ the employee obtains new benefits in compensation for the disadvantages resulting from an amendment to his contract of employment so that , taking the matter as a whole , he is not placed in a worse position than before ’ ( point 15 ) . |
| 4 | But support for the Americans came from a wider section of the English people than the intellectuals : the presence of discharged and wounded soldiers created a loathing of war itself on humanitarian grounds . |
| 5 | The evidence for the reconstructions comes from the iron fittings and indications of wood found on them |
| 6 | If one believes the second conjunct , one must invoke an unusual explanation for the sounds emanating from my mouth . |
| 7 | Now that the time had come for the depleted garrison to shrink back inside the new fortifications , accommodation had to be found for the ladies displaced from Dr Dunstaple 's house . |
| 8 | He talked about the bad publicity for the Russians flowing from an incident in London a few years before , when the Bulgarian secret service murdered a political exile in London . |
| 9 | Tallgrass Technologies Corp , Lenexa , Kentucky , has added Unix and Apple Macintosh agents for NetSecure , its NetWare server-based backup system : prices for the agents go from $500 — NetSecure starts at $1,200 . |
| 10 | Crash runways were built nearby for the bombers returning from missions in Europe , and Free French forces were billeted in the village . |
| 11 | The suggestions for the reforms come from the White House Council on Competitiveness . |
| 12 | The great trans-shipment complex for the riches mined from the valleys at Morwellham , near Tavistock in Devon , is now a far cry from its original form , while Coalbrookdale , despite gallant work on it , is quite unlike it was in its heyday . |
| 13 | There is now little left for the creditors to salvage from the airline 's wreckage . |
| 14 | The funding for the increases came from cuts in space and scientific programmes , and from holding many general government functions at or below the level of the previous year . |
| 15 | Part of his admiration for the Mallorys derived from the cheerful , uncomplaining way in which they put up with discomforts and performed small acts of self-denial . |
| 16 | Prices for the covers start from £18 ; wall hangings |
| 17 | look out for the opportunities arising from meeting children 's special needs , to open up discussions about ways to improve the curricular experiences for all children in the future . |
| 18 | The effect of this regrettable and wholly arbitrary restriction is that , for a senior executive , an unfair dismissal claim may provide only a very limited redress for the losses resulting from the unjust ending of employment . |
| 19 | The fuel for the plants came from several uranium mines located around the country . |
| 20 | I do not make any award for the sums claimed from disposable income for her employment during the said , the alleged year off , since I 'm not satisfied she would have had a year off , or would have had any disposable income even if she had taken that year . |
| 21 | As the Russians advanced , so the German 20th Corps gave way , for the formations sent from the north by rail were not yet in position on the right . |
| 22 | Although the commission for the designs came from London , ‘ Die Frau ’ is a co-production with Los Angeles Music Center Opera . |
| 23 | Influences for the designs range from the baby doll look to Clockwork Orange -meets- Cabaret and circus chic . |
| 24 | Wives also chose afternoons : the bulk of the outside work and the housework being finished they could attend knowing they would arrive home in time for the children returning from school . |
| 25 | You can think of them as the wires leading from a bank of three million photocells ( actually three million relay stations gathering information from an even larger number of photocells ) to the computer that is to process the information in the brain . |
| 26 | If the lowering of serum cholesterol values was the result of tumour activity , obvious differences in serum cholesterol values as the tumours progressed from stage A to stage D , or as they become more de-differentiated would have been expected . |
| 27 | There would be no smell of food in the hall as the guests descended from the drawing room , just that pleasant pot-pourri and beeswax smell of a well maintained household . |
| 28 | Approached from the sea the effect was magnificent as the buildings extended from the lower Sanctuary of Asklepios to the middle city with its gymnasia , its agora and sacred precinct to the upper acropolis city with its important temples , steeply sloping theatre cut into the hillside and famous Altar of Zeus . |
| 29 | She was bursting with pride and excitement warm and friendly atmosphere as the men wandered from room to room , listening the agent stressing the possibilities of the property . |
| 30 | Ken Rutherford ( 46 not out ) and debutant all-rounder Chris Harris shared a face-saving fifth-wicket stand of 52 runs in 84 minutes as the tourists recovered from a precarious 87–4 soon after tea . |