Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] from [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is good evidence that sediment from these terrains is a component of several sandstones formed from sources in the United Kingdom , although few sandstones are derived solely from the Moine or the Lewisian . |
| 2 | In the main subway itself , a few more yards on , there was much more light , as there were lamps hanging from hooks on the walls as well as lining the floor . |
| 3 | The case arose from charges against Ramón Orellana , Febres 's son-in-law and former private secretary , now a fugitive , to whom the payment of $150,000 had allegedly been made [ see p. 37067 ] . |
| 4 | Also , it will be usual to say that there will be no claim if the liability arose from acts of the acquirer or target ( after completion only ) which are outside the ordinary course of business or undertaken in the knowledge that they will create liability . |
| 5 | Much of the appeal of official Labour condemnation of the United Front in all its forms stemmed from recollections of these manoeuvrings for power . |
| 6 | There were heads hanging from branches in these places , which gleamed as if oiled . |
| 7 | Both of these methods suffer from oscillations in performance associated with their mode of action , and neither performs as well as ‘ static ’ randomization methods . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , North did testify that Poindexter had supervised the November 1985 shipment of US arms to Iran , an important statement given that four of the five felony charges against the defendant arose from statements to Congress that he had not learnt of the shipment until January 1986 . |
| 9 | The transcript departed from aspects of the evidence which Reagan had given to the Tower Commission in 1987 , and suggested that he had returned to his earliest explanations of the Iran-contra affair , insisting that he did not trade arms for hostages and had seen not " one iota " of evidence that profits from the operation had been diverted to the contras . |
| 10 | Talk varied from views on nationalism and child birth to thoughts on mysticism and linguistic oppression . |
| 11 | He restated the government 's view that township violence stemmed from confrontations between ANC and Inkatha supporters and proposed that therefore he , Mandela and Inkatha leader Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi should meet urgently to consider establishing " an active full-time monitoring mechanism " on the efficacy of existing measures to combat violence " . |
| 12 | He describes the neo-Darwinian approach taken by ethologists , concentrates on the behavioural ecology of Old World monkeys and apes in an attempt to extrapolate from animals to man , and examines the political objections to sociobiology . |
| 13 | However , during the last few decades a further , more marked , decrease occurred from values around pH 6 to the present-day values of about pH 4.5 ( figure 4.8 ) . |
| 14 | His roles range from transvestites to teenage murderers , though some viewers complain that , whatever the film , he is always playing himself : massive , extravagant , scruffy-haired . |
| 15 | Rescue teams were quickly reinforced by United States military units operating from bases in the Philippines , the future of which was under discussion between the two countries at the time of the disaster [ see p. 37458 ] . |
| 16 | And the imaginative touch extends to containers … you 'll find flowers stuffed into hiking boots , shopping baskets … and Tricia 's own invention … lollipops made from lampshades on posts . |
| 17 | A pertinent statistical table produced by Nykrog shows how clerks are always successful in the eternal triangle of sexual competition , pitted against husbands ranging from knights to peasants . |
| 18 | Light came from windows in the roof and Ana was bathed in the light , the barn dim around her . |
| 19 | ‘ In 1991 , entries came from women in many fields . ’ |
| 20 | A ‘ managerial revolution ’ has taken place which has resulted in effective control over industry passing from owners to managers . |
| 21 | Claudia asked , her heart sinking at the idea of Dana rushing from shorts into a wedding dress in the space of a few minutes . |
| 22 | It may be that a study commissioned from contractors by the British National Space Centre will provide useful evidence on the cash value of remote sensing ; it is particularly timely in view of the appointment of Professor Pearce ( see above ) as the adviser to the UK Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 23 | Yet the very need for academic subjects to escape from allegations of ‘ practical utility ’ may yet lead to irresistible pressure for change in the period of economic malaise which we currently confront . |
| 24 | Taking a sodium ion concentration in excess of 119mmol/l as being dangerous , it was found that of the total number of solutions sampled from unions in Phase 1 , Phase 2 ( standard ) and Phase 3 ( CRP ) , 14.7% , 18.2% and 25.6% respectively were found to be dangerous . |
| 25 | Even in the nineteenth century the total revenue raised from parents in industrial schools only amounted to between 2.5 and 5 per cent of expenditure , while in the period 1948–69 the parental share of the costs of children in care amounted only to between 4 per cent and 6.5 per cent . |
| 26 | Digitizing existing maps is essential if the data derived from decades of surveying ( topographic , geological , pedological , and so on ) are to be made available to digital cartographic systems . |
| 27 | There are lots of screams coming from universities about them being hard done by , being cut back financially and so on so forth . |
| 28 | Along with feedback gained from interviews with centres and students , from seminars , and from correspondence , the results of this survey will be used to inform our thinking about the future development of general SVQ . |
| 29 | They actually failed to mention the main point of this chapter ( Table 5.4 ) , that the great bulk of factory job loss resulted from changes in production and employment in manufacturing as a whole , with only secondary variation resulting from the performance of its different parts . |
| 30 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Mr Ray Harding , the New York attorney formerly representing Yugoslavia and now Croatia , expressed his firm conviction that Sotheby 's attempt to withdraw from proceedings at the stage is premature and should not be allowed until the pre-trial discovery process has been completed . |