Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Technically , it is on commercial grounds , and they can not recoup the money made from the everyday operation of the reactor to pay for the refurbishment of the reactor , that is true . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the fact that these bound states arose from the well-defined N = 8 theory should enable us to make a number of predictions that could be tested at energies that are accessible now or will be in the near future . |
| 3 | The sum of £250 had been borrowed from Joseph Barnard , the treasurer , to make good the actual deficiency which ‘ had not arisen from any defect or negligence whatever in the management of the institution , but on the contrary arose from the great success of the Infirmary and the high reputation it had acquired , so that the number of patients had increased rapidly ’ . |
| 4 | No sound of any kind rose from the hot deserted streets — no traffic noise , no hustle of people , no children , no animals . |
| 5 | Diehard opinions ranged from the virulent obscurantism of Northumberland , Page Croft and Cooper , who saw politics as a black-and-white struggle between good British imperial-minded Christians and Jewish-dominated marxist wreckers , to the high-minded Association of Independent Peers , who were primarily concerned with the effect of coalition on the standards of public life and its failure to halt the drift towards class politics . |
| 6 | Harry Pascoe shouted from the far end of the room , and young Jan Lanyon , who sailed with him , put up his firsts and echoed : Aye — just let 'em try ! " |
| 7 | Most of her life was spent pushing barges loaded with silt dredged from the narrow canals around Birmingham . |
| 8 | Some of these are essentially historical : the interest developed in part as a reaction or antidote to Chomsky 's treatment of language as an abstract device , or mental ability , dissociable from the uses , users and functions of language ( an abstraction that Chomsky in part drew from the post-Bloomfieldian structuralism that predominated immediately before transformational generative grammar ) . |
| 9 | The Masai moved from the great river of the north , freely interpreted as the Nile , says the professor in a note , down towards their present location . |
| 10 | There were reports that Iraq had received another Russian system , the SS-21 , though specialist circles are uncertain about this and arrival was not independently confirmed — perhaps the confusion arose from the last digits of the SS-12 having been inverted . |
| 11 | Their homes ranged from the large subterranean winter lodges of the Nivkhs to light summer huts of branches , reeds and bark which in some cases were raised on stilts . |
| 12 | Thick , sluggish blood seeped from the great jagged holes where his arms and legs had been and , with them , a watery pus . |
| 13 | The USSR became India 's main external source of weaponry and rendered extensive economic aid ; Soviet support was in part a response to the support that Pakistan received from the Chinese , with whom the Indians had an unresolved border dispute . |
| 14 | The main thrust for use of videos as an aid came from the three Welsh areas — just under three-quarters seeing it as an aid that could improve training . |
| 15 | Books came from the central library in Salisbury by the train load . |
| 16 | The softly spoken command came from the third man , who had remained silent until now . |
| 17 | But anthropologists proved his theory was wrong ; the islanders came from the western Pacific . |
| 18 | Part of the confusion came from the unworthy pleasure given him by the prospect of holding onto his ward a little longer . |
| 19 | The biggest Nazi vote came from the rural districts , and the lowest came from urban areas , where the SPD , KPD and DNVP were still firmly based . |
| 20 | The doors stayed open but no murmur came from the other room . |
| 21 | The rugs came from the antique department at Liberty in London . ’ |
| 22 | In the UNIP contest for the 1979 presidential nomination , when both Kapwepwe and Nkumbula challenged him , Kaunda showed that he was not prepared to tolerate any real alternative to himself , even when the bid came from the two most experienced politicians in the country . |
| 23 | It was quite an exciting and exacting task to work out the meaning of basic Christian terms , for in Burmese almost all the abstract nouns and religious words came from the religious language of Buddhism . |
| 24 | St. Clement Danes was an old-fashioned school which would have liked to have been more middle class than it was Unfortunately most of the kids came from the White City Estate which is about as working class as you can get |
| 25 | Prick 'd from the lazy finger of a maid ; |
| 26 | Dusky light came from the two small front windows between the toothed leaves of nettles . |
| 27 | The study was empty ; the light came from the adjacent room . |
| 28 | Apart from the lamps that gave a yellow glow to the leaves , the only light came from the big windows of the Communist club which was packed on both floors , its discotheque going full swing . |
| 29 | The only light came from the big fire . |
| 30 | All the doors off it had been closed , and the only light came from the open archways at its beginning and end . |