Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] from [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talk varied from views on nationalism and child birth to thoughts on mysticism and linguistic oppression . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But since her captivity , a babel seethed around her constantly , the cries and demands of Sycorax , the commands of the men on guard over her , the hammering and planing of the pales for the stockade and for the settlers ' other plans ; the shouts of the men from the boat-building on the beach , the barking of orders to bondsmen brought from England on the ship that had returned , the yells of slaves whom they had loaded in Dahomey or Yoruba on the journey back , and roped and chained and put to work under the whip , and the bellowing laughter now and then of the overseer , a tall African who had been taken out of chains himself to hold the lash over his fellows . |
| 4 | THE Duke of Roxburghe is to be presented with a splendid new £3,500 desk made from timber on his Roxburghshire estate , Floors Castle . |
| 5 | Behind the small veneered wooden counter a dozen or so keys dangled from hooks on a numbered board , together with a few dog-eared official-looking proclamations . |
| 6 | Money raised from tolls on roads will help to pay for the scheme . |
| 7 | There can be a tendency for such firms to collect details of all cash or cheques received from clients on the one hand , and all cash or cheques paid out for labour , materials , plant or services on the other , and pass the entire batch to the accountant at half-yearly or yearly intervals . |
| 8 | This machine was one of a flight of eight 603 Squadron machines scrambled from Ta'Qali on July 8 , 1942 . |
| 9 | The defence have said medical evidence gleaned from tests on Mr Harris ' brain shows he suffers from a rare abnormality . |
| 10 | They announced a 10% concessionary tax rate to approved art and antique dealers on income derived from transactions on behalf of non-residents with approved auction houses . |
| 11 | RUSSIA 'S athletics chief , Valentin Balakhnichov , has announced he will wait for dope test results , expected later this week , before passing judgement on four athletes expelled from Sweden on Monday . |
| 12 | A clock-towered station in white stucco was built at Penang , the earliest British possession in Malaya , though the trains left from Prai on the mainland . |
| 13 | When pressed on this , one member of the team assured us that schools were by no means excluded from consideration on these grounds , but we may speculate that members ' own positions regarding comprehensive reorganisation will have played some part . |
| 14 | Support is given to the view that Robertson 's order was intended to cover these Croats by a further signal sent from AFHQ on the following day , 15 May . |
| 15 | That 's a dog lost from Bulwell on Sunday morning it 's a Jack Russell with er long hair it 's white and black and it 's twelve years old and it 's a bitch , seven five two seven nine O if er you can help there . |
| 16 | The Soviet Union 's Soyuz spacecraft returned from orbit on Dec. 11 . |
| 17 | While studying the relationship between visual stimuli and the EEG , Adrian found that if a regular series of bright flashes was presented to the subject 's eyes there was an equally regular series of blips in the EEG recorded from electrodes on the scalp over the visual areas at the back of the skull . |
| 18 | Stock may be acquired either as a stock order from a merchant or manufacturer or from surplus materials returned from site on the completion of a project . |
| 19 | Early work on the concept of WIMP user interfaces developed from research on the Smalltalk-80 project at the XeroxPARC in California in the early 1980s ( Goldberg and Robson 1983 ) . |
| 20 | The Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) news agency reported from Kinshasa on Jan. 7 that there had been an abortive coup attempt the previous month , as a result of which a number of high-ranking officers were said to have been imprisoned . |
| 21 | Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea radio announced from Asmara on Sept. 26 that the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) was to send observers to Eritrea for the planned referendum on independence in April 1993 [ see p. 38855 ] . |
| 22 | Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea radio announced from Asmara on Nov. 4 that a planned referendum on independence for the northern Ethiopian province of Eritrea would take place over three days from April 23 to 25 , 1993 [ see pp. 38855 ; 39085 ] . |
| 23 | In the 1980s , the international rhetoric in health changed from emphasis on PHC to cost recovery . |
| 24 | Certainly the pupil should not be considered primarily as a medical case , nor should preconceived conclusions drawn from information on medical records be used to channel activities or limit opportunities . |
| 25 | In the geological field , Aberdeen University has produced a number of M Sc theses derived from research on the geology of North Sea oil fields , in part financed by the local oil industry , and most have been subject to restricted access at the behest of the funding authorities . |
| 26 | I would stand at the street door and wait until his tall , burly figure appeared , still plodding along with that measured tread acquired from years on the beat . |
| 27 | Robert Moore , one of I T N's Moscow correspondents reported from Vilnius on Monday . |
| 28 | Perhaps some of the most treasured are those raised from seed , like M. kobus seed collected from Kalmar on the Baltic Sea coast of Sweden by Lenarth Jonsson — a magnolia fanatic like myself . |
| 29 | Analysis of samples collected from puddles on Hyde Heath by Friends of the Earth found high levels of ammonia , nitrogen and chloride , pollution which they claim is damaging boggy areas and endangering resident species . |
| 30 | I went to a small dressmaker in Lillie road with some material brought from Newfoundland on one of the brief dockings . |