Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How this reminds me of old times , ’ she sighed , looking round at the hall with its decorated stalls and paper chains and lanterns hanging from the rafters . |
| 2 | Coloured lanterns hanging from the trees ; a quartet of musicians playing from a boat on the lake , as well as a band for dancing … ’ |
| 3 | Moths fluttered in the light of lamps hanging from the trees as if dancing to the soft , rhythmic jingle of the cicadas . |
| 4 | In effect , this measures the additional UK national income deriving from the purchases of inputs . |
| 5 | Another marked contrast between Welsh and English practice is in regard to provision stemming from the recommendations of the 1975 and 1978 Haycocks Reports on the training of full-time and part-time teachers of further education respectively . |
| 6 | It was once thought that the Chardonnay vine was brought to Champagne from Cyprus by knights returning from the Crusades , which might have provided some sort of answer , but this theory has since been discredited . |
| 7 | To this add some good ensemble singing from the ladies in particular and some well focused if robust playing from the orchestra pit ( conductor Arthur Berwick ) and the stage is set for a successful run . |
| 8 | The assassin 's blow threw him back against the wall , hitting it so hard he brought books tumbling from the shelves , but before the assassin 's fingers found his throat he delivered a punch to the man 's belly that must have touched some tender place , because the assault ceased , and the attacker let him go , his eyes fixed for the first time on Gentle 's face . |
| 9 | There was too much weight hanging from the wings to let it glide through an awkward bank like that , all the time losing the upthrust from the breeze ; losing it twice , because now it followed the turning plane . |
| 10 | In these circumstances , rape by a husband might very well be thought to be more disturbing in its effects than rape by that classic stranger leaping from the shadows . |
| 11 | Louise Colet , striving for modernity in her poem ‘ La Paysanne ’ , allowed Jean , her soldier returning from the wars in search of his Jeanneton , to notice the running smoke of a train . |
| 12 | She proceeded to do this earnestly , seriously , and she sounded like an old steam-engine wheezing from the depths of the water ( that idyllic sound , now long forgotten , which to those who never knew it can be described in no better way than the wheezing of an old woman breathing in and out by the edge of a pool ) . |
| 13 | Subjects ranging from the ferries and Mersey tunnels to the Tall Ships Race and local tourist attractions are all given a lighthearted treatment . |
| 14 | The body of the ark was green , with painted heads of animals peering from the portholes . |
| 15 | The main problem with current yield is that it does not take into account capital gains or losses resulting from the differences between the current price of the bond and its maturity value . |
| 16 | In addition to the changes resulting from the move to become co-educational St. George 's was also in the process of reviewing its curriculum and pastoral structures , both in the light of the different demands that the presence of girls would make , but also as part of a city-wide review of secondary schools resulting from the effects of falling rolls , and the expansion of TVEI . |
| 17 | Pluto 's theme is transformation and his emblem the phoenix rising from the ashes . |
| 18 | Japan is a ‘ phoenix rising from the ashes ’ , whose postwar experience has been a ‘ miracle ’ . |
| 19 | Alice Foley , growing up in Bolton during the 1890s , remembered the plague of houseflies emanating from the privies in summer . |
| 20 | Embedded in that plain proposition were problems of administrative structure , with anomalies surviving from the Acts of 1902 and 1918 , and of religion . |
| 21 | She could not speak , but he saw her panicked eyes staring from the spaces between his long fingers . |
| 22 | The front walkway was deserted , though he could hear the murmur of voices coming from the pigsties past the trees and bushes . |
| 23 | During our stay we were awakened not only by the cocks , but on several occasions by piercing screams coming from the rice-paddies behind us , which would continue for some time before abruptly stopping . |
| 24 | After parting from Madame Gebrec , Melissa returned to the library with the intention of working there for the rest of the afternoon , but time and again she found her mind straying from the accounts of former religious wars and the acts of unbelievable cruelty committed by both sides to the more recent clash of ideologies which , it seemed to her , differed from the old in little but the relative sophistication of the weaponry . |
| 25 | It 's interesting that sexuality has been problematised in the seventies and eighties and nineties most effectively by the scholarship emerging from the Women 's Movement erm who 've said that y'know perhaps things are n't quite as equitable as these people have supposed , er perhaps sexuality can be abusive , look at all these instances of rape , of child sex abuse etcetera , sexual harassment and all these kinds of things . |
| 26 | Bonuses arising from the masks only apply when the mask is being worn ( except for the paper mask ) , but the penalties are permanent and can not be dispelled . |
| 27 | Many of these plateaus have anomalous crustal thicknesses of between 20 and 40 km and an upper layer 10 to 15 km thick with P-wave velocities in the range 6.0–6.3 km s-h These values are in the range of granitic rocks in the continental crust and so it is inferred that many oceanic plateaus ( such as the Seychelles Bank ) are drowned continental fragments originating from the edges of ancient land masses and destined to be swept towards a subduction zone in the future . |
| 28 | The waves smashed spectacularly into the rocky coastline , creating instant waterfalls of white spume draining from the rocks before becoming drowned and engulfed by further successive waves . |
| 29 | Pummel flabby thighs working from the knees towards your hips . |
| 30 | Bucket-shop travellers are lured by the rumours reaching Harlow , Haifa and Harrisburg of yen notes showering from the trees . |