Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] from [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far the leadership 's reaction to the 1983 and 1987 defeats has differed from that to such earlier decisive election defeats in 1931 , 1951 , 1970 , and 1979 . |
| 2 | ‘ It has touched me deeply that much of this has come from those of you who have troubles of your own . ’ |
| 3 | It has touched me deeply , but much of this has come from those of you who have troubles of your own . |
| 4 | Also invested as an OBE was Paul Davies , the ITN correspondent who has reported from some of the world 's troublespots during a 23-year career . |
| 5 | Many parents and grandparents in the provinces followed ‘ the May-June events ’ on state-run television : their view of what was happening differed from that of the younger generation in Paris and university campuses across the country ; many students followed developments hour by hour on Europe I — if they did not themselves join the demonstrations and mount the barricades . |
| 6 | They have found a position which has advanced from that of the rather more hierarchical structures that have pervaded schools in the past . |
| 7 | The political context for investors there has shifted from that of a favoured frontline position on the Western side of the Bamboo Curtain in the 1950s to that of an emergent player in a dynamic , economically important region in the 1980s . |
| 8 | Now a letter has arrived from some of the American veterans of the Desert Storm campaign expressing their regret at Kevin 's death . |
| 9 | London has benefited from this in the past . |
| 10 | The teachers that were interviewed ranged from those on the Main Professional Grade ( MPG ) to heads of departments . |
| 11 | Likewise , though a loyal supporter of the societies of which he was a valued member , he managed to remain detached from any of the inevitable petty politics . |
| 12 | ( viii ) Finally , the terms under which economic development can be undertaken by new States have been radically changed , so that today the programme of economic liberation has become separated from that of political freedom . |
| 13 | Once the notion of trust had become divorced from that of dependence on a testamentary heir ( which seems very soon to have happened ) , the way was open to set up trusts charged on beneficiaries under the will other than the heir , or even on persons who benefited where there was no will at all . |
| 14 | Used as embellishments to ornate metalwork , the garnet may have originated from any of the main world sources , Egypt , Britain , Turkey , Scandinavia , Ceylon and may parts of Europe . |
| 15 | These , it appeared , were where the allegations had begun , and these , Mr M told the South Ronaldsay community , could only have come from some of the eight children who had been taken into care the previous November . |
| 16 | A contemporary Shirvan rug , for example ( pl. 24 ) , may have been made in the Shirvan area — now part of the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan — but it could just as easily have come from any of the Soviet weaving centres producing Caucasian-style rugs . |
| 17 | I felt guilty about sharing in this bounty , for my stepmother and her children could clearly have benefited from some of it . |
| 18 | So we want Glasgay ! to help create a feel-good factor for the thousands of people who often feel excluded from much of the cultural life in Britain , despite being over-represented within the arts generally . ’ |
| 19 | His attitude to labour changed from that of an early nineteenth-century Tory paternalist , advocating model villages provided by employers and condemning trade unions , to that of a post-Disraelian Conservative who believed in self-help and free collective bargaining . |
| 20 | Er there would have been some cases where that had happened erm and clearly the nationalists had withdrawn from most of southern China into , into south west China and therefore erm th th there 'd been er and there was quite a lot of fighting going , still going across south China so i it 's not quite the same . |
| 21 | People would stop in the street asking how we were and where we had come from all in perfect English . |
| 22 | He had suffered from these for seven years and had been in and out of mental hospitals many times and had received every available treatment including electro-convulsive therapy ( ECT ) — all to no avail . |
| 23 | We , the people who 'll have the next generation of children , we want a better world than the one we 've got from all of you ! |
| 24 | For many of the committed , for many of the organizers , the issue was n't peace , it was war : victorious war for Vietnam 's National Liberation Front , and class war on the bourgeoisie — a word that had faded from much of the left in the long years of ‘ The British road to socialism ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I know from the messages of support I have received from those in the arts world and elsewhere how much your leadership , interest and enthusiasm will be missed . |
| 26 | You must be content , therefore , with such a general description as I have received from some of the eunuchs . |
| 27 | That 's not a problem that I can actually deal with er but Wales certainly er you know takes the sort of interest in Europe that we have seen from most of the Conservative speakers er in trying to sum up this debate you have to refer to them er of not being able to show , there 's a definite sort of anti European theme coming through from most of the speakers from the back benches who 've chosen to take part in this debate tonight from the other side and it 's difficulty to avoid summing up the debate without some reference to the points that they have made which is in complete contrast to the attitude that we have erm in Wales er towards Europe and that we are . |
| 28 | I have benefited from all of this at some time ; so have others . |
| 29 | Two consequences have followed from this in recent years . |