Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Second World War , executive search in the US has developed from a small cottage industry into a $ multimillion , multinational business which has deeply penetrated American corporate life . |
| 2 | Names after the Arabic for finger , ‘ banan ’ , this slightly curved tropical fruit has developed from a luxury treat into today 's trendy , healthy convenience food . |
| 3 | This chapter has examined from a comparative standpoint a number of important characteristics of trade unions , mainly in relation to industrialised , market-type economies . |
| 4 | In role the teacher enters as a traveller to tell them that she has come from a neighbouring village , where Roman soldiers are delivering a decree that all will have to pay a new tax ; the traveller has to go on her way . |
| 5 | The question then as to whether feminism and Christianity are compatible is that of whether the equality of women is compatible with a religion which has come from a past patriarchal age . |
| 6 | This is because Western religion has come from a Semitic origin where life was serious as befits a desert people . |
| 7 | For example , the donation of some R25,000 worth of roofing material has come from a French company . |
| 8 | A traveller who has come from a nearby town , where the Romans have already given out their orders ( low to equal status ) . |
| 9 | The trip begins at a Eucharistic Congress in Seoul intended to put the seal on the Catholic Church 's extraordinary progress in Korea , where the number of believers has grown from a post-war 200,000 to more than 2.5 million , and is increasing by 10 per cent each year . |
| 10 | And in that time , the three-bedroomed house has grown from a busy couple 's base to a family home for them and their two-year-old daughter Emily . |
| 11 | The fish farming industry has grown from a few hundred tonnes of fish in 1980 to 33,000 tonnes per annum in 1990 . |
| 12 | The literature of the castle , published by the 29th Laird of Dunvegan , John Macleod of Macleod , makes the business plain : ‘ Since the castle was first opened to the public more than forty years ago , the number of visitors has risen from a few hundred to tens of thousands ’ — many of them Macleod descendants from the New World . |
| 13 | Moreover , despite what the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme ( Mrs. Golding ) has said from a sedentary position , there is no question of places closing . |
| 14 | Past questionnaire research on the police has suffered from a low response rate ( for example , Policy Studies Institute 1983a ) . |
| 15 | Such success for developing countries is not always the case , even in the same industry ; Bolivia has had a sorry experience in trying to do the same as its Eastern rivals , but has suffered from a critical lack of expertise . |
| 16 | Malawi , which exports normally about 40,000 tonnes a year , has suffered from a serious drought . |
| 17 | ‘ Because the issue was public against private rather than the relationship between private and public , Britain has suffered from a less than fully productive public sector and a less than fully responsible private sector , neither of which were satisfactory engines for growth . |
| 18 | To keep existing contracts on schedule while meeting emergency requirements from the ministry , the site has moved from a five-to a seven-day week , and working hours since early November have more or less doubled . |
| 19 | In eight years Britain has moved from a current account surplus of 2.5 per cent of GDP to a deficit of 4 per cent of GDP . |
| 20 | MICHAEL BRIAL has moved from a likely Wallaby tour drop-out to a possible starter for Saturday 's game against Wales B in Cardiff . |
| 21 | There has been an enormous and very genuine outcry over the vast sums it has made from a virtual monopoly position . |
| 22 | The balance has shifted from a financial structure which was predominantly state-based with some transnational links , to a predominantly global system in which some residual local differences in markets , institutions and regulations persist as vestiges of a bygone age . |
| 23 | Wexford was reminded of a butterfly , fresh and lusty , that has escaped from a dried chrysalis . |
| 24 | This has ranged from a weekly average of just 3.7 complaints in Crook to an even more meagre 2.3 in Chester-le-Street . |
| 25 | DARLINGTON 's Bank Top railway station has benefited from a major facelift costing millions of pounds over the last decade . |
| 26 | She is right in saying that the west midlands has benefited from a vast increase both in the amount and the share of inward investment into this country . |
| 27 | Pioneer frame helps disabled child to walk An 11-year-old girl from Middlesbrough has benefited from a revolutionary surgery technique , developed in Siberia , and now in use at the town 's general hospital . |
| 28 | The Belfast campus has benefited from a steady increase in student numbers and significant development of facilities . |
| 29 | The Belfast campus has benefited from a steady increase in student numbers and significant development of facilities . |
| 30 | Young goalie , John Slack ( 38 ) , has recovered from a dislocated shoulder and broken nose he sustained during a pre-season tactical discussion with Trevor Proby and is eager to take up that vital position between the posts once again . |