Example sentences of "[verb] from [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is undeniable that a great deal of important and fundamental research has come from the several centres of excellence in the USA . |
| 2 | Here is another chapter opening from the same children 's book . |
| 3 | He was holding a cage in his hands , dredged from the bottom-most depths of the Luggage . |
| 4 | Normally , little jumble could be expected from the few cottages on the headland , but Alex Mair , anxious to associate the power station with the community , had put up a notice on the staff board and the two tea chests were usually fairly full by the time the October sale came round . |
| 5 | The plans would become the absolute copyright of the Government , to choose from the several plans the whole or such parts as might be found desirable ; but the architects would not have the slightest claim to be employed in the execution of the works . |
| 6 | In conclusion , Italy and Sicily suffered from the same divisions and neighbourly jealousies as Old Greece , jealousies made more dangerous by racial friction and the threat of native risings ( cranky philosophical activists did not help ) . |
| 7 | In this they suffered from the same defects as the streltsy , the small force of regular infantry originally set up during Ivan the Terrible 's reign . |
| 8 | Gamble argues that the adversary politics thesis over-generalises from a few instances to the whole of economic policy . |
| 9 | Since the tomato , being a member of the Solanaceae tribe which includes also the poisonous nightshades , was long regarded as a dangerous if not actually deadly fruit ( the potato and the aubergine , also of the Solanaceae family , have in their time suffered from the same associations ) presumably the mixture of vinegar and spices used in the early sauces were regarded as safety-devices against the possibly toxic effects of the fruit itself . |
| 10 | For stable samples we rarely need to obtain spectra in a hurry , and commercial spectrometers generally operate on timescales ranging from a few minutes to several hours . |
| 11 | Faulting takes place through sudden , rapid movements over distances ranging from a few centimetres to several metres . |
| 12 | ‘ Despite several rests ranging from a few days up to a whole week , I could n't shake off the injury and it just got worse . |
| 13 | The amount of venom injected varies from species to species , ranging from a few microlitres in highly venomous sea snakes to six or seven millilitres in the diamondback rattlers and pit vipers . |
| 14 | It will separate and purify molecules ranging from a few milligrams to several grams from solution . |
| 15 | The mothers talking in this book are mainly in their mid to late teens , with children whose ages range from a few months to four years . |
| 16 | Either that report or a summary of it or a basic valuation prepared from the same materials is used by the building society for the purposes of section 13 . |
| 17 | The timber lid is in two parts and could be easily made from a few lengths of timber stained or painted to match the surroundings . |
| 18 | These punches might consist of elements of the design ( such as part of the king 's crown ) or of letters in the inscription , and a careful examination of the coins can reveal that they were struck from dies made from the same punches ( fig. 5 ) . |
| 19 | Drinkers can now choose between a French Chablis at £7 in the shops , or an Australian wine made from the same grapes , although inevitably with a slightly different character , at £5 . |
| 20 | Defenders of a traditional cosmology simply could not allow that the earth was made from the same materials as the planets , for the latter were composed of a fifth element not found in the corruptible , sublunar world . |
| 21 | It features beautiful and accurate facsimiles of the treasures of Tutankhamun , including the famous gold burial mask , specially produced for the Exhibition , many of which have been made from the same materials and in the same way as the originals . |
| 22 | The Illington-Lackford type of pottery occurs on 4 per cent of cemeteries and 15 per cent of settlements in East Anglia , strongly suggesting that it was being used for domestic , as well as funerary , use , and it is estimated that undecorated pottery made from the same fabrics outnumber the decorated Illington-Lackford pots by 15:1 . |
| 23 | Omega Pet Foods manufactures the extruded variety which is made from the same constituents , but cooked under pressure — extruded — to form a characteristic nugget . |
| 24 | Wonderful views of both , and of the Pentlands in the south and of Fife and the Firth of Forth in the north , can be seen from the many hills upon or around which Edinburgh drapes itself . |
| 25 | There was a happy burble of voices which came from a few children discussing some design they were doing . |
| 26 | If the fish are obtained from the same area the chances are that they all came from the same parents . |
| 27 | An Armenian whose family came from Erzerum or Kars is neighbour to other Armenians whose parents or grandparents came from the same towns , just as Palestinians from Haifa — or from Mrs Zamzam 's village of Um Al-Farajh — now live in refugee camps next to those whose homes were in the same places , sometimes in the very same streets , in what was Palestine . |
| 28 | Although they spoke German and came from the same backgrounds as their charges , they were often young and inexperienced and unprepared for the demands of the work . |
| 29 | ‘ An Englishman named Woodhouse introduced winemaking to the town in 1773 , and his firm is still operating from the same premises . |
| 30 | Watch from a few yards away and you will see an elegant rodent , about the size and shape of a hare but with long stilt-like legs , step daintily towards the hole , nose lifted warily . |