Example sentences of "[verb] from the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Allied have been working steadily to free or sell their required quota of pubs under government rules , few of the disposals have come from the 700-plus London estate of Taylor Walker . |
| 2 | The oldest known rocks from the ocean floor come from the western Pacific , but these are only of Jurassic age . |
| 3 | He smiled , then scrambled from the white BMW 728 , crushing the half-smoked cigarette underfoot . |
| 4 | The heights he recorded varied from the tiny Shetland bull standing at only 97cm , up to the large , improved Holderness Shorthorn bull at an immense 152cm ( with a record-breaking 168cm in the ox ) . |
| 5 | Compensation claims amounting to US$400,000,000 for property destroyed and looted during the invasion [ see p. 37706 ] were outstanding against the US government ; estimates of the number of civilians killed during the fighting varied from the official US figure of 220 civilian dead [ see p. 37181 ] through that of 320 ( with 3,000 wounded ) given by a human rights group , Physicians for Human Rights , to one as high as 4,000 dead . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the British Red Cross has been contacted by many people across the region offering accommdation and help if more wounded from the former Yugoslavia are brought here in future . |
| 7 | Motor racing and Martin Brundle has been dropped from the Oxfordshire-based Benetton team . |
| 8 | This smaller and shyer animal once ranged from the Spanish Sierra Nevada to the Urals , but has suffered greatly in the last century from hunting and the disturbance of agricultural development . |
| 9 | These ranged from the mighty Rutland and Ampair models to the Forgen , an entirely different design of wind generator which has deeper vanes that rotate round a vertical shaft . |
| 10 | The Kabbalists developed a similar mythical conception of the inner life of God in their depiction of the world of the Sephirot , the divine spheres which emanated from the unknowable God and enabled him to be known by man : these emanations provided man with the means of ascending to the deity . |
| 11 | As the season of goodwill got into full swing he was discharged from the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport yesterday . |
| 12 | Mr Bush livened the act last week when he said he was giving Congress until March 27th to decide which current defence programmes should be trimmed to raise $870m for Panama and Nicaragua ( money that is supposed to come from the 1990 Pentagon budget ) . |
| 13 | It resulted in last year 's decision to close the European exploration headquarters in Glasgow with the transfer of key personnel to work from the main North Sea operational base in Aberdeen , a process which should be completed by the end of this year . |
| 14 | Dorset Health Authority approved the plan and appointed the unit as its community services provider with funds transferred from the existing NHS trust units . |
| 15 | The new church on Turnham Green was named Christ Church and was consecrated in 1853 , with a parish separated from the old Chiswick parish of St. Nicholas . |
| 16 | This investigation was into the feasibility of building a plant to make 10,000 tonnes of pellets a year from waste collected from the larger Swansea shops . |
| 17 | He had been moved from the Royal Alexandria Hospital , Paisley , to the private Alexandra Nursing Home almost a year earlier having suffered brain damage after a stabbing incident . |
| 18 | As well as Winemark 's specially selected own label wines , several of which were awarded medals , a broad range of wines was entered ranging from the humblest Vin de Pays to the grandest Grand Crus and the Red Wine of the Year — Albor Rioja Tinto 1991 , a firm wine coated with black cherry aromas and flavours and lots of fruit echoing in the finish . |
| 19 | Led by one of the finest clarinet players of that era , the band now has a broad repertoire , ranging from the traditional New Orleans and Dixieland styles of small band jazz to the music of the swing era of the 1940s when swing , boogie and jive were kings . |
| 20 | The McDonald 's fast food corporation ( total sales of $12.4 billion ) , Japanese and West German Railways ( total revenues $16 and $12.5 billion , though both actually lost money in that year ) , and 12 retailing and supermarket chains ( sales ranging from the US-based Sears Roebuck 's $44 billion to the Japanese Daiei chain 's $10 billion ) were also members of what could be called the ‘ 10 billion dollar club ’ ( see UNCTC , 1988 , annex tables ) . |
| 21 | It could be that support from the 13 Ulster Unionist MPs likely to be elected on Thursday would be enough to see Mr Major home . |
| 22 | In the case when the Computer Group diagnose a fault with the system software or standard utilities , assistance will be sought from the appropriate IBM agency . |
| 23 | Financial assistance and good advice was sought from the local Belfast Action Team in the Lower Falls/Lower Shankill area who willingly and readily helped the organisation to find its feet . |
| 24 | Management buyout … printworks saved from the collapsed Maxwell empire . |
| 25 | He 's a natural ball player with an exciting turn of pace , and Ballymena will gladly benefit from the former Coleraine Institution star , whose now preferred position is in the centre . |
| 26 | It 's this generation who 'll benefit from the new Europe ; a Europe that 's proving so hard to build . |
| 27 | They range from the impressive Eric Jones-Evans and Alan Tagg collections to a small but exquisite ( and previously unknown ) portrait of Ellen Terry , painted when this legendary actress was at the start of her career in Bristol and presented to the Collection by the artist 's granddaughter . |
| 28 | What MPG range can I expect from the standard Land Rover V8 ? |
| 29 | He had learned his lesson regarding being prepared from the previous Friday night . |
| 30 | There are no sweeping statements about resurgence in the American Paintings market that can be made from the major New York sales at Sotheby 's and Christie 's , on 3 and 4 December , though some areas , like early modern paintings , remain stable , if not strong . |