Example sentences of "[verb] from [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Import tariffs would be lifted from 170 classes of products .
2 With a bit of modification and improvement ideas lifted from all sorts of sources will help in improving the school .
3 ‘ As long as Drexel was there , ’ says Mr Sind , ‘ they always managed to find a way to struggle from debt-payment date to debt-payment date . ’
4 It should not be supposed from such criteria for choosing Christianity or retaining paganism that pagans were so simple-minded as to think prosperity and material adversity automatic grounds for conversion or retention of paganism as the case might be .
5 But at Eindhoven the organisation was unable to prevent fraternisation between the two sides leaping from mutual suspicion into whirlwind romance .
6 One kind , Bathygobius , has the habit of leaping from one pool to another as the tide retreats .
7 In that year , also , L'Estrange 's ineptitude cost him control of the official news-books and Muddiman regained it because of the regard he had won from both secretaries of state .
8 A customer may buy from several competitors in a given field ; a supplier will invariably supply to more than one business and yet , depending on the facts , the employer may be able to argue that these connections are sufficiently special .
9 New and more productive cereal cultivars have contributed their share to improved yields , but the biggest share in developed countries like the United States has come from increased use of fertilizers — 55 per cent between 1965 and 1976 , according to the New Delhi paper quoting an FAO estimate .
10 Much of the improvement has come from increased sales into furniture foams , explained , commercial manager .
11 The antiquities for sale have come from private collections in London and New York , from auction rooms and the trade .
12 Cos I 've come from higher class to the low lower class .
13 Some of these girls whose families have come from rural areas in Azad Kashmir or Mirpur feel that their parents allow them to go to school only because in Britain it would be illegal for them to remain at home .
14 In a recent study of all Higher Education Institutions it has become quite clear that the main impetus towards Equal Opportunity Policies has come from female members of staff or particular unions representing female members ( CRE , unpublished ) .
15 When we got there the street was crowded with people who must have come from all parts of the City .
16 Endorsement of the award has come from many sectors of industry , including Stirling Gallacher , chairman of Sutcliffe Services Group Limited , who says that people are the key to our current and future success as leading contract caterers .
17 The two sets of girls might just have well come from two countries at war .
18 Those predictions which have been made about the impact of new technology on employment levels have come from two types of analysis .
19 Surviving papers relating to the removal of 433 paupers and vagrants between 1740 and 1762 show that 40 per cent of these unfortunates had come from other parts of East Anglia , 15 per cent had travelled up to 100 miles , 6 per cent had started from London and Middlesex and 39 per cent originated elsewhere , including thirty-three people from Scotland and sixteen from Ireland .
20 Elsewhere , much of the smooth plains material could have come from large impacts on the so far unseen hemisphere .
21 Fund raising for the state-of-the-art machine began in 1987 and senior technician Peter Barton said help had come from several organisations including the WRVS , the Guides and the League of Friends .
22 Many air sorties have come from American carriers in the Mediterranean , the Red Sea and in the dangerously restricted waters of the Gulf itself .
23 For many people , ‘ human ’ and ‘ computation ’ come from opposite ends of their thesaurus .
24 And there had been no damage to any arteries , the small amount of blood there was had come from minor cuts from the broken bottle .
25 Much of what we now know , in a still difficult and very controversial area , about different kinds of ‘ televised violence ’ and their differential effects on differently situated children , or about the effects of different kinds of political broadcasting — party statements , electoral reporting , definitions of the ‘ main issues ’ — has come from this kind of research .
26 As Philippe de Mézières wrote in the late fourteenth century , some may well have come from those members of the lower nobility who did not normally go to war except when summoned by the king , but who , in certain cases , were now being forced to take up arms as a business .
27 We sent a message of solidarity to the 250 women on board the ship , who had come from different parts of the world including the Arab Region .
28 The revolutionaries might as well have come from another planet for all the relevance their schemes had to the real concerns of the peasantry .
29 Their outward appearance gives no hint as to the wealth of amazing finds that have come from local beaches in the past .
30 Chairman Ken Bates acted after a run of 12 matches without a win that has seen the club eliminated from both major cup competitions and slump from title-chasing territory to mid-table .
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