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

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1 The passage of the Riot Act of 1715 , which made assembling for political ( as well as other ) purposes potentially a capital offence , reveals how far the Whigs had come from the early days when they had actively promoted political demonstrations and deliberately sought an alliance with " the crowd " .
2 Similar support for a modified accelerator theory as a determinant of investment has come from the recent studies of Catinat ( 1991 ) and Ford and Poret ( 1990 ) .
3 The remainder come from the following categories :
4 Both animals , with many others , had come from the higher parts of the rivers .
5 Much later , it seemed , she awoke and when she turned over and looked towards where the chanting had come from the African men and women had eaten and were packing away and decamping .
6 We do not know in detail whence the monks were recruited ; but on the whole they seem mainly to have come from the upper classes , and perhaps from the families of substantial town-dwellers .
7 It was obvious that not all these people could have come from the upper classes .
8 They claimed the move had been simply to bring Scotland into line with England and Wales and that the initiative had come from the big bookmakers , who would be the main beneficiaries .
9 Here , COURSE and LECTURER come from the original entities and TIMETABLE stems from information about the coincidence of the two , that is , their relationship .
10 Since 1950 my influences have come from the Flemish Primitives , Frances de la Tour and Stanley Spencer .
11 They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives .
12 But the most cohesive programme to yet be devised has come from the United Nations Environmental Programme ( UNEP ) .
13 The main differences between the account of the journalist and the sociologist come from the different orientations that each brings to the subject of study .
14 It is undeniable that a great deal of important and fundamental research has come from the several centres of excellence in the USA .
15 Here is another chapter opening from the same children 's book .
16 The pattern of hits and false alarms in the two studies is relatively similar , thus Table 5.6 shows the data grouped from the two studies to increase the number of observations in each cell .
17 One objective of the analysis is to show that this institutional arrangement will cause local authority spending to differ from the usual predictions of the traditional model .
18 It had been a hot summer , and dust rose from the rough flags as they settled .
19 Edward II 's cousin and the most powerful of his earls , he rose from the middle ranks of the gentry into the upper ranks of the baronage .
20 Ochre dust rose from the blazing pavements .
21 SUBLIME set of reggae covers from the cunning Brummies .
22 We drew from the four books ( two double volumes ) and took the occasional snippet from our fellow adaptors .
23 This chapter reviews the evidence on the issue that has accrued from the different methodologies available .
24 The extent of language function in the right hemisphere under normal circumstances is not easy to infer from the clinical studies .
25 But the greater the prestige and reputation of an institution , the more it will recruit from the upper echelons of society .
26 It was a time of great British expansion and it is thought that , in the guise of ships ' cats , they were scattered from the British Isles all over the globe in a comparatively short space of time .
27 The days passed with the jeeps carrying the dead and wounded from the forward areas stopping briefly at Brigade H.Q on their way to the beaches .
28 The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance .
29 What is more , the narrator can be seen to strike a ridiculous pose within this text in a way supposedly omitted from the Anglo-Norman fabliaux : drawing attention to himself with his unnecessary , insincere or ignored apostrophes .
30 Similarly , Wordsworth is commonly bowdlerized into a ‘ Nature poet ’ , and his frequent accounts of human beings in economic difficulties are dismissed as his ‘ revolutionary growing-pains ’ — to be omitted from the safe anthologies in which he is. commonly presented to the adolescent mind .
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