Example sentences of "[verb] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ran across three weekly issues , and was blatantly lifted from the big city papers and radio , but the editorial comment was strictly home town . |
| 2 | Next , a story lifted from the Daily Mail about Professor Jerrold Petrofsky 's work in Dayton , Ohio , and the hope it gave to the paralysed PC Philip Olds . |
| 3 | INXS : ‘ Taste It ’ third single lifted from the Antipodean funk rockers ' Number One album ‘ Welcome To Wherever You Are ’ . |
| 4 | His shop was in the merchants ' quarter of the city — a maze of buildings which had been divided and sub-divided , so great was the demand for space , which lay within the strictly enforced boundaries of the streets which radiated from the Golden Yurt like the spokes of a wheel . |
| 5 | The paid friend may well act from the impure motive that ‘ the customer is always right ’ ! |
| 6 | If a tear develops , peel from the opposite corner and work towards the damage . |
| 7 | A survey of 35 countries with interim reporting regulations indicated that of those requiring only semi-annual interim reports , the average maximum period permitted from the interim date to publication of the interim report was 108 days . |
| 8 | More often than not Ma starts me off only to leave me stranded above the waterdragon with my–backside wedged into the Young Person 's Patent Toilet Seat Adaptor ( another trophy won from the WI jumble by Pa ) . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | Only a minority of immigrants to the United Kingdom have come from the New Commonwealth , and this minority has decreased in absolute terms , and even more in proportional terms , since the mid-1960s . |
| 11 | The exercise led to a bizarre episode in 1967 , when the mayor of Londonderry , Councillor Albert Anderson , produced a letter which he claimed had come from the working committee . |
| 12 | So let me lay before you my own ideas , most of which have come from the practical application of regression therapy with a wide variety of patients who came to consult me for an even wider variety of reasons . |
| 13 | Member of Clan othel URC and has worked and served as a form of day pastor at Clygarthy URC and he has come from the Anglican tradition Church of England and he has erm over the years towards the reform tradition . |
| 14 | Most of the money for the campaign has come from the central government and the United Nations , but it seems to be Marxist enthusiasm that has put it to good use . |
| 15 | And so although his early contributors had come from the European tradition which preceded the Great War , by the early Thirties he had come to rely more and more upon British contributors . |
| 16 | In his public statements on the dispute Lal portrayed it both as a factional struggle , between himself and members of Janata Dal who had come from the Prime Minister 's Jan Morcha group , and as a conflict between urban politicians and a representative of rural India . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | the other side of th , you know , should have come from the other side . |
| 19 | Opposition to the ban had come from the traditional whaling countries of Norway , Iceland and Japan , joined by St Vincent and St Lucia . |
| 20 | It is not perhaps surprising that the source of substitution should have come from the traditional opposition group , the Bani Hashem . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most practical advances have come from the increased awareness of the perpetuating effects of starvation with its psychological , emotional , and physical sequelae . |
| 22 | I just wonder when Mr asks for other figures from the independent sector what would have happened if the figures that you 've got before you today had actually come from the private sector . |
| 23 | I did n't understand her questions was it the figures had come from the private sector I 'm not sure if she understood it herself either erm we 've talked in the social services planning cuts committee about a list of homes for refurbishment and Mr wanted a very long list er a list which would blight every home not on the list . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | They may have come from the inner chamber of the tholos tomb known as the Treasury of Atreus . |
| 26 | The smooth pillars which support it in the centre have capitals of a style that has made some art historians suppose that they may originally have come from the Roman villa or palace presumed to have existed on this site in the fourth century . |
| 27 | It should be noted that the largest threat to totalizing control of schools in Ireland has so far come from the integrated schooling movement . |
| 28 | The remainder come from the following categories : |
| 29 | The most striking support for Saddam Hussein has probably come from the Palestinian population of the Israeli-occupied territories . |
| 30 | The oldest known rocks from the ocean floor come from the western Pacific , but these are only of Jurassic age . |