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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was obvious that not all these people could have come from the upper classes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Here , COURSE and LECTURER come from the original entities and TIMETABLE stems from information about the coincidence of the two , that is , their relationship . |
| 9 | Since 1950 my influences have come from the Flemish Primitives , Frances de la Tour and Stanley Spencer . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But the most cohesive programme to yet be devised has come from the United Nations Environmental Programme ( UNEP ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It had been a hot summer , and dust rose from the rough flags as they settled . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Ochre dust rose from the blazing pavements . |
| 17 | SUBLIME set of reggae covers from the cunning Brummies . |
| 18 | This chapter reviews the evidence on the issue that has accrued from the different methodologies available . |
| 19 | The extent of language function in the right hemisphere under normal circumstances is not easy to infer from the clinical studies . |
| 20 | But the greater the prestige and reputation of an institution , the more it will recruit from the upper echelons of society . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Omitted from the meaningful introductions to clients , business lunches , meetings and golfing sessions , women solicitors fail to acquire the vital ‘ client base . ’ |
| 27 | The amendment also specified that candidates had to have resigned from the armed forces or security forces . |
| 28 | The men on the Committee , led by Francis Hawkins and E.G. Mandeville Roe , then resigned from the British Fascists and joined Mosley , bringing with them a copy of its membership list . |
| 29 | Wes smiled and looked up at me and for a moment the tough mask dropped from the grubby features and in the dark wild eyes I read sheer delight . |
| 30 | Dropped from the retail catalogues , return |