Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb -s] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of what is known about Leapor derives from a letter by her friend and mentor , Bridget Freemantle , to a gentleman in London , probably John Duncombe though possibly John Blencowe . |
| 2 | Batty Wife Cave is in a different category , having no pretensions to shyness nor modesty ; indeed , it thrusts itself upon the notice of passersby on the road just below the Station Inn on the north side , where a channel of pebbles emerges from a low entrance half-choked by stones and normally dry . |
| 3 | Sultan Pakubuono XI of Surakarta comes from a lineage reaching back to the ninth century and , despite Indonesia 's official birth into the modern age with her independence in 1949 , the Sultan , like his ancestors before him , remains the uncrowned " Pope " of pre-Islamic Javanese mysticism . |
| 4 | The bone of contention stems from a government-backed amendment to the Natural Heritage ( Scotland ) Bill . |
| 5 | Yet within the context of organized literary study , it is true that much of the difficulty students have in making sense of texts comes from a lack of information , or to use the older term , a deficiency in general knowledge . |
| 6 | It might be suggested that the disempowerment of parents arises from a combination of LEAs seeking to maintain control over the distribution of resources and professionals seeking to secure the autonomy of their professional role . |
| 7 | MYSTERY SLANG : ‘ Venus Grove ’ ( Virgin ) conjuring up the dark brooding of The Doors and the yarn spinning of Tom Waits from a new , wild-eyed Nick Cave type — out on Monday |
| 8 | Apple of discord comes from a Greek myth about a golden apple that was inscribed with ‘ for the fairest ’ . |
| 9 | She asks what kind of meat comes from a pig . |
| 10 | Direct evidence of a rather different sort of learning comes from a study of great reed warblers and cuckoos , also in Central Japan , undertaken by Arnon Lotem and Amotz Zahavi of Tel-Aviv University , in collaboration with Dr Nakamura . |
| 11 | Perhaps the most telling measure of performance comes from a straight comparison with the R25 V6 . |
| 12 | The concern of British pensioners about the level of pension arises from a belief that the British retirement pension is one of the lowest in Europe . |
| 13 | One fruitful form of classification starts from a keyword ( sometimes a historical term such as " Restoration " ; a conceptual term such as " nature " ; or a genre term such as " tragedy " ) . |
| 14 | A rosette of leaves develops from a stout , short rootstock . |
| 15 | The third type of doubt stems from a simple but basic deficiency in understanding why Christianity is true . |
| 16 | As others produce a packet of Hob Nobs from a plastic carrier bag , she is revealing a foil-covered dish containing lobster marinated in apricot juice that took two days to prepare . |
| 17 | Other evidence supporting the second point of view comes from a retrospective study of 68 children with proven sensitivity to cow 's milk . |
| 18 | ( iii ) The field of power operates from a Carl Schmitt-like logic of ‘ friend versus foe ’ , while the autonomizing de-limited fields operate increasingly , along with modernization , on a logic of ‘ true versus false ’ . |
| 19 | Like Rolex watches from a different time zone . |
| 20 | Authors index paragraphs from various sources with node-link-node triples from a semantic net and then use programs to traverse the semantic net and generate various outlines . |
| 21 | Defenders David Holdsworth and Jason Drysdale sent an 18,000 crowd wild with second-half strikes from a flying header and a penalty . |
| 22 | Second , it is important to take account of the extent to which a lack of clarity about policy stems from a lack of potential consensus . |
| 23 | Actual details are vague , but John claims that whereas every other pickup in existence suffers from a muddy , limited response , his design ( available fitted to any guitar , single-coil or humbucking , at a cost of £150 ) gives the first genuinely ‘ full range ’ sound . |
| 24 | Confusion over whether some sentences like the following are tenseless or " eternal " in part stems from a deep equivocation over the term tense . |
| 25 | A further problem of ageing , which in part follows from a greater life expectancy , relates to retirement . |
| 26 | Growth in nature starts from a seed and flowers into a variety of forms . |
| 27 | The ultimate warning over ouija comes from a high-ranking chaos magician who knew I was writing this book . |
| 28 | This is the kind of place where grown men dress up in leather shorts and slap each other accompanied by mountain tunes from a schnapps-crazed accordion player . |