Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] from [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Around the same proportion of the population , according to the same surveys , never thought of giving up the struggle to the end — or recovered from such defeatist notions — and it is fair to presume that for them Hitler remained the symbol of continued hope and determination .
2 Media people , people from the advertising company Andy has just left , a few politicians — mostly Tory or Social Democrats though there are a couple of Labour guys — bankers , lawyers , business advisers , investment experts , actors , TV people — at least one film crew , though their lights are switched off for now — various other city types , a scattering of people who are , well , just professionally famous , and the remainder seemingly either part of some enormous floating meta-party or hired from some agency to impersonate people having a whale of a time : Rent-a-Hoot or something similar .
3 The problems and criticism that arose from this decision , however , reflected the varying sizes of the administrative units .
4 The cheerful noise that emanated from that hall would n't have left any German in doubt that these recruits were all united against a common enemy .
5 Most of the women were secretaries , models of deferential , under-educated Englishwomen who filed and typed and processed the enormous piles of bumph that came from many quarters .
6 The real message that came from this question was that many family and part-time farmers had wives willing to do more than at present .
7 Soon complex life-forms emerged , based upon chemical arrangements that differed from each other .
8 She is 32 , but looks about 18 , with the same clear , icon-like beauty that shone from that television film of a decade ago .
9 If this is the case , a universe that developed from some sort of random initial conditions should contain a number of regions that are smooth and uniform and are suitable for the evolution of intelligent life .
10 Germany between the wars felt a sharpening of the internal contradictions by which it lived , but it is doubtful that the people concerned ever had a clear understanding of what was happening because the tensions were buried deep within the very fabric of the Reich and because the form and pattern of struggles that resulted from these tensions were always far removed from the real heart of the matter .
11 Among the systems that resulted from this work is TANGORA , a 20,000 word isolated-word dictation machine ( Averbuch , 1987 ) , and a 5,000 word continuous-speech recogniser ( Bahl et al , 1989 ) .
12 Although it seems pointless to reiterate the immense journalistic gaffs that screamed from most music papers ( Smiths tour dates etc ) it was their beloved NME who broke the official story first .
13 The doctoral theses that emerged from these labours were remarkably similar , in introduction , methods , and even results .
14 The rule-of-thumb ‘ law ’ that emerged from these tests was that road damage varied with the fourth power of the axle load .
15 Another conclusion that emerged from this study was that around one thousand objects would need to be sampled to be able to detect the sort of peaks which were actually present .
16 He 'd purchased considerable tracts of land during his lifetime , and the profits that accrued from that investment had ballooned as London grew .
17 Then , it is said , Aenarion lay down beside his steed and passed from that age of the world .
18 In the UK we have disposed of a number of non-strategic assets for a total of £208 million , which will be received in 1993 , while in February this year we also disposed of our remaining businesses in Australia and withdrew from that country .
19 Er certainly the , the people who worked and flew from this field er gather distinction , honour and glory unto themselves for their er .
20 The Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 restated the criminal offence of ‘ watching or besetting ’ but excluded from that activity ‘ attending at or near the house or place where a person resides , or works , or carries on business , or happens to be … in order merely to obtain or communicate information ’ .
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