Example sentences of "[be] [verb] from [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less has been heard from mothers for many of whom maintenance is their only chance of getting off benefit . |
| 2 | That is the litany which has been heard from solicitors throughout Scotland over the past months — from the spacious offices of the big city firms to the modest surroundings of rural practices . |
| 3 | Presumably the remaining 20% are formed from combinations of these four classifications : |
| 4 | Colloids are distinguished from suspensions by the size of the dispersed particles . |
| 5 | Professions are distinguished from trades by the length of training , the depth of special knowledge and by codes of behaviour . |
| 6 | He explained that there was a difference between a statement such as : ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by embodying the spirit of cathood , as opposed to that of doghood ’ , and a statement such as ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by a combination of characteristics ( such as the possession of retractable claws , … and the inability to swim … ) which , in the aggregate , describe the genus Felis as opposed to the genus Canis ’ . |
| 7 | He explained that there was a difference between a statement such as : ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by embodying the spirit of cathood , as opposed to that of doghood ’ , and a statement such as ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by a combination of characteristics ( such as the possession of retractable claws , … and the inability to swim … ) which , in the aggregate , describe the genus Felis as opposed to the genus Canis ’ . |
| 8 | The new unit , established with funding from the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) , has been formed from members of both SWAPO and the South African military — the former rival forces in the independence war . |
| 9 | Brian Harris , director of the Institute 's Professional Conduct Department , confirmed that complaints had been received from clients of the firm , but refused to comment further . |
| 10 | I am trying to give you hard facts , tell you how the traits of human personality are carried from parents to offspring , tell you accurately how the environment modifies inherited characteristics . |
| 11 | Flakes of a fatty substance are excreted from glands between the joints on the underside of the worker bee 's abdomen . |
| 12 | As might be expected , the permeability of these breccias is very good and high flow rates of up to 10,000 b/d have been reported from wells in the Argyll field ( Pennington 1975 ) . |
| 13 | About 4000 meteorite fragments have been collected from expanses of bare ice measuring about 4000 sq . |
| 14 | Tim Lawrence has been transferred from Maps to Music . |
| 15 | Surplus of PmRMPc has been transferred from consumers to producers and total surplus has fallen to ARMPc . |
| 16 | The Grosvenor Gallery , Eric Estorick 's famous gallery which , in recent years , has been operating from offices in South Moulton Street , has moved to the spacious premises vacated by the Albemarle Gallery in Albemarle Street . |
| 17 | The retirement age in Japan is often as low as 50 years , so Japanese old people are turned from producers into consumers long before their time . |
| 18 | Copies seem to have been made from casts of the original , with the help of a pointing machine which allowed certain basic measurements to be reproduced mechanically . |
| 19 | The opposite suggestion , that marine planation at the present level is active , has been made from observations of wide platforms truncating hard rocks and apparently related to present sea level . |
| 20 | For example , by looking at a pot , it may be suspected that it has not been thrown on a wheel but has been made from coils of clay , joined together and smoothed by hand to form the wall of the pot . |
| 21 | Plant breeders anywhere in the world can write in to ask for budwood from these clones , some of which are wild in origin while others have been selected from plantations in various countries . |
| 22 | Some compartments in the model could be subdivided : for example , radionuclides are transferred from animals to people by drinking milk or by eating the animal meat , and while the consumption of milk is a fast pathway , that of meat is slower . |
| 23 | Normally , release prints are made from a duplicate ( 'dupe' ) negative , much as the pictures in this book are made from dupes of the ( expensive , irreplaceable ) slides borrowed from agencies . |
| 24 | Foam mattresses are made from layers of different density foam , but they do n't offer the support of a sprung mattress and some people find them too warm to sleep on . |
| 25 | Integrated circuits are made from layers of materials by a process which includes etching using various " masks " ( templates ) which are made photographically . |
| 26 | This means that instead of being a monolithic operating system running monolithic applications , the program just calls in bits of code as they are needed from libraries of routines — rather the same way that ICL Plc 's VME mainframe operating system works . |
| 27 | This means that instead of being a monolithic operating system running monolithic applications , the program just calls in bits of code as they are needed from libraries of routines — rather the same way that ICL Plc 's VME mainframe operating system works . |
| 28 | Its Mayor held criminal jurisdiction and various wrongdoers , including mutineers , have been hauled from ships to Saltash Guildhall for justice to be done . |
| 29 | Non-brecchia rocks have been produced by impact-disruption of large sheets of various highland rocks and of mare basalts , and brecchias have been produced from fragments of these rocks . |
| 30 | Filming began in March 1990 , since when a total of 175,301 frames have been produced from items in the Library 's collections . |