Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a child does not know any other black people , he or she does not value them ; all his or her values descend from the adoptive parents . |
| 2 | Oversized books suffer from the serious disadvantage that they are housed in a separate sequence from the main stock , and are invariably less well used . |
| 3 | Now let us see how the branches grow from the main trunk ; at what angle do they grow from the trunk ? |
| 4 | Assessment methods range from the formal and sophisticated to the haphazard . |
| 5 | Their new songs range from the rhythmic and tuneful Big Nuthin' , with its gently cynical catalogue of the anticlimaxes of life , to an unaccompanied half-spoken , half-sung piece , The Anti-sex Backlash Of The Eighties , dealing wittily and angrily with sexual politics . |
| 6 | The television performances range from the tedious ( insuring antiques ) to the hilarious ( a Colonel defending foxhunting to an urban Tory . |
| 7 | Assuming the European market mirrors the US trend , there is still room for almost indefinite growth , and all soft drinks manufacturers benefit from the massive marketing programmes of Coca-Cola and Pepsi . |
| 8 | Although assembled in units separate from the lay force , the clergy were sometimes supervised by a layman , just as occasionally clerics had charge of the lay contingent . |
| 9 | Ancestral voices whisper from the young dry garden hedge , as Steve starts up his Ford Cortina . |
| 10 | However , they noted some deviations related to the presence of heavy minerals with densities considerably greater than quartz and also to mica flakes whose shapes differ from the spherical . |
| 11 | These digital and digitally remastered recordings date from the late ‘ 70s and '80s and information/presentation/quality are up to the usual Chandos high standards , although playing times tend to be short . |
| 12 | The demands arise from the particular tasks that lexicographers undertake from time to time , and are predictable only in overall terms . |
| 13 | Miro Svolik : An Exhibition of Photographs , some of the images result from the Czech photographer 's work at Project UK ‘ 91 ( until 13 Mar ) . |
| 14 | It is unknown whether low amplitude propagated contractions and high amplitude propagated contractions have the same physiological basis and serve the same function — that is , whether they are parts of a continuum of propagated contractions. ( 3 ) High amplitude propagated contractions start from the ascending colon ( old observations also suggest that the appendix may be involved in such forceful activity ) , and most are propagated in an aboral direction . |
| 15 | But the attitude of women content to stay in their middle-level comfort zones came in for a lot too — not only from a male chief executive who had seen one of his recruits retreat from the fast track , but from senior female executives as well who felt women ‘ should take their share of responsibility for low applications for senior jobs . ’ |
| 16 | And all along the route , beginning at James 's Court in Edinburgh , they gathered at Mr James Boswell 's invitation to watch the pearls fall from the Great Bear 's jaws . |
| 17 | Outputs rise from the standard SE 's lacklustre 111bhp and 117lb ft of torque to a much healthier 155bhp at 5500rpm and 169lb ft of torque at 3600rpm . |
| 18 | ‘ The designs come from the same drawing pads as the haute couture I create — it 's what I would call ‘ my handwriting ’ , ’ he explains , ‘ but with clever fabric buying , we are keeping the prices down . |
| 19 | God 's constant watch over the created world is compared to that of a female bird caring for its young , or a woman suckling her child ( these images come from the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament ) . |
| 20 | Some galleries project from the first floor of the house ; others are on barn buildings above the yard . |
| 21 | Such ballets range from The Green Table ( Kurt Jooss 1933 ) and Façade ( Ashton 1931 ) to Robbins ' Fancy Free ( 1944 ) . |
| 22 | Constructed layer by layer , Ostrowski 's canvases range from the sublime to the ridiculous , presenting many paradoxes in the process . |
| 23 | Walking down towards the pueblo again , seeing the roomy spread of small farms , the elegant eucalyptus trees which shade them , a handful of birds break from the tall lupins . |
| 24 | It argues that a ‘ national strategic technology acquisition plan ’ is needed to provide a boost to the industry 's own research efforts comparable to what US companies receive from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) , which spends about $ 900 million a year in the field . |
| 25 | Operating areas range from the hostile waters of the UK North Sea to the deserts of Pakistan . |
| 26 | These figures not only lead to partisan squabbles and gerrymandering but also affect the amount of money that states and local jurisdictions receive from the federal government . |
| 27 | The effects range from the annoying to the catastrophic . |
| 28 | The areas flow from the previous discussion : |
| 29 | Orchard House in Wendlebury near Bicester has become an emergency centre receiving refugees direct from the Bosnian War Zone . |
| 30 | The first , and weaker test , would exploit one of the central predictions of the rational expectations hypothesis which we explained in chapter 2 : that forecast errors arise from the inherent unpredictability or stochastic nature of the variable and should exhibit no pattern ; that is , they should not be predictable on the basis of any information available at the time the forecast is made ; and the forecast errors should , on average , be zero . |