Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pole is important , even if the statistics show that no more than 50 per cent of the winners here started from pole in the last 10 years , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Potatoes originally came from South America . |
| 3 | The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land . |
| 4 | However , the idea that archive work might be used in the training of embryo diplomats still surfaced from time to time in France . |
| 5 | Ten per cent of its finances still came from government sources in the early sixties . |
| 6 | The 148 New Democracy deputies accordingly abstained from voting and , with only 151 members voting in his favour ( 128 Pasok , 21 Left Coalition and two others ) Sartzetakis failed to win the required two-thirds of the vote . |
| 7 | In contrast , antral tumours mainly arose from mucosa showing the changes of chronic active gastritis . |