Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.

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1 Customers tend to use the product either as a report generator for existing , often highly complex databases brought down from the mainframe , or as a tool for the complete re-engineering of their applications , including prototyping .
2 She listened to the stories of small triumphs brought back from the dances .
3 Sometimes the pastor found himself speaking to an empty church ; sometimes to a church filled with schoolchildren ; sometimes to a congregation supplemented by the relatives of islanders brought over from the mainland , and other tourists .
4 The VPE , headed by Solange Fernex , also wants the funds left over from the Presidential campaign of Bruce Lalonde , one of the AT 's leading lights , to go into a common kitty , rather than being set aside for a future bid for power by Lalonde — perhaps in the European parliament elections in 1984 .
5 The paths would be made from bricks left over from the building of the house ; the little hedges , not more than twelve inches in height , would be box , and spaces large enough to accommodate blooms would be devoted to arum lilies ; the others to gravel .
6 Trim back fuchsias brought in from the garden and pot them up in a peat and sand mixture .
7 But of course there is some choice erm let me give you a final southern er Africa example of this , Botswana geographically is one of those countries cut off from the sea , it 's a very large country but much of it is uninhabitable because it 's so arid it 's therefore a small country by almost any standards , number of people , the economy of er of Botswana is small and it 's frankly dependent upon South Africa in many ways for its transport , for its economic wellbeing , for the movement of people erm and even some educational resources .
8 There were about fifteen cattle , around a dozen sheep and a few lambs left over from the spring lambing .
9 According to the report Kuomintang troops brought over from the mainland massacred between 18,000 and 28,000 people following what was deemed to be a Communist-inspired rebellion which began on Feb. 28 , 1947 .
10 However , it became established at Woodford and through Warner 's generosity offshoots were distributed , as were many other rarities raised by him from seeds brought in from the Far East .
11 Enemy searchlights probed in from the sea , going out before a renewed burst of shelling and heavy machine-gun fire added to civilian casualties in the town .
12 For the bridge Encore have used rosewood , with the strings fixed through from the rear edge .
13 In practice , however , export-led growth in Europe is likely to be overwhelmed by problems left over from the late-1980s boom — especially the sharp rise in public-sector deficits between 1989 and 1993 ( chart 2 ) .
14 Business was brisk , shopkeepers even running out to grab Corbett by the arm and offer a pie , a piece of cloth , fresh fish from the Firth , almonds , nuts and raisins brought in from the nearby port of Leith .
15 Last year NEC shipped 14,200 of the EWS4800 workstations , which was 120% up on normal sales for the previous year — excluding an extraordinary order for 6,000 units from Daiwa Securities carried over from the 1991-92 fiscal year — and anticipates growth to 20,000 shipments this financial year — growth which is stable in value terms , according to NEC .
16 Last year NEC shipped 14,200 of the EWS4800 workstations , which was 120% up on normal sales for the previous year — excluding an extraordinary order for 6,000 units from Daiwa Securities carried over from the 1991–92 fiscal year — and anticipates growth to 20,000 shipments this financial year — growth which is stable in value terms , according to NEC .
17 By the end of April 1921 , the work was finished and they began to furnish the upstairs flat , mainly with items brought over from the house at Poplar , and to stock the shop with cameras , films and processing equipment .
18 Garlands of flowers and greenery have always been traditionally associated with May festivities , being used to decorate the trees brought in from the woods .
19 If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract .
20 They were the original fittings left over from the beginning of the century which the Diocesan Parsonage Committee had yet to get around to modernising .
21 All the ladies had put on their best floral evening frocks , the flags left over from the Coronation came into their own again , the fairy lights were lit on the verandah , and the gramophone churned out all the favourites : " Jealous Heart " , " Pawnshop on the Corner " , " Tennessee Waltz " , and lots of Glenn Miller .
22 In reality , the squabble is more over slogans and symbols left over from the Reagan years than anything substantial .
23 They are sometimes acidic to neutralise any alkaline residues carried over from the washing process and sometimes include disinfectants .
24 Commodities which travelled in the opposite direction were salt , which came by sea from Cyprus , the Greek islands and Albania , and which was distributed by means of pack animals to Bosnia and Serbia ; and cereals brought in from the Aegean , Cyprus , Asia Minor and Sicily , and used mainly for local consumption .
25 As we went to press , DEC was getting ready to set up nine new business units as part of its reorganization struggle , some of them reportedly headed by leaders brought in from the outside and others have yet to be chosen .
26 The Davidians split off from the Sabbath Day Adventist church in the nineteen thirties .
27 Sets left over from the space ship in ‘ The Sensorites ’ were re-used for the interiors of crashed British Rocket Ship 201 , while Tristram Cary 's musique concrète from ‘ The Daleks ’ got its second airing as well .
28 ‘ We need to face the frustrations left over from the second world war ’ , he says .
29 But though the machinery of government is developing in this direction , there is insufficient willingness to face the facts , to give up some of the pretences left over from the old period of vigorous , participatory democracy in order to remove the anomalies and rationalize the system .
30 Yeah we 've got loads left over from the funeral .
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