Example sentences of "[noun pl] is [verb] from [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Since some of what is in people 's heads is taken from social science , there is a complication worth mentioning at the start .
2 Yet despite similar tendencies elsewhere it does appear that conformity to company goals is demanded from Japanese workers to a greater extent .
3 At present , only a small part of the fuel used in tropical countries is taken from tropical rain forest , little of it from ‘ primary ’ forest .
4 In an attempt to account for some of the peculiarities of the sternopleural region , Ferris ( 1940 , etc. ) has argued that the greater part of the ventral side of the thorax of some insects is derived from pleural structures , but further critical study of his theory is necessary .
5 Thirdly , the limit for permitted extensions to industrial buildings is raised from 10 per cent to 20 per cent , subject to a maximum increase in floor area of 750 square metres ( instead of the previous 500 square metres ) .
6 Every object in these paintings is separated from those surrounding it by layers of tactile , visible space which enable the spectator 's eye to reach from one part of the canvas to another , from one object to another , by a series of clearly defined pictorial passages .
7 This collection of small oils , watercolours , and prints is drawn from one of the most varied and demanding bodies of work produced by a contemporary artist and serves as a valuable introduction to Gerhard Richter 's imagery .
8 The second feature which is of interest in Dworkin 's formulation is the way in which the content of rights is derived from two non-controversial ultimate moral principles .
9 7 This cream-coloured linen basket with pale blue stripes is made from plasticised cane .
10 A healthy contribution to company profits is coming from Bonded Developments Ltd. , a subsidiary set up to sell the Bonded Machine Worldwide .
11 The protection afforded by pellets has already been mentioned , and bone that is left in pellets or scats is protected from many modifying agents for as long as the pellets and scats remain intact .
12 A final list of key issues is prepared from all those suggestions put forward by the individual planners through informal discussions .
13 Most of the evidence for these legends is drawn from some rather vague references by the Greek historian Plato , in particular a passage in his Timaeus : ‘ But at a later time there occurred portentous earthquakes and floods , and one grievous day and night befell them when the whole body .
14 Most of the discussion in the following sections is taken from this article .
15 The disadvantage is that the number of horizontal cells is reduced from 760 , the number of ink dots that can be printed across one line , to 380 as two ink dots in the horizontal and vertical directions make one cell .
16 The recently discovered Aberfeldy stratabound exhalative deposit ( Coats and others , 1984b ; MRP 26 and 40 ) in Middle Dalradian sediments is producing from open pit and underground sources .
17 Fourth , the process of forming impressions is isolated from any other influences that might ordinarily affect our impressions .
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