Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] from the " in BNC.

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1 I am also grateful to the Friends of St Cecilia 's Hall and the Russell Collection for a grant I received from the J. J. K. Rhodes Bursary Fund towards the research for this paper .
2 ‘ But all I needed to do was look at the support I got from the club and the fans when we were at the bottom last season .
3 So anyway I got to and I was amazed at the opposition I got from the two or three staff shunters at .
4 The declining historical significance of nationalism is today concealed not only by the visible spread of ethnic/linguistic agitations , but also by the semantic illusion which derives from the fact that all states are today officially ‘ nations ’ , though many of them patently have nothing in common with what the term ‘ nation-state ’ is commonly held to mean ; that therefore all movements seeking to win independence think of themselves as establishing nations even when they are patently not doing so ; and that centralisation and state bureaucracy will , if they possibly can , put on the fashionable national costume .
5 Prevailing winds from the north-east ( the Trade Winds ) very occasionally bring a leste , a hot , dry wind which blows from the desert areas of North Africa .
6 The logical alternative was to promote the " ministerial " principle by strengthening the chain of command which led from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the provincial governors .
7 A creature appeared , a lion , red and huge , bounding up the narrow winding streets of Edinburgh , splashing through rivers of blood which poured from the castle .
8 Enlightenment comes through spiritual perception which results from the work of the Holy Spirit in the individual 's life ( 1 Cor.
9 the discontinuity which results from the interval between meetings and constant changes in the membership of the relevant study-group or working-party .
10 The dilemma which arose from the modern sculptor , was summed up by Marion Spielmann in British Sculptors and Sculptors of Today ( 1901 ) ‘ The present aim is to give life without actual realism — a suggestion of reality shrouded in poetry and grace … our artists understand that if the figures are to be more like the human form the statues must be unconscious of their absence of drapery as though they were symbols — which indeed they are ’ .
11 They ‘ pryed into the recesses ’ of the brook which flowed from the waterfall , then followed a lonely road next to the Glen through a woodland of beeches , oaks , and holly , where sheep from the Quantocks and fallow deer moved in the evening light .
12 In effect the proposal for future review which emerged from the 1983–84 visits anticipated what the Polytechnic achieved through accreditation by the Council from 1 April 1988 .
13 This it was willing to do , for although ‘ not specifically guaranteed by the Constitution , the right of privacy is one of the fundamental personal rights of the citizen which flows from the … democratic nature of the State ’ .
14 The power of the kick comes not from any knee snap , but from the line of tension which runs from the lower back the whole length of the right leg .
15 Dalgliesh was aware of the heightening tension : small individual tremors of anxiety which shivered on the still , sea-scented air , unified and focused on the car door and on the tall figure which unwound from the driver 's seat , leapt easily over the low stone wall and walked deliberately across the courtyard towards them .
16 The move to develop justiciable and acceptable rules for the control of armed conflict is simply one aspect of the programme for using international law to control force which follows from the approach of ethical positivism .
17 Then she stood up and without a backward glance she walked from the cafeteria .
18 The film is about a murdered rock musician who returns from the dead and , quoting lines from Edgar Allan Poe , seeks revenge .
19 The card you get from the man says that if you get into arrears you have to pay extra interest , but it does n't say how much .
20 Between 1960 and the early 1970s the share of manufacturing industry in employment in Britain decreased and the total labour force itself declined from the mid 1960s .
21 A quick glance at her watch showed that she would have time for a short walk outside before dinner , and with this in mind she sprang from the bed and raked a comb through her hair .
22 The main conclusion about education and employment was that purely educational aims came first : schools should not prepare pupils for particular types of employment ; industry itself benefited from the teaching and learning of basic educational skills .
23 He would go on sleeping badly , and opening people 's luggage , and given great luck he would even keep on living with Sam , though it was difficult to imagine that she would seriously consent to give up such a trophy , however little genuine pleasure she had from the child .
24 Requisitioned by the Home Office at the start of the Second World War the Manor provided accommodation for the Canadian Air Force who flew from the nearby air base of RAF Linton .
25 Vale dominated the first 45 minutes against a Stockport side they dismissed from the second division play-off last Wednesday .
26 Back in the forest the Doctor discovers the Daleks have taken the piece he sabotaged from the TARDIS .
27 and I bi , you know that big loft I helped get the , get the la big lathe he bought from the
28 To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what revenue he expects from the proceeds of privatisation for the period of the public expenditure survey .
29 In fact , James II fell only because of the opposition he met from the Tory-Anglican interest , and although most Tory Anglicans were determined to prevent the Revolution from running the full course that it did , the eventual constitutional settlement was in much greater concordance with their principles than historians have usually recognised .
30 It should not be despised , Bombay talkies , any more than Mizoguchi despised the melodrama he took from the Kabuki theatre .
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