Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Technically , it is on commercial grounds , and they can not recoup the money made from the everyday operation of the reactor to pay for the refurbishment of the reactor , that is true . |
| 2 | The sum of £250 had been borrowed from Joseph Barnard , the treasurer , to make good the actual deficiency which ‘ had not arisen from any defect or negligence whatever in the management of the institution , but on the contrary arose from the great success of the Infirmary and the high reputation it had acquired , so that the number of patients had increased rapidly ’ . |
| 3 | No sound of any kind rose from the hot deserted streets — no traffic noise , no hustle of people , no children , no animals . |
| 4 | Most of her life was spent pushing barges loaded with silt dredged from the narrow canals around Birmingham . |
| 5 | Some of these are essentially historical : the interest developed in part as a reaction or antidote to Chomsky 's treatment of language as an abstract device , or mental ability , dissociable from the uses , users and functions of language ( an abstraction that Chomsky in part drew from the post-Bloomfieldian structuralism that predominated immediately before transformational generative grammar ) . |
| 6 | There were reports that Iraq had received another Russian system , the SS-21 , though specialist circles are uncertain about this and arrival was not independently confirmed — perhaps the confusion arose from the last digits of the SS-12 having been inverted . |
| 7 | Thick , sluggish blood seeped from the great jagged holes where his arms and legs had been and , with them , a watery pus . |
| 8 | The main thrust for use of videos as an aid came from the three Welsh areas — just under three-quarters seeing it as an aid that could improve training . |
| 9 | The softly spoken command came from the third man , who had remained silent until now . |
| 10 | Part of the confusion came from the unworthy pleasure given him by the prospect of holding onto his ward a little longer . |
| 11 | The biggest Nazi vote came from the rural districts , and the lowest came from urban areas , where the SPD , KPD and DNVP were still firmly based . |
| 12 | The doors stayed open but no murmur came from the other room . |
| 13 | In the UNIP contest for the 1979 presidential nomination , when both Kapwepwe and Nkumbula challenged him , Kaunda showed that he was not prepared to tolerate any real alternative to himself , even when the bid came from the two most experienced politicians in the country . |
| 14 | Dusky light came from the two small front windows between the toothed leaves of nettles . |
| 15 | The study was empty ; the light came from the adjacent room . |
| 16 | Apart from the lamps that gave a yellow glow to the leaves , the only light came from the big windows of the Communist club which was packed on both floors , its discotheque going full swing . |
| 17 | The only light came from the big fire . |
| 18 | All the doors off it had been closed , and the only light came from the open archways at its beginning and end . |
| 19 | The impetus for this study came from the disastrous upsurge in the levels of these diseases , particularly gonorrhoea , which was increasing at 10 to 15 per cent . |
| 20 | A hole in the wall , through which light shone from the next room . |
| 21 | A larger lineage evolved from the small Triassic bipedal herbivores . |
| 22 | When he looked at you it was as if an icy wind blew from the far north . |
| 23 | Pulses of laser light streamed from the right-hand passage and blasted white-hot holes in the opposite wall . |
| 24 | The ‘ enhanced Programme resulted from the 1978 Inner Urban Areas Act , based on a White Paper , published the previous year , on Policy for the Inner Cities ( DoE , 1977 ) , the first comprehensive policy statement on the subject to acknowledge it as a definable and cohesive problem . |
| 25 | A police car emerged from the other alleyway and screeched to a halt ten yards in front of Whitlock , blocking his shot . |
| 26 | But yesterday the horse ran from the little known stable of Roger Ingram . |
| 27 | Blood burst from the shattered digit and Benton screamed again . |
| 28 | Blood gushed from the open orifice . |
| 29 | The Admiralty had from the first a ‘ prize ’ jurisdiction , i.e. a jurisdiction to determine all questions as to the ownership of ships and goods captured at sea by a belligerent . |
| 30 | The fighting spread from the two helpless ships to the third rammed behind them , now cramped fast with a grappling-iron and rocking with incomers from the two dying vessels ahead . |