Example sentences of "[v-ing] from [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bring history leaping from the pages of those boring , old textbooks — Battle of Hastings , 1066 — Magna Carta , 1215 — Great Fire of London , 1666 . |
| 2 | Plagiarizing from the Miracles of St Martin at Tours , Breton produced material to turn Fulk into the conventional saintly layman who , assisting a leper , found that he had helped Christ . |
| 3 | Laughing from the depths of his shaking frame , he explained , ‘ Mollie Green . |
| 4 | The mist was shearing from the hillsides like a fleece , the air lightening and warming . |
| 5 | She proceeded to do this earnestly , seriously , and she sounded like an old steam-engine wheezing from the depths of the water ( that idyllic sound , now long forgotten , which to those who never knew it can be described in no better way than the wheezing of an old woman breathing in and out by the edge of a pool ) . |
| 6 | There is a real risk of mice , especially young animals , drowning or dying from the effects of a soaking if a bottle or nozzle of an automatic system leaks . |
| 7 | A survey by Germany 's Union for the Environment and Nature Protection recently found that two-thirds of the country 's trees were sick or dying from the effects of traffic and industrial fumes . |
| 8 | Louise Colet , striving for modernity in her poem ‘ La Paysanne ’ , allowed Jean , her soldier returning from the wars in search of his Jeanneton , to notice the running smoke of a train . |
| 9 | I got wearily to my feet , muscles aching from the effects of drink and walk . |
| 10 | Even the Emperor himself was struck by this outcry , for in the last remaining days of peace his every appearance on the streets , driving from the Tuileries to Saint Cloud , provoked cries of ‘ A bas la Prusse ! ’ , |
| 11 | Ladies , two , with ample flesh flapping from the bones of their legs spread themselves thickly on the tube train seat and gather in their posh polythene well-advertised shopping receptacles like a doting mother with five children . |
| 12 | He returned to find the Cross of St George still flapping from the walls of Famagusta and nothing obviously changed except the weather , which would , of course , put out the slow-matches and the fire-missiles and make it increasingly unlikely that the tower of Famagusta was going to prove combustible . |
| 13 | Top-quality diamonds , even small ones , are normally ‘ sourced ’ with a certificate when released to the trade by the Central Selling Organization which dominates the world diamond trade , handling over 85 per cent of stones passing from the mines to the trade . |
| 14 | With the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1537 , the wool trade underwent a notable change , passing from the abbeys to the towns and village markets . |
| 15 | And his voice befitted his size , a great hull bellow surging from the depths of his powerful chest and booming from his gaping jaws . |
| 16 | We seem somehow , to be shy of shouting from the rooftops of our many , many achievements over the years , here in the United Kingdom and overseas . |
| 17 | The all-seeing wood sandpipers were shouting from the tops of the willow trees in the marsh , vying with dusky or spotted redshanks as to who was sharpest at ‘ people-spotting ’ . |
| 18 | These are the affirmations that were being made as Jesus trotted in Jerusalem with this little donkey , his followers gathered all around him looking from the heights of the walls of Jerusalem , there must have been one or two curious , astonished , worried eyes , the Sanhedrin , the Chief Elders , |
| 19 | There were twelve other , small parties in the Bundestag , ranging from the Communists through the remnants of the old Christian Centre Party to the extreme right-wing Conservatives . |
| 20 | Its scope is enormous , ranging from the borders of biology to those of physics . |
| 21 | The scope , as indicated , may be very large , ranging from the borders of anaphora to issues of topic/comment structures . |
| 22 | There are many arthropods associated with human disease , ranging from the larvae of certain flies such as the ‘ Congo maggot ’ which are obligatory tissue parasites and eat away the flesh of an infested person , to the scorpion whose sting can cause serious illness and in some cases , particularly children , even death . |
| 23 | Lying awake in the room next to hers , the episode with the boy had kept recurring to him , the sweat running on the boy 's face and his hands protruding from the sleeves of the dog's-tooth suit and his voice making its extraordinary statements . |
| 24 | Delaney scrambled to his feet , lurching from the effects of shock and concussion , knowing only that he had to be sure ; had to see it dead . |
| 25 | Taking it up , and with no very clear idea of what she meant to do — apart from escaping from the humiliations to which she had been subjected — Theda crept out of the room , down two sets of stairs , and slunk past the open door of the coffee-room , where the landlord 's voice was joined to those of his wife and the gentleman . |
| 26 | Therefore any contractual clause exempting from the provisions of sections 13–15 will be effective provided it is shown to satisfy the requirement of reasonableness in the Unfair Contract Terms Act ( see paragraph 10–14 onwards ) . |
| 27 | A story of local democracy and participatory initiative dating from the reforms of the later 1880s came to its sad close . |
| 28 | The system is based on the view , dating from the days of elementary schools , that education is simple . |
| 29 | Look for the bullet holes in the tower dating from the days of the ‘ Roundheads ’ . |
| 30 | Prisons not only carry the weight of a bleak , punitive tradition dating from the days of the British , but the long years of neglect and lack of investment mean that any significant reforms demand a massive injection of resources . |