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

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1 These South Slavs became separated from related groups in Poland , Czechoslovakia , Russia and the Ukraine by a wedge of non-Slavs — the Germans of Austria , the Romanians of Wallachia and the Magyars of Hungary .
2 He was either very lucky or very skilful , because although his techniques were primitive no one ever seemed to suffer from any complications .
3 The lead , believed to come from industrialised countries in the southern hemisphere , is at very low concentrations and does not pose a threat to living organisms .
4 So he , he thought he 'd do an experiment , er he took a small piece of radium which he 'd extracted from several tons of pitchblende and he put this bit of radium on his forearm and , and put a bandage round to hold it in place and left it there for a week and said right I 'll see what happens .
5 Nomes came running from all corners of the quarry .
6 When it came to planning , however , very little seemed to follow from these observations .
7 Fears grew for the tens of thousands of pelicans which are in danger of dying of thirst in Australia , as the country began recovering from devastating floods .
8 Thick , greasy black smoke began to pour from loosened fittings around the flight deck .
9 People began to move from rural areas into the new industrial towns .
10 Crudely put , authority and leadership began to move from traditional leaders , be they the old pro Jordanian élite or the post-1976 pro-PLO mayors ( most of whom had been eliminated by the authorities ) , into new but less visible hands .
11 Outside the mouth of the River Tay in Scotland , one out of three fish netted suffered from enlarged cells , a raspberry-shaped tumour which causes the skin to bulge .
12 Then I started buying from other dealers to satisfy demand .
13 Its management decided to start from first principles by developing critical success factors .
14 The two trade union confederations undertook to refrain from general strikes in return for minimum wage and unemployment benefit guarantees .
15 As a result a further five political parties decided to withdraw from legislative elections scheduled for Jan. 26 , bringing the number of parties boycotting the elections to 21 .
16 Stop ’ issued over the hedge and dogs started to bark from neighbouring gardens .
17 So , her mother started working from three patterns — one each for the bodice , skirt and train !
18 Employing with perfect ruthlessness his formidable resources of charm and persuasion , he managed to extract from all parties an affirmation of the desirability of Commonwealth membership .
19 With the more predatory species , like managuense , include meat with the diet , — earthworms , cooked chicken , prawns , grated beef heart , or even runted fry from other spawnings .
20 My hotel room was everything I knew to expect from previous sojourns in socialist Europe .
21 When I eventually did contact her things seemed to be going quite well due to supportive family but she felt isolated from other mothers in the same situation as herself .
22 He was sleepless , and kept suffering from deep depressions .
23 THE Union of Catholic Mothers , Lancaster Diocese , held their Annual Rally in the Parish of St. Maria Goretti , 125 members attended travelling from all parts of the Diocese .
24 He remembered the intense heat , the sunlight dancing off sword and dagger points , the roar of battle , the blood which pumped like a thousand fountains as men fell screaming from horrible wounds in head , body or thigh .
25 What the neo-Darwinists have in their favour is almost irrefutable evidence arising from recent advances in the techniques of molecular biology and genetic engineering which virtually prove that modern species did evolve from common ancestors .
26 The problems presented ranged from sexual problems within marriage to alcoholism , suicide , attempted suicide , indecent assault upon a child , physical violence between husband and wife , family breakdown , learning and behavioural problems of children ( eg sibling rivalry , stealing , incendiarism ) , terminal illness within the family and bereavement .
27 In apparent agreement with this idea , some subjects appeared to benefit from continual advances of their sleep/wake rhythm ( as though they were continually flying eastward ) or by being woken temporarily at about four o'clock in the morning to receive a burst of bright light for about an hour .
28 But both kings did benefit from public gatherings of bishops and great men , largely though not exclusively from within the duchy of Francia , on the model of the assembly Philip I had called to Orléans in 1077 .
29 It was suggested that the morale of Registry staff was low , and they appeared isolated from other parts of the departments with no appreciation of their role in terms of other functions , due to the lack of feedback about their performance in meeting the needs of the users .
30 I 'm afraid we have to accept the fact that Marius did die from natural causes , and that all our suspicions of Nigel have been slander , just based on dislike and nothing else . ’
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