Example sentences of "[vb past] from a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Direct exports by OPEC national oil companies rose from a negligible proportion of production within the area to some 50–55 per cent over the course of the 1970s . |
| 2 | Then she lit him up the stairs , and went before him into the panelled solar , where Rhodri rose from a tall chair by the fire to receive him . |
| 3 | As the two girls entered , a man rose from a deep armchair , and Sophie looked at him with interest . |
| 4 | He rose from a cushioned wicker chair as soon as he saw her and came to take the tray , saying , ‘ You 're Belinda , of course . |
| 5 | The dumpy woman went bustling into a large stone flagged kitchen where a great fire flamed in an open fireplace and the smell of roasting meat rose from a thick flank of beef on a spit . |
| 6 | Inside , a grand and generous staircase rose from a pale stone flagged hall patterned with black stone diamonds . |
| 7 | Son of a postal worker and trained as a car body builder , Floirat rose from a humble upbringing to become a major industrialist nicknamed ‘ man with the golden fingers ’ for his financial expertise . |
| 8 | In the presence of H pylori , the median G17 concentration rose from a basal value of 6 pmol/l ( <2.4–25 ) to 43 pmol/l ( 9–95 ) ( p<0.0001 ) at 20 minute postprandially , and after eradication rose from <2.4 pmol/l ( <2.4-23 ) to 17 pmol/l ( <2.4–52 ) ( p<0.0001 ) . |
| 9 | Corbett returned to his cell , carefully bolted the door and drew from a large leather pouch , parchment , pumice-stone , inkhorn , quill pens , a long thin razor-edged knife and a wad of red sealing-wax . |
| 10 | In Edna O'Brien 's A Pagan Place , which followed Veterans at the Royal Court in 1972 , Eyre drew from a 16-year-old school girl called Veronica Quilligan , who had never acted before , a performance of exquisite subtlety and emotional truth . |
| 11 | Then , as slowly and deliberately as before , Macmillan drew from an inside pocket of his coat a smallish piece of paper and raised it to within a couple of inches of his right eye . |
| 12 | She drew from an enormous hold-all an array of archaeological cakes and buns , and displayed them with pride . |
| 13 | They ranged from a tiny mouse , with lifelike whiskers and a twitchy nose , to a metre-high Pied Piper , whose grin was so wickedly triumphant that she almost expected to see the children of Hamlin following behind . |
| 14 | Provision was patchy , and professional attitudes ranged from a sensitive understanding of the issues to the blandly ignorant . |
| 15 | These ranged from an economic blockade of Lithuania in April 1990 [ see pp. 37360-62 ] , and violent military intervention in the Baltics in January 1991 [ see pp. 37944-45 ] , through a continuing " battle of the laws " with the RFSFR , to efforts to mediate over or exploit inter-ethnic conflicts within and between seceding republics ( such as the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh and the South Ossetia dispute in Georgia — see p. 37971 ) . |
| 16 | Parry moved from a terraced house to a 15th-Century mansion in Kent and bought a Bentley for £81,000 cash . |
| 17 | She moved from a successful career in London to set up an events-arranging company in Liverpool back in 1989 . |
| 18 | We referred in Section 9.6.1 to the growing current account deficit of the USA , and Table 9.2 shows this clearly : it moved from a current account surplus of $6.9 billion in 1981 to a deficit of $ 154 billion in 1987 . |
| 19 | ‘ In the space of two years , we moved from a domestic merchant bank with 500 people , all of whom knew each other very well , to an organisation with nearly 3,000 people spread all over the world , ’ says Mr Reed . |
| 20 | Expect laughter and tears all the way through this spicy tale of highbrow Alice Potter divorced from an infamous husband , and now pursued by the Press gang . |
| 21 | Giray publicly attributed his resignation to personal differences with Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut , but sources within the ruling Motherland Party claimed that it stemmed from a factional rift concerning the organization of delegate elections for the party congress due in January 1991 . |
| 22 | Arguments in favour of freeing the press stemmed from a real experience of repression . |
| 23 | The concept stemmed from a great warrior of the past and tales of his valour and achievements becoming adorned with colourful details and highly magnified by constant telling . |
| 24 | The idea stemmed from a EC-approved feasibility study last year , conducted by Arfon Borough Council , to develop the Glyn Rhonwy site at Llanberis into a bio-technology park . |
| 25 | First , the premise is that natural justice stemmed from a judicial desire to maintain control over adjudication and to impose its own procedures on those subject to its control . |
| 26 | The assigning of Christopher Barry to direct the first Dalek serial stemmed from a direct invitation by Verity Lambert to do so . |
| 27 | How far Outram 's hostility to Bradwell stemmed from a feminist critique of his chauvinist behaviour , how far from the conflicting claims of expert and parent is impossible to say . |
| 28 | Such lack of interest in any active Turkish diplomatic relationship with the European states stemmed from a deap-seated view of the world . |
| 29 | Her alarm , it was patently obvious to her now , stemmed from a basic instinct of knowing that she was going to end up hurting inside . |
| 30 | Alexander 's campaigns resulted in a blending of the purer Greek form of art and architecture with the ideas on construction , function and ornament which stemmed from a Greek Empire greatly extended towards , and influenced from , the east . |