Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [art] [adj -est] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spoken language interpreting , because it takes place only in one medium ( i.e. sound ) , ensures that two languages can not be mixed directly , and the use of an interlanguage is discouraged from the earliest stages of language learning . |
| 2 | When Black Jock protested loyalty to the Crown and his native land , and offered to carry out any raid James might choose in England , he and his followers were summarily hanged from the nearest trees . |
| 3 | Endowments dated from the earliest days of England 's Christian history and compulsory Church Rates were no longer being levied throughout the Kingdom . |
| 4 | Children are prepared from the earliest years to move through a tightly controlled educational system . |
| 5 | There is an opportunity for a subsequent improvement , if the system is freed from the worst effects of political interference , which should be made more explicit . |
| 6 | The main course should be a robust dish with a good rich sauce made from the finest ingredients ; crisp onions or shallots , a strong stock or glace de viande and , most important of all , good wine . |
| 7 | The best wines are made from the highest vines northwest of Grauves , which grow up to a height of 220 metres , and from those in an east-facing gulley , south-west of the village . |
| 8 | Situated in Mayfair , directly across the park from her own house , its clients were drawn from the highest echelons of society . |
| 9 | They had been selected from a pile of ‘ sets ’ which the Second Son had gleaned from the finest merchants in Abu Dhabi and brought to the Sheikha . |
| 10 | WATER-BASED PAINTING mediums have been used from the earliest times by artists . |
| 11 | While Britain has borne the brunt of the economic crisis , Northern Ireland has been cushioned from the worst effects . |
| 12 | And ten years later the Mantuan composer Alessandro Striggio ( c. 1535–c. 1595 ) , in order to hold together the forty parts of his four-choir motet ‘ Ecce beatam lucem ’ , devised a bassone or ‘ general bass ’ ‘ extracted from the lowest voices , to be played in the middle of the circle [ of performers ] by a trombone for the sustaining of the harmony with organ , lute and cembali or viols ’ . |
| 13 | These were military followers apparently of considerable social status and influence , though probably to be distinguished from the greatest magnates of the realm , many of whom had military followings of their own , and might be expected to fight for the king both inside and outside his kingdom . |
| 14 | Avocado , pineapple , coconut and kiwi-fruit , water melon , lychees and other exotic delicacies — all flown from the furthest corners of the globe to quench our insatiable Western appetite for the unfamiliar . |
| 15 | By the late 1980s such excesses had been banished from the best classrooms ; the teachers in my Group all acknowledged the need for a sensible balance in the class-room between the formal and the informal . |
| 16 | Specialist Old Testament study has long answered this question by saying that we have differing traditions of the early history of the people of God : one tradition in which the divine name was known from the earliest times , and another — contradictory — tradition that it was first revealed to Moses . |
| 17 | After burial , bones are protected from the worst effects of weathering , but they may still be subjected to corrosion by soil or sediment . |
| 18 | protected from the worst effects of the weather ; and |
| 19 | Colchester has been protected from the worst effects of the cuts because of forward planning , he says . |
| 20 | Somebody with a £100,000 portfolio who deals £5,000-£10,000 worth of stock at a time will be protected from the worst stocks , doubly so if he is lucky enough to be in the hands of a dealer with a longer-term commitment to his profession than average . |
| 21 | The tone had been set from the earliest days of the BBC . |
| 22 | The remaining three thousand million years or so have been taken up by the slow process of biological evolution , which has led from the simplest organisms to beings who are capable of measuring time back to the big bang . |
| 23 | The P-51s and P-47s in Japan were being replaced by jets ; these might be obsolescent viewed from the highest standards but they were acceptable enough in Korea . |
| 24 | Close affiliative relations between firms are not confined to single level subcontracting but are typical of a hierarchical network of connections at several stages removed from the largest firms . |
| 25 | Here also , as we have seen , the sources of the greenstone were far removed from the densest areas of settlement and the material could be obtained by the inhabitants of the North Island only by more or less hazardous routes . |
| 26 | JPs were for the most part recruited from the greatest landowners in a county , although commissions of the peace often included a few of the humbler type , possibly men with a legal background who were appointed to do the chores . |
| 27 | The weird genre is one of the richest in science , including such gems as Von Daniken 's Chariots of the Gods ( extraterrestrial astronauts seeding the Earth with intelligent life ) and Branko Bokun 's Man the Fallen Ape ( humans are the result of interbreeding between chimpanzees and orang-utans and have evolved from the laziest apes ) . |