Example sentences of "[vb pp] from the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flowered Up 's next single , ‘ Take It ’ , includes lyrics lifted from the soundtrack of Rude Boy , The Clash 's on-the-road movie . |
| 2 | Large , brightly coloured and apparently celebratory , they have been developed from the découpages of Matisse , but are , on closer inspection , altogether less tasteful , with their short , smutty messages lifted from the scribble of a toilet door . |
| 3 | That is when all limits are lifted from the amount of alcohol and tobacco that can be brought into the country from Europe for personal use . |
| 4 | But it was equally likely that truly dreadful things were wiped away , which was why she had no recollection of being lifted from the wreckage of the vehicle in which her parents had died . |
| 5 | Electrical fittings , apparently lifted from the set of Terry Gillam 's Brazil , fizzed in gloomy corners . |
| 6 | The dry store at Torness , on which a decision is awaited from the Secretary of State for Scotland , should also help reduce costs . |
| 7 | We have two wonderful prizes of bedroom furniture to be won from the top of Ducal 's range . |
| 8 | It 's been all downhill since he was wrenched from the helm of Private Eye by his homuncular protégé Ian Hislop . |
| 9 | The initiative has come from the order of Irish Dominican monks who live at San Clemente , and particularly from Father Leonard Boyle , prefect of the Vatican Library and former member of the community . |
| 10 | Did the new scheme come from the philosophy of government 's financial managers to save money rather than from the YTP providers themselves ? |
| 11 | Further support for this concept has recently come from the work of Iftikhar et al who showed higher concentrations of bile in oesophageal aspirates from patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus . |
| 12 | We learned soon that the money for Frank had come from the wife of our new romantic juvenile , Laurence Wheldon , a blonde and willowy man whose good looks far exceeded his acting powers but whose wife 's money was underwriting the company , to say nothing of her husband 's ambitions . |
| 13 | To-day a wild letter had come from the wife of one who refused subordinate office which will give me a sleepless night . |
| 14 | A potential complication of the analysis could have come from the influence of the partner on the pulsar , had it been comparable with our Sun in size as well as in mass . |
| 15 | Wade goes further and questions , on the basis of American administrative history , the claim that bureaucratic growth has come from the expansion of established agencies . |
| 16 | Strong , virile performances of two of the finest of all Tudor settings of the Mass come from the choir of St John 's College Cambridge on a label not normally associated with early music , mid-price EMI Eminence . |
| 17 | From the angle at which the bullet had penetrated the keg it had to have come from the direction of the shed . |
| 18 | The red-haired woman in the house next door most certainly heard it , and hurried to another upstairs window to look out the back , for the cry seemed to have come from the yard of her neighbour 's house . |
| 19 | Further evidence of immune mediation has come from the finding of circulating , non-organ specific and organ specific antibodies . |
| 20 | Therefore , if the dust ages are correct then little of it could have come from the sort of rocks found in the lunar samples . |
| 21 | With regard to complaints about housing , of which I have many from my constituents , will my hon. Friend confirm that if Labour-controlled Norwich city council were to adopt a more up-to-date approach to housing , co-operate properly with housing associations and take advantage of the various initiatives that have come from the Department of the Environment , it would be better for housing in my constituency and better for my constituents ? |
| 22 | It would seem that we now have four hundred thousand pounds available that was n't apparent before , and that 's come from the Department of the Environment , and that is enough for me to say well , we 've got something out of it , it was n't a fiasco or a waste of time and now I can rejoin the Conservative group with some degree of credibility . |
| 23 | He called for ‘ democracy through good behaviour ’ , a maxim that could have come from the mouth of Chairman Mao . |
| 24 | forging ahead has come from the use of that word in relation to horses . |
| 25 | And as for Tommy 's death , what proof had he that one stray bullet among so many had come from the pistol of Captain Trentham ? |
| 26 | All but three of the 34 residents at the Victoria Residential Home on Barton Street have come from the collection of buildings which make up Aycliffe Hospital . |
| 27 | The sale of council houses has produced substantial capital receipts , and smaller amounts have come from the sale of other assets . |
| 28 | An increasing share of overseas earnings over the last 20 years has come from the sale of the dwindling assets of oil and natural gas . |
| 29 | Not a word of condemnation of that disgraceful position has come from the Leader of the Opposition , who is sponsored by that union , or from the shadow spokesman on employment , who is also sponsored by that union , or by any of the renegade crew who man the Labour Front Bench . |
| 30 | The contenders for a tribe 's leadership come from the group of especially large Orcs known as Big'uns — the closest that Orcs get to a ruling class . |