Example sentences of "[vb pp] from a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To defend their installed bases , equipment manufacturers , Input says , are responding to the trend by offering a growing portfolio of productised services which can be picked and mixed from a catalogue of traditional and new services . |
| 2 | If he needs lifting , he is likely to need a commode , unless there is enough room around the toilet to allow for him to be lifted from a wheelchair to the toilet seat . |
| 3 | A SCHOOLBOY had to be lifted from a ravine after plunging 100 ft on a four-wheeled motor buggy and breaking his leg . |
| 4 | If you are a gold fanatic , keep a look out for Sotheby 's mountain of coins , ingots and doubloons lifted from a shipwreck off Montevideo , Uruguay . |
| 5 | Although the viewer 's eye is won from a consideration of material possessions to the contemplation of transcendent values , it is ‘ things ’ themselves which , properly understood , call his attention to this higher truth . |
| 6 | On arriving at Luxeuil amid the wild beauty of the Vosges mountains , the volunteers who had come from a year in the trenches with the Legion or from the spartan discomfort of the Ambulance Service , thought that life was almost too good to be true . |
| 7 | It turned out to have come from a machine in a nearby corridor . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , master , ’ I neighed , ‘ I 've come from a country on the other side of the world . |
| 9 | However , three quarters of the fall in total mortality since 1970 has come from a reduction in deaths attributed to diseases of the circulatory system ( figure ) . |
| 10 | A court has been told that the idea for an elaborate murder plot , in which a couple were pushed over a cliff in a blazing car , may have come from a film on satellite television . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've just come from a session with Gladys Brown , a strange woman who has the room next to Meryl Armitage 's . |
| 12 | Funding has come from a variety of sources including the Wolfson Foundation and Charitable Trust , the Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund , the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers of London , the British Glass Education Trust and private donations . |
| 13 | Loans have come from a variety of country houses such as Nostell Priory , Goodwood , Saltram , Ickworth and Burghley House and are fairly evenly divided between portraits and classical mythology ; frequently both are combined . |
| 14 | Those taking part come from a variety of backgrounds and have spent several months or in some cases years receiving instruction in the faith , usually as part of a parish group . |
| 15 | The group come from a range of disciplines — ceramics , jewellery , fibre arts , silversmithing , product design , paper and glass making — and will be examining world-renowned Danish design . |
| 16 | Layered bodies of rock , such as might have come from a succession of lava flows , are rare on the Moon , and those observed might be the result of other processes , such as impacts . |
| 17 | Pressure has come from a number of sources in the economic , political , social and legal environment , and there is survey evidence to demonstrate a growth in the number of consultative committees now in operation . |
| 18 | The angular , and in the case of the three women at the extreme left and right of the Demoiselles , rather ‘ faceted ’ appearance of the figures , and the heavy , chalky highlights found in certain parts of the drapery could well have come from a study of El Greco 's work . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've just come from a meeting with Bobby Anscombe . |
| 20 | His instructions had come from a book by Seve Ballesteros called Natural Golf . |
| 21 | PC Fishwick said it is likely the ties have come from a shop in the North-East or North Yorkshire . |
| 22 | Since the particles emitted by a black hole come from a region of which the observer has very limited knowledge , he can not definitely predict the position or the velocity of a particle or any combination of the two ; all he can predict is the probabilities that certain particles will be emitted . |
| 23 | It had come from a chateau outside Paris , as had some of the other beauties . |
| 24 | The order , put at about £500m , was reported to have come from a group of British fund managers acting through Barclays Bank in London . |
| 25 | The major contribution to informed debate about the search for sites for the disposal of nuclear wastes has come from a group of geographers ( Openshaw et al. 1989 ) and a GIS approach to this problem can pay high dividends . |
| 26 | After a few minutes , his breathing quickened and he started making noises that might have come from a monkey-house at feeding time . |
| 27 | Well firstly the bill did n't have that rough a passage in the House of Lords , because there are only two basic amendments , er that we 're dealing with in the House of Commons that matter , and one of them is the one you 've just mentioned , the answer to it is this , er I 've had a lot of criticisms of giving B R the untrammelled right to bid , er right from the outset their criticisms to do with the danger that you would n't get competition for the franchises the private sector would be afraid , and incidentally this is not a sell off it 's it 's a way of getting the private sector into British Rail with all the advantages that brings , they would be afraid that they would face subsidized and unfair competition , above all , perhaps , British Rail ge=management would feel if they were bidding against their employer that would be a real discouragement to bid , and we 've a lot of evidence er that they feel that and that there are many who do wish to bid in management/employee buy outs , so what we 've done in the amendment is we 've preserved the right for British Rail to bid , but we 've dealt with those criticisms and worries which have come from a lot of quarters not least from within British Rail itself . |
| 28 | Part of this has come from an influx of retired people , and it has therefore accentuated the already very unbalanced age composition of the population resulting from the emigration of the younger people . |
| 29 | Essentially identical results have come from an experiment by Hall and Honey ( 1989 a ) , which used quite different procedures . |
| 30 | But as the Zurich-bound Boeing 727 of Libyan Arab Airlines headed towards Italian airspace , two F104 fighters scrambled from a base in Sicily to intercept it . |