Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Odeon dominated from the highest point in Exeter , surrounded by terraced houses like regular furrows in a ploughed field . |
| 2 | It ran across three weekly issues , and was blatantly lifted from the big city papers and radio , but the editorial comment was strictly home town . |
| 3 | Next , a story lifted from the Daily Mail about Professor Jerrold Petrofsky 's work in Dayton , Ohio , and the hope it gave to the paralysed PC Philip Olds . |
| 4 | INXS : ‘ Taste It ’ third single lifted from the Antipodean funk rockers ' Number One album ‘ Welcome To Wherever You Are ’ . |
| 5 | A survey of 35 countries with interim reporting regulations indicated that of those requiring only semi-annual interim reports , the average maximum period permitted from the interim date to publication of the interim report was 108 days . |
| 6 | The ‘ rule of thirds ’ has been treated as the standard method of division , but other arrangements were sometimes made which might reflect the contractor 's view of the likely profits to be won from a particular campaign . |
| 7 | More often than not Ma starts me off only to leave me stranded above the waterdragon with my–backside wedged into the Young Person 's Patent Toilet Seat Adaptor ( another trophy won from the WI jumble by Pa ) . |
| 8 | Jan Fischer produced a transporter that might well have come from a professional machine shop . |
| 9 | The material with which a major museum has to deal , both within its own collections and on offer to it , will have come from a wide variety of sources . |
| 10 | Although much research , comment and controversy have focussed on the population of North African origin , immigrants in fact come from a wide variety of sources both within and outside Europe . |
| 11 | Those who have been successful in their applications to the GEP have come from a wide range of backgrounds . |
| 12 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 13 | They have come from a war-ravaged country where their parents or friends have thought the best thing to do is to get them on a plane to some safer place . |
| 14 | I stopped wearing Tampax ( cotton wool pricks ) , and I stopped eating meat in case the chunk of sizzling corpse I was about to sit down to had come from a male animal . |
| 15 | Had the plea come from a budding starlet or perhaps an Italian supermodel , Jagger would have tripped over his lips in an effort to scrawl his name — and perhaps his phone number — in her book for posterity . |
| 16 | You do risk crackles and pops , but many will have come from a good home — and you can always get them washed . |
| 17 | Some scholars think that the infancy stories in Luke 's Gospel come from a separate source . |
| 18 | Pluralist approaches , on the other hand , stress that the types of pressures on government come from a wider array of different types of interests . |
| 19 | The South Americans have come from a five-nation tournament in Hamburg , where they beat Spain 2-1 and lost to Australia 3-2 . |
| 20 | Its name come from a Gaelic word Lagh which meant Law — Mountain of Lawgiving . |
| 21 | In role the teacher enters as a traveller to tell them that she has come from a neighbouring village , where Roman soldiers are delivering a decree that all will have to pay a new tax ; the traveller has to go on her way . |
| 22 | Those who have come from a joint family in India , Pakistan or Bangladesh to live alone with their husbands in Britain suffer most . |
| 23 | The most elaborate shells in the collections held in the British Museum ( Natural History ) have come from a sub-littoral population of Rhoscolyn ( Anglesey ) . |
| 24 | She broke down and wept bitterly when Wexford told her that that her husband 's supplementary income had come from a criminal source . |
| 25 | She claimed to have come from a different school but her story somehow did n't ring true . |
| 26 | Later it was revealed that the money had come from a different source . |
| 27 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 28 | The idea had come from a short documentary I saw years ago called Werner Herzog Eats His Show . |
| 29 | From the spot in the hedgerow where the four German soldiers had come from a white flag tied to a long piece of wood had suddenly appeared . |
| 30 | The information had come from a reliable source and they had no reason to doubt it . |