Example sentences of "[vb pp] from the [noun] 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 | Jack Heinz and I thought as one : that if the drawings could be housed in a Portman Square modernised for fire and climate control , and have the financial burden lifted from the shoulders of the RIBA , this would allow for spatial manoeuvre in Portland Place . |
| 6 | It was as if a great burden had been lifted from the shoulders of the people . |
| 7 | Nothing should be done to further trade with the Iranian Government until that fatwa is lifted from the shoulders of Salman Rushdie . |
| 8 | Electrical fittings , apparently lifted from the set of Terry Gillam 's Brazil , fizzed in gloomy corners . |
| 9 | The dry store at Torness , on which a decision is awaited from the Secretary of State for Scotland , should also help reduce costs . |
| 10 | We have two wonderful prizes of bedroom furniture to be won from the top of Ducal 's range . |
| 11 | It 's been all downhill since he was wrenched from the helm of Private Eye by his homuncular protégé Ian Hislop . |
| 12 | Working class intellectuals have often come from the ranks of printers in the past , but it is rare to find one such who like Jean Henderson was a woman . |
| 13 | Maj. Joseph Michel François , acknowledged by diplomats to have been a ringleader , insisted to foreign journalists that the main impetus had come from the ranks of the 8,000-strong army who feared the growing influence of Aristide 's new foreign-trained 50-member presidential guard . |
| 14 | Also , their inmates may often have come from the ranks of the noble and landowning class . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Did the new scheme come from the philosophy of government 's financial managers to save money rather than from the YTP providers themselves ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | To-day a wild letter had come from the wife of one who refused subordinate office which will give me a sleepless night . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The vivid illustrations in the Blue Books of the 1840s could as well have come from the mines of Shropshire in 1770 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | From the angle at which the bullet had penetrated the keg it had to have come from the direction of the shed . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Further evidence of immune mediation has come from the finding of circulating , non-organ specific and organ specific antibodies . |
| 27 | Therefore , if the dust ages are correct then little of it could have come from the sort of rocks found in the lunar samples . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He called for ‘ democracy through good behaviour ’ , a maxim that could have come from the mouth of Chairman Mao . |