Example sentences of "[vb pp] from an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interim dividend is being lifted from an adjusted 2.7p to 3.02p on June 18 . |
| 2 | Any radical critic of society has always come from an unattached group of artists and intellectuals . |
| 3 | Comparable units in the two ranges seem to have come from an oceanic trough that was torn apart and thrust in opposite directions . |
| 4 | I knew then that it was more inspiring than if the sound had come from an orphean bird . |
| 5 | Darwin at the end of one of his books wrote that according to the unchanging world of his critics , there had been the fall of man into sinfulness and mankind were forever doomed to hopelessness , whereas in his ( Darwin 's ) theory of evolution , man had come from an inferior form , and because of this continuous progress , he commands a limitless potential . |
| 6 | The observation of the Great Wall has come from an ambitious project to map the positions of all visible galaxies which are brighter than a specified minimum . |
| 7 | All the same , the feather in his pocket could hardly have come from an imaginary swan . |
| 8 | A sample weighing about 30 mg is drilled from an inconspicuous area of the object , usually the base . |
| 9 | Car 7 , as rebuilt from an open-sided car , at Layton terminus . |
| 10 | The reaction of the locals varied from an ill-concealed smirk to a barely suppressed guffaw . |
| 11 | The scientists measured concentrations of CFC-11 and CFC-12 , the two most important ozone destroyers , at locations in both the northern and southern hemispheres and found that the growth rate for CFC-11 concentrations dropped from an annual average of 11 parts per trillion from 1985-88 to 3 parts per trillion in 1993 . |
| 12 | We have been programmed from an early age to rush our activities and are only interested in the end product . |
| 13 | These beautiful landscapes can be enjoyed from an unrivalled footpath network from short walks to the popular 28 mile Leland Trail — all described in excellent walking guides . |
| 14 | Middle-class Edinburgh lads like myself are discouraged from an early age from being physical unless they 're wearing rugby shorts at the time . |
| 15 | Women are educated from an early age to distrust strangers , to avoid lonely places , to return home when it is light or to be accompanied when it is dark . |
| 16 | The allegations against Sessions , which related to the misuse of government cars and aircraft and were claimed to have originated from an anonymous letter , were widely denounced as having been politically inspired in an attempt to intimidate the FBI and discredit its inquiry . |
| 17 | The highest level of verbal information that can reasonably be expected from an automatic tagger is the transitivity of the verb . |
| 18 | He did not elaborate on the usual roles played by a king 's sons , who in fact were expected from an early age to join in their father 's business , as envoys and generals , counsellors as long as they remained in their father 's household , and rulers of sub-kingdoms as and when regna were available . |
| 19 | This is serious stuff , as might be expected from an American editor who writes Bob Dylan reference books , but there are enough gems to counterbalance the struggle to forge a rock aesthetic . |
| 20 | Currently , extensive areas of Europe and eastern North America are experiencing average pH values of less than 4.5 and even less than 4.0 This represents precipitation acidity up to 30–40 times that which would be expected from an unpolluted atmosphere ( figure 4.3 ) . |
| 21 | A similar issue expected from an office-automation manufacturer , Ricoh , was also abandoned . |
| 22 | Cattle were rescued from an adjoining building . |
| 23 | It 's Aunt Becky , who wants to be rescued from an undiluted dose of Minna . |
| 24 | Flora sat in the kitchen , laboriously practising chain stitch on a rag torn from an old shirt of Peter 's , and Anna , who was in charge of the cleaning-rota , went off to the church to see if it actually had been cleaned . |
| 25 | That opened into a hallway with a huge open staircase , almost certainly pinched from an older house , and a reception desk . |
| 26 | This is mainly because salaries have not kept pace with the rise in house prices which , until this year 's slump , had more than tripled from an average £19,925 in 1979 to £61,965 by August this year , according to the Building Societies Association 's latest figures . |
| 27 | The hypothesis that NO or an NO-like substance is an enteric inhibitory neurotransmitter is based on the following evidence : ( 1 ) the enzyme responsible for NO production , NO synthase , has been shown within enteric neurons ; ( 2 ) NO is released onstimulation of enteric inhibitory NANC nerves , ; ( 3 ) there is a uniformity of action on gut smooth muscle when NO is applied from an exogenous source and when it is released by nerve stimulation ; and agents that inhibit or potentiate the effect of inhibitory nerve stimulation have a similar action on exogenously applied NO . |
| 28 | Since one of the major objectives of the White Paper is to increase the efficiency of the NHS , it is important that health care objectives are evaluated from an economic viewpoint and that monitoring arrangements are put in place to ensure that HAs and FPCs rise to the challenge . |
| 29 | Pupils are likely to be able to make more sense of symbolism if some work on metaphor is done from an early age . |
| 30 | The sample is being selected from an earlier survey which examined household structure , work and histories and current employment status . |