Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] from [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 All MBDC meetings are sponsored and the Council is grateful for the ready support it has received from sponsors of individual meetings .
2 All MBDC meetings were sponsored and the Council is grateful for the ready support it has received from sponsors of individual meetings .
3 Union membership has fallen from 53% of workers in 1979 to 37% now .
4 Investment in public sector housing has fallen from 27% of total dwelling investment in 1979 to only 18% in 1991 .
5 The growth has come from privatisation of services provided in the public sectors , particularly healthcare and education and from catering for the public .
6 Agassi , who is scheduled to launch his Wimbledon defence on Monday week , has suffered from tendonitis of the right wrist since he was last in action at Barcelona in April .
7 The outfit has moved from losses of around £1.7m in calendar year 1991 , to an as-yet unfinalised figure in the black — which should be well in excess of £1m — for 1992 .
8 Now he wants to hear from members of staff who think they may have the answer .
9 Recently , it has emerged from studies of Upper Permian fluviolacustrine deposits throughout southern Africa that the geography was dominated by a series of giant lakes , perhaps interconnected within major fluvial frameworks .
10 for many years there 's been what 's called the ‘ Rate Equalization Subsidy ’ which has gone from areas of high rateable value to areas of low rateable value such as the middle of Lancashire — central Lancashire , and other parts of the country .
11 A letter has gone from members of the West Yorkshire Ecumenical Council — a body in which Christian leaders co-operate in dealing with matters of common interest — to Mr Robin Squire MP , Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Environment .
12 There is no sign whatever that Labour has learnt from errors of the past .
13 All business tends to suffer from periods of under-capitalisation which stifle investment and expansion plans .
14 ‘ German research , ’ they added , ’ appears to suffer from lack of co-ordination … insufficient information is being paid to biological experimentation … ’
15 The removal of the south Fife coalfield from a Lothian region based on Edinburgh has been criticised on similar political grounds to the slicing of Glamorgan into three counties : it appears to derive from considerations of Conservative Party advantage .
16 If we were to seek an explanation in the fact that Gandhi , as we have seen , does not equate ahi sā with non-killing and notes the distinction between ahi sā and hi sā by indicating that hi sā means killing from motives of anger or selfishness and ahi sā means refraining from so doing , then it might be possible to be a believer in ahi sā and yet kill , provided the killing is not prompted by angry or selfish motives and is performed with detachment as one 's duty .
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