Example sentences of "[vb -s] from [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I accept that the law has from the first appearance of corporations , in the absence of any relevant statutory direction , considered the question of a corporation 's right to sue for defamation by reference to the nature of the corporation itself and the need for the corporation to protect its lawful activities and property . |
| 2 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
| 3 | Happy as a Sandbag , A musical review of the 1940s , which opens tonight , features songs , dances and acts from the Second World War . |
| 4 | The first is , of course , a ‘ piece of string ’ question , since the availability ranges from a second hand VPI at say £4500 , to a new Saratoga , say £124,000 . |
| 5 | Figure 15–8 shows the marginal benefit MB that your neighbour gets from the last inch of tree size and the marginal cost MC to you of that last inch of tree size . |
| 6 | In particular , examples have been found of periodic behaviour occurring at higher r than chaotic for the same values of b and P. Changes are not necessarily in the direction of greater randomness the further one goes from the first instability of steady solutions . |
| 7 | The arrow points from the first node a of the pair ( a , b ) towards the second , b . |
| 8 | FIG. 2 Two example displays from the first experiment . |
| 9 | The price paid would include any consideration the employer receives from a third party . |
| 10 | ’ But it appears from the fourth plea that that marriage had already been agreed on , and that the testator knew it . |
| 11 | Hitherto departments had not been allowed to carry forward underspends into the next financial year though the Treasury was allowed to penalize departments by deducting overspends from the next year 's targets . |
| 12 | The use of the term shilling derives from an 19th century system of invoicing beer according to its gravity — a 60 shilling ale is a low gravity beer , an 80 shilling one is considerably stronger , similar to an English special bitter . |
| 13 | It follows from the First Premise introduced at the beginning of this chapter , that it must be an article of belief in the Created God that this first pre-life period in the story of the universe made no contribution to the creation of the God which was to be born , as was mankind , out of the life to come , except that it may have been the source of the basic origin of life . |
| 14 | It follows from the second law of thermodynamics that , for spontaneous processes . |
| 15 | It follows from the last paragraph that there are at least two different ways of studying a community 's use of language and attitudes towards it . |
| 16 | The lift operates from the first floor . |
| 17 | It was built in brick over a long period ; the east end dates from the ninth century and the west from the tenth and eleventh while the vaults are mainly twelfth century . |
| 18 | The hall dates from the ninth century and is divided in the centre by a row of four circular columns with simple leaf capitals , like the design in S. John 's Chapel in the Tower of London ( 300 ) . |
| 19 | This is on a square plan and dates from the ninth century . |
| 20 | The church itself dates from the fifth century but was altered in the fourteenth century . |
| 21 | A church was first consecrated there in AD 649 , but the present cathedral dates from the thirteenth century and is a monument to the Split school of architects who gave new life to the Romanesque style in Dalmatia . |
| 22 | The magnificent 300 feet campanile — the Torre Ghirlandina — dates from the thirteenth century . |
| 23 | This brick building replaces a stone Romanesque cathedral and dates from the thirteenth century onwards ( 565 ) . |
| 24 | The signalling dates from the First World War and will cost £400 000 to replace . |
| 25 | Both are very fine buildings , and the Pagoda dates from the 8th century . |
| 26 | The nave arcade , with its capitals and columns , is the most interesting and dates from the eleventh century ( 401 ) . |
| 27 | The church dates from the eleventh century and is magnificently decorated by fresco paintings in the narthex , dome , apse and on the walls . |
| 28 | A ‘ phototec ’ which will allow greater access to the museum 's photographic collection which dates from the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | There is a sense in which this task has remained the same since libraries began ( clay tablets were gathered into organized collections in Mesopotamia at least as early as 2700 BC ) but modern librarianship properly dates from the nineteenth century , from Panizzi 's reign at the British Museum , from the spread of the public library movement in Britain , the USA and Scandinavia , and from the new techniques initiated by such creative geniuses ( in their day ) as Melvil Dewey and Charles Amni Cutter . |
| 30 | ‘ It means that , since the de Sciorto title dates from the mid-sixteenth century , I come somewhere in the middle of the pecking order , ’ he grinned , his eyes lidded as he moved his gaze down over her defensively folded arms , lingering on the golden swell of her breasts at the button fastening on her T-shirt . |