Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Martian arriving in Britain in late 1992 might have gathered from window-stickers along the high streets that mortgages were cheap and plentiful . |
| 2 | The early evolutionary stages of development of wings are still in question they may have developed from outgrowths of exoskeleton from the body that assisted gliding initially , and then acquired a propulsive function . |
| 3 | But according to chairman D J Dace , without exchange rate variations , sales would actually have fallen from £2.7m to £54.6m . |
| 4 | I can only imagine that shortly before the excursions a long double headed steam train must have travelled from Shrewsbury to Machynlleth , but I do n't know the times . |
| 5 | It has a charming , white stuccoed wiggly gable , two windows wide , that might have come from Amsterdam with the King 's guns . |
| 6 | In a few weeks ' time , the fallen leaves will have risen from ankle to knee deep . |
| 7 | First , because there are still far more betrayed women than men around : the percentage of wives playing away may have risen from 26% in the 50s to around 40% now , but a conservative estimate suggests that 60% of husbands have cheated at least once — and one US survey puts the figure as high as 82% . |
| 8 | Even his magnum opus , Perestroika , written in the summer of 1987 , contained the amazing notion in its first edition that ‘ if it had not been for collectivisation , we could have died from hunger in the war ’ . |
| 9 | Furthermore , they 're they can ca n't get any information on deaths that would have occurred from injuries after the war . |
| 10 | The Carpets may have tumbled from grace with those anxious to keep pace with fashion , fallen victim to a mid-career plunge into the realms of prog rock and put out the odd dodgy single , but they 're currently looking like people whose revived self-belief is entirely justified . |
| 11 | He points out that in 1960 , married black women could have expected to have 3.49 children ; if they had continued to reproduce at this rate , the out-of-wedlock rate among black women would have increased from 23% in 1960 to just 29% in 1987 , and gone almost unnoticed . |
| 12 | She felt that all compassion must have passed from Emilia with the emptying of her womb except for this last residue that smouldered in the promise she exacted now . |
| 13 | HOFFERT AND COVEY REPLY — Lindzen challenges our derivation of global climate sensitivity by suggesting that large climate changes could have resulted from changes in poleward heat flow and/or the seasonal and latitudinal distribution of sunlight , that is , by moving heat from one location to another . |
| 14 | In this connection , he claims that an increase in the number of myelomas ( tumour of the bone marrow ) in the area during the 1970s would not have been expected as a result of iodine-131 contamination , but could have arisen from ingestion of polonium-210 , an alpha emitter . |
| 15 | Not only may viruses incorporate themselves into our DNA , but there is now a suggestion that some viruses at least may have arisen from bits of our own DNA which have escaped from our cells and become so modified as to be capable of independent existence . |
| 16 | I swear he must have ridden from Gloucester at the gallop to arrive before you . |
| 17 | By Ottoman reckoning Molla Fenari would have been twenty in Safar 770 , and it is perhaps possible to suppose that he could have returned from Egypt in time to be appointed at the end of the year . |
| 18 | But whatever else Anselm may have learnt from Hugh of Lyons , he did not learn to accept this extension of papal sovereignty at the expense of the church for which he was himself responsible . |