Example sentences of "[that] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The ‘ council movement ’ was especially vigorous , and was widely debated among socialists in the years immediately preceding and following the First World War ( Renner , 1921 ; Pribicevic , 1959 ) ; and more recently it again aroused growing interest as a result of the experience of workers ' self-management in Yugoslavia , some tentative steps in that direction in other East European countries during the 1970s , and the formulation of ideas about ‘ participatory democracy ’ that arose from the new social movements of the late 1960s . |
| 2 | If some of the germ lines that led from the primaeval soup had not been , to a first approximation , immortal then extant organisms would not exist . |
| 3 | In one sense , deviance could be taken to mean any behaviour that differs from the normal , any uncommon or unusual behaviour . |
| 4 | There are also a few experiments in Earth geometry that gain from the rapid transfer of data between distant schools . |
| 5 | He drove the corkscrew forward , burying it in the man 's right eye , shoving down hard on it , twisting it in the socket , ignoring the spouting vitreous liquid that erupted from the riven orb . |
| 6 | There is a web of exhilarating approaches — from Ribblehead ; Crummackdale ; Ingleton via Crina Bottom House and Hill Inn in Chapel-le-Dale ; but a particular favourite is a circular route that starts from the charming hamlet of Clapham and visits the most fascinating parts of the area . |
| 7 | The entire cast were excited about the dress rehearsal of The Count of Luxembourg , even the blasé old orchestra catching some of the anticipatory delight that stemmed from the new production . |
| 8 | It is to Alan Rough 's eternal credit that he developed a sense of humour which carried him through experiences that ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous . |
| 9 | One group that disappeared was the fusulinids , complex protozoa that ranged from the microscopic to two or three inches in size . |
| 10 | Only the rear pillar changed , having an external cover that lifted from the rear window surface to create a big air intake in order to ventilate the engine compartment , made extremely hot by the addition of the turbo . |
| 11 | The howl of dissent that came from the entire room staggered me . |
| 12 | Suddenly the stillness was broken by a distressful wail that came from the other side of the square . |
| 13 | They were both so angry that they did not immediately see the movement that came from the old female 's shelter in the cage between them . |
| 14 | I suppose the ones that came from the old factory , you know were kept on and that |
| 15 | The only illumination was the oblong of light that spilled from the open doorway of the TARDIS . |
| 16 | The nut itself is a curious thing that grows from the so-called cashew apple , and both are filled with a nasty acid fluid that causes dermatitis . |
| 17 | The one part of this walk that I dislike is the short but sodden path that leads from the rough lane out of Marsett towards Stalling Busk . |
| 18 | Sweetman crowed with laughter , but too soon , for , just as it seemed as though Ellen 's gesture had indeed collapsed into an ignominious anti-climax , the extinguisher first coughed , then spat a vicious deluge of white muck that fanned from the flared nozzle to splatter spectacularly against Sweetman 's chest . |
| 19 | a hot dry wind that blows from the Arabian desert . |
| 20 | ADDAMS FAMILY ( Columbia TriStar ) Efficient entertainment that benefits from the biggish-budget treatment and some neat casting choices — notably Angelica Huston as Morticia . |
| 21 | A senior security service officer had been machine-gunned a week earlier in Fayoum town ( about 100 km from Cairo ) as local tensions that dated from the previous year had flared up . |
| 22 | The causal thread that reaches from the perceived object to the perception and on from that to the overt activity of the perceiver symbolizes the ontological homogeneity of the world . |
| 23 | Alternatively , ascend Middlefell Buttress and continue directly up the hillside above to intercept the level path that originates from the New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel ( 1 hour ) . |
| 24 | But what we find in the resurrection of Jesus is not something that originates from the natural processes of life , but something that constitutes a unique event . |
| 25 | Research on the Plynlimon catchment in upland Wales , for example , indicates that streamflow from the afforested area is c. 15 per cent less than from nearby grassland ( Blackie and Newson 1986 ) . |
| 26 | This goes down its throat and into a pouch that opens from the top wall of its gut . |
| 27 | When he ‘ resigned ’ as a BBC radio producer in 1986 , he may have been pushed , but it was the start of a freelance career guaranteed to outrage the good citizens of Britain with a style of comedy that ranges from the macabre to the indecent . |
| 28 | The researchers can dip into a collection that ranges from the early days of photography to current events . |
| 29 | The Queen 's bedroom with its walls and bed hung in blue-grey damask is a Twenties pastiche , with furniture that ranges from the Lutyens-designed ‘ Queen Anne ’ bed , to the modern painted cabinet used as a bedside table with its reading light . |
| 30 | Oxbridge institutions , though , were slow to respond to such trends and it was only towards the end of the century that calls from the ancient universities to accept a " national " role began to be heeded . |