Example sentences of "and [vb pp] from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To measure oesophageal body motility , variables measured were : ( 1 ) amplitude of contraction ( mm Hg ) , defined as the difference between the baseline pressure and the maximal pressure during the pressure event ; ( 2 ) duration of contraction ( s ) , defined as the time elapsed between the start and the end of the pressure event ; ( 3 ) area under the pressure curve ( mm Hg×s ) , calculated from the sum of all pressure values between the start and the end of the pressure event , multiplied by the sampling interval ; ( 4 ) propagation velocity ( cm/s ) , defined as the speed of a contraction and calculated from the delay time and the distance between the sensors ; ( 5 ) contractility ( mm Hg/s ) , defined as the maximal increment between consecutive pressure values divided by the sampling interval ; ( 6 ) total contractions ( No/24 h ) , defined as pressure curves that are not rejected as artifacts ; ( 7 ) propagated contractions ( No/24 h ) , defined as contractions that are detected by a proximal pressure transducer and followed by a contraction at the distal sensor . |
| 2 | ‘ He was wounded in the war and paralysed from the waist down . |
| 3 | The award to David Robinson , now 25 and paralysed from the neck down , came after Deputy Judge Patrick Bennett , QC , had expressed amazement at the initial failure of negotiations to reach a settlement in his damages claim . |
| 4 | In each case the pipette should be gently inserted and withdrawn from the fluid in order to minimize disturbance . |
| 5 | In this period , all South African military forces must be disbanded and withdrawn from the country except for a residual force of 1,500 troops who will be confined to bases at Grootfontein and Oshivello . |
| 6 | How much true do you think there is in the picture of a scientist as highly intelligent , completely amoral and withdrawn from the world . |
| 7 | With that last heave , Maurice 's anchor had wrenched clear of the mud , and the mooring-ropes , unable to take the whole weight of the barge , pulled free and parted from the shore . |
| 8 | He knew the feeling of old — operating outside the rules and hidden from the surveillance of his superiors . |
| 9 | However , Michael Jenking , the sailing master , was found guilty of negligence and dismissed from the service . |
| 10 | Col. Thaabe Letsie and Col. Aloysius Kethang Mosoeunyane , who had been arrested on Feb. 19 , 1990 , and expelled from the Military Council and dismissed from the Army , were released from detention in Maseru in early March . |
| 11 | The study builds upon four recent small studies of the Norwich economy , financed under the ESRC Open Door Scheme , and undertaken from the University of East Anglia : by Moseley on unemployment , by Sapsford on the local government provision of sites and premises , by Seddon on the building up of an industrial data base , and by Townroe on the employment of 16 and 17 year old school leavers . |
| 12 | Bullied , beaten , criticized , indoctrinated , sent to the countryside and sacked from the newspaper job he loved , Liang Heng 's father goes on working for Communism even after his health is wrecked . |
| 13 | Cold and shaken from the journey , thick with sediment and drunk from a plastic beaker , it tasted like medicine . |
| 14 | The enormous edifice of presumed relationships built up from careful study of homologous structures , ( the supreme example is the study of bones in the skulls of reptiles ) may have to be re-examined , and if necessary dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up . |
| 15 | But how would these be preserved if he were writing them now , and what would the historian of the future make of the sanitised , word-processed , spell-checked notes that might be left behind with every trace of the intellectual evolution of his argument having been edited and re-edited from the text ? |
| 16 | Before the war , he had been one of the most prominent members of the Dock workers ' Guild , acting as principal deputy to their father , the Chairman , but after he was disabled and discharged from the army , he was forced to take other work , helping Florrie to run their Aunt Emily 's corner grocery shop . |
| 17 | Many responsible people had eventually given up and resigned from the Branch Committee . |
| 18 | To defend their installed bases , equipment manufacturers , Input says , are responding to the trend by offering a growing portfolio of productised services which can be picked and mixed from a catalogue of traditional and new services . |
| 19 | Working holidays , similar to the defunct Woofer scheme ( Working Weekends on Organic Farms ) met with mixed success and varied from the chap who took all day to clean out the rabbits that I , 8½ months pregnant , did in half an hour , to those that were accompanied by their little horrors . |
| 20 | Reports and recommendations were received and considered from the Chemical Consultancy Forum , the Pharmaceutical Forum , the Water Chemistry Forum , RSC/APA Joint Standing Committee , Ethical Practices Committee , Law and Parliamentary Committee , Registration Development Committee , Employment Committee and the Working Party for Professional Symposia . |
| 21 | The sector to the right ( The Quiquillon ) has only a few hard climbs , but its other side , hidden from the village and approached from a parking place reached by driving through a housing estate just before the village , has many fine , steep routes , often with three pitches , at all standards . |
| 22 | The present kitchen was the cowbyre and the room on the first floor , now a bedroom , was the loft and approached from the gallery . |
| 23 | Saida and the south were bombed by Israeli aeroplanes , and shelled from the sea by Israeli gunboats . |
| 24 | ‘ I had a bust up with John Sillett a week or so before and had been transfer-listed and dropped from the team , ’ he recalled . |
| 25 | It was so absorbed in its feast that it ignored the soft approach of the man who had treated it so kindly , and could do no more than scratch and struggle as it was grasped by the neck , and lifted from the ground , its belly exposed to the flashing steel blade of a fish knife . |
| 26 | Men descended to the galleries on ladders , often made from the timbers of wrecked ships , and ore was hauled to the surface in iron buckets called ‘ kibbles ’ , and sorted from the rock by women and children . |
| 27 | Citing Marx 's famous remark in The Eighteenth Brumaire , ‘ Men make their own History … but under circumstances … given and transmitted from the past ’ , Sartre suggested that this implied ‘ the permanent and dialectical unity of freedom and necessity , ( I , 35 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ 'Men make their own history , ’ to quote the master , ‘ but they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves , but under circumstances directly encountered , given and transmitted from the past . |
| 29 | Some of this frustration was alleviated by listening : he used the Talking Books service , through which tapes are delivered to and collected from the home , and his friends would talk to him at length on the telephone . |
| 30 | Regional geophysical data of the east Grampian area are displayed as colour-shaded relief images : left Bouguer gravity anomaly field illuminated from the north-west above and from the north-east below , and right aeromagnetic field reduced-to-pole and illuminated from the north-west above and from the north-east below . |