Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] from [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By the late 1960s Pakistan had ceased to participate in military exercises within the framework of SEATO and CENTO and it eventually withdrew from SEATO .
2 Five times the size of Rutland , Buckinghamshire shows every symptom of several standards of assessment : numerous reductions in the Chiltern hundreds in 1524 reduced aggregate wealth from £97 to £67 per thousand acres , while in Buckingham hundreds it only dropped from £84 to £59 , but throughout the northern half of the shire many of the 1522 assessments were retained substantially unaltered , conceivably because the people concerned deemed it prudent to keep their mouths shut and pay up ; a significant number were actually uprated , perhaps penalised for having the gall to seek abatements , so attracting a further , more searching investigation of their means .
3 Then , when it finally dropped from exhaustion , it was killed .
4 However , Pakistan was accepted into the Non-Aligned Movement once it formally withdrew from CENTO in 1979 .
5 However , it quickly disappeared from sight and was never an effective rival to the DHAC .
6 At Beltsville in Maryland , a pig injected with human growth hormone grew up to display substantially less backfat ( potentially valuable from the AgriBusiness point of view ) , but it also suffered from arthritis , poor vision , lack of leg coordination and ‘ susceptibility to stress ’ .
7 Vermstroy operated from Ipswich but it also operated from Nunes .
8 At his death Burghley 's silver and gold plate was worth £14,000–£15,000 ; much of it probably came from gifts made by aspirants for favour .
9 The useful form of mica is called Muscovite ( because it originally came from Russia ) and in this mica the strength of the bonds on the weak cleavage plane is nominally and very roughly a sixth of the strength of the bonds elsewhere in the crystal .
10 They say it really came from Croissant , meaning crescent , because there 's a bend in the valley and the river there .
11 But desirable though all this was , it never detracted from Verity Lambert 's basic belief that the underlying strength of the series lay in its four principal artists , all of whom she thought developed the most realistic inter-relationships ever forged in a science fiction series , spearheaded , of course , by William Hartnell 's magnetic interpretation of the Doctor .
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