Example sentences of "it [vb past] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It arose from the recent conquest of the northern coastal area as far as Anglesey by his friend Hugh , earl of Chester . |
| 2 | The Marxist value system arose in this vacuum of values and it arose from the multiplying effect that machinery had on man 's labour . |
| 3 | Harry Gent , at any rate , always claimed that it arose from the numerous illegal cockfights that were held in the cellar . |
| 4 | I can still remember how good that coffee tasted , and how different it tasted from the common-room coffee I was used to . |
| 5 | Whilst the relevance of such information should not be denied , to present it divorced from the Latin American context leads to a seriously distorted picture of Soviet-Latin American relations . |
| 6 | It rose from the demolished vastness of the old Army Clothing Depot . |
| 7 | But there was another idea behind it , surprising in that it stemmed from the pragmatic Roman mind : it was actually thought that the veterans would become model citizens whom the newly conquered barbarians could observe and emulate . |
| 8 | The track had , he recalled , two branches , separating as it dropped from the heathy ridge that looked down upon the river . |
| 9 | The latter sturdy little ships were two and three deep alongside the large vessels discharging their cargoes in a frenzy of activity while overhead the air was thick with gulls , diving and squabbling over the loose fish as it spilled from the swinging baskets . |
| 10 | It came from the far side of the hotel ; I walked along the balcony to the far end . |
| 11 | It came from the following advisers : trade union , medical , employer , police , potential defendant , AA/RAC , the advisee 's own insurance company , workmate or fellow patient , friend , relative . |
| 12 | Howard Barker is described in the programme as a playwright ‘ known for his robust stance ’ — feet apart , biceps raised ? — ‘ against the tide of TV obsessed populist drama , ’ but the dialogue in A Hard Heart sounds as if it came from the violet-ink-filled pen of Oscar Wilde . |
| 13 | It came from the top floor . |
| 14 | She felt even sorrier for him with that stammer when he went up to read the first lesson , and had to announce that it came from the eighth chapter of Deuteronomy , a word which took him four goes . |
| 15 | You see , it came from the same thing . |
| 16 | It came from the slashed body . |
| 17 | It was not fun enough for the fans , nor artistic enough for the art loving public ( or so it seemed from the vulgar poster and catalogue ; actually , it contained some wonderful and rarely seen pieces of silver ) . |
| 18 | Among those aged 46 or more ( approximately those born before the Second World War ) , the relationship is as it seemed from the bivariate table : the more highly educated are more prepared to break the law . |
| 19 | The Fat Controller and I were back inside the bolt when it arrived from the bonded warehouse at Felixstowe . |
| 20 | In that respect it differed from the European Convention of Human Rights , to which the United Kingdom adhered in November 1950 under the auspices of the Council of Europe and which came into force in September 1953 . |
| 21 | But it differed from the earlier plan in its concentration on the inter-city and suburban commuter services for which there was high demand , and it was to be achieved with a falling labour force rather than an expanding one . |
| 22 | The cat was white , a Suristani with a prehensile tail , and it hung from the lower branch of one of the trees and slashed at the dogs which were clustered below . |
| 23 | It has only polled more than 10,000 votes once in 30 years , when as the SDP/Liberal Alliance it benefited from the special by-election atmosphere . |
| 24 | It developed from the 1920s onwards , particularly for mass consumer goods produced in large production runs , although it spread to the ‘ production of standardized intermediate components for the manufacture of these means of consumption ’ ( Aglietta , 1979 : 117 ) . |
| 25 | Growing up in our culture , there 's a certain standard for beauty and I think it evolved from the Sixties and Seventies through the Eighties . |
| 26 | The use of British official records relating to colonial development and decolonisation tends at present to be limited by the lack of an adequate guide to the machinery of government concerned with colonial affairs , and the resultant records , as it evolved from the relative autonomy of the Colonial Office in 1925 to the highly integrated national and international system obtaining at the onset of rapid decolonisation . |
| 27 | It is conflict theory , much of it derived from the classic structural and historical writings of Marx and Weber , that is principally interested in these kinds of issues . |
| 28 | The result of this obvious strategy would be to spread the hydra around still further , so that more and more of it grew from the savaged fragments left behind . |
| 29 | Such a challenge could not go unheeded , particularly as it departed from the usual array of Parliamentary or constitutional procedures . |
| 30 | What is more arguable is how new it was , and how very much it departed from the old . |