Example sentences of "and [vb -s] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are now several benefits — family credit , free school meals , housing benefit and grants from the Social Fund , for example — that can help families in financial need , but the processes of application and appeal for these are complex enough to warrant the assistance of social workers in many instances . |
| 2 | Usually they cleared underbrush and weeds from the rubber groves from one o'clock until sunset , but the new quotas ordered by Duclos that morning meant they had to tap and collect from more than a hundred extra trees through the hot afternoon although their energies were largely spent . |
| 3 | Crawford returned to repertory work to be there for the first three months , appearing alongside stars such as Leo McKern , who had turned down two films and offers from the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company to go to Nottingham , and classical actor John Neville , who had just starred in Alfie on the London stage and was giving up 200-a-week West End rates for the 20 to 50 Playhouse level . |
| 4 | It 's worth recording that alongside NRA 's regular monitoring of ICI 's ‘ consent ’ discharges , ICI itself carries out nearly two thousand analyses each month on contents from its outfalls and drains from the three Teesside production sites . |
| 5 | Many illustrations described as woodcuts are not , strictly speaking , woodcuts at all since , from about 1830 , it became common to make stereotypes and electrotypes from the original wood blocks , which would stand up to only comparatively small editions . |
| 6 | Happy as a Sandbag , A musical review of the 1940s , which opens tonight , features songs , dances and acts from the Second World War . |
| 7 | ″ ) is light , stiff and benefits from the straight throat beam ( STB ) design which helps to prevent the racket twisting after off centre hits . |
| 8 | And sundews from the same area . |
| 9 | The suits , jackets , trousers , shirts and ties from the Paris-based Japanese designer have been a mainstay of the shop for some 10 years . |
| 10 | He has elevated inscriptions to a new seriousness because the wording of his own work is not bland and ranges from the delphic to the painfully controversial . |
| 11 | A similar greeting evoked a series of grunts and groans from the neighbouring tent . |
| 12 | When results began to come in from the field researchers , Highlander served as the collection , organisation and computation centre , and held workshops to allow participants to draw some very marked comparisons and contrasts from the raw data . |
| 13 | In another work , a lesbian , Marga Gomez , ‘ rewrites the Bible , battles extortionists , and reads from the lost journals of Anais Nin , on the eve of her appearance on a television talk show as an ‘ adult female homosexual ’ ’ ’ . |
| 14 | For the special Christmas episode , ‘ The Feast of Steven ’ , an episode never screened abroad , Camfield wanted to use the main actors and sets from the popular Z Cars series ( including Brian Blessed , Colin Welland and James Ellis ) in cameo appearances . |
| 15 | The oral shield has an irregular shape , although it may sometimes be hourglass shaped , and extends from the oral frame on to the interradial area . |
| 16 | From then one we are taken through a Druids ' Grove to consider swords , war trumpets , and the bronze shield cover discovered in the River Witham in Lincolnshire and dates from the second century BC . |
| 17 | This brick building replaces a stone Romanesque cathedral and dates from the thirteenth century onwards ( 565 ) . |
| 18 | This is on a square plan and dates from the ninth century . |
| 19 | The cross is a masterpiece of red jasper , gold , gilded silver and jewels and dates from the eleventh or twelfth-centuries . |
| 20 | The nave arcade , with its capitals and columns , is the most interesting and dates from the eleventh century ( 401 ) . |
| 21 | item No 2 : is a candle snuffer of the type used with a candle dish and dates from the late 18th century . |
| 22 | The illustrated example was also found in Hertfordshire , and dates from the late 1st or early 2nd century AD . |
| 23 | The building is brick and dates from the fourteenth century , though with later fenestration and entrance doorway . |
| 24 | It is a substantial brick watermill , and dates from the seventeenth century . |
| 25 | The Trondheim episcopal palace adjoins the cathedral and dates from the twelfth century . |
| 26 | The archway itself is in fine condition and dates from the third century B.C. It forms part of the Etruscan walls to the city and is the best extant example of Etruscan masonry . |
| 27 | It is possible that the origin is naval and dates from the 16th Century when ‘ sucking the monkey ’ described the tapping and topping up of a coconut with rum before the milk mix was sucked from it . |
| 28 | The main house is long and low and dates from the 16th and 17th centuries . |
| 29 | He also hopes the new format will attract new readers , both those who do not regularly read a daily newspaper and converts from the rival Liberation - which has won an extraordinary success among younger readers with its mix of lively writing , news features and bold use of photography and design . |
| 30 | My father loved old time Music Hall songs and hits from the Gay Nineties like ‘ Good-bye , Dolly Grey ’ , and ‘ Soldiers of the Queen ’ , and one of his favourites was ‘ Burlington Bertie ’ . |