Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The team certainly lived up to its reputation as it whipped first place from under the noses of the Golden Wonder team at the end of the last game . |
| 2 | The music was well-made , sometimes boldly scored , and it produced attractive gestures from the start which glisteningly sampled ideas above a deep held bass . |
| 3 | The third need is to remember that while the 1988 Act changed many aspects of management from the point of view of the insider , it changed few things from the point of view of the parents , the employer or the public . |
| 4 | If such propitiation did not result in the sewing-up of any chinks , at least it stopped new chinks from showing through . |
| 5 | Prior to its third seminar , in 1980 , it invited five experts from developing countries to study and evaluate a number of development programmes in the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | This was not a new idea , but it attracted increasing support from the 1880s , due partly to the failure of alternative solutions to unemployment and to the apparent unlikelihood of more work being generated in the towns . |
| 7 | It enrolled less than 50 members but it attracted active support from up to 2,000 sympathizers . |
| 8 | It recognised local talent from the whole region . |
| 9 | It comprised 20 professionals from SSDs , voluntary organisations , private sector , health sector and after much campaigning , a couple of users . |
| 10 | The wearing of pig badges by a large group of staff , many of whom were members of middle management , after the Deputy Head , Peter Moors , had suggested that pork was less suitable than turkey for the school 's Christmas dinner , since it prevented Muslim boys from taking part . |
| 11 | For many years university academic staff have enjoyed the unique position of having tenure for their working lives , the argument in support of this being that it protected academic staff from political pressure and avoided the possibility of someone being dismissed for expressing unpopular or unconventional views . |
| 12 | It heard blithe announcements from two military eminences which were hardly reassuring . |
| 13 | It landed six inches from my face and before it had stopped quivering in the ground , a red one slapped down next to it . |
| 14 | It followed growing pressure from within the ruling Communist Party for a dialogue with the opposition , and came after newly elected Communist Party leaders in the provinces had already made contact with the biggest opposition group , New Forum . |
| 15 | This has its origin in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when Japan realised it needed natural resources from overseas in order to industrialise effectively to compete with the West . |
| 16 | It was a very hard job holding everything together and it required tremendous dedication from everyone concerned . |
| 17 | In 1891 the Review of the Churches began publication and it included representative editors from not only Nonconformity but from the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England . |
| 18 | None of it brought any response from him . |
| 19 | Secondly , it prohibited local authorities from levying supplementary rates . |
| 20 | It took twelve months from the Albert Hall speech in October 1934 until anti-semitism was used as the main plank of a political campaign . |
| 21 | But at times last season I felt it took second place from a few other clubs . ’ |
| 22 | In 1992 , it took three competitors from the London insurance market under its wing : Cairn Computer Systems with its Ingres-based technology and accompanying client list was bought for £200,000. £800,000 was raised through a share issue for the City division of Weir Systems ( CI No 2,076 ) which also added open systems expertise more long term contracts . |
| 23 | It was concerned mainly with England , though it took some evidence from other English-speaking countries ( including Scotland ) . |
| 24 | It removed all missiles from Europe with ranges between 300 and 3000 miles , including the SS-20s and cruise . |
| 25 | It banned unofficial observers from attending . |
| 26 | So , if an exemption clause was part of the contract and if on its wording it excused one party from a given liability , then the court had to give effect to the clause , i.e. that party ( usually the seller ) had a valid defence . |
| 27 | Ianthe gave the word a horrified emphasis , for it sounded unsuitable coming from his pale lips . |
| 28 | The more cross-holdings there are , the less chance of success for any outside raid on Hongkong Land , even if it had semi-official backing from the Chinese government . |
| 29 | It has leg-like fins with fleshy bases like the coelacanth ; it seems very likely that it had air-breathing pouches from its gut like a lungfish . |
| 30 | The Vardar-Morava corridor not only carried traders , it carried cultural influences from the Byzantine Greek world into the Danube basin , most notably the Christian faith as practised by the apostles of the Slavs , Kiril and Metodije . |