Example sentences of "be [vb pp] from [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less has been heard from mothers for many of whom maintenance is their only chance of getting off benefit . |
| 2 | That is the litany which has been heard from solicitors throughout Scotland over the past months — from the spacious offices of the big city firms to the modest surroundings of rural practices . |
| 3 | The paper is much more tentative because some of it is based on evidence which has not always been gathered from studies designed specifically to elicit people 's conceptions in the mind . |
| 4 | Millions of workers have been sacked from plantations and mines because of their companies ' losses ; farmers cultivating export crops on their own have suffered severe cuts in living standards . |
| 5 | There are three issues associated with institutional aims and objectives : ( i ) the extent to which they are aims and objectives rather than social platitudes and/or moral aspirations ; ( ii ) the extent to which objectives are differentiated from aims and are capable of implementation ; and ( iii ) the extent to which they refer to teaching and non-teaching staff as well as children . |
| 6 | However , as further proceeds are received from disposals already agreed , the high level of indebtedness will reduce . |
| 7 | But as news of this service spreads , and more referrals are received from GPs and district nurses , the hospice needs more volunteers . |
| 8 | Oh dear , perhaps this is not the sort of comment investors like to hear concerning a food which has been developed from toadstools . |
| 9 | These isolates have mostly been referred from children and young adults ( aged 5–35 years ) with pharyngitis . |
| 10 | They will suffer still more communication deprivation if ‘ uneconomical ’ public telephones are withdrawn from villages ; yet , sadly , in the early 1980s many rural public telephone boxes are being removed by British Telecommunications , in spite of campaigns to retain them , because they are not felt to be economically viable . |
| 11 | Most adverbs in this category are formed from adjectives and the -ing form of verbs : pleasing-pleasingly . |
| 12 | Presumably the remaining 20% are formed from combinations of these four classifications : |
| 13 | They are formed from megakaryocytes which , in the final process of maturation , become amoeboid in shape and their pseudopods penetrate the marrow sinusoids . |
| 14 | Colloids are distinguished from suspensions by the size of the dispersed particles . |
| 15 | Professions are distinguished from trades by the length of training , the depth of special knowledge and by codes of behaviour . |
| 16 | He explained that there was a difference between a statement such as : ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by embodying the spirit of cathood , as opposed to that of doghood ’ , and a statement such as ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by a combination of characteristics ( such as the possession of retractable claws , … and the inability to swim … ) which , in the aggregate , describe the genus Felis as opposed to the genus Canis ’ . |
| 17 | He explained that there was a difference between a statement such as : ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by embodying the spirit of cathood , as opposed to that of doghood ’ , and a statement such as ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by a combination of characteristics ( such as the possession of retractable claws , … and the inability to swim … ) which , in the aggregate , describe the genus Felis as opposed to the genus Canis ’ . |
| 18 | The new unit , established with funding from the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) , has been formed from members of both SWAPO and the South African military — the former rival forces in the independence war . |
| 19 | Offers of help for the Bosnian evacuees have been received from countries all over the world including Britain . |
| 20 | He went on to quote the response that had been received from editors : |
| 21 | In preparing this report they must carry out such investigations as will enable them to form an opinion on ( a ) whether proper accounting records have been kept by the company and whether proper returns adequate for their audit have been received from branches which they have not visited and ( b ) whether the company 's individual accounts are in agreement with the accounting records and returns . |
| 22 | Brian Harris , director of the Institute 's Professional Conduct Department , confirmed that complaints had been received from clients of the firm , but refused to comment further . |
| 23 | He went on : ‘ Before any particulars are entered on the computer , they are carefully checked with a view to ensuring that they are accurate and , where information has been received from individuals , that it has not been furnished maliciously ’ . |
| 24 | I am trying to give you hard facts , tell you how the traits of human personality are carried from parents to offspring , tell you accurately how the environment modifies inherited characteristics . |
| 25 | Cattle have been evacuated from sheds next to a burning barn at Gloucester Cattle Market . |
| 26 | Flakes of a fatty substance are excreted from glands between the joints on the underside of the worker bee 's abdomen . |
| 27 | ‘ They have n't found some of the performance capabilities that are expected from micro-kernels , ’ he says , adding that ‘ Solaris has a very modular kernel , and we 've made some of the micro-kernel mistakes already . ’ |
| 28 | We need to ensure that the management of community care is improved to meet the needs of those who are discharged from hospitals and , more particularly , of those who have never been long-stay patients in our hospitals for the mentally ill . |
| 29 | The insects may be attracted by volatiles , in the way that heartwood borers are attracted from distances up to 2 km to felled Shorea robusta trees in India , as the resin is collected from wounds in the trunk . |
| 30 | Difficulties in accessing the intuitions of linguistically naive informants are well known to field linguists generally , and have been reported from sources as diverse as the Soviet Union ( Kibrik 1977 ) and Australia ( Healey 1974 ; Dixon 1984 ) . |