Example sentences of "to us from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the conventions for the division of time that have come down to us from Imperial Rome is the seven-day week . |
| 2 | Because our our months have come down to us from all sorts of historical reasons . |
| 3 | He reads the texts that remain to us from sixth century Greece as evidence of ‘ a more thoroughgoing individual challenge to the orthodox cultural tradition … than occurred elsewhere ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 4 | Last month Trevor Goodall , team leader of the Turning Point project , told me , ‘ Bits of information on the community care changes are filtering through to us from social services , and we think that we will be involved in the assessment process . |
| 5 | The songs are produced by males when they rub their wings together , and are heard by the female through the ears on her front legs ; they are familiar to us from night-time walks , or the vicarious experience of the cinema . |