Example sentences of "from [art] [noun pl] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 As The Secret History and other records showed , most of the great statesmen and admirals of Emor came from the Gens Mollandia , and the Gens Redburna produced an astonishing number of first-class generals .
2 He gave her a quick nod of approval and she went down to the end of the shop and began filling in the certificates , taking her information from the records Mr Miller had already made .
3 She looked at the polished coppery band , so different from the collars Samson forged along with fetters and thumbscrews for the slave trade .
4 The full extent of this system is yet to be established , but the gouffre Pierre-Saint-Martin is only a few miles as the Pyrenean crow flies from the Gorges de Kakouetta and forms part of the one vast hydrological network .
5 Ten plutonium production reactors were built and operated and the irradiated fuel reprocessed ; various types of thermal reactor were investigated , as well as fast reactors and fusion reactors ; and from the mid-1950s AEA was selling electricity to the grid .
6 In the varicoloured light from the lanterns Fei Yen looked wonderful , like a fairy princess or some mythical creature conjured from the rich legends of his people 's past .
7 Under pressure from the others Bert advanced a bony hand and Ernie took it in his massive fist .
8 It is easy to find from the stars Chi ( 4.7 ) and Phi ( 5.0 ) , which make up a small triangle with Delta and are in the same × 20 field with it .
9 The much celebrated correspondence in the matter of Arkell v Pressdram involved only two letters : the first , from the solicitors Goodman Derrick & Co , to the editor of " Private Eye " , ended with the familiar legal demand : " Mr Arkell 's first concern is that there should be a full retraction at the earliest possible date in " Private Eye " and he will also want his costs paid .
10 Why not consider one of the smaller geophagines from the genera Biotodoma and Gymnogeophagus ?
11 I recognised Lingary 's name from the times Andy had talked about the Falklands ; he 'd been Andy 's CO , the one Andy blamed for the deaths of some of his men .
12 Those behaviours were identified by his teachers as arising directly from the problems George faced in the home .
13 From the stands Pears ' deliberate knock-down of Pell 's ‘ scoring ’ pass to Hensley defied the laws of probability .
14 They had not stopped working as from the stairs Ralph could hear the monotonous sound of gushing water working away the flames which were becoming hotter and higher , burning everything in sight .
15 When it was over and they climbed from the cars Danny needed a considerable amount of calming as his excitement seemed to have reached a peak .
16 PEEBLES The Tweeddale Museum is housed in the Chambers Institution , a gift to the town from the brothers William and Robert Chambers , founders of the famous dictionary and encyclopaedia publishing company .
17 The Harmsworth family interests , chiefly derived from the brothers Alfred and Harold , Lords Northcliffe and Rothermere , and trading as Associated Newspapers , had seven evenings and a major interest in four others ( as well as managing , but not owning , a twelfth ) .
18 The extensive mill complex was largely built during the 1770s , becoming known as Days Mill , from the brothers Jeremiah and Daniel , who made cloth in the much enlarged premises .
19 He 's already picked up a thousand pounds tomorrow he 'll receive a copy of his short story — The Green Moustache , which er got him into the final along with the other eleven winning stories which are being published in an anthology , which is hot off the presses from the publishers Collins .
20 Even though the Treaty of Brêtigny represented a retreat from the terms Edward had offered in 1358 , it was the culmination of a period of outstandingly successful warfare .
21 In these two summary statements from the apostles Paul and Peter we see the link between being and declaring .
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