Example sentences of "from it the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In the year 1000 Otto III had Charlemagne 's tomb opened and removed from it the gold cross which hung round the neck of the skeleton and the marble throne on which the body had been placed .
2 It did not of course escape Mommsen that there can hardly be a more foolish political speculation , " eine thorichtere politische Spekulation " , than to represent the Roman constitution as a mixed constitution and to derive from it the success of Rome ( Rom .
3 from it the retailer sells tins of soup to the value of £200 per month
4 He opened the suitcase and took from it the carrier-bag with the Union Jack on it .
5 The harbour of Portree , the principal town on Skye , is , as Boswell observed , ‘ a large and good one ’ , and from it the road climbs up into the town , now much built since 1773 — a square , several banks , a school , and many , many tourists .
6 He drew from it the photograph of Elsie McAndrew that he had shown to Mrs Wilson in London .
7 From it the path leads to another temple also designed by William Kent and from there to the octagonal pond .
8 Either the C scribe or one of his predecessors added to the 1017 entry that the ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , and ( perhaps inadvertently ) omitted from it the expulsion of Eadwig king of the ceorls , which appears under 1020 ; the information in 1030 that Olaf " was afterwards holy " ( i.e. regarded as a saint ) must also have been included at a fairly late stage in C 's composition .
9 This system of transparent , interpenetrating shapes or planes suggests form in shallow depth , and from it the figure re-emerges as the spectator studies the canvas .
10 To counteract that feeling , and while he propped her ‘ injured ’ foot on a stool and attended to her bruising , she opened her bag and extracted from it the envelope with Cara had handed over to her .
11 Hence , as porosity distribution and facies appear to be related , it follows that prediction of potential reservoirs can be made from facies maps , and even if facies interpretations are not available , reservoir prediction can still be done by identifying the zone of maximum thickness on an isopach map and extrapolating from it the distribution of facies and porosity .
12 The *POLYGON command is a GIMMS instruction to fetch the file whose unit number is 10 , read from it the line segment data , and link the line segments together to form polygons .
13 First , you time the length of the material to be trimmed at the beginning of the shot , and subtract from it the amount of the backspace ; this shorter length is then the point at which you set the tape early for the edit-in .
14 At this point , a side glen comes in on the right with a path leading to the dominating heights of Carn Eige and Mam Sodhail , or from it the bealach between Tom a' Choinich and Toll Creagach may be reached and a fine view seen over Glen Cannich to the mountains of Glen Farrar .
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