Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [be] [adv] [vb pp] from " in BNC.

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1 If I said some of it is n't made from the words or the message some of it is made from the tone of your voice .
2 Some of it was undoubtedly derived from associations with British India , where graveyards abounded in miniature pagodas and obelisks .
3 The diet and lifestyle that are common to many of us are far removed from those of our ancestors .
4 The ideas behind it are partly derived from Hartley 's chapter on The Pleasures and Pains of the Imagination , which explained that — ‘ the grandeur of some [ natural ] scenes , and the novelty of others , by exciting surprise and wonder [ makes ] a great difference in the preceding and subsequent states of mind ’ ; he also contrasted ‘ the offensiveness , dangers , and corruption of populous cities , and the health , tranquillity and innocence which the actual view , or mental contemplation , of rural scenes introduces ’ .
5 According to Ali , the Ayasofya medrese was already a 60-akce medrese In Mehmed II 's time ; and it appears generally to have been the case that it and , from the time of Bayezid II , the medrese of Murad II in Bursa ( the Muradiye ) and , more particularly , that of Bayezid II himself in Edirne , completed in 893/1488 , ranked higher in the first half of the sixteenth century than the Sahn in the sense that the muderrises appointed to them were normally promoted from the Sahn .
6 Everything that he 'd had in mind to say to her was suddenly gone from his head , his mind as blank as a new wall and his belly full of sudden , inexplicable dread .
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