Example sentences of "[subord] they have [vb pp] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Iraqis , once they had withdrawn from the territory occupied in the early months , and to some extent even before this took place , constructed solid defensive positions , notably in the centre near Mandali and Khanaqin , and in the south close to Basrah , from which to fight off the anticipated Iranian offensives . |
| 2 | Then , as if they 'd recovered from the surprise , they began to laugh , snorting and giggling in delight at the water being thrown at them , like two children playing a game . |
| 3 | The 18th-century mountain traveller John Macculloch described Sutherlands as containing ‘ mountains which seem as if they had tumbled from the clouds , having nothing to do with the country or each other . ’ |
| 4 | Next day we were visited by a pod of dolphins which behaved as if they had escaped from a circus . |
| 5 | The emotions of like and dislike are just as broad as if they had arisen from a total survey of the car . |
| 6 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 7 | The claim form asks Policyholders if they have suffered from a similar illness previously . |
| 8 | But now that computer animation looks so real , some advertising agencies are insisting that the images they pay For must look as if they have come from a computer . |
| 9 | The publication of intimate details of private lives without the slightest public interest justification can not be the subject of legal action , unless they have stemmed from a breach of confidence or some other legal wrong . |
| 10 | By 1987 about 65% of the women were no longer under observation , mainly because they had moved from the recruiting doctors ' practice area . |
| 11 | These results relate to data available at April 1987 , by which time about 65% of sucjects were no longer under observation , mainly because they have moved from the recruiting doctors ' practice . |
| 12 | Of course , with economic activity rates among women peaking at around two-thirds for married women in middle age and four-fifths for non-married women in their twenties and early thirties , there are a significant proportion who never experience ‘ retirement ’ from paid employment in their own right because they have withdrawn from the labour market long before formal retirement age . |
| 13 | If they have since discovered that this contact can be fulfilling and life-enhancing — and this is certainly not always the case — it is because they have benefited from the broader range of experiences which this contact has offered . |
| 14 | One of the weaknesses of most African economies is an absence of large-scale entrepreneurs running manufacturing businesses , whether they have emerged from the informal sector or been trained by the corporate sector . |
| 15 | Muscles only actually grow after they have recovered from a hard training session . |
| 16 | The smoke had been west and north when they had looked from the Ridgery . |
| 17 | Both had been at the hospital until after midnight , though they had understood from the moment they arrived that their son was dead . |
| 18 | On the carpet by the tallboy were several red carnations , as fresh as they had come from the florist , and beside them , a shattered glass spill . |