Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb pp] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has grown from local roots , with local volunteers and funding which makes it responsive and resilient . |
| 2 | Since the turn of the century , it has grown from 50,000 people to 14 million . |
| 3 | As he knows , it has fallen from high levels . |
| 4 | Pragmatism has also played a part here and when convenient the DST has been willing to do deals with other countries trading off information it has obtained from opposing factions in the Middle East . |
| 5 | In the past few years it has suffered from serious errors in planning and a lack of investment . |
| 6 | In response to the prevailing economic conditions it has withdrawn from peripheral businesses and has focused on the core activities represented by its silver products . |
| 7 | Criticism of the team and its management has been stinging through the season and much of it has come from former players . |
| 8 | In the same way , a horse 's communication with us will be influenced by the knowledge that it has acquired from other horses ; sometimes to its advantage and sometimes not . |
| 9 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 10 | In this expansion of the policy side of regionalism , it resembles the policy aspects of planning , which should not be surprising since where regionalism as policy has had most impetus , it has originated from central planning concerns . |
| 11 | It diagnosed the main weaknesses in the schools it had inherited from earlier decades and set out its alternative vision , a Primary Needs Programme intended to meet children 's needs by transforming schools into exemplars of ‘ good primary practice ’ . |
| 12 | Keeling 's expulsion was particularly linked to a report in the Financial Times of June 27 , which claimed that Nigeria had already spent more than half the windfall earnings which it had received from higher oil prices during the Gulf crisis . |
| 13 | In 1988 a baby dolphin was found floating in the Bay , it had died from toxic hepatitis and its body was heavily contaminated with organochlorines . |
| 14 | Dr Stehelin said he worked for Dr Bishop and Dr Varmus in their San Francisco laboratory between 1972 and 1975 , and was the principal signer of the first article in the scientific magazine Nature , in 1976 , that said a cancer virus was causing cancer by means of a gene it had captured from normal cells . |
| 15 | It claimed that Ms Oruene had failed to show she was treated less favourably than any other candidate and that there was not a shred of evidence to show that it had deviated from normal procedures . |