Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would Johnny appear to hang in mid-air , suspended on some invisible support hidden from the interested gaze of Cassie 's contemporaries ? |
| 2 | After two years of difficult negotiations , the agreement seemed to be a brand plucked from the burning . |
| 3 | Thus Since the mixture boils at one atmosphere ( 760 mmHg ) , the sum of the two partial pressures must equal one atmosphere : Tables of data show that , at 98.6°C , Substituting this value and the experimental data into the above equation we obtain Note that the molar mass calculated from the formula is 93.13 g |
| 4 | In females it generally consists of a group of stout bristles which lies beneath the extended fore Wing and engages there in a retinaculum formed from a patch of hairs near the cubitus . |
| 5 | A less well-known example is of H. V. Hilprecht , an archaeologist at Pennsylvania University who in 1893 was given drawings of fragments of agate excavated from the Babylonian temple of Bal at Nippur . |
| 6 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 7 | If the mean levels for one hour and two hours are plotted , then a line intersecting the two points can be taken back to the y-axis ( Fig 7 ) and the hourly uptake calculated from the slope , thus : |
| 8 | Payments can be stopped and the money withdrawn from the account at any time . |
| 9 | " Proceeds " in s.5(4) covers money received from a third party who had cashed a cheque for the accused : Davis ( 1989 ) 88 Cr App R 347 ( CA ) . |
| 10 | His claim was later proven and the drug withdrawn from the market . |
| 11 | It is quite feasible that band members will have contributed to the composition of songs in different amounts , so the income received from the band 's songs is often split to reflect this . |
| 12 | The government has thus attempted to restrict local authority discretion by reducing the level of income received from the central government via cuts in the RSG and through rate capping . |
| 13 | Human wealth is the source of income received from the sale of labour services , while non-human wealth is the source of all other incomes ( that is , incomes received from the ownership of all kinds of assets , like government bonds , company stocks and shares , and property ) . |
| 14 | The waterproof feathers of many marine birds , underlain by a dense blanket formed from the aftershafts of individual feathers , enhance insulation and serve also to keep out wind and snow . |
| 15 | The island community Nichols studied traditionally spoke Gullah , a creole variety developed from the African/English pidgin of early slave plantations . |
| 16 | ‘ an attempt to span out 95 per cent of the quality of effluent at present discharged from the [ sewage ] works , taking out the fliers and the obviously bad discharges . |
| 17 | The Birmingham case differed from the Guildford one , he said , with evidence over and above uncorroborated statements . |
| 18 | If your edit was a deletion , this command inserts the text deleted from the Scrap into its original place in the document before deletion . |
| 19 | I accept that on the River Creedy the foam comes from effluent discharged from the three sewage treatment works upstream . |
| 20 | The dog 's god is a scrap dropped from the table . |
| 21 | Those taking part come from a variety of backgrounds and have spent several months or in some cases years receiving instruction in the faith , usually as part of a parish group . |
| 22 | The greater part come from the area around the Black Sea , concentrating especially on the Urartian Empire ; relations between the Greeks and the Thracians and Scythians ; and the art of Sarmatia . |
| 23 | Next , a story lifted from the Daily Mail about Professor Jerrold Petrofsky 's work in Dayton , Ohio , and the hope it gave to the paralysed PC Philip Olds . |
| 24 | Had the plea come from a budding starlet or perhaps an Italian supermodel , Jagger would have tripped over his lips in an effort to scrawl his name — and perhaps his phone number — in her book for posterity . |
| 25 | These are essentially the notes of an F♯ minor arpeggio approached from a semi-tone below . |
| 26 | Seaweed torn from the beach , all that distance away . |
| 27 | The Prince dropped from the saddle and ran into the house . |
| 28 | Strong , virile performances of two of the finest of all Tudor settings of the Mass come from the choir of St John 's College Cambridge on a label not normally associated with early music , mid-price EMI Eminence . |
| 29 | This technique originated from the need for correction , as colour dries differently from its appearance when wet . |
| 30 | It should be noted however that the latter recently succeeded in having a 7% resale royalty provision dropped from the federal Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 . |