Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to opening up the northern prairies , it produced a land boom in northern British Columbia , where land values rose from 50 cents an acre to 30–60 dollars an acre in the space of a few years , and created a new Pacific port at Prince Rupert , 500 miles north of Vancouver , a new town where the population reached 5,000 in the space of two years . |
| 2 | The shells of shops and houses rose from scrubby grasslands . |
| 3 | Opinions ranged from outright support to outright opposition , with many respondents expressing concern or seeking information about particular aspects of the application . |
| 4 | All three cytokines were expression products purified from recombinant Escherichia coli ( E coli ) strains . |
| 5 | The onset of gas generation from Westphalian A and B Strata occurred from late Jurassic to early Cretaceous times with the present day gas generation threshold computed to be at + 10000 ft ( 3000 m ) . |
| 6 | Skylark-like song , including both frequent notes mimicked from other birds , and its own jangling corn-bunting-like ‘ kleetra ’ call note , uttered either in high wide circular song flight , or lower down with curious slow wing action , or even on ground . |
| 7 | Groups ranged from small numbers of participants up to groups of over ninety . |
| 8 | By 1964 there were 4.4 million TV sets ; a second TV channel began transmitting programming in April ; the amount of programming transmitted by the two channels rose from 4000 hours annually to 7400 hours ( 1964–7 ) ; the number of TV sets rose by a million a year between 1964 and 1967 . |
| 9 | Sequential hybridizations of the same membrane with human and hamster genomic DNA indicated that most human and hamster Sfi I fragments ranged from 250 kb to 600 kb in size . |
| 10 | The total of forty-two sins ranged from serious crimes like murder to minor wrongdoings like listening to gossip . |
| 11 | The wages of building craftsmen rose from 1s 4d ( 6½p ) a day in the 1750s to 2s ( 10p ) in the mid 1770s and 2s 6d ( 12½p ) around 1790 , with the most distinct upward trend peaking around 1780 . |
| 12 | In both directions — south towards the Grand Parade and Patrick Street , and north to the quays — other horse-drawn vehicles threaded their way , wheels screaming , drivers cursing and cracking whips , the while throngs of Friday shoppers darted from one side of the unpaved road to the other , dodging between carts and traps and under horses ' necks as if they were n't there at all . |
| 13 | In particular Jones had a complete count of neutrons and also of their energies , so he could tell which neutrons came from cosmic rays and which were possibly the result of fusion . |
| 14 | The winners came from High Coniscliffe Primary School . |
| 15 | Such romantic libretti required a choreographer to have a greater understanding of the significance of each movement , particularly if the protagonists came from different classes or environments as in La Sylphide ( a farmer and a fairy ) or Giselle ( a count and a peasant ) . |
| 16 | Remember how many goals came from that partnership on the right . |
| 17 | Amazingly , all four goals came from free kicks , with Brentford 's transfer-seeking defender Bates heading the first after 13 minutes from a Billy Manuel free kick . |
| 18 | Amazingly all four goals came from free kicks with Brentford 's transfer seeking defender Bates heading the first after 13 minutes from a Billy Manuel free kick . |
| 19 | The funds came from various sources , including the Vereniging Rembrandt , the Rijksmuseumstichtung , and Prins Bernhardfonds , although the museum still must raise some DFl.2 million it borrowed to support the purchase . |
| 20 | Many of the graphite pits were in the Western and Southern Provinces , and a large proportion of miners who worked in other districts came from these areas . |
| 21 | Two imperatives flowed from this perspective . |
| 22 | Prior to the commencement of the Sicàn Archaeological Project by Dr Shimada in 1978 the Sicàn ( also known as Lambayeque ) culture was known mainly through gold objects such as funerary masks or ceremonial knives looted from deep tombs in the area . |
| 23 | In 1846 he joined the committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society , of which he was president for eighteen years , and immediately came to public attention as principal signer of a set of ‘ resolutions and a memorial [ to MPs ] adopted at a meeting of gentlemen deputed from various parts of the United Kingdom to represent the sentiments of the inhabitants in their respective districts , on the subject of colonial slavery ’ . |
| 24 | They took her to the Palais des Papes in Avignon where , on a warm evening , they saw a floodlit trench production of Macbeth , the Théâtre Nationale Populaire , with Jean Vilar , drawn and romantic , more damned troubadour than Scots butcher , and Maria Casares , whitely elegant and frenzied , washing blood from her hands whilst angelic trumpets shrilled from high battlements . |
| 25 | So the insufficiency of gold reserves resulted from higher volume of trade , not higher prices . |
| 26 | The blobs went from deep orange to bright yellow . |
| 27 | They always used mandolins , and ukuleles too , and the ukuleles went from little ones through to eight-string ones and baritone ukuleles like big mandocellos , all related . |
| 28 | Taken together , these results suggest that proteins synthesized from pre-existing mRNA are required for the maintenance of LTP during the first few hours ( corresponding to LTP2 in the classification shown in Box 1 ) . |
| 29 | It was perhaps inevitable that one of the benefits that both the wives and husbands saw from this approach was a reduction in stock losses . |
| 30 | An interesting difference between B.Eds and PGCEs emerged from this question on modes of assessment . |