Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] from [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who took part ranged from both public and private sector architects , quantity surveyors , engineers , housing managers , university professors and lecturers , students , energy conservationists and representatives from tenants groups from the West of Scotland . |
| 2 | Klein 's emphasis on play develops from more pragmatic concerns . |
| 3 | The proportion averaged one in five for Inner London as a whole , but at borough level ranged from almost 30 per cent in Haringey to under 10 per cent for Kensington and Chelsea and was in fact highest for an outer borough — Brent — at 33.5 per cent . |
| 4 | Nearly all the original Italian families in the North-East come from just two small areas of Italy — Cassino in the south and Barga in Tuscany . |
| 5 | Under Campbell 's leadership the sanctioned strength of the force rose from around 700 in 1866 to over 1,600 in 1879 . |
| 6 | The plug fits into the aforementioned SRD-6SB energiser box from which a one-metre four-way cable fitted with 4mm plugs is taken to standard loudspeaker sockets on any amplifier rated from about 5 watts-per-channel upwards . |
| 7 | Versatec : A densely woven fabric made from highly breathable superfine fibres . |
| 8 | Tasty eating made from only natural ingredients , low in calories and high in protein . |
| 9 | Peace of mind costs from as little as £6.95 per month |
| 10 | In contrast , the average peroxide concentration increases from about 600 p.p.t.v. to about 900p.p.t.v. between mid morning and late afternoon , followed by an overnight loss . |
| 11 | You can also see that the S-wave speed decreases from about 50 km depth , and that beyond about 800 km it may not be possible for S waves to traverse the Moon . |
| 12 | In a report delivered to Congress and the White House , the Fund says the contamination came from about 4,300 rounds of armour-piercing shells fired from tanks and aircraft . |
| 13 | In the latest training exercise , aircrews with six months experience of the Hercules have been practising cargo drops from just two hundred and fifty feet . |
| 14 | They suggest that the number of political offenders from the intelligentsia rose from about 1000 in the 1860s to between 3000 and 4000 in each of the following three decades , before increasing very sharply in the period of the revolution of 1905 . |
| 15 | The photogenic windmill standing on a knoll at the north-west side of the village is a post mill dating from around 1680 , and is among the oldest in England . |
| 16 | This building is more Romanesque than other works ; it is cruciform and has a particularly fine galleried and arcaded apse dating from about 1140 . |
| 17 | This picture offers us a useful parallel with the Handel portrait dating from about 1728 and has the same kind of confidential candour . |
| 18 | Geological maps have been digitised together with the lithology and stratigraphy derived from over 1250 boreholes and geophysical logs from over 70 boreholes . |
| 19 | Norris points out that the lower jaw of the dolphin and many cetaceans is actually comprised of an extremely thin and expanded sheet of bone , possessing a minimum thickness varying from only 0.1 to 3 millimetres among the differently sized species . |
| 20 | The parents ' aim is straightforward : to get the child to desist from potentially dangerous behaviour , not to teach alternatives . |
| 21 | The colours of the Jersey are far more varied than those of most European breeds and the full range spreads from almost black to the palest greys and biscuits , with all kinds of fawns , browns , chestnuts , golds and smokes in between , sometimes broken with white , sometimes broadly whole-coloured but never solid : there is shading over the body so that the tones are generally darker on face , neck and shoulders ( especially in bulls ) , much darker on the front of the forelegs and much paler on the underparts in the typical manner of wild creatures such as deer . |
| 22 | The Heron Corn Mill on the river north of the village dates from around 1730 . |
| 23 | Now that roster stayed from about nineteen When was it ? |
| 24 | Three-quarters of human cereal consumption comes from only four crops . |
| 25 | Many areas of this terrain with gneiss rock outcrops amongst the windblown sand occur from about 10 or 15 metres elevation . |
| 26 | Problems of definition and calculation are considered for instance , current estimates for the ratio of public spending to National Income vary from as little as 25% to over 60% . |
| 27 | The pre-tax rate of profit for business rose from about 17 per cent in 1955 to 24 per cent in 1961 . |
| 28 | During the seventeenth century Norwich 's population rose from about 12,000 or 13,000 to around 30,000 , an extraordinary rate of expansion in a century where growth was generally sluggish after the 1630s . |
| 29 | CAMPOP 's researches have shown that during the 100 years after 1540 England 's population rose from about 2.75 millions to roughly 5 millions . |
| 30 | While the then UK Environment Secretary Chris Patten claimed that importing toxic waste prevented it being dumped in less industrialized countries which lacked the appropriate waste disposal technology , Greenpeace said that 80 per cent of the waste came from highly developed countries such as Switzerland , Belgium and the Netherlands . |