Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | No longer was it a plan calmly discussed from a safe distance . |
| 2 | Curwen 's interest in agriculture probably dated from a long journey through Europe following the death of his first wife in 1778 . |
| 3 | Then the sound of the bells faded and , like water suddenly released from a dam , vigour and brawl and bustle flooded back into the scene . |
| 4 | Nor is the dragon entirely inappropriate in a story relating to a king supposedly descended from a sea-monster . |
| 5 | Hence the excuse often heard from a student ‘ But I am sure that I learnt that in the school ! ’ |
| 6 | Both measures are retrospective to 1 January 1993 ; that is , export licences may be issued for objects ‘ lawfully and definitively located ’ in a member state on that date , and the restitution procedure may be started for an object unlawfully removed from a member state on or after that date . |
| 7 | Of this Estabrook had perfect proof when , by chance , he suggested , but looked , Charlie thought , like a man just risen from a fever . |
| 8 | As the Thatcher government gradually recovered from a shaky and difficult start to retain power by a hugely increased majority in 1983 , followed by another overwhelming electoral triumph ( in seats if not in votes ) in 1987 and as the spectacle was observed in 1989 of a Prime Minister remaining in unchallenged power for over a decade , comparable to Lord Liverpool if not yet Robert Walpole in the past , the belief took hold that the values and style of modern Britain had been transformed . |
| 9 | Southey once sheltered from a storm here , and wrote a bad sonnet ‘ by the alehouse fire |
| 10 | When the reactor was restarted a jet of steam promptly issued from a wrongly adjusted valve in the secondary cooling system , and in the ensuring emergency shutdown a gasket in the primary cooling system gave way to deposit 3500 litres of radioactive water in the reactor 's basement . |
| 11 | This would have had the effect of changing the basis of compensation for land publicly acquired from a market value ( net of tax ) basis to a current use value basis , that is , its value in its existing use , taking no account of any increase in value actually or potentially conferred by the grant of a planning permission for new development . |
| 12 | In the US , ANSI has formed X3J19 Xbase , a new technical committee which will work on the advancement of the Xbase application development language originally derived from a mainframe-based package at the Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena , California . |
| 13 | These are grades of weight and height , from a formula originally derived from a Belgian scientist , Quetelet . |
| 14 | That is thought to mean in excess of £4 million for a player now recovered from a broken ankle and the fulcrum of Wednesday 's own plans to win the Premier League . |
| 15 | Citing academic analysis , the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit took into account in considering a plea of forum non conveniens the perceived cost and difficulty of proceeding under the Convention , and noted that the breadth of material ordinarily expected from a full-fledged American-style discovery deposition might be constricted under its rules . |