Example sentences of "[be] [verb] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Last night 400 bikers were drifting away from Pier Head to other ports after being told extra boats would be chartered from alternative ports today .
2 New evidence of ozone layer thinning in the Northern Hemisphere has spurred governments to tighten still further their timetables for CFCs to be withdrawn from industrial use .
3 Kleymenov , deputy head of General Headquarters of the Soviet Armed Forces in Ulan Bator , ended with an agreement in early March that all remaining Soviet troops would be withdrawn from Mongolian soil ; the operation would begin in 1991 and be completed by 1992 .
4 Government subsidies would be withdrawn from loss-making parastatals , which would have to become self-financing .
5 If the view condition is to be incremented from one state to another in a given number of steps , two complete sets of parameters need to be held .
6 Through her experiments it became evident that , despite the extensive elaboration of wine descriptors and the beliefs of the participants , neither lay persons nor experts were actually communicating knowledge about wines to their fellows in conversation , such that the wine referred to could be recognized from linguistic description alone ( Lehrer 1983 ) .
7 The Ryedale figure should be amended from twelve point zero four to sixteen point three two .
8 The Selby figure should be amended from thirteen point three to fourteen point two six and the York figure from sixty one point six to ninety six point eight eight and the Greater York figure from eighty seven point three to one two seven point six two .
9 Consequently thousands of workers may be sacked from one day to the next .
10 Although Catholics are not cited in the Smolensk Archive with reference to the taking of church valuables , their activity can be traced from other sources .
11 They can be traced from one frame to another :
12 He also pointed out , though somewhat less convincingly , that some geological structures could be traced from one continent to another across what are now wide stretches of ocean .
13 It is not our normal view of it , but it is no less real and can not be dismissed from human experience .
14 Caroline 's comment : Faith is right to think that breast or formula milk is the best choice for Jake until he 's a year old although cow 's milk can be given from six months .
15 Finally , in respect of the Wandjina , it appears to be more than chance that the word ‘ Wandjina ’ — sometimes spelled ‘ Wondjina ’ — can be formed from two Sanskrit words , ‘ Vand ’ and ‘ Jina ’ .
16 Round counters can then be formed from different colours , and two cubes for the dice made from the reserved piece of white fondant .
17 By taking the duck 's eye as a centre and developing a spiral out from it then altering direction for the bill the duck 's head can be formed from these rhythms ; in this case the ‘ noble ’ profile of the pochard .
18 The hydrocarbon prospects of the Variscan thrust belt in southern England can be examined from two angles : by analogy with results in the better explored lateral equivalents of the belt on the Continent and more particularly in eastern North America , and by an attempt to reconstruct the geometry and burial history of the pre-Permian rocks in the area of interest from the limited local clues available .
19 The second example of how the historical transformations underpinning modern society may be examined from unconventional perspectives which emphasize consumption as well as production comes from a series of studies in American historical archaeology .
20 The advantages and disadvantages of objectives can be examined from several viewpoints but we will confine ourselves to three : the practical , ethical and educational .
21 Another was that , while Recommendations 7 and 8 had proposed higher payments to tutors , the Report had seen 75% of teaching costs as the maximum grant available , leaving the prospect of a widening gap to be filled from voluntary sources — 25% of a salary of ( say ) £700 being greater than 25% of one of £600 .
22 The committee pointed out that no great increase in costs would be incurred , because at that time , each vacancy had to be filled from nursing institutes ( agencies ) at a cost of 2½ guineas a week .
23 There is , however , one theoretical criterion by which rias , which have been later infilled , can be differentiated from lower reaches aggraded solely by the deposition of river alluvium : it lies in the suggestion that , if a ria or estuary had existed , the old shores at the side should show signs of marine cliffing .
24 Between 1977–89 discharges due to hemorrhagic necrotising pancreatitis and pancreatic abscess ( together considered to represent severe pancreatitis ) could be differentiated from mild pancreatitis .
25 Intellectual work of design , conception and communication would be differentiated from manual work .
26 First , the cost of re-negotiating working conditions is neatly avoided ; and secondly , superior managers can be differentiated from inferior ones .
27 Clearly , then , if human sociability is based , not on social instincts as such , but on the inhibition , redirection and sublimation of anti-social instinctual drives , it is obvious why these redirecting , inhibiting and sublimating mechanisms must be shielded from conscious thought and further interference .
28 Good marketing means that time will have to be found to listen and respond to what others have to say , time and attention will need to be diverted from other activities .
29 It has a steadier will less likely to be tainted by bias , weakness or impetuosity , less likely to be diverted from right reason by temptations or pressures .
30 If a country is under threat from aggressive neighbours , scarce financial resources may be diverted from economic development programmes to defence needs , e.g. the importation of military equipment .
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