Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [verb] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stories of entrepreneurial heroism , come from across the economy and across the country : professors who create whole new industries and become instant millionaires when their inventions go from the laboratory to the marketplace ; youthful engineers who quit their jobs , strike out on their own , and strike it rich . |
| 2 | Large European companies such as Nestle and Nutricia have the major share of the £3 billion world-wide market , with most of the milk for their products coming from the EC 's 25 million cows . |
| 3 | Their homes ranged from the large subterranean winter lodges of the Nivkhs to light summer huts of branches , reeds and bark which in some cases were raised on stilts . |
| 4 | ‘ The French , on the other hand , not only insist on a wide variety of fresh produce but demand that their chestnuts come from the Auvergne , their snails from Clermont , their frogs from Aurillac , capons from the Bresse , mutton from the Berry , asparagus from Lavris … . ’ |
| 5 | Instead , the females may help their young by placing their eggs where the minute hatchlings will find food just as soon as their heads emerge from the egg capsule . |
| 6 | They 'd have been to the Catholic service , had their sins forgiven from the week before , then started again . ’ |
| 7 | Their doubts arose from the inability to predict or control how the courts would use the power . |
| 8 | The Christian soldiers spent a thirsty and sleepless night , their eyes smarting from the smoke which blew into their camp as the enemy systematically set fire to the dry scrub around them . |
| 9 | Their eyes migrated from the sides of their heads ( where their cousins still keep them ) , to look forward with acute stereoscopic vision , and their brains began to mushroom in proportion to their body-weight . |
| 10 | Their designs range from the most intricate of geometric patterns , through wonderful pictorial motifs ( a possible subject for a future issue ? ) to the simplest of basic shapes and colours . |
| 11 | Their goals came from a Franck Sauzee penalty and two strikes from Alen Boksic . |
| 12 | Their feet shrank from the chill ice and they squawked with delight . |
| 13 | A variety of clowns with painted faces , pointed hats and patches on their costumes emerged from the memorial hall about 10.15am on Spring Bank Holiday Monday in 1988 . |
| 14 | Children were splashing in the beck , their cries echoing from the cove face , a courting couple were doing what courting couples have done since time immemorial , oblivious to the world and its wife passing by , and old ladies on a coach trip from Bradford were walking gently through the sunny afternoon , all grey hair , handbags and giggles . |
| 15 | The arrangements set up by the two Houses differed widely , but they have had in common that their powers derive from the practical assistance given by the United Kingdom Government in the prompt provision of legislative proposals and other Community documents , and from the Government undertaking not to agree any proposal in the Council of Ministers until parliamentary scrutiny is complete . |
| 16 | Where the board of directors exceed any limitation on their powers resulting from the ‘ objects of the company ’ , their actions may be ratified by a special resolution passed by a general meeting of members . |
| 17 | The men of the Somerset Levels paid a tithe called ‘ moor-penny ’ ; their cattle suffered from a disease called ‘ moor-evil ’ ; and in every pond and damp corner you will still see the jerking movements of the moorhen . |
| 18 | Friends say part of their problems stem from a bitter disagreement over Mia 's wish to adopt yet more children . |
| 19 | Indeed , most of their problems spring from the fact that for them the two functions are deeply connected . |
| 20 | Their difficulties stem from a number of different causes and may be temporary or permanent ; and they may be receiving their education , either outside the mainstream ( whether in special classes or units in ordinary schools , or in special schools ) or in ordinary classes in ordinary schools . |
| 21 | In many places , the Arab villages have disappeared , their names erased from the map . |
| 22 | In protest , both Ms Churchill and her director succeeded in legal action to have their names removed from the credits . |
| 23 | PEOPLE who seem to want their names to vanish from the voters ' roll are causing a borough council problems . |
| 24 | The lion part of their names comes from the ferocity with which they attack any ant that comes within range of their huge jaws . |
| 25 | Viktor had seen their bodies swinging from a gallows in a little hamlet after the Red Army had retaken it . |
| 26 | Whilst these alien prebendaries , rectors and abbeys took the main pickings , the ‘ great tithes ’ on corn and so on , their vicars drawn from the local people usually had to make do with the remainder . |
| 27 | Another — and this is one of the most perfect sights in all cycling — is the silken action of one of those men who can sit perfectly still , hands lightly on top of the handlebars , and spin his legs beneath him as though their motions came from a quite different source of power . |
| 28 | Those leaders have tried to keep their empires isolated from the Darwinian laws of survival , despite the fact that none of the ‘ gods ’ as presented by them has ever been able to set aside the inexorable operation of those laws . |
| 29 | As Table 2.1 shows the degree of dependence for small firms increases substantially when we recognize that for many of them the bulk of their orders come from a narrow range of just two or three customers . |
| 30 | There were two hand-hewn wooden chests , one filled with grain , the other with cloth : there were cooking pots of all sizes , with their bottoms blackened from the fire : there were shiny brass plates and bowls : there were iron cooking tripods , agricultural tools , winnowing fans , pestles , balls of wool and spindles , rugs , blankets , clothes : there was Kalchu 's locked box where he kept money and bits of broken jewellery . |