Example sentences of "from the [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eighteen schools are participating in the three performances , and invention from the six gathered in St Edmundsbury Cathedral on Tuesday ranged from dialogue with the odd splash of singing and recorder-music to fully composed masques using all available resources . |
| 2 | A decline of the sculptor 's reputation derived not only from the political discredit into which the regimes of the years before 1914 had fallen , but also from a distaste for allegory , and a revulsion from naturalist sculpture ( which the young Brancusi expressed forcefully as a dislike for ‘ beefsteak ’ ) . |
| 3 | Home Office officials have admitted combing through dusty immigration files from the 1960s looking for evidence that Mr Clinton considered applying for British citizenship to avoid the Vietnam draft . |
| 4 | From the Chansons and from the provençal lays of the troubadours , we learn a great deal about the aspirations of society of this age . |
| 5 | Despite this recent acceleration , the ratio of car-free to car streets can not be very different from the 1:1563 reported by Roberts in 1981 . |
| 6 | The bulk of the issue is devoted to an acrimonious article full of names and packdrill , a furious rebuttal from the accused , a reply from the accusers , and , tucked away at the back , a letter from the accused replying to the reply . |
| 7 | He was less than tidy over the stretch and then , after an indecently long wait to begin his final round , dropped three shots in a row from the 2nd to finish with a 71 and a 272 total . |
| 8 | And slowly one pieces together from the records , from the archaeological finds in the local museum , and from the evidence of one 's own eyes , what has happened . |
| 9 | In China jade was from the first shaped for symbolic rather than industrial ends . |
| 10 | We take a discrete time model where the individual lives for two periods , working in the first , using savings from the first to provide for retirement , and there are no bequests . |
| 11 | Vertical equity is the Robin Hood principle of taking from the rich to give to the poor . |
| 12 | On the Ghosh approach an accused who steals from the rich to give to the poor must be acquitted if he believes that reasonable people would regard what he did as not dishonest . |
| 13 | The wheel dates from the 1955 Campaign for the Congress of the People which drew up and adopted the Freedom Charter . |
| 14 | In July the company had said that it then expected 32,000 people to take redundancy this year , up from the 20,000 forecast at the beginning of the year : now it says it expects 40,000 to go , 8000 of them in Europe — of which the UK share is 600 , and 4,000 of them in Asia . |
| 15 | In fact , the choice is so wide that your problem may be one of bewilderment — how are you to pick the ideal model from the dozens competing for your custom ? |
| 16 | He joined Glenn Miller 's Army Air Force Band and from the mid-40s played with Benny Goodman , Eddie Condon , Jack Teagarden and Earl Hines . |
| 17 | It would enable a third State to stand aloof from the deliberate fashioning of community policy through the treaty-making process , while simultaneously making claims of the creation of norms of customary law . |
| 18 | Walkers on the Three Peaks marathon usually start from Horton in Ribblesdale and do the journey anti-clockwise , visiting Penyghent , Whernside and Ingleborough in that order and returning to Horton from the last named by a route that approximates to a beeline . |
| 19 | Cherrykino , carrying the colours of Anne Duchess of Westminster , is a highly progressive chaser and turned over odds-on Milford Quay when running on gamely from the last to prevail by a length . |
| 20 | Analysts had been bullish on the indicator ahead of the announcement , but in the event , the US Semiconductor Industry Association 's book-to-bill ratio for February fell to a still very healthy 1.18 , from 1.20 in January , the latter figure revised upwards from the 1.19 reported at the time . |
| 21 | Rows of the many splendoured jugs which became something of a trademark in her work dangle from the ceiling beams , and one of her own last canvases from the 1980s rests on a paint-splattered easel at the window . |
| 22 | A subset of 24 films from the 60 used in Study 2 were used for 12 different judgment tasks in a study on risk perception ( Groeger & Chapman , 1992 , in preparation a ) . |
| 23 | It seems more likely , however , that the banks who received income from the landed re-lent within that class and contributed more to agricultural than industrial progress . |
| 24 | Die studies become even more useful when , as often happens , two coins have been struck from the same die on one side but a different one on the other side . |
| 25 | A single 3–2–0 chub to legered maggot from the next occupied below the winner took Jeff Perrin ( Shakespeare ) into second and helped him to forth in the Kamasan Matchman of the Year table . |
| 26 | It is right to say , ‘ If Christ is in you , ’ and in the next verse to say , ‘ If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you , ’ for it is by means of the Spirit , the Spirit of God , the Spirit of Christ , that Jesus makes his home in the believer . |
| 27 | ‘ If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you , he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit which dwells in you ’ ( 8:11 ) . |
| 28 | Dazzle features Simon Wright as hero Sam Galactic , with Cally Hatton as Dazzle , Greg Wright as Mr Speak , son of Spock , and the adventuring crew of the starship Sunburst I. The crew tours the universe and meet aliens like Slimy Swampers , Bolshi 's from the planet Red Star , and , in a flashback in time , meet nasty greasers from the '60s led by Sue Zuki . |
| 29 | The establishment of a core group of drawings to be used as a starting point for the attribution of other sheets on stylistic grounds remains the principal method of research and Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that the present exhibition has contributed to the furtherance of this work which , in the case of the British Museum , has whittled down the number of sheets from the 106 accepted by Benesch to eighty-four . |
| 30 | There is no corresponding concept in Western science , and much confusion has resulted from the naive equating of this ‘ energy ’ with the concepts of physiology ( such as nerve impulses ) and physics ( heat , electricity , electromagnetic radiation ) . |