Example sentences of "[vb past] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The joy and gaiety seeped from that hall as the masked player 's irritation became obvious . |
| 2 | Probably George 's best performance for Palace was a truly excellent hat-trick in awful conditions when Palace rallied from 1–3 down at half-time against Southend on 13 November 1926 , to win by 5–3 . |
| 3 | Like a ping-pong ball he bounced from one emotion to another , knowing what he wanted but knowing also that it did not exist . |
| 4 | Prior to the launch of Compaq 's DeskPro/M series he upgraded from 286s to 386SX computers by shuffling the older machines on to secretaries ' desks . |
| 5 | As he peered through his mind 's eye it seemed rather that the deepest water changed into a different type of material which sank down and down forever , tossed by its own fierce storms , swayed by its own currents that were swifter than any ocean 's — until far off elsewhere there surfaced from this immaterium yet other seas of life , which were other worlds . |
| 6 | Between 1973 and 1985 the proportion of women working outside the home rose from 56 to 63 per cent . |
| 7 | The shift from manufacturing to service industries has been even more marked in terms of jobs : in 1950 manufacturing employed 35 per cent of the total in civil employment but this had fallen to 26 per cent by 1981 ; at the same time , jobs in the service sector rose from 47 per cent to 60 per cent of total employment . |
| 8 | Census data for a group of seven countries , Brazil , Chile , Colombia , El Salvador , Honduras , Peru and Venezuela , for the 1960s and 1970s , show that the number ( if agricultural units of less than 20 hectares in these countries rose from 4.7 million to 6.5 million , that is by 38.5 per cent ( Ortega 1982 ) . |
| 9 | Between 1831 and 1870 the number of inhabitants rose from 833,000 to 2,000,000 , an increase due mainly to immigration from the provinces , for within the city marriages were few and late . |
| 10 | Amongst party identifiers as a whole , the difference between Conservative and Labour optimism rose from 93 per cent in the Pre-Campaign Wave to 108 per cent by the end of the campaign . |
| 11 | In the period 1972–83 , government transfers to companies ( of which state enterprises absorbed about three-quarters ) rose from 8.8 per cent to 12.5 per cent of government expenditure . |
| 12 | Its population rose from 729 in 1801 to 2,602 in 1891 . |
| 13 | Unemployment rose from 1.2 million ( 9.5 per cent ) in the second quarter of 1929 to 3 million ( 22.7 per cent ) in the third quarter of 1932 . |
| 14 | For example , in the twelve years between 1969 and 1981 , the number of students on full-time and sandwich courses in Welsh establishments rose from 12,390 to 25,377 , an increase of more than 100 per cent . |
| 15 | Indeed , instead of declining , the effect of political interest on awareness of ‘ other ’ Conservative politicians actually rose from 32 per cent to 37 per cent between the Pre-Campaign Wave and the end of the campaign , and its effect on awareness of ‘ other ’ Labour politicians declined only from 38 per cent to 34 per cent . |
| 16 | Cases of CJD rose from 32 in 1990/91 to 48 in 1992/93 but the rise " is not statistically significant " and reflects " inevitable fluctuations from year to year " , say researchers at the national CJD surveillance unit in Edinburgh . |
| 17 | For example , between 1980 and 1990 the average advance to income ratio for first-time buyers rose from 1.67 to 2.19 , while the average percentage advance to first-time buyers rose from 73.8 to 82.5 over the same period . |
| 18 | For example , between 1970 and 1982 the ratio of women to men achieving two or more A-levels rose steadily from 75:100 to 95:100 and the corresponding ratio for university entrants rose from 40:100 to 70:100 . |
| 19 | Unemployment rose from 2.3 per cent in 1965 to 3.8 per cent in 1967 . |
| 20 | From 1971 to 1989 the number of people insured with the largest insurers , British United Provident Association ( BUPA ) , Private Patients ' Plan ( PPA ) and the Western Provident Association ( WPA ) , rose from 2.1 million to 5.2 million ( Central Statistical Office , 1990 ) . |
| 21 | In Spain , unemployment rose from 2.1 per cent in 1972 to over 17 per cent in 1982 . |
| 22 | The Sheikha rose from one of the couches to greet me . |
| 23 | The number of zones with a referral rate below 75/1000 registered patients rose from one ( representing two practices ) to four zones ( 17 practices ) after the guidelines were introduced . |
| 24 | The number of radio licences rose from two to eight million between 1926 and 1939 with 71 per cent of all households having a wireless by the Second World War . |
| 25 | Thus , from 1986 to 1989 , the number of NGO-supported health workers rose from sixty four to 163 ( twelve and twenty six percent of the total ) ( Ibid . ) . |
| 26 | This arrangement still stands , although a clear distinction between the two companies can no longer be made ; in 1972 Harlequin and Mills and Boon merged , and with that merger , the mass market for paperback romance really took off ; between 1972 and 1974 , sales of Mills and Boon titles rose from 27 million to 40 million . |
| 27 | Curiosity and partner 's use both fell dramatically from 44 and 50 per cent to 19 and 38 per cent respectively , whilst ‘ peer-group pressure ’ rose from 0 per cent in the known sector females to 24 per cent amongst the snowball sample females . |
| 28 | According to the census of 1851 , nearly one quarter of all women over 30 were unmarried ; between 1851 and 1871 the number of single females above the age of 15 rose from 2,765,000 to 3,229,000 . |
| 29 | Inflation rose from 1.3 per cent in 1988 to 5 per cent in 1989 while the new Taiwan dollar was exchanged at US$1.00=NT$26.00 as against US$1.00=NT$40.00 in 1985 . |
| 30 | The most notable inclusions in the list were Lazard Brothers and Hambros , which rose from eleventh to second place and nineteenth to third place respectively . |