Example sentences of "[verb] from the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men descended to the galleries on ladders , often made from the timbers of wrecked ships , and ore was hauled to the surface in iron buckets called ‘ kibbles ’ , and sorted from the rock by women and children . |
| 2 | Therefore , if the dust ages are correct then little of it could have come from the sort of rocks found in the lunar samples . |
| 3 | All but three of the 34 residents at the Victoria Residential Home on Barton Street have come from the collection of buildings which make up Aycliffe Hospital . |
| 4 | Mountains on the other side of the valley rose from the mist like islands , and here and there flecks of cloud , as pale and fine as sea-spray , trailed across their sombre , wooded slopes . |
| 5 | We walked down an unsteady plank into the Sudan : a desert plain , dotted with scrub , stretching away to steep hills which rose from the sand like islands from a sea . |
| 6 | This remains an unanswered question until such organisms are released and monitored but it does require a cautious and controlled approach if lessons are to be learnt from the often detrimental effects that have accrued from the introduction of organisms into non-indigenous environments as biological controls or as inadvertent introductions . |
| 7 | Will emphasis shift from the provision of services with a high value-added component to the bulk handling of a large number of fairly simple enquiries ? |
| 8 | The two-volume octavo work of 1724 , known as The Gardeners and Florists Dictionary , is Omitted from the enumeration of editions , the folio work of 1731 being classed as the first . |
| 9 | In resigning the South Bronx district seat which he had held since 1978 , Garcia followed the example of fellow Democrat Mario Biaggi who had resigned from the House of Representatives in August 1988 after being convicted in connection with the Wedtech affair [ ibid . ] . |
| 10 | On the same day as the announcement of Dole 's departure , an Ohio Republican , Donald E. " Buzz " Lukens , resigned from the House of Representatives with immediate effect . |
| 11 | But then they had seen a number of man-things leap from the line of vehicles in front of the blazing building , and spread out in a loose line . |
| 12 | Some of his little ways had indeed been quite surprising in the past , seeing that they ranged from the quartering of badgers , rescued from a baiting , in her coal-shed to the introduction of separate limbs and even of whole orphans for dissection when they were in good supply towards the end of winter ; but she had grown used to them little by little . |
| 13 | Francisco Ramos da Cruz moved from the Ministry of Fisheries ( where he was replaced by Maria de Fatima Jardim ) to become the governor of Cuanza Sul province . |
| 14 | Other Essex groups to benefit from the Foundation for Sports and Arts grants are : |
| 15 | The problems stemmed from the presence of nitrates and pesticide pollution of drinking water [ see also p. 37209 ] . |
| 16 | An article in Izvestiya of Aug. 17 commented that their failure to create a structured opposition stemmed from the conflict of interests between enterprise directors and the parliamentarians who had organized both conferences . |
| 17 | The foreign exchange crisis , the country 's second in three months , stemmed from the delay in negotiations with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) over a US$2,000 million standby credit [ see p. 38006 ] . |
| 18 | There is not much sign that the King did in fact profit from the sale of offices ; but others certainly could and did . |
| 19 | From the Micks returning from the bar with rows of slurping porter glasses clasped against their chests we get some hard glances . |
| 20 | ‘ The dangerous dreamed melon of the sage ’ which turned out to come from the dream of Descartes . |
| 21 | He did n't kiss Lyn , he never touched women , or men either for that matter , but he seemed to make a principle of shrinking from the touch of women . |
| 22 | In the example of a factory , completely different assessments may be expected from the board of directors , shareholders , management , workers , and shop-stewards . |
| 23 | Within the mud is a scattering of angular boulders — rock fragments that have been carried from the land by icebergs and dropped as the bergs weather and melt . |
| 24 | Benefits claimed from the use of word-processors include : |
| 25 | Some spits grow from the mainland towards islands , with the result that the islands become tied to the land by shingle bars , which are known as tombolos . |
| 26 | Officially , those of you excluded from the league of designers are not meant to join in this day-long visual and alimentary orgy . |
| 27 | You 'll be hard pressed to choose from the array of goods displayed in the shops lining the main street . |
| 28 | Malabsorbed polysaccharides are fermented to short chain fatty acids which are rapidly absorbed from the colon in humans , providing 90–240 kcal/day in normal subjects — that is , 5–10% of daily energy requirements . |
| 29 | It is easy to give examples where individual outsiders benefit from the activity of insiders ; the fact remains that the expected rate of return to outsiders on stock market investments ( even to the large institutional investors such as pensions funds and mutual funds ) is lowered by insider dealing . |
| 30 | The first statement remains intact in its vagueness and generality , but the casual reader might assume from the wealth of clauses and subordinate clauses that it has been argued and proved . |