Example sentences of "[vb past] from the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The problems stemmed from the presence of nitrates and pesticide pollution of drinking water [ see also p. 37209 ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Officially , those of you excluded from the league of designers are not meant to join in this day-long visual and alimentary orgy . |
| 6 | ROI is here at its most valuable as a familiar , easily understood diagnostic tool for appraising the short-term economic performance of an organizational unit such as an SBU or division , decoupled from the evaluation of managers ' performance . |
| 7 | The most consistently outspoken broadsides against the old Establishment came from the Institute of Directors , a once moribund association of small businessmen and oddball intellectuals , which revived itself by taking up Thatcherism almost before the term had been coined . |
| 8 | The tragedy at the Heysel stadium in Brussels , for example , came from the crush of spectators fleeing from the drunken charges of Liverpool fans . |
| 9 | They were rampantly influenced , but their originality came from the collection of influences and the way they interpreted them . |
| 10 | Something like a moan came from the crowd of watchers . |
| 11 | Of the growth approximately 9.5bn came from the inflow of funds from contributions ; the difference ( -3.2bn ) reflects a 2 per cent fall in the value of existing assets . |
| 12 | The comments most worthy of note on the subject of undertakings came from the Conference of Presidents Secretaries of Local Law Societies who suggested the following measures : — |
| 13 | After the battle Orc tribes came from the Forest of Shadows , swelling Azhag 's horde still further , but the Count of Ostland built his defences well and Wolfenburg held out . |
| 14 | Bergson turned from the bank of screens that took up one whole wall of the long room and got up from his chair . |
| 15 | The din and chaos continued for some time after help arrived from the êchelon of spectators , Charles and Peregrine among them . |
| 16 | Once more , Huy had no opportunity to see out , but guessed from the number of twists and turns it made that they were taking a deliberately tortuous route . |
| 17 | The charge for the year also benefited from the absence of contributions of £0.3m for past service . |
| 18 | The Agreement shall apply to any claim brought against an occupier of land if the mud is deposited by his own vehicles and his Insurers grant indemnity on the basis that the accident arose from the use of vehicles they insure . |
| 19 | It clearly arose from the line of springs issuing from the rocky hillside , and also from the narrow crossing below the church over the otherwise broad flood plain or reputed lake . |
| 20 | The discovery arose from the investigation of substances related to chlorpromazine . |
| 21 | It originated from the crossing of Shorthorns with the local Mancelle from 1830 and it used to be known as the Durham-Mancelle . |
| 22 | Howling a fervent execrating battlecry , Bjortson broke from the pack of cadets and sprinted towards the alien prisoner . |
| 23 | At Giza some stones fell from the Pyramid of Cheops and stones were displaced from the side of the Pyramid of Khephren that faces the Sphinx , leaving fissures . |
| 24 | I 'm at the moment chairing a university working party on sexual harassment erm and what this working party erm intends to do is to try to survey experience gathered from the operation of codes and the appointment of people in college with a special responsibility for this sort of thing over the past few years , to see what we can learn from experience , so I 'd want to reserve judgement at the moment on what this committee might recommend is the best way forwards . |
| 25 | On their way out of the church , Harry took from the rack of postcards one reproducing Sedley 's inscription . |
| 26 | Where land was readily acquired so that the farmstead could be enlarged in a logical way , rather than the haphazard development which resulted from the erection of buildings on whatever sites became available , individual buildings within the grouping were sited so as to maximise efficiency . |
| 27 | So when someone emerged from the scrum of drivers meeting various flights and waved a sign in our face , I sort of pushed him away . |
| 28 | Vologsky emerged from the mass of details as an almost archetypal defector . |
| 29 | He could distinguish , when he emerged from the fringe of trees , the toothed edge of the curtain wall , its merlons jagged against the stars ; but between him and them , breaking the serpent-line that coiled round the entire rock , the dark shape of the church loomed . |
| 30 | The Doctor emerged from the tangle of lights and snapped his fingers in front of her face . |