Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Particularly bold demands were said to have come from students close to the Liberian border . |
2 | The small tools have come from yards all over the country . |
3 | Birds of prey must be attracted from miles away by the spectacular aerobatics . |
4 | An extant letter of 2 May , written from Northampton nominally by the prince , requests the archbishop of Canterbury to see to the safe-keeping of the great seal , the royal treasure and the Tower of London . |
5 | An extant letter of 2 May , written from Northampton nominally by the prince , requests the archbishop of Canterbury to see to the safe-keeping of the great seal , the royal treasure and the Tower of London . |
6 | Acting on this belief , he has : taken one of the most outspoken current-affairs programmes , ‘ Vzglyad ’ ( Outlook ) , off the air ; confiscated the property of the independent news agency Interfax , which was saved from closure only by the intervention of Boris Yeltsin and the Moscow city council ; suspended a free-thinking television news show called ‘ TSN ’ ; and consigned Radio Russia , Mr Yeltsin 's mouthpiece , to a frequency where most of the population can not hear it begin its broadcasts with phrases like ‘ In another move reminiscent of Stalinism , President Gorbachev today … ’ |
7 | Gone was the flattened-out effect ; a more contoured look was possible with these sticks that could be bought from chemists all over the country . |
8 | In 1774–80 for every British seaman who lost his life in battle , fifteen died of disease , while in 1779 Britain was preserved from invasion partly by the scurvy which swept the French and Spanish squadrons then for a time in control of the Channel . |
9 | Wine is exported from areas all over the world . |
10 | The lichen is gathered from rocks late in the summer , dried in the sun , then it is placed with the wool in alternating layers in a large pot . |
11 | Hundreds of thousands of personal pledges received from countries all over the world will be attached to the Tree of Life as a powerful visual expression of the concern of individuals for the state of the Earth and their commitment to protect it . |
12 | Offers of help for the Bosnian evacuees have been received from countries all over the world including Britain . |
13 | Hidden from view upstairs in the house is the room where Lawrence of Arabia used to stay , with its photos , books and , now silently put away in a box , Shaw 's dentures . |
14 | In navigating the corner he had walked from shade straight into the blinding-white glare of the sun and , as her gallop had ceased , so the man also stopped dead , apparently dazzled despite the protection of a pair of sepia-tinted gold-rimmed glasses . |
15 | Threshing machinery was driven by horse-wheel when mechanical threshing was introduced from Scotland late in the eighteenth century with the development of the threshing drum , to relieve men from the real hard labour of threshing with flails , although in areas where the straw was required for thatching , hand-threshing continued long after the appearance of machinery . |
16 | The period from the building of the first cotton mills up to a restrictive parliamentary act of 1816 was the era of the factory apprentices — pauper children brought from workhouses all over the country to be indentured to misery . |
17 | It was a pegged-down contest and Tony , whose weight helped the Personal Members Red Team into top spot , fished from rocks close to the ‘ T ’ junction using lugworm and mackerel . |
18 | ‘ It must be stressed , however , ’ we noted , ‘ that the book has an optimistic tone , asserting that there is still much to be gained from life even in the quickening twilight years . ’ |
19 | Hundreds of do-it-yourself cement mixers have been removed from shops tonight after the discovery of electrical faults which could kill . |
20 | Roach being taken from swims just above the by pass bridge . |
21 | The original was discovered as one of 115,000 samples taken from plants all over the world . |
22 | Many lived in squalor and poverty , went short of food when times were hard and were kept from starvation only by the meagre income they gained from non-farming pursuits , whether sidework or the labour of family members working further afield on a temporary or permanent basis . |
23 | I said well I , I 'm a confident cook , I 've cooked from meals all round the world you know , and she s and erm , she said oh that 's worth knowing , now the |
24 | However , shot 2 can be taken from the ‘ wrong ’ side of the path if it is aimed from D directly on the line of the girl 's approach ; this frontal angle neutralises her previous left-to-right movement across the screen in the minds of the audience . |
25 | Over forty-five gigantic works of Social Realism have been dismantled from sites all over the city and hauled to a 1.5 hectare sculpture park on the southern outskirts of the Hungarian capital . |
26 | Laser printer toner cartridges can be ordered from Stationery only by the persons responsible for each machine . |
27 | It had been released from Atlantis earlier in the week . |