Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] from [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Astor 's North-West Fur Company had a small fleet of sailing ships on Lake Erie , transporting furs from warehouses on the Canadian shore to ports at the east end of the lake . |
| 2 | The isolation of ephedrine from ma huang in 1923 and more recently a group of antimalarial drugs qing hao from Artemisia in the 1970s has exemplified the important compounds in the armamentarium of traditional Chinese herbs . |
| 3 | Richard was sitting in the middle of the back seat , separating Peter from Kate in the other corner . |
| 4 | Heading north from Chesterfield on the road to Dronfield , with urban sprawl spreading its way along the valley of the River Drone , you would hardly guess that high on Barrow Hill a mile away stands Hagge Farm , as lost and as completely rural as anything in the country . |
| 5 | to deal with entries entailing exemption from part of the Course on behalf of the Polytechnic Dispensations Committee , to set appropriate conditions for such entries and to report them to the Dispensations Committee ; and |
| 6 | Carl N. Degler , using evidence from women of the urban middle class in America ( the class to which Acton 's work was directed ) , together with a survey of married women 's sexual attitudes begun in the 1890s by Dr C. D. Mosher , argues that it was more an ideology seeking to be established than the prevalent view or practice of even middle-class women . |
| 7 | In 1944 , at the age of 21 , he joined the Orient Line vessel , Orion , moving troops from Liverpool to the Mediterranean . |
| 8 | In Austria , certain IVF doctors have been buying eggs from women in the public at large . |
| 9 | On Nov. 15 former Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams was put on probation for two years , ordered to devote up to 100 hours to community service and fined a token $50 for unlawfully witholding information from Congress in the Iran-contra scandal [ see p. 38521 ] . |
| 10 | He 's understood to have been smuggling cigarettes from Gibraltar into the Spanish Enclave of Ceuto . |
| 11 | Or the Austere Poetaster 's Ramble , in imitation of John Wilmot , second Earl of Rochester [ q.v. ] , and The True Protestant Account of the Burning of London , as an ‘ antidote ’ to a tract absolving papists from complicity in the great fire of London . |
| 12 | There is surely a significant thematic of Benjaminian allegory in surrealist painting , in the young De Chirico 's and Ernst 's , not to mention Dali 's , poeticization of petrified figures , or even in De Chirico 's later , more kitsch method of juxtaposing scenes from Antiquity with the banal present ( Dell'Arco 1984 , p. 82 ) . |
| 13 | Running north from Petersfield to the town of Alton , the 17 mile Hangers Way follows the line of the Hangers and takes the walker through grasslands and woodlands through some of Hampshire 's best countryside . |
| 14 | Whilst preaching abstraction from politics to the glory of theory , comrade Preobrazhensky has in reality ‘ abstracted himself ’ from theory to the glory of politics . |
| 15 | DARLINGTON traders are divided over the effects of a week-old scheme banishing traffic from part of the town . |
| 16 | Both members of the London Anti-Slavery committee and some of the Liverpool abolitionists who encountered him were doubtful about Clarkson 's attitudes and methods in gathering information from participants in the African slave trade . |
| 17 | On May 30 , students at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare called for the formation of a mass democratic movement to campaign against the establishment of a one-party state , claiming support from elements within the ZANU-PF central committee and the Cabinet . |
| 18 | The chartered DC-10 , carrying holiday-makers from Amsterdam to the Algarve region of southern Portugal , was operated by Martinair , a charter company partly owned by KLM ( Royal Dutch Airlines ) . |
| 19 | This procedure was adopted in anticipation of difficulty in obtaining recordings from households on the basic list and was designed to ensure that for each household replacements with broadly similar social characteristics were available . |
| 20 | First violin Michael Thomas explains in the liner notes that in the early seventies they would often let their hair down in private , arranging and playing pieces from Joplin to the Beatles and Brubeck purely for fun . |
| 21 | They were the flattest brick arches ever built at that time , and critics predicted their collapse under the weight of trains , but the viaduct was built in 1838 and is still in use , carrying trains from Paddington to the West Country . |
| 22 | In the last Veterans News there was an article on finding relief from pain with the use of an audio cassette . |
| 23 | This index page provides the facilities for transferring modules from LIFESPAN to the current user 's directory for examination or modification , and for online editing of packages or source , foreign and pmodel module headers . |
| 24 | It is being set up with more than £1 million over five years from British Biotechnology Ltd , one of a rare breed in Britain : a world-class biotechnology company successfully transferring technology from academia into the marketplace . |
| 25 | THE BRITISH Technology Group , the UK 's technology transfer organisation , is branching out into Europe , patenting and licensing technology from researchers throughout the Continent . |
| 26 | Producing material from glands in the body is exceptional among birds , but among insects it is almost the rule . |
| 27 | I am standing on some of the oldest rock in the world , standing on a tiny island in the Atlantic Ocean , the island where , it is said , in 563 AD St Columba landed with 12 followers bringing Christianity from Ireland to the heathen Picts . |
| 28 | According to the League Against Cruel Sports , most of the country 's huntsmen trade in animal skins and at least half contacted by undercover League Investigators , are said to have admitted not declaring income from skins to the Inland Revenue . |
| 29 | Yet the journey continues , down towards the Negev , a dry region of some 4,500 sq.miles , stretching south from Beersheba to the Sinai highlands . |
| 30 | There is mounting evidence from south of the border that trust status has helped the hospitals that have achieved it to improve their delivery of health care and to expand the services that they can offer . |