Example sentences of "[verb] from [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More seriously , he thought that it was probably a corrupt version of some such name as Krankovitz or Krankovsky , indicating that one branch of the family had come from eastern Europe . |
| 2 | Customs have issued a news release in response to numerous enquiries from individuals about the VAT treatment of boats in EC waters from 1 January 1993 . |
| 3 | THE familiar imbalance of quart and pint pot meant that the final three paragraphs were omitted from last Friday 's piece on Shotton Comrades ' under 19 team . |
| 4 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 5 | Faint dot-matrix notices from ill-understood PCWs signalled one approach to parochial administration , hand-written messages in washed-out green biro about where to find the church building 's keys another . |
| 6 | Embarrassed , Mrs Frizzell turned hastily to the back , where rave notices from several New York papers greeted her . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , down in the deep south — at TVS studios in Southampton to be precise — there was a 4th July menu that ranged from real Texas burgers to an adventurous Lousiana duck . |
| 8 | In 1843 he moved from central Liverpool to Percy Villa in Northumberland Terrace , Everton , and during the hey-day of St George 's church he was one of the most active parishioners . |
| 9 | In order to benefit from lower US dollar short-term interest rates in 1992 , we also increased the use of US dollar commercial paper . |
| 10 | All new workstations installed from 1st January 1993 will have to comply with the Regulations from the outset , and pre-existing workstations must be brought up to the standard by the end of 1996 . |
| 11 | Cuban workers and students began returning from Eastern Europe in the wake of political changes there . |
| 12 | Of course , Thomas Luis de Victoria is better known than Juan Gutièrez de Padilla but , as Bruno Turner points out in his informative programme note , he is ‘ undoubtedly the finest composer of the colonial period to come from Old Spain and spend nearly all his productive life in the New Spain ’ . |
| 13 | Beach charges included from 1 May to 30 Sept ( see p.225 ) . |
| 14 | The history of mathematics — long held by the Classical Greeks to have originated from Ancient Egypt — was swept under the academic carpet and lost . |
| 15 | This is half the typical findings for France , and far less than the third or more often reported from eastern Europe or from Japan in the same centuries . |
| 16 | This is startlingly lower than the figures of over half reported from eastern Europe and the Far East ; and it also looks as if co-residence was much more common in southern France , and also in post-colonial America . |
| 17 | Seif dunes are larger : in the Egyptian Sand Sea they attain a height of loo metres ( 330 ft ) and dunes twice this height have been reported from southern Iran . |
| 18 | Instead , he had a blue card telling him to be at the hospital for his first appointment with a National Health psychotherapist , a photograph of a fair-haired woman with green eyes , a driving licence , a library ticket , a yellowed old newspaper cutting about a forgotten murder , and a much fresher , more succinct bit of print torn from last Sunday 's newspaper . |
| 19 | The onset of gas generation from Westphalian A and B Strata occurred from late Jurassic to early Cretaceous times with the present day gas generation threshold computed to be at + 10000 ft ( 3000 m ) . |
| 20 | The licence will commence from 1st June . |
| 21 | Dante 's Schumann discs come with some valuable biographical pointers , but if forced to choose from this Aladdin 's cave of musical quality , I have to pick EMI 's Chopin and Biddulph 's Schumann . |
| 22 | Council introduces total ban on smoking from 1 January 1994 |
| 23 | LOTHIAN REGIONAL Council has taken the first step towards a total ban on smoking from 1 January next year . |
| 24 | Sanctions would cease to be applied from 15 November , while the senior patrician figure of Christopher Soames ( Winston Churchill 's son-inlaw , no less ) was sent to Zimbabwe to act as temporary governor to supervise new elections and restore the country 's trade . |
| 25 | Your coach will be waiting to depart from EURO DISNEYLAND at about 2.30pm for your return journey to the French coast and your short ferry crossing back to the UK . |
| 26 | From AD 312 ‘ indiction cycles ’ of fifteen years ' duration were introduced by the Emperor Constantine for taxation purposes and led to the Byzantine year being reckoned from 1 September , the date on which each year of an indiction cycle began . |
| 27 | Royal Bank of Scotland has decided from 1 October 1991 , and in line with market practice and the Association of British Insurers ' SORP , to defer acquisition expenses relating to new and renewed motor and household policies over the period during which the premiums are earned , generally 12 months . |
| 28 | Sowing a new lawn can be done from late August . |
| 29 | The Canadian Human Rights Commission released a report on Jan. 15 which concluded that the rights of a group of native Inuit had been violated when they were forcibly relocated from northern Quebec to the Arctic wilderness of Cornwallis and Ellesmere Islands . |
| 30 | James Piccian , assistant general manager of technology products , told the Dataquest semiconductor conference that as part of IBM 's plans to enter the merchant market , the company is hiring from outside IBM to build a world-class sales and marketing organisation . |