Example sentences of "[adj] have [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | And while the proportion of those people who would recommend a young couple with a steady job to buy as soon as possible has fallen from 78 per cent in 1989 , the latest survey shows 70 per cent would still offer this advice . |
| 2 | In Sweden the native ( albeit primitive ) Swedish Polled has dropped from a quarter of a million milking cows in the 1950s to perhaps 2,500 today , pushed out by imported Friesians and by the amalgamated Swedish Red-and-White , while the national dairy herd as a whole has dropped from 1.6 million cows in 1950 to about 576,000 in the 1980s , though the average milk yield per cow has doubled . |
| 3 | Several concessions have also been made in relation to capital gains tax : the amount of gain allowed tax free has risen from £1,000 a year to £5,000 a year and this allowance now applies to all gains , not just small gains as was formerly the case . |
| 4 | Among these tracts were two written by a Scotsman , James Harryson or Henderson , merchant of Edinburgh , who had joined Somerset in 1544 and been an English pensioner since 1546 : An Exhortion to the Scottes ( 1547 ) and The Godly and Golden Booke for Concorde of England and Scotland ( 1548 ) , which remained unprinted because , ironically enough , the Scot was continuing the propaganda battle on behalf of England after the English had withdrawn from it . |
| 5 | He seemed pleased that Slim had disappeared from the district 'cos Big Joe was never for tradin' in bairns . |
| 6 | But while the British have gone from bad to worse , the Games have become a Chinese takeaway . |
| 7 | The level at which tax becomes payable has risen from £25,000 to £110,000 and the rates have been changed from an amount varying between 10 per cent and 75 per cent , to a single rate of 40 per cent . |
| 8 | The place of the spot could differ according to circumstances and it is a question of fact whether the accused has departed from the spot . |
| 9 | Accordingly , the following have resigned from the subsidiaries which they have assisted , many for a considerable period : . |
| 10 | Yet vestigial gestures towards value persist , usually at the end of an exposition , where the critic in a final flourish claims , or at least hopes , that something valuable has emerged from the analysis ; a revelation of the quality of the author 's imagination ; or of the inevitable tendency of all texts to be about their own processes of composition , or to come apart in the reader 's hand ; or of the aesthetic fascination of the patterns of imagery that have been revealed ; or , at the very least , and least interestingly , that something ‘ interesting ’ will have been said . |
| 11 | They formed a proportion of new schools greater than the proportion of children they served ( though this may have been because they were more likely to have suffered from bombing in city centres ) . |
| 12 | There have been no acceptable records since 1940 which have not been considered as most likely to have escaped from collections . |
| 13 | No satisfactory explanation of this decline has been adduced , but it seems likely to have stemmed from changes in agricultural practice . |
| 14 | The inhibitions against introducing full-scale controls against black immigration are likely to have stemmed from their possible impact on Britain 's role as head of the Commonwealth and Colonies and concern over the national and international legality of controls based on colour ( Solomos , 1989 , p. 47 ) . |
| 15 | However stable isotope analysis shows that all the fragments belong to one piece of marble , demonstrating the overall integrity of the piece , and also that the marble is likely to have come from the quarries at Carrara in Tuscany . |
| 16 | It may be genuine , but is likely to have come from a bifolium or double sheet . |
| 17 | No provenance is supplied for the majority of the pieces , which are likely to have come from Greece . |
| 18 | The K mesons live long enough to produce tracks in the CLEO detector , so the team could work back from detected K mesons to hunt for those that seemed likely to have originated from a B meson . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , patients are likely to have learned from media coverage that light is somehow involved , so they will have a prejudice against other treatments . |
| 20 | Support was supposed to have come from the labelmates Thrill Kill Kult , but they pulled out following an incident in Germany , when Kult singer Frantic had had his leg broken in three places after being attacked onstage by ‘ neo-nazi ’ thugs in the audience . |
| 21 | Support was supposed to have come from the labelmates Thrill Kill Kult , but they pulled out following an incident in Germany , when Kult singer Frantic had had his leg broken in three places after being attacked onstage by ‘ neo-nazi ’ thugs in the audience . |
| 22 | She was supposed to have died from Allied bombing , so that ties up . |
| 23 | Physical man was supposed to have evolved from an ape by way of a " missing link " , but psychological evolution was discussed only within the defined limits of Homo sapiens where it was postulated that there had been a progressive development from the childhood of the race to its maturity . |
| 24 | Though the swelling had gone from her temple and the bruise was fading , she still appeared wan . |
| 25 | Decorative has improved from 50% to 90% |
| 26 | The resource cost of producing BC of the good has fallen from BCHE to BCFE , a saving of EFH . |
| 27 | BirdLife International has evolved from the International Council for Bird Preservation , which was founded in 1922 and pioneered international co-operation in bird conservation . |
| 28 | Up till now many new developments in the care of the dementing elderly have come from these services . |
| 29 | As the author of one anthology of drawing remarks : ‘ In modern times the best drawings of the nude have flowed from the bedroom ; or even from the sofa … |
| 30 | Your remarks on the Masefieldian lines go to the root of the matter — I should say the bad Masefieldian lines for in some points one would not in the least be ashamed to have learned from him … |