Example sentences of "[vb past] from [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gushers rose from disconnected water pipes , and the Dream matter sludged instantly . |
| 2 | Young Warren Barton , the Wimbledon full-back , rose from non-League novice to England B status under Harford 's meticulous tutelage . |
| 3 | From their respective sites at Stowmarket and Peterborough , Prentice and Alcock could work out the heights and paths of the dust particles by triangulation , showing that these sporadic meteors were members of the Solar System , in contradiction to the view of professional astronomers in the United States who believed that they entered from interstellar space . |
| 4 | From these fragments I reconstructed the brooding melancholy of a land subject to disaster after disaster , a family forced out through poverty , and I wove from insubstantial vapour the misty quilt in which I sensed his childhood to have been enveloped . |
| 5 | By combining information on ships and shipowners found in the Liverpool Plantation Registers with material on the voyages of the same ships to Africa and the Americas gleaned from other trade and shipping records , it is possible to reconstruct in considerable depth a major port 's involvement in the Atlantic trades at this time , and to begin to assess their impact on economic change in its hinterland . |
| 6 | And the vision held out was of a Russia transformed from grinding poverty , ignorance , and rural backwardness into a society that would not only be just and free but modern , dynamic , industrial . |
| 7 | The choices ranged from central SF authors and works such as Ray Bradbury , Arthur C. Clarke and The time machine , to less central or non-SF writers and books such as Enid Blyton , Salman Rushdie and Dracula . |
| 8 | These attempts , none too successful , ranged from various business ventures to a stint in the Netherlands ( 1745–7 ) as observer for the British government . |
| 9 | ‘ Among Catholics the response ranged from mild support to disinterest . |
| 10 | Among Japan 's leaders opinions of Western society ranged from utter condemnation of its values to defiant affirmations of its superiority . |
| 11 | The samples ranged from modern lacquer hardened in the laboratory to objects from the last centuries BC . |
| 12 | Transport is another area in which the discussion ranged from immediate action to changes only possible in the distant future . |
| 13 | His literary interests were remarkably wide and his expertise ranged from Anglo-Irish writing to Silver Age Latin epigrammatists ; but he published mainly on seventeenth-century comic or satirical dramatists , as his editions of Marston 's Malcontent and Vanbrugh 's Relapse testify . |
| 14 | Those who refused to give the figures ranged from tiny building societies , who simply did not have the technology to work out the sum , to large multi-national banks with copious staff and computers to hand . |
| 15 | The work ranged from small debt collection to very large acquisitions and disposals for the four main divisions of the company , and provided me with a great variety of work which was predominantly commercial . |
| 16 | They ranged from deep night-purple through the varying shades of blue , orange , flame , and yellow to that pale , pure green seen on calm summer evenings . |
| 17 | The code of ethics ranged from strong drink to women of doubtful morals . |
| 18 | The assistance given ranged from financial assistance for the procurement of legal advice to the issuing of court orders . |
| 19 | The protests ranged from sensitive lobbying of the superpowers by the moderate Arab nations to the issuing of terrorist threats by Lebanese-based Moslem extremists [ see p. 37266 for statements by Arab Co-operation Council on the issue ] . |
| 20 | Reasons for exclusions ranged from physical abuse on staff , which accounted for 1.2 per cent of cases , to drugs ( 4pc ) , theft ( 5.5pc ) , ‘ unacceptable behaviour ’ ( 17pc ) , verbal abuse to peers ( 14.9pc ) , verbal abuse of staff ( 12pc ) , and bullying , fighting or assault on peers ( 30.1pc ) . |
| 21 | This ranged from yellow gold with comparatively low values for silver , through pale yellow electrum with a higher silver content , to white gold which could pass for silver . |
| 22 | All the phases of reclamation are still visible today , together with traces of the complex methods of water removal which ranged from wind-driven scoop wheels , through steam engines and diesel pumps to the electric pumps of today . |
| 23 | Opinions ranged from outright support to outright opposition , with many respondents expressing concern or seeking information about particular aspects of the application . |
| 24 | I moved from elementary school to grammar school when I was twelve . |
| 25 | When Atkinson moved from Real Sociedad to join Ron Atkinson in the summer of last year in a £1.6 million move , the world was at his feet . |
| 26 | When Atkinson moved from Real Sociedad to join Ron Atkinson in the summer of last year in a £1.6 million move , the world was at his feet . |
| 27 | I wrote to my home social services and asked them what they would do if I moved from residential care into a home of my own . |
| 28 | As sheriff of Oxford and Buckingham from 1308 to 1310 , forester of Whittlewood Forest in Buckinghamshire from 1308 , constable of Oxford castle from 1311 to 1321 , and steward of the royal household from 1311 to 1325 , Richard moved from local administration to the centre of power and may have been responsible for introducing Roger to royal service . |
| 29 | At four o'clock , nearly an hour before sunrise , the first blackbird began to sing and Thorfinn moved from light sleep to full awareness a moment before Klakkr son of Bathrik , his body-servant for many years , touched him on the shoulder and gave him the sentry 's report : no movement from the enemy in the wood . |
| 30 | The general idea of selecting communities which were interrelated in this way on the dimensions of status and ethnicity was to ‘ match-up ’ linguistic data from the four areas , so as to obtain some fairly detailed information on the linguistic strategies which Belfast people employed as they moved from urban vernacular to slightly higher-status speech patterns . |