Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These mechanisms can not simply be lifted from one society ( and thus from one language via literal translation ) to another . |
| 2 | It was announced on March 31 that subsidies were to be lifted from 16 consumer commodities , i.e. all except for semolina , flour , milk and bread . |
| 3 | Import tariffs would be lifted from 170 classes of products . |
| 4 | With a bit of modification and improvement ideas lifted from all sorts of sources will help in improving the school . |
| 5 | The administrative burden would be lifted from local government ; it would then be able to concentrate on the job in hand . |
| 6 | They 'll be lifted from local papers . |
| 7 | The " veil " was lifted from British domination and a protectorate proclaimed with the coming of the First World War in 1914 . |
| 8 | If if erm a lot of these will probably be lifted from Yellow Pages . |
| 9 | It should not be supposed from such criteria for choosing Christianity or retaining paganism that pagans were so simple-minded as to think prosperity and material adversity automatic grounds for conversion or retention of paganism as the case might be . |
| 10 | Desert Orchid had often won from worse positions , but he seemed unable to quicken , and was half a length down on his two younger rivals as they landed over the last obstacle . |
| 11 | In Victorian times there was a flourishing ‘ marble ’ works here , of which only the site remains ; it engaged in the cutting , dressing and polishing of dark grey limestone won from nearby quarries to produce an appearance of marble , but which was made even more attractive by the presence of fossil patterns in the stone . |
| 12 | Heads as they appoint new staff have the chance to turn the long-term realization of a school 's plan into a shared reality , but the same commitment can also be won from those teachers who are at a school when a new head arrives . |
| 13 | In that year , also , L'Estrange 's ineptitude cost him control of the official news-books and Muddiman regained it because of the regard he had won from both secretaries of state . |
| 14 | Thus the pressure to regulate consumer goods markets has chiefly come from industrial sources anxious to stabilize their market shares ( Prewitt and Stone , 1973 ) . |
| 15 | Secondees had usually come from supportive school staff groups . |
| 16 | Success has come from effective teamwork , a more focused strategy and stronger marketing . |
| 17 | New and more productive cereal cultivars have contributed their share to improved yields , but the biggest share in developed countries like the United States has come from increased use of fertilizers — 55 per cent between 1965 and 1976 , according to the New Delhi paper quoting an FAO estimate . |
| 18 | Much of the improvement has come from increased sales into furniture foams , explained , commercial manager . |
| 19 | Left to themselves , folk musicians did what they could without the guidance which might have come from experienced musicians . |
| 20 | ‘ For this book , an awful lot has come from live people , her family , her friends . |
| 21 | Inevitably , much of the stimulus for our changing views of the visual system has come from empirical studies but , over the past decade especially , attitudes have also been changed by the development of detailed theoretical models of how visual information processing might take place . |
| 22 | It has already been postulated that the intellectual origin of these criticisms lies in liberal political philosophy ; however , confirmation has come from empirical research . |
| 23 | You know that 's all right he may , might , alright there may of been a soldier there , but they 've just come from that direction |
| 24 | There 's a draught , it must of come from that window there I think . |
| 25 | The antiquities for sale have come from private collections in London and New York , from auction rooms and the trade . |
| 26 | Much of the information has come from surviving aces and their families , giving an immediacy to the stories not always found in other books . |
| 27 | Many have come from outlying towns and villages , in fact , from across the wide catchment area of the hospital . |
| 28 | Most of that carbon dioxide has come from burning fossil fuels ( coal , gas and oil ) . |
| 29 | Cos I 've come from higher class to the low lower class . |
| 30 | Three spurs have also come from late levels : they are uncommon finds on Romano-British sites and suggest the presence of a cavalry unit here in the late fourth century . |