Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er as far as out-sourcing is concerned , when we learned that there could be two thousand jobs lost or out-sourced from British Aerospace , it was my opinion in line with those of our representatives that we ought to convene a meeting immediately of all shop stewards and representatives who would be covered er through those discussions and arrange and organize a strategy to oppose it . |
| 2 | Around the same proportion of the population , according to the same surveys , never thought of giving up the struggle to the end — or recovered from such defeatist notions — and it is fair to presume that for them Hitler remained the symbol of continued hope and determination . |
| 3 | The second rotary pot marked ‘ Vernier ’ allows the frequency of the note to be raised or lowered from A-440 concert pitch . |
| 4 | It is usually women who have left work , or moved from full time to part time employment , to care for a sick or frail elderly relative . |
| 5 | Media people , people from the advertising company Andy has just left , a few politicians — mostly Tory or Social Democrats though there are a couple of Labour guys — bankers , lawyers , business advisers , investment experts , actors , TV people — at least one film crew , though their lights are switched off for now — various other city types , a scattering of people who are , well , just professionally famous , and the remainder seemingly either part of some enormous floating meta-party or hired from some agency to impersonate people having a whale of a time : Rent-a-Hoot or something similar . |
| 6 | Many fairly recent objects can be found at home , bought cheaply in second-hand shops or borrowed from local people . |
| 7 | Ferkhan 's main business , he explained , was spare car parts which he either bought from abroad or took from wrecked vehicles he bought up cheap . |
| 8 | In ones and twos they jumped or fell from upper windows , some to death or injury and surrender ; others , more fortunate , were still fit to make a run for the woodlands to the north . |
| 9 | The problems and criticism that arose from this decision , however , reflected the varying sizes of the administrative units . |
| 10 | A partnership practice that operated from two offices ceased to be carried on when the partnership was dissolved and the two main equity partners continued as sole practitioners from their respective offices . |
| 11 | Indeed , during almost a thousand years the only important legislation concerning English highways was a statute dating from the reign of Edward I. It required lords of manors to supervise the felling of trees and undergrowth up to 200ft on both sides of any ‘ highway ’ that led from one market town to another . |
| 12 | In the case of oil , for example , the raw material was in one republic , the petrochemical plants were in another , the scientific research was conducted in a third and the extracting equipment was in a fourth ; and who owned the pipelines that passed from one republic to another ? |
| 13 | The cheerful noise that emanated from that hall would n't have left any German in doubt that these recruits were all united against a common enemy . |
| 14 | Of course , one technical advance that emanated from Cornish mining played a key role in stimulating the Industrial Revolution 200 years ago . |
| 15 | I have read his highly critical speeches in the other place about the difficulties that he repeatedly encountered when trying to pursue European legislation and the obstruction that emanated from senior Ministers . |
| 16 | There was also a form of opposition to perestroika that stemmed from outdated patterns of thinking and the self-interest of those who had become used to living at the expense of others . |
| 17 | And she had also begun to observe what a miracle the whole Hochhauser Operetta Company was — a miracle that stemmed from two people . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Despite press coverage of closures and cut-backs , real and imagined , there was no mention of the dispersals , or of the more worrying phenomenon of the general dissolution of libraries that seemed from local evidence to be taking place . |
| 20 | That was dwarfed by the $85 billion of extra help that came from European consumers , whose food prices were rigged way above world-market levels . |
| 21 | Most of the women were secretaries , models of deferential , under-educated Englishwomen who filed and typed and processed the enormous piles of bumph that came from many quarters . |
| 22 | A comparable slab of slightly less educated people , but including many of those who are educated , love quasi-science : books about bits that fall off Jupiter and the pyramids that came from outer space . |
| 23 | The real message that came from this question was that many family and part-time farmers had wives willing to do more than at present . |
| 24 | Not Mex-Spanish , but the musical kind that came from old Spain . |
| 25 | But those that came from arid islands and had to crane their necks in order to reach branches of cactus or leaves of trees , had much longer necks and a high peak to the front of their shells that enabled them to stretch their necks almost vertically upwards . |
| 26 | A good effect , especially if a mildly bizarre or impertinent characterization is required , is that obtained from two clarinets at two octaves distance , one in its upper register and the other in its chalumeau , and if an oboe is added in the middle octave the reediness is much enhanced and the penetrating power of the combination greatly increased . |
| 27 | Soon complex life-forms emerged , based upon chemical arrangements that differed from each other . |
| 28 | She is 32 , but looks about 18 , with the same clear , icon-like beauty that shone from that television film of a decade ago . |
| 29 | If this is the case , a universe that developed from some sort of random initial conditions should contain a number of regions that are smooth and uniform and are suitable for the evolution of intelligent life . |
| 30 | Brown and McCoist were next to threaten the Belgian goal in a game that swung from one end to the other . |