Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since his election Dr. Kumar has had regular battles with Mr Bates , who since his narrow defeat has moved from Gateshead to Marton . |
| 2 | ‘ Bill says the Lorrimores ’ private car got detached from the train on Sunday evening . |
| 3 | On July 1 the South Korean Foreign Ministry had departed from its previous position by announcing that it was willing to discuss nuclear non-proliferation with the North . |
| 4 | The Labour share of the popular vote had fallen from 50.4 per cent in 1945 to 49.2 per cent , but the party had lost nearly 100 seats . |
| 5 | It was also evident that those departments which had made a strong case for improved resourcing had gained from the appraisal . |
| 6 | Grubby brown chipboard has emerged from under the designer fitted units and the cobalt blue Mexican tiles appear to have rusted . |
| 7 | Throughout this period , marine ecology remained isolated from other branches of the science . |
| 8 | In less than 30 years , the British economy had declined from being one of the strongest to one of the weakest in Europe . |
| 9 | In the last two decades the British economy has suffered from high unemployment , and until recently , high inflation and low productivity growth . |
| 10 | Lawrence Eagleburger , the US Secretary of State , admitted in a speech to the assembly that past " errors " in US foreign policy had come from viewing the problems of the region through the " sometimes distorting prism of the Cold War " . |
| 11 | As stated above production has almost halved since 1979 and at the same time the price of its premium Bonny light crude has fallen from $40 per barrel to $28.65 and is always threatened by the North Sea producers . |
| 12 | Has my right hon. Friend noticed the extent to which the German economy has suffered from the worldwide slowdown and the fact that German output has decreased during the past two months for which figures are available ? |
| 13 | In Vietnam the government reckoned that the total forested area had fallen from 43 per cent of the country 's area in 1943 to 29 per cent , although the Resources and Environmental Research Centre in Hanoi put the true figure possibly as low as 20 per cent . |
| 14 | Allon-Smith ( 1982 ) estimates that the proportion above pensionable age has increased from 7.8 to 16.0 per cent during this century . |
| 15 | Public spending had risen from 40 per cent to 45.5 per cent of gross domestic product in 1974–6 , partly through heavy industrial subsidies and the cost of maintaining the ‘ social wage ’ through the social security system . |
| 16 | The treaty provides for the possibility that member states will wish to adopt a single currency later this decade , but they can do so only if they meet strict convergence conditions — conditions for which the British Government have pressed from the outset . |
| 17 | In many respects this was a return to the position of the very last years of the fourth century ; the establishment of arian kingdoms on Gallic soil had removed from the catholic bishops sole authority over the definition of the Christian community , and it was only the conversion of Clovis and the expansion of the Frankish kingdom which gave the ecclesiastical hierarchy the authority once more to define the Christian life for all the members of the State . |
| 18 | The great achievement of the early survey researchers was to provide and encourage the development of techniques for surveying large populations cheaply and within calculable degrees of accuracy ; although to a large degree the emphasis in social science has shifted from descriptive to analytic surveys , the legacies of sampling and survey design remain . |
| 19 | Even allowing for these limitations , Smythson 's is the strongest architectural personality to have survived from the Elizabethan and Jacobean age . |
| 20 | He earns a bonus of 1 per cent of the rise in the company 's value and Direct Line has grown from virtually nothing in 1985 to be worth around £800 million . |
| 21 | Although no clear consensus has emerged from these discussions , one idea in particular has acquired a sizeable following . |
| 22 | The average circulation of the Daily Worker had risen from 30,000 to 70,000 in the same period , while at weekends and on special occasions sales of over 100,000 had been achieved . |
| 23 | It is not too much to say that , throughout the last three critical years in China , it is to Dr Morrison that the British public has looked from day to day for the earliest and most accurate intelligence concerning events in which the interests of this country have been so largely involved . ’ |
| 24 | The de line of Hammer , the only British company to have benefited from the influx f American cash , was accelerated by the abandonment of its Bray Studios in 1968 . |
| 25 | When the energetic Governor-General Paul Doumer ended his five-year term of office the Vietnamese contribution to public expenditure had increased from an estimated 35 m. gold francs at the time of the French conquest to something like 90 m . |
| 26 | Improved handling has resulted from a series of innovations most of which have been related to aerodynamic efficiency . |
| 27 | The French breed used hailed from north-east France . |
| 28 | Enrolments in the private sector have grown from under 14 per cent of total enrolments in 1984 to nearly 20 per cent in 1988 . |
| 29 | That , and the need to earn a living , are the reasons behind his desire to stay in the US where he is seeking a green card as a full-time athlete having graduated from Stanford University last year . |
| 30 | Indeed the Faculty encourages interdisciplinary activity and recognises that much innovative work has derived from the intellectual stimulus of multidisciplinary study . |