Example sentences of "[noun] from " in BNC.

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1 What surprises also is the sheer climb to the green — 70ft in elevation from the hollow in the fairway .
2 News of Sutton 's sudden elevation from humble production editor to rabble-rousing orator reached Pilger in Australia from Ben Lowe as well as Hayling .
3 All three ‘ brothers ’ had earned their rapid elevation from the Scouts .
4 A gun which at any elevation from point blank to five degrees could stand two hundred rounds without a strain , at thirty degrees would almost certainly burst before fifty rounds had been fired .
5 Quaternary lavas have erupted through these deposits to form over 900 volcanoes ranging in elevation from 5000 to 7000m ( Fig. 3.12 ) . :
6 These drinks work to counteract the acidity of your urine , which will ease the burning sensation on passing water , and also help to stop any bacteria in the bladder from multiplying .
7 To correct for the displacement of the longitudinal image of the gall bladder from the central axis , a correction factor is calculated from the longitudinal and transversal scans of the gall bladder .
8 The collapse of the Empire in 1814 and the fall of Napoleon I brought about a dispersal of the Imperial House and although the return of Napoleon from Elba in 1815 led to a restoration of the family fortunes , it was all over in the Hundred Days .
9 Erm and and and we could take it back to the hundred days episode when the great powers have all er decided to er er to prevent Napoleon from making a comeback in France .
10 He was married in 1631 in London to Maria de Bruijne from Colchester , by whom he had six sons and two daughters .
11 Mr Michael Forsyth , Scottish Office Minister , clung to Stirling with a majority of 703 , while the Tories won back Aberdeen South from Labour and Kincardine and Deeside from the Liberal Democrats , a seat lost in a by-election last autumn .
12 As well as this posh pedal thingie , Quickjoy also have a number of natty new joysticks poised for release — a good few of 'em looking pretty damn mean from the blurb sheets , too .
13 Lower oesophageal sphincter pressure was measured as the mean from nine rapid pull through readings .
14 Their visitor , Father Timothy Browne , was a slightly built intellectual from Staffordshire , who was due to take ship that night on his way to join Dr Allen in Rome .
15 Tyne mouth was a separate county borough from 1849 to 1974 and this reflected its distinctiveness as a port-town from the coal field which surrounded it .
16 Last year out of the two thousand nine hundred and thirty nine that were lost in the Rotherham borough from coal , engineering and steel there were two hundred and sixty jobs lost at Templebury steel plant in November .
17 Sound sampler filter , multimeter as frequency meter , sine waves from 4046 VCO , motion direction detector , D-to-A converter current booster , speech compressor .
18 Sine waves from a 4046 VCO
19 Function generator using a PLL produces square and sine or triangular waves from 20Hz to 18MHz .
20 Captain Henrick Kurt Carlsen waves from the Flying Enterprise , which he refused to leave for seven days in 1951 as it foundered in the Channel after a storm .
21 Captain Henrick Kurt Carlsen waves from the Flying Enterprise , which he refused to leave for seven days in 1951 as it foundered in the Channel after a storm .
22 The paratroops , known as Task Force Red , dropped in two waves from C-141 cargo planes .
23 A barograph used to record the pressure of gas in the gasholder in Batavia enabled the times of arrival of the pressure waves from the explosions to be recorded accurately , but the blast produced by the greatest of the explosions was such that the gasholder leapt out of its well , causing the gas to escape .
24 It was mentioned in chapter one that the rocks making up the Earth 's mantle show the same kind of behaviour — on a short time-scale , they are rigid ( ’ solid ’ ) enough to transmit shock waves from earthquakes , but on a much longer time-scale , they can ‘ flow ’ , and accommodate the convection movements which are believed to provide the driving mechanisms behind Plate Tectonics .
25 Glamour on the tram , as Jayne Mansfield waves from the Blackpool Belle in 1959 .
26 It can be imagined that the soul of such a man will be laved always by waves from the ocean of his love ; he is at once carried away from all bitterness ; and enmity has no meaning for him .
27 Sullivan also includes three early unsuccessful attempts ( in 1896 and 1902 ) to detect radio waves from the Sun .
28 The objectors said radio waves from the latter could cause explosions in the plant .
29 SOFT WAVES FROM W. M. MACKENZIE HAIR
30 SOFT , NATURAL WAVES FROM PAL REYNOLDS
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