Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old issues are re-emerging from our history books on to the political agenda : the status of Germany , the problems of the Balkans , the ambiguous relations of peripheral countries like Britain and Russia to the politics of Central Europe . |
| 2 | John Barnes and Gary Gillespie are misssing from Liverpool 's squad to play Wigan in the Littlewoods Cup tonight , putting their participation for England and Scotland in World Cup qualifying games next week in doubt . |
| 3 | During the sixteenth century the Portuguese had already been profiting from the gold being produced in West Africa and Japan . |
| 4 | It was considered that Sendero had been profiting from the rivalry between the Army and police in the region as to who should spearhead the US-backed campaign against drug trafficking . |
| 5 | Li Shai Tung 's hands rested lightly on the table 's edge , the now-empty bowl he had been eating from placed to one side , out of his way . |
| 6 | When we discussed it , it became clear that there is a wide spectrum of response to the whole issue of private care , that the response from within the statutory services tends to be one of suspicion , tends to be one of sometimes a fairly moralistic approach and this is quite at odds with the response we are seeing from the government which tends to go to the other end of the spectrum and be promoting private care as the solution to many of the problems of service provision and volume that are being encountered at the moment . |
| 7 | I believe that what we are seeing from President Moi and members of his Government is all going in the right direction . |
| 8 | This may well have been due to the satisfaction he had been deriving from the composition of East Coker , though he made no mention to me of the new poem . |
| 9 | With such questions , a major task lies in unpacking the word-play , and making clear the distinctions you are drawing from the formulation of the question . |
| 10 | ‘ I have been recovering from RSI ( Repetitive Strain Injury ) since last October . |
| 11 | Each time you re-program , the Form Program will also discontinue as well as the stitch patterns , unless the design you are knitting from has a specially written Form program where the Form is chopped is chopped into sections as well . |
| 12 | Work on the launch and the focus of the appeal is close to completion and we are benefitting from the good offices of our advertising industry contacts . |
| 13 | misfortune , and yet , and yet the cost of putting them into a bed and breakfast would stop those people 's houses going on the market and it would stop those people who are benefitting from it , from benefitting from it |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think misplacing twenty thousand dollars ’ worth of jewellery is quite in the same category as forgetting your glasses are hanging from a chain around your neck . ’ |
| 15 | But Creggan was not interested right then in learning , all he wanted to know was what happened next when Minch had been hanging from the pole trap . |
| 16 | The hens that roosted on the rafters would scavenge as usual along the shore , and hunt for dropped oats in the straw and bracken Luch had been gathering from the moor all summer . |
| 17 | Castle Court Shopping Centre ( right ) one of the new retail complexes which are profiting from a surfeit of eager customers |
| 18 | ‘ Communists , friends of the people , unite with us to drive out those who are profiting from your hard toil , those who steal the food from your tables and live off the sweat of ordinary people . |
| 19 | VICTIMS of the IRA 's City bombing — including two young girls — are recovering from their injuries in London hospitals . |
| 20 | JUST as European science budgets are recovering from the cost of the LEP ( Large Electron-Positron ) particle collider at CERN , the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva , governments are now being asked to cough up £500 million for a Large Hadron Collider there . |
| 21 | If you are recovering from an over-use injury , an immediate return to tarmac-pounding is not a very good idea . |
| 22 | In general , children and adults should not be given too much milk to drink if they are recovering from a stomach upset . |
| 23 | About one hundred years ago the EMMS directors were given the responsibility of running the Hawthornbrae Trust which currently exists to provide holiday grants to Edinburgh residents who are recovering from illness and who would not otherwise be able to afford even a short holiday break . |
| 24 | We pray for those who are ill , or are recovering from illness , especially for Jim Jackson and Doreen Parris . |
| 25 | Some are recovering from being injured in road accidents , and will be released back into the wild when they can fend for themselves . |
| 26 | The house is being inspected by surveyors to make sure it 's structurally safe … the girls and their mother are recovering from shock . |
| 27 | William Dunlop had been bidding from the start and James Kilpatrick began with a bid of £4,500 , a sum almost certain to ensure purchase of the horse in normal circumstances . |
| 28 | Overseas candidates who are applying from the following countries are advised to submit their applications to UCCA through the appropriate overseas students ' office in London as listed in an appendix to the UCCA handbook : Cyprus , Ghana ( private candidates only ) , Guyana , India , Luxembourg , Mauritius , Tanzania and Thailand . |
| 29 | Overseas candidates who are applying from the following countries are advised to submit their application to UCAS through the appropriate overseas students ' office in London listed in the UCAS handbook : Cyprus , Ghana ( private candidates only ) , Guyana , India , Luxembourg , Mauritius , Tanzania , Thailand . |
| 30 | W H Smith has been trading from these premises behind the elegant arcades of the Rue de Rivoli in Paris since 1903 |