Example sentences of "[vb base] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her the answer is simple : strip off the paint from window and frame , back to bare wood , then repaint from scratch . |
| 2 | A short tag of tape on the top line of your long-net tells you top from bottom in the dark . |
| 3 | Then head from side to side , muttering , moaning . |
| 4 | Resting ( i.e. overwintering ) eggs appear from midsummer onward . |
| 5 | ‘ I redrew it to what fitted our site and what I needed in terms of accommodation for the children and grannies who appear from time to time — mindful of the fact that Edwina and Michael were two and four , but were n't going to stay that size for long . ’ |
| 6 | Nevertheless , fluent and legible handwriting continues to be important , so the one secretarial attainment target that we propose from level 5 onwards is called presentation and includes both spelling and handwriting . |
| 7 | To what extent will business shift from banking to other types of lending ? |
| 8 | Only then can the emphasis switch from confrontation to co-operation , the attitude shift from apathy to enthusiasm . |
| 9 | fidget with your hands , shift from foot to foot or find your voice quavering ? |
| 10 | SPANNING four continents and 70 countries , it is hardly surprising that the causes , and hence solutions to tropical forest destruction shift from region to region . |
| 11 | Among the threats to temperate forests identified by the report are logging of native forests , the treatment of trees as crops in a market shift from timber to pulp and paper production , air and water pollution , cutting for firewood , and forest fires . |
| 12 | This is certainly a difficult poem for any translator to attempt — but then there is no Horatian lyric that could be called " easy " ; there are besetting problems , concerning metre and form , concerning word order , concerning a lexicon in which patent meanings are shadowed by possibilities of other meanings , concerning the importance of allusion , and above all the Horatian craft that mingles these elements interdependently , in patterns that persist or shift from strophe to strophe . |
| 13 | All of his poems are filled with a quiet irony ; a message to those patriotic leaders and potential soldiers , removing the glory and honour from war — they strip everything but the bare facts from the issue of war and show it as it is , from first-hand experience . |
| 14 | We get what we expect from life , according to our desires , thoughts , beliefs , attitudes , choices and decisions . |
| 15 | So people have to devise ways of adapting to this gap between what they want and expect from society and the means they have available to obtain these things . |
| 16 | The Discovery is the first ever gas cooker to have a hotplate with ‘ Gas Powered Discs ’ a revolutionary new concept developed by Moffat that actually places a Disc above the flame to give you the controllability you expect from gas plus an unheard of level of cleanability . |
| 17 | The proposals in the consultation document will go a long way towards improving the facilities and the standards that drivers expect from motorway service areas . |
| 18 | In his speech yesterday Mr Lawson dismissed sterling 's troubles as ‘ turbulence ’ of the kind that grown-ups like him , who have seen a thing or two over the years , expect from time to time . |
| 19 | Matches at neutral venues , on the other hand , often have charged atmospheres as the contesting clubs bring along five or six thousand supporters and create the sort of scene we expect from cup semi-finals . |
| 20 | It also allows all the fading and mixing features you normally expect from broadcast television . |
| 21 | General practitioner fundholders already use contracts to spell out what they expect from hospital services . |
| 22 | He cranked the handle and breathy rush of air made strange coloured flames leap from sea marinated flotsam . |
| 23 | Many animals leap from bough to bough , and sometimes fall to the ground . |
| 24 | Monkeys leap from branch to branch through the trees and need to know exactly how far to jump . |
| 25 | You may want to change the format , say from Video 8 to VHS , so that it can be played back on your table-top VCR , or to convert the sound track from hi-fi to a linear edge track which can then be edited by audio dub . |
| 26 | Going in the other direction , say from English into Arabic , a translator should try to find some way of conveying the emphasis attached to a fronted predicator . |
| 27 | If there is time , students should now be encouraged to go back to some of the more difficult Tape Units dealing with connected speech ( say from Tape Unit 12 onwards , missing out Tape Unit 15 ) ; they will probably discover a lot of things they did not notice before . |
| 28 | If we see a character walking along a path to cross the screen say from right to left , and if this shot is immediately followed by one in which the same person is walking along the path from left to right , the viewer 's natural assumption is that the walker has reversed direction and is now returning to his or her starting point . |
| 29 | E — Exit from LIFESPAN This is used when work on LIFESPAN is finished . |
| 30 | Action : Please EXIT from LIFESPAN and log on again . |