Example sentences of "as [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | This team is responsible for all text and graphic material as received from contributors or written in-house . |
| 2 | An interactive system enables users to interrogate the database and to supply information , as well as drawing from it . |
| 3 | This would seem very close to the ‘ bow-wow ’ theory of linguistic evolution , one of the theories much discussed in Eliot 's youth , which saw language as deriving from the imitation of natural sounds . |
| 4 | The problems discussed in this section are not necessarily separate from those outlined as deriving from the colonial model , indeed they frequently overlap . |
| 5 | But to see communicative significance as deriving from the phylogenetically arbitrary status of apine dance , as a solution to their co-ordination problem , is open to a serious objection . |
| 6 | Finally , inequality in political influence can normally be seen as deriving from either material advantage or high status , but it may be that political office may independently form the basis for gaining status and/or privileged life-chances . |
| 7 | He would never expressly suggest that one or two might go down , but would rather point to an accumulation of profits as deriving from several shares and not just one . |
| 8 | We shall describe such an approach as deriving from a text-as-product view . |
| 9 | Nationalism may also contain racial elements in so far as particular nations may be regarded as deriving from specific racial stocks ; and biologically defined communities may be regarded as the prime source of cultural characteristics . |
| 10 | Labov sees the methods of this research as deriving from two sources . |
| 11 | In Du Cubisme , this feature was discussed as deriving from Cézanne : ‘ He teaches us to understand a dynamism that is universal . |
| 12 | There is also the supplementary point that very commonly the " web-groups that are thus linked together treat their solidarity as deriving from common substance , in contrast to the alliances , which link " we " and " they " , which rest on obligations periodically expressed in gift-giving and services . |
| 13 | Thus Skocpol sees the state 's autonomy as deriving from the specific political functions that it performs . |
| 14 | The background music is tasteful , the footage of Hobbs , in particular , delectable , and such utterances as heard from Tom Barling , now 85 , touchingly in contrast to those of many latterday professionals . |
| 15 | There is no attempt to zoom in on solo instruments , and indeed not signs of unwelcome engineering anywhere ; one is left with the most natural impression of a fine concert as heard from about Row S. |
| 16 | The meaning of the to infinitive is thus in fact a combination of two potentials : the potential meaning of the bare infinitive , which gives the speaker the possibility of representing the realization of any action as unfolding from its beginning through to its end and any state as having a fully actualized lexical content ; and the potential significate of to , which affords the speaker the possibility of representing any movement in time from a before-position to an after-position ( corresponding here to the beginning of the infinitive event ) . |
| 17 | June 13 : T-28D Trojan VH-LAO/0–38320 badly damaged at Wangaratta , Victoria and registration subsequently cancelled as withdrawn from use . |
| 18 | The result of the above is that in one case costs are so high as to detract from its use , whereas the other positively attracts business . |
| 19 | Starlings and a wide range of plants from the Mediterranean ( some introduced for ornament , some escaping as weeds from agricultural crops ) have made deep inroads into the native animals and plants of North America . |
| 20 | It stood about a quarter of a mile from the house in a triple circle of beech trees , an isolated building so small and perfect that it looked like an architect 's model precisely set in a fabricated landscape , or an elegant ecclesiastical folly , justifying itself only by its classical purity , as distanced from religion as it was from life . |
| 21 | In our study , the combination of ranitidine and cisapride led to an increase of propagation velocity as calculated from the propagation of the pressure wave over the four sensors located 20 , 15 , 10 , and 5 cm above the lower oesophageal sphincter ( Table III ) . |
| 22 | Full-time undergraduate , postgraduate , diploma and certificate students are required to pay , prior to enrolment , a composite annual fee as prescribed from time to time by the Council of the University . |
| 23 | These terms and conditions ( as amended from time to time ‘ the Conditions ’ ) regulate the use of an Abbeylink Card ( ‘ your Card ’ ) and form the basis of a contract between the customer ( you ) and Abbey National plc ( us ) . |
| 24 | Perhaps no political argument could persuade American judges to reject the proposition that Congress must be elected in the manner prescribed by the Constitution , as amended from time to time in accordance with its own amending provisions . |
| 25 | In 1979 , James Anderton , the Christian moralist chief constable of Greater Manchester , described the greatest threat to law and order as stemming from ‘ seditionist … interested groups who do not have the well-being of this country at heart and who mean to undermine democracy ’ ( Thompson 1979 : 380 ) . |
| 26 | In December 1990 Bob Haboldt gave his rationale behind choosing a large gallery as stemming from the different approach of Continental buyers , who like to stroll in and look , as opposed to clients who tend to make an appointment to visit his New York gallery in order to see a specific work . |
| 27 | That perspective generally sees the UK 's international performance as stemming from its internal strengths and weaknesses . |
| 28 | Marx saw the most important divisions in any system of stratification as stemming from differences in the ownership of wealth , and specifically ownership of the means of production . |
| 29 | However , it would be quite mistaken to regard the conflict over farming and the environment as stemming from a ‘ breakdown of communications ’ , to use the fashionable cliché , because a direct conflict of interest is also involved . |
| 30 | But much of it has been regarded as stemming from forces eager to interfere with and undermine the free economy , shifting the locus of decision from the market place and into the political arena . |