Example sentences of "the [adj] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter tourism replaced travel , the masses were unleashed upon the Continent , package-tour operators and entrepreneurs got to work to ensure that everywhere from Zagreb to Zanzibar looked , felt , and smelt exactly the same , and the aeroplane turned Atlantic crossings and transworld flights into the merest commuting , as mechanical and regular and unremarkable as catching the 6.10 from Waterloo to Surbiton . |
| 2 | Point size is the measured from the top of the ascender to the bottom of the descender . |
| 3 | Dave had taken a six at the 17th from nowhere . |
| 4 | The governments of modern Greece , the country that emerged in the 1820s from nearly four centuries of Ottoman rule , have been notoriously quarrelsome and changeable . |
| 5 | Thou shalt separate the earth from the fire , the subtle from the gross , gently with great sagacity ; it ascends from earth to heaven , and again descends to earth ; and receives the strength of the superiors and the inferiors — so thou hast the glory of the whole world ; therefore let all obscurity flee before thee . |
| 6 | The more populous the parishes became , the more diffuse the community grew , the more acute the problem : no longer did the overseers or the ratepayers know everyone receiving relief , and it was then far from an easy task to sort out the needy from the charlatans . |
| 7 | Paradoxically , ‘ people 's capitalism ’ has been ushered in at a time when the long-term trend towards a greater equality in wealth may have been reversed , and in a manner that has firmly excluded the poorest from acquiring capital assets themselves . |
| 8 | Some of the finest from Fender started life under his watchful gaze and some of the baddest Boogies received a tweak here and there . |
| 9 | It praises the driver of the 5.05 from London Bridge to Eastbourne who climbed out of his cab with a fistful of messages from passengers who 'd asked him to phone their wives after hearing the train would be stranded for some time . |
| 10 | This feature sharply distinguishes the repressive from the aggressive stance towards the dispute , which consists in holists and individualists giving incompatible answers to the questions they address , each set grounded on a prior commitment to their own approach . |
| 11 | She also sought , of course , the more usual and natural means of escape and fantasy , such as the watching of advertisements , the reading of fiction , and the spinning of self-indulgent romances , but her experience of life as a child was so narrow that she had no way of telling the possible from the absurd . |
| 12 | There had emerged a leader who taught his army to distinguish the real from the imaginary and the possible from the impossible . |
| 13 | Excising the political from the life of the mind isaa sacrifice that has proven costly . |
| 14 | Monday-to-Friday peak-hour trains — the 07.25 from Manchester to Euston and the 16.30 back to Manchester are cases in point — will always load well , but the stock providing these two services will also make two midday trips for which custom may be sparse . |
| 15 | The squeeze was on from the start , Mark Bowen clearing off the line in the fourth minute and again in the 84th from Terry Hurlock 's drive as Norwich maintained a startling statistic of having yet to concede an away goal . |
| 16 | Schwarz and Laatsch ( 1991 ) again used a simultaneous equations model , and applied it to data for the MMI from 1985 to 1988 . |
| 17 | He did not have the military power to offer protection to Englishmen overseas ; if the Spanish from the south were to attack English colonies , they would have to defend themselves or rely on English diplomacy , because Charles could send neither ships nor troops across the Atlantic for help . |
| 18 | Moreover , the farther from shore a duck sleeps the greater the distance a cat must cover in its final uncovered dash . |
| 19 | He makes it his business to extract from fashion whatever element it may contain of poetry within history , to distil the eternal from the transitory … |
| 20 | On the way back from No. 6 Commando positions to Brigade H.Q the road was busy with Jeeps ferrying the wounded from the area where the Black Watch had been attacking the German positions . |
| 21 | We are the wounded from every war , the world 's damned ones . |
| 22 | Helicopters were bringing in supplies and evacuating the wounded from the blockaded city . |
| 23 | Davidson , who was used to him , did not take this seriously , and rightly so , for Baldwin 's next railway activity was to leave Chequers early on the Tuesday morning in order to catch the 8.55 from Wendover and be available to see first Stamfordham and then the King . |
| 24 | The historical reality during the sixteenth and much of the seventeenth centuries was usually some kind of amalgam , such as that expressed by Martin Luther in his evaluation of alchemy : As the earthly alchemist purified through fire , leaving the dregs at the bottom of the furnace , so , at the Day of Judgment , the divine alchemist would separate all things through fire , the righteous from the ungodly . |
| 25 | You have to earn the right from now on to have holidays , because when you 're on holiday , nobody 's going to be paying you . |
| 26 | So you have to earn the right from now on , to have time off . |
| 27 | The gallery 's catalogues of its French collections are currently undergoing thorough revision : that for the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries currently dates from 1957 and for the nineteenth from 1970 . |
| 28 | Economic life , more generally , was to be regulated through a ‘ socialist market ’ , but with an improved system of social benefits to protect the disadvantaged from its worst effects . |
| 29 | In this mood of comparative calm he is able to separate ‘ the pleasant from the unpleasant … the ruins from the child defecating among them … things from men ’ . |
| 30 | it 's the 5 o'clock from Richmond , and the 6.30 from Darlington , which does n't get into London till twenty past twelve . |