Example sentences of "it from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that horrid state , the mind may be considered as a city without walls , open to every insult , and paying homage to every invader ; every idea that then starts with any force , becomes a reality ; and the reason , over fatigued with its former importunities , makes no head against the tyrannical invasion , but submits to it from mere imbecility . |
| 2 | The mill 's history is inextricably bound up with that of the Wilkins family , who were involved with it from 1840 to 1947 . |
| 3 | ‘ Take it from fourteen , ’ said Arthur . |
| 4 | Whether we inherit our temperament from one or other of our parents or whether we absorb it from prolonged contact is not certain . |
| 5 | Possibly this shortfall was met by grain production on the Lasithi Plain , but if Lasithi was not tributary to Mallia , the city would have had to look overseas for grain , ‘ buy ’ it from neighbouring territories , or go hungry . |
| 6 | ‘ In other words , we would not vote for the ball being thrown in any direction , for instance to someone running onto it from deep . |
| 7 | He has little knowledge of a shepherd 's life since he writes his idyllic poem from the town , as a wealthy poet , and can not possibly see the reality as one would have it from experienced eyes . |
| 8 | The bowl was filled with water and the old man , chanting softly to himself , poured powder into it from small leather pouches . |
| 9 | The railway police and station staff were always telling them that but they had never had it from fellow buskers before . |
| 10 | It is time for the government to act to protect it from future ecstasy |
| 11 | The budget slashed government spending — aiming to reduce it from 42.9 per cent of GDP in 1990/91 to 37 per cent in 1992/93 — and announced ambitious targets for debt reduction and for the cutting of the budget deficit from NZ$1,739 million in 1990/91 to NZ$528 million by 1993/94 ( US$1.00=NZ$1.7576 as at July 29 , 1991 ) . |
| 12 | It 's all hard and cold , but Marie laughs and turns me round so she can see it from all sides . |
| 13 | It has , of course , many other characteristics , of which companionship and mutual support is an important one , but the characteristics which distinguish it from all other relationships can only be met by two persons of the opposite sex . |
| 14 | I have climbed it from all sides , every time making new discoveries , finding new surprises and delights and , let me confess , secret places from which I have recoiled in horror . |
| 15 | The pool was large for a private one , lying at the bottom of a vast expanse of immaculate lawn and surrounded by a high yew hedge which effectively hid it from all directions ( unless you were on a horse or a double-decker bus ) . |
| 16 | Some Slovenian bankers pointed out that it would have made better sense to have carried out a ‘ consolidation ’ , which would have preserved more of the assets of the firm than the policy of attacking it from all sides ( Politika , 1 October 1987 ) . |
| 17 | At night she leaves her bed , lights a lamp , and gazes at it from all points of view . |
| 18 | The incredible red head distinguishes it from all of them except ‘ C. ’ fenestratum , and these too , are easily differentiated as fenestratum has horizontal bars on the head , a longitudinal band , and a series of vertical bars on the body . |
| 19 | It is made from heavy-duty plastic , which should protect it from all but the psychotically over-enthusiastic synthesist . |
| 20 | One answer is to cut out a gull in white paper and sketch it from all angles ; at other times you can catch these interesting shapes with a camera . |
| 21 | My first step was really to get to know London by walking and drawing it from all angles . |
| 22 | Always lay the rug on a flat and even surface , and after smoothing it out , carefully view it from all sides to see if there are any ridges or troughs . |
| 23 | Automatically dissecting the problem into the code of coloured balls and prismatic chains that was the symbology of her interface , Chesarynth looked at it from all angles . |
| 24 | The runway , running east to west , had individual taxiways leading off it from all sides , taxiways to the circular parking bays where Russian helicopters had once parked . |
| 25 | Feathered legs separate it from all other same-sized birds of prey , except smaller eagles . |
| 26 | Like a small Moorhen ( p. 117 ) with a long red bill , which also distinguishes it from all the smaller crakes ; most often seen in rear view , as it dashes back into cover , when barred flanks and greyer under tail coverts distinguish from Moorhen . |
| 27 | One of the two largest owls of the region , an enormous , almost eagle-sized bird , the prominent ear-tufts and facial disc distinguishing it from all diurnal birds of prey . |
| 28 | For clearly one of the principal characteristics of sculpture in the round is that the spectator is able , and is indeed often encouraged or compelled , to walk around it and study it from all angles . |
| 29 | For in the same way in which the number or title of a painting in an exhibition catalogue gives it an identity as a material object different from all others of the same type , so the letters and numbers on a Cubist painting serve to individualize it , to isolate it from all other paintings . |
| 30 | Bettacare 's Head Hugger — a softly quilted , specially shaped cushion which rests around the baby 's head , supporting it from all sides , provides the answer . |