Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | O God , give your grace to the United Nations Organisation in all its manifold work ; in its work for the children who suffer so much from the injustices of our society , in education and in health , in the relief of poverty and hunger , and in its work for peace . |
| 2 | It looks pretty nice from the pictures . |
| 3 | While Graeme is certainly a very opinionated and forthright personality , he seemed more aloof from the players to me . |
| 4 | Seemed pretty straightforward from the specifications . |
| 5 | ‘ And as you are well aware , I have had precious little from the police on that case . ’ |
| 6 | The male washroom , apart from the urinal stalls , differed very little from the women 's . |
| 7 | Examples of teaching practice are rejected because they seem too remote from the trainees ' own situation : " Yes but … my students would never ( work in pairs/bring things to class/respond to a video screen . ) " |
| 8 | Lear 's bitterness stems as much from the consequences of his own self-deception in regard to his relationship with Gould , as Gould 's insensitivity . |
| 9 | If Understanding proceeds by rational reconstruction of rules and reasons for action from within , then it seems radically different from the enterprises of natural science . |
| 10 | The Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) has now agreed a " green list " of substances which it regards as exempt from the terms of the convention , on the grounds that they are recyclable . |
| 11 | For a country of its size and population , the Soviet Union had often appeared rather isolated from the affairs of other members of the world community . |
| 12 | In developing societies , primary education appears to be more of a social investment than individual consumption , while in affluent societies the demand for education may not come so much from the needs of the economy as from the demands of individual people . |
| 13 | In the way it lays bare dark emotional rumblings normally concealed beneath the constraints of village life , Went the Day Well ? suggests Cavalcanti had learned as much from the Surrealists he worked with in Paris as from Britain 's documentarists . |
| 14 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |
| 15 | A rigid class system was established , and soon an urbanised and caste- and status-conscious bourgeoise was established which would keep the lower orders under control without demanding too much from the colonisers . |