Example sentences of "[verb] from [pron] [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Order dropped from my memory as a sticky substance melted in the sun might drop from a table and spread on the floor . |
| 2 | In agreeing to fight the election as part of the National Government , the Liberal party abdicated from its role as a major participant in the political system . |
| 3 | At Bedeford , north Devon , people were evacuated from their homes as a dam holding back flood water overflowed . |
| 4 | ‘ This has moved from its beginning as a Presbyterian College to a major seat of learning . |
| 5 | The ambiguity about the definitions of hat/head/hair also serve to reify the human head , detached from its body as a carrier of cultural impedimenta comparable to the de-portraitised head as a carrier of different kinds of spectacles in the advertisement for Dollond and Aitchison , the opticians . |
| 6 | Death , with which they lived so intimately , could not be detached from their lives as an object of contemplation . |
| 7 | David 's decision to become female has already cost him £20,000 most saved from his wages as a master chef in hotels throughout the North-East and in Europe . |
| 8 | De Maizière denied signing up with the Stasi , delivering information or receiving gifts or money ; his " only contacts " , he said , " came from my duties as a lawyer and were directed to being useful " to his clients . |
| 9 | What had really caused her , in the end , to escape from her life as an American Princess was overhearing her English maid talking with one of the senior parlourmaids . |
| 10 | Sue , who is married and lives in Hertfordshire , says she finds it diffi cult to escape from her role as the watchdog in the nation 's High Street . |
| 11 | But he does not simply pontificate from his position as an excellent photographer , or regurgitate standard procedures . |
| 12 | Although the company has been going since around 1980 , for a long while it concentrated on research and development projects for other companies : this approach stems from its roots as an offshoot of the University of Colorado . |
| 13 | Tesselmann 's fingers twitched but when he tried to speak it escaped from his lips as a gurgle . |
| 14 | The players I think are worth considering from my time as a Leeds supporter are |
| 15 | Then every drop of blood drained from her face as a man 's hand reached past her . |
| 16 | She had lived in this flat for two years now , working as a secretary in the City , recovering from her life as a war victim , wanting only peace and freedom from her jealous , possessive father and her jealous , possessive uncle . |
| 17 | and the Scottish Court of Session agreed that his employers ' prejudice justified their sacking of him ; Susan Shell was sacked from her job as a care assistant by Barking 's Labour council , when it was discovered that she was lesbian and she refused to resign . |
| 18 | A woman with leukaemia says she 's been sacked from her job as a secretary because of her illness . |
| 19 | He told me that he had recently been sacked from his job as a long-distance lorry driver for refusing to drive a defective and dangerous vehicle . |
| 20 | Even here , however , status still reared its head , for Louis XIV clearly thought it derogated from his dignity as a ruler by divine right to be referred to in the final treaty in the same terms as William III , the mere constitutional king of a parliamentary state . |
| 21 | In 1985 Yndamiro Restano was dismissed from his job as an agricultural correspondent for a state-run radio station after giving interview about his political views to a US journalist . |
| 22 | Cumberland was for the moment needed in England and after , to everyone 's relief , the discredited Field Marshal Wade had turned down the post of Commander-in-Chief in Scotland it was , on 24 December , accepted by Lieut-General Henry Hawley , known from his record as a disciplinarian as ‘ Hangman Hawley ’ . |
| 23 | Over the same period , Joe has been one of the players who helped it develop from its infamy as the so-called sign of a mis-spent youth to become a symbol of sporting success . |
| 24 | The FWEs in Botswana got distracted from their goal as the programme developed and attracted the desires of the local authorities . |
| 25 | One woman explained that her union commitment derived from her pregnancy as a teenager . |
| 26 | His own connection may have given him military credibility , but his political credibility derived from his role as a central figure in his brother 's polity . |
| 27 | His own connection may have given him military credibility , but his political credibility derived from his role as a central figure in his brother 's polity . |
| 28 | One of the features of the cerebral hemispheres is that they have more extensive interconnections from one part to other parts than is usual in sensory centres , and perhaps this was the feature , inherited from its origin as the smell-brain , that made it useful for other modalities as well ; global pattern recognition requires taking into account large chunks of sensory information , not just localised patches . |
| 29 | The Nun 's Priest therefore emerges from his tale as a character — a character who adopts an amusing persona as the teller of a tale just as Chaucer does in his narrator-pilgrim " Chaucer " . |
| 30 | John Banham 's understanding of the term ‘ underclass ’ derives from his days as a Director-General at the Audit Commission . |