Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [v-ing] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 1(1) If a child is born disabled as the result of such an occurrence before its birth as is mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) below , and a person ( other than the child 's own mother ) is under this section answerable to the child in respect of the occurrence , the child 's disabilities are to be regarded as damage resulting from the wrongful act of that person and actionable accordingly at the suit of the child . |
| 2 | ‘ But for clubs going from the fourth to the third sums between £50,000 and £100,000 are about the going rate so £200,000 from the second to the Premier does n't seem unlikely , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Forsaken as a route of any merit in ascent , it is the obligatory way down for parties summitting from the classic South Ridge of West Face climbs . |
| 4 | The increasing number of states , and the rising legitimacy of states resulting from the increasing democratization of governments ( as it appeared in 1968 ) were important reasons for this development , but the major reason was the new impossibility of actually using force in international relations . |
| 5 | So there is some $24 billion available for intelligence operations which cover a vast spectrum of activities ranging from the covert and illegal to the overt and legal . |
| 6 | The sale also includes a book containing some 145 watercolours and drawings of birds dating from the eighteenth century ( est. £100–120,000 ; $170–205,000 ) , a collection of natural history books , including John Gould 's ‘ Birds of paradise ’ ( est. £12–16,000 ; $20–27,000 ) and a section devoted to globes . |
| 7 | This forms the nucleus of a comprehensive collection of programmes dating from the 1840s to the present day , which continues steadily to increase . |
| 8 | As Carson waited for Alison he wandered across to the kiosk , the floor was wet from swabbing down , and there was a faint smell of disinfectant rising from the glistening vinyl . |
| 9 | Whatever was affecting the rate time passed at seemed to obey the inverse square law , the phenomenon apparently radiating from each clock face , while at the same time there was a more generalised sort of effect emanating from the huge central mechanism buried somewhere in the castle 's many lower levels , making everything down there happen more quickly . |
| 10 | The historical legitimacy of the Great October Revolution , and the direct line of succession running from the victorious Bolsheviks to the Central Committee of today , remains fundamental to the way in which the Soviet establishment views itself and wishes to be viewed . |
| 11 | Synthesis of data arising from the recent discoveries of gold in south Devon suggests the presence of two phases of gold mineralisation . |
| 12 | Throughout the period the lowest wages in the United Kingdom were in the rural areas of East Anglia , South-West England ( where Cornwall was further hit by the decline of tin mining from the 1870s ) , the highlands of Wales and Scotland . |
| 13 | Over 12 acres of Gardens ranging from the formal circular Rose Garden on the site of the Old Keep to the Wild Garden in the ravine . |
| 14 | Paradoxically , however , as well as becoming the classical place of banishment , Siberia was also fast developing into a haven and a land of freedom and opportunity for the steadily increasing numbers of refugees fleeing from the oppressive social , economic and political policies of St Petersburg . |
| 15 | The country 's trade deficit was offset , in part , by the bulk of imports coming from the socialist bloc so that " hard " foreign exchange was not used . |
| 16 | The unemployment rates among married heads of household moving from the owner-occupied to the local authority sector is about six times the rate of those moving in the opposite direction ( Murphy and Sullivan , 1986 ) . |
| 17 | It clearly arose from the line of springs issuing from the rocky hillside , and also from the narrow crossing below the church over the otherwise broad flood plain or reputed lake . |
| 18 | DEC , which held the Dutch introduction to its new Alpha machines here , and Hewlett-Packard , had both spent a lot of money on assembling and staffing the stands , and were less than happy with the trickle of visitors descending from the various sessions down onto the show floor . |
| 19 | The ‘ moderates ’ are a small minority , while into the category of ‘ extremists ’ falls that whole band of opinion ranging from the tougher section of the Labour Party , through the Likud , to the outright fanatics , nationalist and religious , of the far right . |
| 20 | Order of St John Library ( London ) The Sovereign and Military Order of St John of Jerusalem was founded c.1100 , and the collection includes a number of manuscripts dating from the early centuries . |
| 21 | He detected a marked change in buyers ' tastes towards pieces dating from the latter part of the eighteenth century and away from seventeenth-century , Louis XIV and Regence work , traditional areas for major collectors . |
| 22 | There are a variety of sources ranging from the Urban programme of the Department of the Environment to charities but there has been much uncertainty about funding , the Legal Aid Annual Reports regularly referring to the financial problems of particular centres . |
| 23 | The League is anxious to protect its lucrative link-up with the pools ' companies and the growing number of teams moving from the normal Saturday date has seen the day 's fixture list shrunk . |
| 24 | Mike Cairns , director of the charity , said that elderly dementia sufferers were subject to a variety of methods of restraint ranging from the crude tying-down and locking up of the elderly to the more subtle use of drugs . |
| 25 | However , it should also be pointed out that the ‘ boss ’ view of headship manifested itself in a continuum of behaviour ranging from the clubbable to the autocratic or even tyrannical , with various shades of paternalism/maternalism in between . |
| 26 | On offer are paintings , drawings and works of art ranging from the seventeenth to the 20th centuries . |
| 27 | The cause of Artegall 's inability to subdue Ireland in a completely satisfactory way is the result of actions proceeding from the civilised centre , not from those of the Faerie Queene 's opponents . |
| 28 | Evidence of this can be seen in the surprising number of items surviving from the late 19th and early 20th centuries , which one could be forgiven for thinking were only a few decades old . |
| 29 | The complex is stabilized through a network of hydrogen-bonds extending from the last β -strand in the CH1 domain ( residues 209 to 216 ) to the second β -strand in protein G ( residues 16 to 22 ) . |
| 30 | The National Schizophrenia Fellowship is active in defence of the interests of the group of patients suffering from the baffling disorder of schizophrenia . |