Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] 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 | It 's been said although I would n't say it for myself that the lack of pressure for change stems from the Royal Family 's landholdings . |
| 3 | Beccaria 's reputation for humanity comes from the famous sections that oppose the use of torture and of capital punishment . |
| 4 | Similar evidence of unity emerged from the numerous ( about 600 ) Latin American bishops . |
| 5 | Marilyn Thompson tossed her head and a lock of hair drifted from the elaborate structure . |
| 6 | A less well-known example is of H. V. Hilprecht , an archaeologist at Pennsylvania University who in 1893 was given drawings of fragments of agate excavated from the Babylonian temple of Bal at Nippur . |
| 7 | The specific social relations of such privilege are of course derived from the social order as a whole ; it is there that the patron 's powers and resources are enrolled or protected ; in the crudest terms , he is doing what he wishes with his own . |
| 8 | Each domain-dictionary achieved its highest z-score when used in the recognition of text taken from the same domain . |
| 9 | The government has thus attempted to restrict local authority discretion by reducing the level of income received from the central government via cuts in the RSG and through rate capping . |
| 10 | Since the actual value of income diverges from the expected value by only a random error it is tempting to replace the expected income term in equation ( 3.6 ) with actual income and rewrite equation ( 3.6 ) as : |
| 11 | ‘ Very often the amounts of money taken from the elderly in muggings is minimal . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The choice of ordinate arises from the empirical observation that A2B 1 is required for chaos . |
| 14 | One segment of drift-net recovered from the Alaskan coastline was 1.5 km ( 1 mile ) long and contained 99 dead sea birds , over 200 dead salmon and a seal skull . |
| 15 | It was the wholesale application to civilian society of the one-way chain of command learned from the military milieu into which Franco was born . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Edmund Wilson and Cyril Connolly were as ready to talk of Ovid as of the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant , and indeed ready to illuminate the one by shafts of light thrown from the other … |
| 20 | She had no need to tell him , for a buzz of talk sounded from the ground-floor room straight ahead , beyond the stairs . |
| 21 | During the Terror , forty-seven young men of Itxassou deserted from the revolutionary army . |
| 22 | Whatever Shakespeare 's source or inspiration , Pistol is a brilliant invention , locked as he is in a verse-form and range of reference derived from the heroical plays in the London theatres of the 1580s and 1590s , as far removed as could be from his debased reality . |
| 23 | British Architectural Library ( London ) has more than 400 metres of shelving of manuscript works from the seventeenth century onwards , on all manner of architectural topics ; there are more than 250,000 drawings and 50,000 photographs on architecture and topography . |
| 24 | A faint smell of cabbage wafts from the flat next door . |
| 25 | It was in the shape of a V with the entrance at the point of the V. We covered both trenches with large pieces of wood scrounged from the back garden of Brigade H.Q On top of the wood were placed thick pieces of turf which acted as very good camouflage . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | Underlying his pleasure at the success of the new methods and the way in which the jeeps had proved their worth , was Stirling 's anger at the lack of intelligence received from the Eighth Army . |
| 28 | A rare voice of dissent came from the leading liberal legislator , Mr Martin Lee , who argued that the deportations would give Hong Kong a bad name . |
| 29 | It was accompanied by an exhibition of work selected from the various groups of IAWA held at the Sala de Exposiciones de la Comunidad de Madrid . |
| 30 | Although it contains a considerable depth of sediment shed from the adjacent mountain ranges its floor still has a maximum elevation of just 74 m below sea level . |