Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his earlier work Hare seemed to believe that there were alternative moral stances to the world , each of which might be equally rational , though we may quite properly condemn some of them from the perspective of the morality which we ourselves advocate . |
| 2 | Ivy was growing up its trunk and the recent gales had wrenched some of it from the bark . |
| 3 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 4 | They all descended from a structure that was suspended high above them from the centre of the dome . |
| 5 | When I postulated that the environmentalists might have a case , they were horrified that I of all people should express such a view , when it had been clear to them from the start that I was different from the others ( my sisters ) . |
| 6 | Calling them " temporary workers " merely made their situation clear to them from the start of their employment . |
| 7 | It would be heartless to deny her the pleasure of feeling that she is making a useful contribution to the preparation of meals , but it would be equally unkind not to make it clear to her from the beginning just who will be in charge and wearing the chef 's hat ! |
| 8 | It was clear to us from the beginning that 1991 would not be a very good year to launch anything — from magazines to Scuds . |
| 9 | It should have been made quite clear to you from the beginning that MI5 's word on this would be final . ’ |
| 10 | But manufacturers can sometimes move the goal posts to suit their own ends — or perhaps they were oblivious to them from the start . |
| 11 | It was hardly fair , was it , to fire one question after another at him from the moment she got into his car at Mariánské Láznë until she got out again in Prague ? |
| 12 | Warhol was utterly and completely worthless for me from the word go , something in the history of fashion perhaps but nothing to do with art whatsoever . |
| 13 | He had heard so much about it from the Queen Mother — who as a child had been there every year — and from so many other people that he had felt it was a part of his education that was sorely lacking . |
| 14 | THE RAFFLE for the Charlotte Starmer-Smith Medical Fun at the Royal Berkshire Hospital , Reading , raised £17,500 ( Fund total now £97,000 ) — much of it from the rugby community . |
| 15 | No , there 's no problem , I 'm just like , saying that , they sound really thick , they 're rubbish at being in a band , and it 's just all so down-hill for them from the beginning , really , they did n't really have a chance , did they . |
| 16 | So , I 'd got this house and two or three of us from the refuge went up to the old house and packed everything ready to move . |
| 17 | It was obvious to her from the beginning that there was too much overlap . |
| 18 | David says : ‘ After it finished , 18 of us from the course decided to carry on meeting but then everyone went their separate ways . |
| 19 | First , instead of the size of the pool being determined solely by the demands made upon it by the local authorities , the global sum to be spent on advanced further education would be determined by the AFEC in consultation with the DES after it received estimates of expenditure from the local authorities in respect of the provision of higher education within their boundaries , on the grounds that the local authority would behave more responsibly if it paid a proportion of the cost rather than reclaiming all of it from the pool . |
| 20 | So that £780 million is being paid by all of us from the generality of taxation . |
| 21 | It was , or it has been , a believe that the N H S was for all of us from the cradle to the grave . |
| 22 | It was , or it has been , a belief that the N H S was for all of us from the cradle to the grave . |
| 23 | However there 's not too many of them from the dam as the section back to the car park is a tame ramble running through a clearing in the trees . |
| 24 | Gazing from the window of the taxi , she watched the small groups of tourists , many of them from the ship , strolling in and out of shops eagerly purchasing souvenirs . |
| 25 | ( Stimulus A of fig. 5.10 might be said to be enriched , if only a little , by virtue of its ability to evoke the image of X. ) The differentiation theory , in contrast , holds that ‘ percepts change over time by progressive elaboration of qualities , features and dimensions of variation ’ ( Gibson and Gibson 1955 , p. 34 ) , that is , by an elaboration of aspects of the stimulus that are present in it from the outset . |
| 26 | The government had recognised that the largest of these had a claim to continued autonomy and proposed to exclude ten of them from the jurisdiction of their surrounding counties . |
| 27 | It is a bloody , those of us from the south , now is as Watford , Hertfordshire , sorry about that , you know , we 're well happy , you stand no chance of oh dear , I 've got in the eye here , you know , we declared independence years ago . |
| 28 | Those of us from the South who left behind tree-strewn roads and gardens after the devastation of the recent October storm , were delighted to be in such beautiful surroundings again and to meet with our Lilleshall friends from other parts of the country . |
| 29 | So maybe , it would have been better if you could have even got down a bit lower and to , to , to get more of it from the horizon . |
| 30 | That 's right , just looking at the er the tables that I 've managed to get faxed to me from the Football League today . |