Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the tasks that make up housework are dissimilar , there is said to be a ‘ sameness ’ about them which derives from their frequent need to be repeated , their lack of intrinsic meaning , and the impermanence of the goals they achieve . |
| 2 | Finally , although the majority of colleges and institutes of higher education are local education establishments , twenty-four of them are voluntary colleges run by the churches and educational trusts , a situation which derives from their previous existence as voluntary colleges of education . |
| 3 | Vantage have used a sealed back on the VG-15 and so the reverse side is featureless , save for the mains cable which trails from its lower edge . |
| 4 | However , their utility is constrained by a paradox which arises from their underlying rationale . |
| 5 | ‘ Suzie 's always been more amenable to advice from men than she has from her own sex . |
| 6 | Or from Jessie Stilwell in Occasion For Loving , who watches a white woman on the lookout for adventure fall in love with a black man , and who proclaims from her liberal stance : ‘ We do n't see black and white and so we all think we behave as decently to one colour face as another . |
| 7 | ‘ And that she gets from your dear self . |
| 8 | The most obvious outward sign of the inner development was her new shorter hairstyle which signified the liberation she feels from her past life . |
| 9 | COUNCILLORS are likely to consider whether the 11-year old girl at the centre of a Home Alone storm should be returned to her mother when she returns from her Spanish holiday , it emerged yesterday . |
| 10 | But Sweelinck was no mere imitator , as one sees from his masterly variations on ‘ Mein junges Leben hat ein Endt ’ . |
| 11 | Thus the intrinsic value of something follows from its intrinsic nature , so that nothing exactly like it could be of a different intrinsic value , while yet it is not one of the features one could properly list in indicating what something else would have to be like to be just like this thing . |
| 12 | No one escapes from her warm welcome . |
| 13 | The new prime minister , a businessman , is not so constrained ; and his moves have won him plaudits from his private-sector friends . |
| 14 | However , anyone taking that quotation as evidence to confirm that Scottish business is dissatisfied with the service it receives from its legal advisers could n't be more wrong . |
| 15 | ‘ The new borne babe ’ , wrote Richard Allestree in 1658 , ‘ is full of the stains and pollutions of sin which it inherits from our first parents through our loins ’ . |
| 16 | Any resistance or reluctance by the scion to take everything , perhaps because it is getting some of what it needs from its own roots , and the stock has to start looking for ways to get rid of the unused energy , and that means making its own top growth , which takes the form of suckers or ‘ briars ’ . |
| 17 | He mourns from his lone place |
| 18 | Some sociologists claim that an individual 's class position is largely achieved ; it results from their personal qualities and abilities and the use they make of them rather than ascribed characteristics such as the status of their parents or the colour of their skin . |
| 19 | The importance that Bell attaches to employment changes in the occupational structure , therefore , is not a random preference ; it stems from his theoretical view of how societies change and which groups are the catalysts of change . |
| 20 | Felix and Gerald , whom he recognises from his special school , have spina bifida and hydrocephalus . |
| 21 | It breathes through a pair of tubes that it projects from her genital opening . |
| 22 | It appears from my own research that while , overall , boys are seen to be less conformist , teachers prefer their type of classroom resistance to that of the girls . |
| 23 | Gould , it appears from his own references , was too busy collecting specimens to engage in an attempt to reach a remote part of the river . |
| 24 | The adjudicator , C. Jordan , had not been a member of the Academy when the problem was originally posed , and it seems from his official report that he was not apprised of Smith 's priority . |
| 25 | As soon as the tide goes out , it emerges from its pupal case , mates , and lays its eggs before the tide returns . |
| 26 | It is simply a rule of the language , or rather it follows from its basic rules , that one speaks misleadingly if one utters or assents to that statement without having that belief . |
| 27 | and on page seventy eight there is one of those tables , it follows from your previous answer , that you would be responsible for the figures of six pounds , thirty five at the top , nine pounds , fifty five and twelve pounds , seventy |
| 28 | Catching on to the coat tails of the downsizing rush just in time , CA said that it was surprised by the demands from its users for it to develop migratory and Unix-based applications — a far cry it admits from its traditional stronghold in the mainframe market . |
| 29 | I should like you to remember Pat Gahagan in your prayers as he recovers from his recent operation . |
| 30 | It feeds from its own roots in the ground and a healthy tree will normally be unaffected by it . |