Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] from the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using the wider kin group as the basis for organizing social and economic life may not be characteristic of contemporary Britain , but some of the groups who have migrated to this country since the Second World War have brought with them , and retained , a pattern of kin relationships which differs from the white British norm and which in some cases includes a preference for cousin marriage . |
| 2 | As you coil the ropes you can soak up the panoramic landscape which stretches from the lush green valleys towards Leek and the Potteries , across to the Roaches and northwards to the wild moors of Axe Edge . |
| 3 | But it is a citizen of London who has left us the most elaborate rhapsody which survives from the central Middle Ages on any of the European cities of the day , and William FitzStephen 's glowing vision of the London in which his hero , archbishop Thomas Becket , was born , is a startling reminder that Londoners took fully as much pride in their city as did the Italians of their day — just as the fact that the citizens adopted Thomas Becket as their patron saint reminds us that he was martyred for showing excessive resistance to the king . |
| 4 | Most of the characterization is effected by the recitative , which varies from the driest quick quasi-parlando — Monteverdi sometimes writes only a single sustained note to carry eight or nine syllables — to actual melody , with every nuance between and naturally plenty of scope for his stile concitato . |
| 5 | Among the known examples there is a marked variation in size , which ranges from the large many-roomed complex located close to the River Rib at Braughing , down to the partly excavated building discovered at the rear of one of the frontage plots at Neatham . |
| 6 | Clearly , however , where the overall number of speakers is small as it is in many sociolinguistic surveys , the number of higher-status speakers turning up in a random selection procedure which samples from the entire urban area will be correspondingly small . |
| 7 | It also completed the long task of national reconciliation , burying by example the myth which dates from the 1946-49 Civil War , that right and left can never co-operate . |
| 8 | The watch is British made except for the movement which comes from the best Swiss supplier . |
| 9 | ‘ We play doubles because we feel it will help us to become more complete players , ’ said the 19-year-old Courier , who comes from the same stable as Agassi and has a similar big-hitting baseline game but a much more diplomatic air about him . |
| 10 | The name Bayonne itself comes from the middle Middle Ages and meant ‘ good river ’ in Basque . |
| 11 | It differs from the standard sociological thesis in that it regards the gender difference as the most fundamental and most fully explanatory division in human society . |
| 12 | It is not clear how it differs from the third tribal substage associated with settled agriculture . |
| 13 | It differs from the more-or-less subconscious concept of " the gentle rain from heaven " type of sedimentation , which probably only applies in special circumstances such as those of the oceanic oozes . |
| 14 | THE plasma precipitating into the Earth 's dayside auroral atmosphere has characteristics which show that it originates from the shocked solar-wind plasma of the magnetosheath . |
| 15 | It ranges from the wild Tibetan mountains , through the rainforests of |
| 16 | It ranges from the enormous inflated centipedes and winged insects created by Pierre Fabre to Michel Gressier 's aerial sculptures which include gigantic rotating tubes . |
| 17 | It ranges from the 1969 instrumental number one Albatross to Everywhere and Little Lies from the Tango In The Night album . |
| 18 | I have stressed this aspect of Roman social life , because it appears from the surviving literary and archaeological evidence that the entertainment of friends at home was one of the greatest pleasures during the Empire . |
| 19 | There is much to enjoy in an unbuckled way in this basically commedia dell'arte wheeze of young lovers enlisting the wily servant 's help to outwit the old guardian-in this it springs from the same dramatic roots as much of pantomime . |
| 20 | The plant itself is a member of the lily family — our word for it comes from the Anglo Saxon gar , meaning spear , and leac , leek ; the French ail and Spanish ajo derive from the Latin allium . |
| 21 | Although he comes from the same mean streets that spawned Tyson , Bowe says : ‘ My approach is totally different to his . |