Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Nietzsche is quoted directly as arguing that " tropes are not something that can be added or subtracted from language at will ; they are its truest nature " , de Man 's paraphrase seems innocuous : The mode of paraphrase frees de Man from the obligation of theoretical presence in his discourse while still allowing him to translate Nietzsche 's text into the terms of his own problematic . |
| 2 | When phrases of the text are repeated or thrown from voice to voice , they may or may not be set to the same or similar melodic phrase ; imitation is free and texturally loose ; metrical symmetry is at a discount . |
| 3 | The men called to each other across the floor or wandered from group to group , while their womenfolk exchanged their own news in undertones . |
| 4 | These new thelodonts show an unexpected body shape in which the body is deep and compressed from side to side and the tail is perfectly symmetrical , rather like that of early heterostracans . |
| 5 | This is defined as the rent which it might reasonably be expected to command if let from year to year , with the tenant bearing the rates and the cost of insurance and repairs . |
| 6 | The house was thus one structure for the family , horizontal and open in its plan ; to the servants it was quite another , vertical and confined from attic to basement . |
| 7 | Alexander looked at the stars and shifted from foot to foot . |
| 8 | His partner was much shorter and wrapped from head to toe in a brown cloak . |
| 9 | Investor protection legislation overlaps with both prudential and structural regulation in that the investor is in theory protected from financial institutions becoming insolvent through excessive risk-taking and protected from conflicts of interest by separation of types of business , but also extends much further into the manner in which investment business is carried out — the size of commissions , advertising regulations , cold calling etc . |
| 10 | There were not enough teachers , those there were harassed almost beyond bearing and driven from pillar to post , and no one ever seemed to know who Jasper was , still less remember his name . |
| 11 | In the 13th century the ‘ marble ’ was carted to Corfe Castle , the centre of the masons , and shipped from Ower on Pool Harbour for cathedrals and churches throughout the kingdom , even to France . |
| 12 | The old parish of Drumcree contained 66 townlands and stretched from Muckery to Ballyworkan . |
| 13 | I shall totter like a decaying bastion of English culture , right out of Somerset Maugham , rum-soaked and crumpled from bar to bar trying to remember What It Was All About ! ’ |
| 14 | The Largs-based professional slumped to 51st on the Order of Merit last season but , thanks to his new extra long putter , he has solved his short game problems and gone from strength to strength . |
| 15 | Since those days — when he starred as the original Ribena Kid at the age of eight — Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo has taken that motto to heart and gone from strength to strength . |
| 16 | Down , but based in Macau , set fastest time in a wet qualifying session on Saturday and led from start to finish yesterday in his Lola-Mugen to win from championship leader Kazuyoshi Hoshino . |
| 17 | The Olympic 800 metres finalist moved back up to the 1500 metres where he first made his name as a junior and led from gun to tape to win in 3 mins 39.58 secs . |
| 18 | Now the puppet raised its hands above its head and swayed from side to side . |
| 19 | Bruised and bloodied from days of interrogation on the floor of a cell that was an inch deep in his own shit and piss , the Colonel had found him and freed him . |
| 20 | Lower trade barriers permitted their development , and Japanese government restrictions on overseas investment encouraged companies that treated markets on a global basis and benefitted from economies of scale . |
| 21 | They used this strong position to reduce the Catholic and generally Irish nationalist minority of the population to the level of second-class citizens , discriminated against in public housing and employment , and excluded from positions of power and authority . |
| 22 | A government and a church should be complementary in the management of human affairs , the government as elected within a nation , and the church based on a world-wide acceptance of a defined ‘ god ’ — , and removed from control by government except in so far as its necessary commercial structure , and its adherents , must obey the laws of the prevailing administration . |
| 23 | By the third number , he had found his confidence and switched from electric to acoustic guitar for Give Me Love — the only sadness being that the slide guitar part was played on a synthesiser . |
| 24 | He was presented to the Headmaster in his sleeveless jacket , ragged trousers and covered from head to foot in dirt . |
| 25 | They are sorted , packed and dispatched from Edinburgh to mission hospitals including the Nazareth Hospital . |
| 26 | Garfield , of all the institutions in which she had ever worked , was most responsive to mood , to atmosphere ; it shifted and changed from day to day , from week to week , for it had , like the larger society of her larger imagining , its own corporate , its own embodied spirit , all the more powerful for its caging , its high barbed wire , its high walls . |
| 27 | He fingerspelt Bobo want chocolate ? and got what he thought might be an expression of interest as Bobo made a couple of deep whoo noises and rocked from side to side . |
| 28 | It lists , and illustrates in small black-and-white photographs only , 333 oil paintings , with a further fifty-six pictures , missing or destroyed but known from mention in correspondence or catalogues , identified in an appendix . |
| 29 | Full-time undergraduate , postgraduate , diploma and certificate students are required to pay , prior to enrolment , a composite annual fee as prescribed from time to time by the Council of the University . |
| 30 | These terms and conditions ( as amended from time to time ‘ the Conditions ’ ) regulate the use of an Abbeylink Card ( ‘ your Card ’ ) and form the basis of a contract between the customer ( you ) and Abbey National plc ( us ) . |