Example sentences of "[be] [adj] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet he had never been further from his native village than the horse and carriage festival forty miles away , where he competed every year . |
| 2 | The three woodpeckers are different from their nearest relatives in Java and Borneo . |
| 3 | Many words and terms have specific meanings in law which are different from their everyday use . |
| 4 | Sir Peter justified his call for openness in terms which would have been unthinkable from his immediate predecessor , Sir Kenneth Newman , and indeed from any predecessor : ‘ Professions , including police , tend by definition to be monopolists of knowledge and through that knowledge , power . |
| 5 | They are exempt from its noxious effects , for goodness is its own protection . |
| 6 | But , even assuming , first , that the oppression has indeed been lifted , second , that we can speak of , and know , a time when that desire was ever free , and third , that we can speak meaningfully of a ‘ natural ’ or a ‘ liberated ’ desire ( and my argument questions all three assumptions ) , even assuming all this , liberated desire would still always be different from its pre-oppression counterpart . |
| 7 | will be different from your one minute . |
| 8 | The really bright ones would become genuine leaders , and the drop-outs , who notoriously contributed to agitation in other tribes , would be ‘ sucked into the vortex of conservatism ’ and be indistinguishable from their uneducated fellows . |
| 9 | ( 1 ) Without prejudice to its other powers under this Act , a licensing board may make byelaws for any of the following purposes ( a ) for closing licensed premises wholly or partially on New Year 's Day , and on such other days not being more than four in any one year as the board may think expedient for special reasons ; ( b ) for prohibiting holders of licences from residing in their licensed premises , or for requiring the dwellinghouses of holders of licences to be separate from their licensed premises ; ( c ) for requiring all wines , made-wines and spirits sold by the holder of an off-sale licence to be sold in corked , stoppered or sealed vessels , cans , jars or casks ; ( d ) for requiring every holder of a hotel or public house licence to keep in his licensed premises and to renew from day to day a sufficient supply of drinking water , and such eatables as may be specified in the byelaw , and to display , offer and supply the same as may be required by the byelaw ; ( e ) for printing a list of all applications coming before any meeting of the licensing board , with such other information as may be considered necessary by the board ; ( f ) for the setting out of conditions which may be attached to licences for the improvement of standards of , and conduct in , licensed premises ; ( g ) for the granting of a licence of a type other than that applied for ; Provided that a byelaw made under paragraph ( c ) above shall not apply to licensed premises where no groceries are kept or sold and where a bona fide wholesale business in alcoholic liquor is carried on . |
| 10 | Sterling must be uncoupled from its present relationship with the D-Mark . |
| 11 | Sterling must be uncoupled from its present relationship with the D-Mark . |
| 12 | Those applicants wishing to make use of this agreement , details of which should be available from their current institutions , should contact the appropriate Faculty at the University of Edinburgh as early as possible . |
| 13 | An explanatory booklet from the RCN entitled Understanding Clinical Grading may be available from your nursing office or the nursing library . |
| 14 | All the above yarns will be available from your local Spectrum stockist together with a full range of supporting pattern leaflets and books . |
| 15 | Entry forms should be available from your local tackle shop but if there 's a problem telephone me on 071 261 6025 or write with details of your course catch . |
| 16 | Details of family planning clinics in your area should be available from your local health authority . |
| 17 | The disaffected population referred to above were not active in either of the neighbourhood societies and perceived their aims to be remote from their own needs . |
| 18 | Ursula figures as ‘ some sort of Hungarian countess ’ whose parents were estranged and who was to be estranged from her ominous father . |
| 19 | The Secretary of State will be aware from his own sources of the vast array of weapons being assembled and stored as far south as Limerick for transport to Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | Some of the items featured in this leaflet are available from our larger stores only . |
| 21 | These forms are available from your Social Security office . |
| 22 | Additional security for your loan may be required ( written requirements are available from your local branch or Business Centre ) . |
| 23 | In some circumstances , security is not required for a loan — written requirements regarding security are available from your local branch . |
| 24 | All the EEO booklets are available from your local Electricity Board Showroom . |
| 25 | Many of the above leaflets are available from your local gas or electricity showroom . |
| 26 | A splinter killed the commander of III Corps Field Artillery , brave old General Lotterer who had seldom been far from his forward guns during the first phase of the battle . |
| 27 | They were nice , friendly people , with all the good-heartedness she 'd expected , but they were different from her own family . |
| 28 | They were different from my other friends , and my mother did n't like them . |
| 29 | Upper-class Christians were indistinguishable from their pagan fellows in their life-style . |
| 30 | The menfolk have an aged , craggy appearance , being hunch-backed from their hard labour , and wear a long grey beard . |