Example sentences of "[verb] from the figure " in BNC.
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| 1 | The air smelt faintly of incense and , of course , that strange smell of faded flowers which emanated from the figure dressed in black who squatted beside Wolsey : Doctor Agrippa , supreme practitioner of the black arts though he looked like a mummer 's version of Friar Tuck in some masque about Robin Hood . |
| 2 | As can be seen from the figure , for buckets holding five records division is not as effective as mid-square ( which closely approximates the ‘ theoretical ’ figures ) for packing densities above 0.7 . |
| 3 | As you can see from the figure on the page opposite the man thinks that he is standing up straight when anyone can see , at a glance , that he is leaning backwards from the waist . |
| 4 | The squatting demoiselle with her broad back and splayed-out legs must surely be derived from the figure at the right of the Three Bathers owned by Matisse , a work which Picasso could well , indeed almost certainly must , have seen In a discussion of the general composition and appearance of the Demoiselles another possible influence should be mentioned : that of El Greco . |
| 5 | This is a little below the level in September but little changed from the figure for August . |
| 6 | This is below the level in November but little changed from the figure from October . |