Example sentences of "in [v-ing] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their Rolls Royce image was dented for a while by accusations of unethical behaviour in raiding from clients , but was restored once the business had expanded into other sectors and gained a name as a generalist . |
| 2 | This is a major reason why sexual deviance is found threatening : in deviating from normative truth and the ‘ nature ’ which underpins it , such deviance shifts and confuses the norms of truth and being throughout culture . |
| 3 | They had their tea together , and Clare delighted in eating from the same plate as Tess . |
| 4 | There is , of course , always a danger in generalising from individual writing . |
| 5 | Like , uh , how does WNKER Toronto hope to deal with the switch in formatting from vinyl to CD without breaking the semester 's budget on new shelving ? |
| 6 | Yet Humphreys Davies played with spirit in recovering from set and 2–1 down to win 3–6 6–2 6–3 . |
| 7 | The economic record of the period 1945–50 which is summarised in Table VI bears testimony to the progress which was achieved in recovering from the depredations of the war . |
| 8 | How much worse it must be for those who have n't been as fortunate as I in recovering from such trauma . |
| 9 | In recovering from our torture we take solace from the knowledge that we share with H G Wells , Oscar Wilde , William Butler Yeats , W Somerset Maugham , James Joyce , and many other writers the experience of having had a rotten rejection . |
| 10 | The financial forecasts assume that the University will in due course succeed in recovering from the research councils the funds which it is expected will be lost from its HEFCE grant under the DR-shift . |
| 11 | It was in the elaboration of its programme rather than in its Parliamentary Opposition or in campaigns in the country , that the Labour Party made the greatest advances in recovering from its collapse . |
| 12 | However , the Labour Party , in recovering from the defeat of 1931 , seemed to be adopting a more radical policy . |
| 13 | Hold down Alt and tap M once for each 0.5″ reduction in insetting from the left margin |
| 14 | Their fascination with dinosaurs has led to discussions on conservation and ecology , writing their own stories and practise in drawing from observation . |
| 15 | Few men can have done more to relieve human suffering , or shown less interest in profiting from the process . |
| 16 | Like all criminal gangs , Famlio specializes in profiting from human weaknesses such as pleasure , greed and fear . |
| 17 | He advanced money , in ever-growing sums , especially during the second and third Anglo-Dutch wars ; and showed great skill in securing repayment , in discounting operations , and in profiting from the high rates of interest which the government had to pay for ready cash . |
| 18 | Some scholars , especially those who have worked on English as well as Continental evidence , have recently been arguing for the role of kingship , if not in initiating , then in profiting from economic activity in both town and countryside . |
| 19 | Even foreign tourists who had not yet caught on to the realities of life in Romania and perhaps were over-insistent in demanding from a minor bureaucrat of the tourist office why some essential and prepaid feature of their holiday had failed to materialize would be confronted by a shrug of the shoulders and the muttered words , ‘ Epocha Ceauşescu , as the only explanation . |
| 20 | This led to a considerable investment of energy in shaping from above the constituents of the national culture and national character ; and to the identification and removal of any tendencies towards degeneration within the national " body " . |
| 21 | THE shift in decision-making from nation states to Europe is an inevitable consequence of economic Europeanisation and internationalisation . |
| 22 | In 1717 , Captain Ferguson , with the support of Brigadier Preston , wrote to the Duke of Montrose to seek his ‘ help to his merit in purchasing from Major James Lauson his post as Major ’ . |
| 23 | The increase in gearing from the extremely low level of last year to 38% is primarily occasioned by the acquisition of BMK . |
| 24 | A cat or monkey using its perceptual powers in leaping from wall to wall , or branch to branch , needs some representation of stability and support . |
| 25 | From 1889 to 1906 he worked on railways in many other countries : the Central Argentine Railway appointed him district locomotive superintendent in 1894 , but in 1897 he was summarily dismissed for being late in returning from leave in England ; in 1900 he went as locomotive superintendent to the Cuban Central Railways , in 1902 to the Lagos Government Railway , and in 1904 to the Lima Railways in Peru . |
| 26 | In disengaging from that strategy and withdrawing to his study to memorialize the de Gaulle of history , the General reverted to his original concept of the leader-in-reserve — the solitary hero to whom the nation would inevitably turn in a moment of dire emergency . |
| 27 | The function of the ‘ Führer myth ’ in deflecting from ‘ everyday ’ concerns and in bolstering the basis of support for the regime comes across clearly in reports on the impact of Hitler 's speeches , which the SD was keen to monitor . |
| 28 | MY SON has a very good memory for songs and snatches gathered in passing from radio and television , and can reconstitute these with sometimes startling accuracy . |
| 29 | Coleridge talked incessantly , and ‘ in digressing , in dilating , in passing from subject to subject ’ , he appeared to ‘ float in air , to slide on ice ’ . |
| 30 | Insolvency , bankruptcy — in passing from one generation to another , the terms never lost their dread significance . |