Example sentences of "from a [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | A beam from a favourably located pulsar can illuminate the Earth once per cycle and this behaviour is detected , usually with radio-telescopes , as pulses of radiation at regular intervals . |
2 | Subsequently , however , the problem was perceived from a progressively more politicised perspective , and was ultimately understood in class terms as a violent struggle against a specific form of oppression . |
3 | Carlton Communications came from a broadly similar direction but with even more spectacular growth . |
4 | The same is true of town and village rugs , and individual items that clearly originate from a broadly defined area or region , but can not be tied down to a specific village or town will be marketed under the name of the general location . |
5 | Although studies of miscarriage from a broadly sociological perspective have been undertaken in Great Britain , none have had the specific focus of this study . |
6 | Dunbar , amongst current researchers operating from a broadly Darwinian perspective , offers salutary ( and , for ardent sociobiologists , perhaps the most disheartening ) advice : |
7 | Their study used letters between Poles in the USA and at home to attempt to analyse problems of the integration into American culture of people from a practically feudal home culture . |
8 | Already he is delighted with the back-up he has had from a professionally run franchisor . |
9 | We 've made applying for the Income & Growth PEP as easy as possible , because the sooner you invest the sooner you will start to benefit from a professionally managed investment portfolio and your tax-free returns . |
10 | Emblematic of the limited but crucial shift the fabliaux make use of from a thoroughly familiar world to one that is somewhat different is the extent to which the stories take place in the deep darkness of the medieval French night : as , for instance , all the tit-for-tat stealing and impersonation of Barat et Haimet . |
11 | He had refused , however , and sought advice privately from a medically qualified nutritionist . |
12 | The idea of such a journey came about , I should point out , from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago , when I had been dusting the portraits in the library . |
13 | Alternative fishing and help came from a most unexpected quarter , in the shape of a book by Anya Seaton called Devil Water ; a marvellous historical novel by a master story-teller , describing the tragic , romantic life of James Radcliffe , Earl of Derwentwater , and his younger brother Charles , both executed for their support of the Jacobite cause during the revolutions of 1715 and 1745 . |
14 | William Glen has approached the revolution in Earth science from a most specific vantage point — that of the University of California at Berkeley . |
15 | And this one from a most complimentary lady in Northampton : ‘ I hope the programme will give lots of people the determination to persevere as you did . |
16 | At the other end of the social scale Moschos , the son of Moschion , the Jewish slave , has now emerged from a most improbable place — from the temple of Amphiaraus in Boeotia . |
17 | My mother , who came from a staunchly ‘ church ’ family , used to express her antipathy when she often declared , ‘ He 's nothing but a chapel dodger , ’ and it 's difficult to describe the scorn that she would put into the phrase . |
18 | Its ownership relationships varied from a wholly owned territory to joint ventures to a partnership . |
19 | What is worse still , they start from a wholly inadequate skill base which hinders more than it helps by carving up approaches which should be integrated into arbitrary professional divisions called ‘ occupational therapy ’ , ‘ physiotherapy ’ and so on . |
20 | The Christian Bible with its progression from a wholly imaginary Garden of Eden to an authentically historical Roman Empire by way of a geographically very mixed up Land of Egypt and Land of Canaan is prototypical of a species of origin saga which can be encountered in all parts of the world among all kinds of people . |
21 | For just as he had begun to survey the picture from a wholly different angle , just as he thought he espied a gap in the clouds that hitherto had masked the shafts of sunlight the switchboard-operator dashed any hope of such a breakthrough with the simple statement that she 'd known Theodore Kemp very well indeed . |
22 | Tam Dalyell , writing on lead pollution , makes a statement which , coming from a normally well informed Labour MP , I find surprising . |
23 | The infantile , unmet scream may be repressed , either successfully or partially , at times breaking out from a normally controlled and reasonable adult . |
24 | Sympathy began to flow their way from a normally sceptical press . |
25 | Smoke coming from a normally disused building , a vehicle heading for a deserted spot . |
26 | By the entrance to Spring Place were two two-storey houses the first occupied by the Henstridge family , then followed a terrace of six , gaunt looking three-storey houses built from a singularly unattractive deep red brick . |
27 | Performances are idiomatic , with well sprung rhythms and sensibly chosen tempi , and benefit from a generally cool and restrained approach . |
28 | Director Caroline Fitzgerald has coaxed fine performances from a generally strong cast — in particular from O'Meara and Graham Arnold as the colourful butterflies that fly so distractingly around Alec 's head . |
29 | I came from a pretty poorish background and now it 's nice to be able to give my parents money , and let them do things like go on holiday . |
30 | Comes from a pretty awful home , apparently . |