Example sentences of "as from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the 53 farmers ( 35% ) who chose evenings for the 3 hour course , 21 ( 40% ) agreed that they might not gain full benefit from an evening course and 32 ( 60% ) felt that they would gain as much as from a day time course . |
| 2 | In another sense they may seem to know them too little , to be too little able to see them in relation to other , contemporary , young people : as much chance of a fair assessment from a family as from a school . |
| 3 | The view from the transcendent is as from a great height and brings calm and dispassion and certainty . |
| 4 | as from a tiny back garden , |
| 5 | A shudder , as from a slight cough , passed through Hari 's inanimate frame , but there was no other response . |
| 6 | Loud noise ( usually delivered as " white noise " — a wide-band mixture of tones , sounding like a monotonous hiss as from a N set unconnected to an aerial ) is a potent arouser , and in rested subjects it has the effect of focusing attention in a dual component task . |
| 7 | Some Greeks admired Persian methods ( p. 18 ) ; even Plato , who thought that Persians suffered , as from a disease , from an excess of tyranny which made them congenitally weak , could call their empire a ‘ solidly based system ’ ( Laws 685 where the reference is to Persia ) . |
| 8 | But now the water flowed , water as from a spring whose source he had forgotten , the lost energy of young and wasted years ran into his limbs and mind and spirit so that he looked everywhere with honesty , with a sensation of being right in the world . |
| 9 | Your legal rights are the same when you buy mail order as from a shop . |
| 10 | Lady Bell wrote of women in Middlesbrough in 1907 being ‘ curiously devoid of public spirit or interest in outside affairs ’ , and some 40 years later , Slater and Woodside described their female respondents as looking out on the world from their homes ‘ as from a beleaguered fortress ’ . |
| 11 | A sad old woman rose from her chair , as from a dais , to take their coats and hang them on a row of hooks nailed against a wall . |
| 12 | For Humphrey , aesthetic structuring arises from the urge to group and classify information as well as from a capacity to pick up similarities and associations that generate a sense of rhythm and rhyme . |
| 13 | This new concern , among social thinkers of different persuasions , with the opportunities for peaceful change no doubt results in part from a revulsion against the extreme violence characterizing the first half of the twentieth century , and against the authoritarian political regimes which some kinds of violence have brought into existence , as well as from a deep-seated and pervasive apprehension of the ultimate consequences of violence in the age of nuclear weapons . |
| 14 | As people interested in cognitive studies come at least as much from linguistics , philosophy or psychology as from a computer-using subject , they must be introduced to programming . |
| 15 | Smoke was rising from her nostrils as from a pantomimic devil 's mask . |
| 16 | I know nothing about radio — but I do n't need to , I realize , because , even while I watch , the waves are softly withdrawing from the wavebands , as from a beach at low tide on a calm summer 's afternoon , leaving me gazing through the darkness of my son 's bedroom at three shirts , two of them size 35 long , one of them size 32 medium . |
| 17 | Yeah and I I asked the question not too much from the Green Party point of view as from a personal point view as I I would like to know what my Government is saying to do about these things . |
| 18 | Lucy Chamberlain had died by blows from a blunt instrument , as well as from a shotgun wound . |