Example sentences of "tell from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This story , told from a child 's point of view , from the limited perspective of a small Welsh town , far away from the fighting , brought the sadness of war closer than any story I have ever heard . |
| 2 | A Fire Service spokesman said : ‘ We were told from a reliable source the youths were still likely to be in the building so we conducted a thorough search . |
| 3 | First , when you 're told from every conceivable angle that something is , in itself , dangerous you can be lulled into thinking the very opposite . |
| 4 | Some of them even came from within the nuclear fold , concerned that the truth should be told from the inside out . |
| 5 | He had been told from the start that recovery would happen , but it might take some years , so he felt their hopes were realistic . |
| 6 | The difference with this book is that the story is told from the groundcrew 's side of things . |
| 7 | Easily told from the swallow tribe by short tail and long curved wings , as well as by all dark plumage , apart from whitish throat , rather more obvious in juvenile which also has pale tips to wing feathers . |
| 8 | Nothing he had been told from the very first moment he had arrived in Perugia amounted to any more than salacious gossip , casual slanders , ill-informed rumours of no real value which elsewhere would never have reached his ears . |
| 9 | Coonts , whose experiences include flying A-6 Intruders from the carrier USS Enterprise during the Vietnam War , relates this aerial odyssey across America as it can only be told from the cockpit ! |
| 10 | Star and Garter I 'm being told from the right here , those sort of very special places we do n't provide them , we buy in from , from outside . |
| 11 | When I heard reports of the changing physical shape of German women , that they were becoming a different breed of women we 'd been told from the old , rather heavy , erm motherly plain sort of woman who characterised Germany womanhood before the Second World War , well now we read that their shape and their weight and so on corresponds much more to French or British and American norms . |
| 12 | Why , I 've heard tell from the Bishop 's secretary that yours used to be the best Mystery in the land , bar none . |
| 13 | I expect I 've got a tell from the files . |
| 14 | As far as I could tell from a quick skim through , every meal was designed to act as an aphrodisiac . |
| 15 | While they were there , an elderly man came down the stairs from the upper floor ( with its second hand books and books of local interest ) , and started to wander around , absent-mindedly Clara could tell from a certain straining of attention on Walter 's part that he was trying to catch the old man 's eye , and eventually he succeeded in doing so ; the old man nodded and smiled , with a bare " minimum of recognition , and Walter said " Good morning , Mr Warbley . " |
| 16 | And I can tell from a half-hour 's converse with him that he 's in good hands . |
| 17 | You can tell from the way it gets lapped up . |
| 18 | There are two rooms at the front and two at the back on each floor , and although you could not tell from the outside , the first floor rooms are a foot higher than those below . |
| 19 | We can tell from the way it leaps . ’ |
| 20 | There were no doors in the walls , but she could tell from the noise that the building she thought she had come out of was a pub . |
| 21 | Maggie could tell from the expression on Mr Sanderson 's face that much thought had gone into this . |
| 22 | Within seconds it stops and I can tell from the direction of the line that the bait is lying in the thick of the roots . |
| 23 | All but two of the books reviewed were opposed to testing , as far as one can tell from the reviews , and were praised for their position . |
| 24 | A real teacher is unlikely to use an instruction like this , for 11-year-olds : ‘ Find three ways in which you can tell from the drawings ( of spider and crane fly ) that they are the same as each other and three ways in which they are different . ’ |
| 25 | A real teacher is unlikely to use an instruction like this , for 11-year-olds : ‘ Find three ways in which you can tell from the drawings ( of spider and crane fly ) that they are the same as each other and three ways in which they are different . ’ |
| 26 | Shopworker Marian Clarke , 27 , of Hornsey , said : ‘ You could tell from the warning that it was real and everyone started to run and the police were shooing people away from the buildings . |
| 27 | Approach to the edge of Christian reference was here deliberate , as one can tell from the date Gandalf so carefully gives for the fall of Sauron ( 111 , 230 ) , ‘ the twenty-fifth of March ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ I could tell from the fear on his face he was not joking . ’ |
| 29 | You can tell from the slope that this is a typical shoulder shaping albeit in miniature . |
| 30 | Jazzbeaux had been out of it for most of the fighting , but she could tell from the leavings that things had got serious . |