Example sentences of "[to-vb] from the [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With an estimated 250,000 refugees from more dangerous parts of Mozambique living in makeshift villages along the protected corridors , the greatest threat appeared to come from the increasingly desperate shortage of food , following the failure of the rains . |
| 2 | However , Tizard does acknowledge that the issue is complicated by social inequality — children who come into care tend to come from the most powerless sector of society . |
| 3 | This position helps prevent the excessive trunk activity which might happen when the patient is standing erect , and it helps the patient to work from the very lowest part of the back , at the pelvis . |
| 4 | Who the other call was to Jihan has never revealed , but it is certain that it must have been someone of the highest importance , and that her purpose was to obtain from the most authoritative source possible some outside indication of what was happening in Egypt . |
| 5 | ( d ) To require member states to depart from the universally recognised criterion of the owner 's nationality would place Community law in conflict with international law , which should be avoided ; in contrast , as a matter of general principle the E.E.C . |
| 6 | The shore was already becoming inaccessible as piles of ash accumulated , so he was forced to abandon his attempt , and turned to the south , running before the wind to escape from the increasingly heavy rain of ashes . |
| 7 | Does it seem impossible to escape from the dauntingly sticky web of difficulty outlined above ? |
| 8 | She 'd had to walk from the more expensive inn up the road which was the official halt for the northbound stagecoach . |
| 9 | Within a few months they moved to the east coast of Scotland where they were allocated a large stretch of coastline , from Rosyth to Montrose , to protect from the very real threat of German invasion . |
| 10 | But from what he could see , he was in a private room in some hospital , to judge from the clinically white decor and the chrome steel stand by the bedside , holding the I.V . |
| 11 | To judge from the very wide circulation of the decisions on these details , in contrast to the almost total lack of circulation of the earlier decrees , this concentration of effort was the right policy ; but it took at least another two generations before the aim , which Anselm in 1102 had been confident could quickly be reached , was achieved . |
| 12 | Jameson seems to object to the fall of modernism and the decline of a critical aesthetic , and fails to learn from the quite genuine failure of modernism itself with regard to its popular acceptability . |
| 13 | Land problems are seen to arise from the technically necessary modernization of manufacturing industry . |