Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He 's since suffered from lack off concentration and has been virtually unable to work .
2 Just as the coastal cities were subjected throughout the centuries to incursions from the interior by the forces of whichever power held sway beyond the mountains — Byzantines , Hungarians , Serbs and Turks — so the tranquillity of the Mediterranean climate is brutally violated from time to time by the icy blasts of the bura .
3 An all too common kind of crisis for community and primary care teams is that a vulnerable patient is suddenly discharged from hospital on a Friday afternoon without any formal referral or plan for aftercare .
4 Equally , one should perhaps guard against the maxim that a conductor who is not also a creative writer is somehow debarred from access to the grail of ultimate musical understanding .
5 It is thus precipitated from milk by any weak acid , in the nursery notably by rhubarb juice , in industry usually by weak hydrochloric acid .
6 The existence of a bibliography and index in a book may be ascertained from its entry in the national bibliography , but the quality of these items is best judged from examination of the book itself .
7 It is usually protected from damage by being run inside a drain pipe , and rises slightly to avoid air bubbles .
8 As a label , Gramola is still revived from time to time for releases that are primarily designed for the local market .
9 According to classical mechanics , in theory you could write down the position and momentum of every single particle in the universe ; you could therefore work out how everything is going backwards and forwards in time , obviously by highly complicated equations , but in theory , everything 's predicted so everything 's totally determined from beginning to end ; but quantum mechanics says that you can never record the momentum and position of everything identically because of the Uncertainty Principle .
10 Over the next 3 years the maturing Balsamic vinegar is carefully transferred from Mulberry to Chestnut to Juniper wood barrels .
11 The Repeater Hand Gun is also used from horseback by gallant Imperial Engineers who find it a devastating if temperamental device .
12 The 1931 treaty is automatically prolonged from year to year and each party has the right to terminate it after six months ' notification .
13 Dolomite is often distinguished from calcite by its failure to stain with solutions which react with calcite ( see below ) .
14 And it is surely dying from cancer with dignity which requires bravery .
15 The multiplier is then scanned from right to left , and each multiplier bit is examined in turn .
16 Attention to detail , like holding one 's briefcase in the left hand so that the right can be used for the handshake , removes the possibility of an awkward moment when a briefcase is clumsily transferred from right to left as the buyer extends his hand in greeting .
17 The resumption of any form of whaling would prove an embarrassment to the Norwegian fisheries minister , Oddrunn Pettersen , who is currently lurching from crisis to crisis .
18 And if that were not enough , the paper 's critic went on : ‘ His performance is continually kept from affectation by underlying cockney savagery ; he releases in us all the longing to put out tongues , chalk on walls and pull faces behind the back of authority . ’
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