Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He laughed and said something that included my name — it stands out from his other noises : blah blah Killer blah blah . |
| 2 | If the Duke looks out from his eastern windows , he will see crowds of flames dancing among the tree trunks , a hundred fires and a dozen folk round every fire . ’ |
| 3 | The author writes chattily from her own experience and is quite happy to tell of her own mistakes and why she now recommends what she does . |
| 4 | AS SOON as she arrives back from her American lecture tour tonight , Mrs Thatcher will head straight for a glittering parlour in central London . |
| 5 | Now Chancellor Norman Lamont will find himself facing a full-scale sterling crisis when he flies home from his Italian holiday next week . |
| 6 | Yet the characters ' speech here reaches out from its immediate context to timelessness and universality . |
| 7 | The work force want to return to a contract and yet do not want to return to a situation which takes away from their individual freedom and negotiating rights . |
| 8 | Up front , John Davies reclaims the tight-head prop slot and Mark Perego takes over from his injured Llanelli club-mate Lyn Jones on the open side . |
| 9 | ‘ Raindown ’ again impresses because of the newly-found POD focus , its guitars taking time to breathe and plan their next assault , while Craig 's voice breaks away from its usual comparisons and finds its own piece of sky to lark about in . |
| 10 | The principle of propulsion by Flettner rotors suffers still from their ignominious fate . |
| 11 | He jumps away from his own mouth , going nowhere . |
| 12 | The poet who would go on in ‘ East Coker ’ to write of poetry as ‘ a raid on the inarticulate ’ now pulls back from his earlier position in his wish ‘ to avoid employing the terms Romanticism and Classicism ’ , and concludes that ‘ we are still in the Arnold period ’ . |
| 13 | This kind of bullying from aggressive bosses can destroy even the most confident and successful people , as author Jilly Cooper remembers well from her early career . |
| 14 | Havelock Wilson 's later reputation in the trade union movement as a " bosses " man " , an imperialist , an anti-democrat riding roughshod over his members ' wishes and a betrayer of the miners ' cause during the 1926 General Strike diverges strangely from his earlier image as a militant , a rabble-rouser , a fearless advocate of the seafarer , " stumping the country agitating , organising and inciting " , and as an advocate , even an originator , of the " new unionism " which shook the trade union establishment to its foundations in the late 1880s and early 1890s . |
| 15 | His workshops may be found wherever molten lava or metal spills onto the ground , and smoke occasionally belches forth from his underground chimneys , known as volcanoes . |
| 16 | This central line of thought takes its force from overlooking an essential specification of a causal circumstance , one which derives directly from our ordinary beliefs . |
| 17 | She does have affection for him but is not over-impressed with his success as a writer and she speaks directly from her own experience rather than any vicarious sensations . |
| 18 | It is unlikely to be easy for them to decide , on their working-class pupils ' behalf , that personal fulfilment derives solely from their inner selves and their environment , unrelated to questions of higher social status and improved working and leisure conditions . |
| 19 | The fact that , for Moore , the value of a thing follows necessarily from its intrinsic nature , from what it is like , makes it a little misleading to say , as is often done , that it is supposed to be always an open question whether something characterised in terms of its natural , or metaphysical , properties is good or not , and that this is his chief reason for regarding good as indefinable . |
| 20 | What would have been evident to them , of course , is the first premiss ; so , although Berkeley 's surprising conclusion follows validly from his three premisses , these are not all equally acceptable both to the ‘ philosophers ’ and to the common sense of the ‘ vulgar ’ . |
| 21 | Quatro Pro for Windows profits greatly from its multi-page notebook layout , and the Windows environment ensures that it is easy to learn and use . |
| 22 | This is quoted and endorsed by Meyers ( Homosexuality and Literature , 148 ) , who goes on to describe Lawrence 's Aaron 's Rod as possessing many components of ‘ a homosexual novel ’ including ‘ an intense hatred and fear of women , who are characterised in two male gatherings as threatening , frightening and repulsive ’ , and ‘ a symbolically castrated hero who is afraid to let himself go in heterosexual love and runs away from his three women ’ ( p. 154 ) . |
| 23 | Russia , in helping to restore the museums in other former republics after the war , gave them works both from its own museum collections and from war booty . |
| 24 | Gran comes back from her Senior Citizens with enough news to fill the Magazine . |
| 25 | Spirit mediums may not be paid for their services , and their power comes primarily from their collective efforts in large group seances . |