Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] from a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes seemed to be coming from a long way away . |
| 2 | He felt a peculiar sense of dislocation , and the sounds of those in the room seemed to be coming from a great distance away . |
| 3 | Very often this will be coming from a different department , who should be alerted in good time . |
| 4 | She was supposed to be suffering from a nervous breakdown , but that could be because the law did n't want anybody talking to her . |
| 5 | However , if a police officer is suddenly told by control that the member of the public with whom he is dealing may be suffering from a mental disorder , he may start to deal with that individual differently , and in a way that may not be particularly helpful . |
| 6 | And if anyone should encounter Patrick Phelan , give him a wide berth , since he will almost certainly be suffering from a contagious plague of boils . |
| 7 | If the young daughters of women with gonorrhoea are examined some 5 per cent will be found to be suffering from a gonococcal vulva-vaginitis . |
| 8 | In 1976 he was found to be suffering from a spinal disease which was unrelated to the accident but which rendered him totally unfit for work . |
| 9 | But Moubarak argued that he might have misjudged the colt 's preparation in not giving him sufficient work since he was found to be suffering from a minor skin infection on his legs after his previous race . |
| 10 | Moving this way , then , we would be starting from a causal theory of justification ; the causal theory of knowledge would simply be one of its consequences . |
| 11 | 16.41 Pupils working towards levels 8 to 10 should be reading from a wide range of literature written for adults . |