Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] [to-vb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In line with the general emphasis on blood in the exilic Priestly tradition , tremendous importance was attached to the actual blood of the circumcision , and unless several drops of blood were seen to issue from the wound , the operation was deemed invalid and valueless . |
| 2 | The ceremony is said to derive from the day in the year 52 when San Barnaba did the same thing outside the walls of Milan to symbolize the city 's conversion to Christianity . |
| 3 | These bands of sand are thought to result from the clearance of woodland in the area surrounding the site with resultant soil erosion and the in-washing of soil into the loch from the bare ground surface . |
| 4 | His 22-year-old step grandchild Madjit was forced to jump from the first floor with his pyjamas ablaze . |
| 5 | At least a little more flexibility was beginning to emanate from the British Foreign Office over the question of the Suez base . |
| 6 | This physical consequence is seen to follow from the mathematical fact that our operators are what is called non-commutative . |
| 7 | The Romans soaked the pounded seed in wine and the word mustard is thought to come from the Latin mustum ardens meaning " burning must " — grape must is newly-fermented grape juice . |
| 8 | It was just at this moment that the fisherman was trying to escape from the sea-king 's palace , struggling , with the golden cradle in his arms , to swim up through the great weight of sea that lay like a dome above . |
| 9 | Her head was beginning to throb from the smoky , claustrophobic atmosphere , and she wondered how she could tactfully drop a few hints about leaving without inviting a tirade of displeasure from André , which was the last thing she felt she could cope with . |
| 10 | All sequences refer to the non-template strand , with the numbering referring to the transcript length from the -1 site of each promoter ( since initiation of transcription was forced to commence from the -1 position by high levels of GpA and ApU for the UV5 and N25 promoters , respectively ) . |
| 11 | The maximum impact is going to come from the way you stand , lots of other things , the way you speak that 's based on various studies that were done . |
| 12 | The implementation of key targets as operational components of the new strategy — and hence also of the process of negotiation — may be conceived in the time frame of a decade but only in the form of a dynamic process , with different time frames for different components , and with an in-built and effective mechanism for review and reappraisal , leading to adjustments and correctives whenever the strategy is seen to deflect from the goals and objectives of development for which it was devised . |
| 13 | The name of this parish is said to come from the legend that builders , on the orders of a local lord , tried to raise the church elsewhere eight times ; on each occasion finding it pulled down at night and the tools moved to the present site . |
| 14 | In many of the cases brought against experts , where full arbitral status did not seem appropriate , the expert 's immunity was said to derive from the fact that the expert 's status was that of a " quasi-arbitrator " , or that the expert was " in the position of an arbitrator " , or that an expert was " in the nature of an arbitrator " . |
| 15 | This interpretation is expected to elicit from the reader the response : " That 's easy . |
| 16 | ‘ How futile to announce that some great lead to thought was going to emerge from the mountain of memoranda discussed at high pressure by exhausted delegates . ’ |
| 17 | He financed a short film , The Space Movie , in which Oldfield 's music was set to footage from the American space programme . |
| 18 | The rural development area has been reviewed , the County and the work principally done within , within the planning division , the County has , has led a , a team of the County and District Councils to bid for the retention of three areas which the rural development division were proposing to drop from the R D A. |
| 19 | A reply was then received from Mr Quarry but the proposed ground rent of £15 a year was considered too high and another effort was made to get from the Baroness von Steiglitz some ground at the corner of what is now Carrickblacker Avenue and in the same field where the existing Tabernacle stood . |
| 20 | I could also appreciate that the bulk of this supposed humour was meant to derive from the anachronism of the play 's sexual mores . |
| 21 | Well I think much as I welcome the university proceeding down the road that it is , erm I have a very , very strong feeling that change is going to come from the bottom up , and I think that it 'll come from the bottom up in those colleges , like New College , who have got an increasingly large number of women fellows who feel that , you know , there 's safety in numbers and we can start to do something about it . |
| 22 | The power of the elite is held to derive from the greater intensity and quality of the sentiments or residues of its members which give its members the will and the ability to maintain their own rule either by force or by consent ( but not usually both , according to Pareto ) . |
| 23 | But the most important and interesting aspect of its role in the book is the way in which Proust 's narrative is shown to deviate from the model : Genette shows that in a number of ways A la recherche breaks and challenges the laws of narrative proposed by the abstract model but without undercutting their general validity . |
| 24 | A new support is seen to descend from the span . |
| 25 | With a corporation that is in trouble a lot of actions might make things worse so the natural tendency is to try to escape from the present troubles by setting a specific objective and moving towards that . |
| 26 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 27 | An electricity generating company in California sued a laboratory which failed to properly document its analysis ; the company was trying to recover from the laboratory the costs of settling a suit for unfair dismissal brought by an employee who lost her job because of the test . |
| 28 | Nicholas , although his chest was threatening to burst from the pounding within , was sadly well studied in the art of disguising his true feelings . |
| 29 | We can make use of regular solution theory to obtain an expression for ΔH M where this change in energy is assumed to arise from the formation of new solvent-polymer ( 1–2 ) contacts on mixing which replace some of the ( 1–1 ) and ( 2–2 ) contacts present in the pure solvent , and the pure polymer components respectively . |
| 30 | The only possibility is that information from the context was used to eliminate from the cohort items which were inconsistent with the preceding context . |