Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What sometimes appear to be new strategies decentralisation , management by objectives , consultative supervision , ‘ democratic ’ leadership are usually but old wine in new bottles , because the procedures derived to implement them are derived from the same inadequate assumptions about human nature … |
| 2 | This should not suggest that my wife and I are cut from the American kind of Anglophilic chintz that may of you like to poke fun at . |
| 3 | The longer you leave it the more likely you are to profit from the upward trend in equities established now for nearly a century . |
| 4 | All the mitochondria in you are descended from the small population of mitochondria that travelled from your mother in her egg . |
| 5 | I do hope that you are having an enjoyable summer break from your classes , and that you are benefiting from the glorious weather we are having this year . |
| 6 | This is a unique feeling as instead of your arms pulling on the boom , you are looking from the other side of the sail and pushing . |
| 7 | This is obviously correct if you are working from the actual body measurements , but it is of no use when you want to enter measurements taken from a diagram where only an armhole depth measurement is given . |
| 8 | Work on the launch and the focus of the appeal is close to completion and we are benefitting from the good offices of our advertising industry contacts . |
| 9 | Dear Virginia , — Before Christmas last ( 22 October ) , you were reported in Hansard , during a debate on The Health of the Nation , as saying : ‘ I have degrees from Essex University and the London School of Economics , I have worked for the Child Poverty Action Group , and have lived with the defeatist talk that we are hearing from the hon Gentleman [ Mr David Blunkett ] . ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps we are emerging from the Dark Ages of Community Care and we are moving into a new age of enlightenment . |
| 11 | We have already experienced the abolition of free eye and dental checks , we are suffering from the creeping privatization of the Health Service , the selling off of our water , our crumbling schools , and yet we have to concentrate on the issue of trade union , Labour Party links . |
| 12 | ‘ He tells us we are suffering from the British disease of self-deprecation — the British people 's instinct for talking the country down . |
| 13 | In many cases , they are distinguished from the prevalent structural range by their degree of architectural pretension . |
| 14 | You can take cuttings in summer of this kind of herb and keep them protected through the winter , or shield the parent plants in some way , so that they are sheltered from the worst of the cold and wind . |
| 15 | The vineyards of this village are physically , though not communally , a continuation of the higher slopes of Vaudemanges ; they are separated from the main belt of the Montagne on a lower eastern extremity . |
| 16 | Codes The spaceship and its crew are trapped on a distant planet ; they need to understand the ( coded ) messages they are receiving from the alien inhabitants . |
| 17 | Regarding the first theme , it is claimed that the provision of welfare by state monopolies leads to waste since they are protected from the efficiency-inducing pressure of market competition . |
| 18 | There are various ways about that as there are with many road schemes er where there are structure plan policies for a particular scheme and there are arrows on key diagrams , there are many ways of getting from A to B er they are not er in terms of outer and inner , they are going from the same A to B. They they start and finish at the same locations , it is just a different way of getting from A to B. Which quite properly as I understand it would be a matter for debate er either at the local plan or if a planning application is made er earlier than that er then at a at a planning enquiry into the specific road proposal . |
| 19 | The craftsmen whom Willis describes are involved with their work even though they are alienated from the given structure of the enterprise . |
| 20 | The implication is that poverty is due to lack of involvement with successful capitalist enterprise and , though a minority of the poor do become successful entrepreneurs by building up small businesses from street selling , the vast majority are poor because they are excluded from the modern economy . |
| 21 | They are expelled from the second city they visit ( Acts 13:51 ) , plotted against at the next ( Acts 14:5 ) , and nearly stoned to death at Lystra ( Acts 14:19 ) . |
| 22 | Patients with P cepacia can likewise feel outcast if they are removed from the normal hospital CF clinic or ward , from their friends , and from familiar hospital staff . |
| 23 | They are taken from the recent Policy Studies Institute ( PSI ) report on the Metropolitan Police force of London . |
| 24 | In addition , firms will be more able to respond to changes in demand by innovating and providing new products , once they are released from the bureaucratic requirements of state control . |
| 25 | They are coming from the second and third generations of families who have migrated to this country , families who have encouraged their children to enter the professions and vocations as lawyers , doctors , nurses and local government officers and to retain their competence in their own language . |
| 26 | A sense of the past may be retained by the use of remembrancers whose representations of it are differentiated from the everyday casual memories of people . |