Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] from a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks as if Mr Honecker , 77 and only slowly recovering from a gall-bladder operation , is incapable of grasping the situation in his country . |
| 2 | More recently , in a series entitled , ‘ Scenes from the intimate life of CMA ’ she uses six small-scale canvasses , each focussing on a film still , randomly appropriated from a narrative sequence . |
| 3 | There are other outlets , if you want to learn the media game , in terms of speech and view , as it were , hospital radio , I do n't know whether you have any hospitals in your region but increasingly hospital radio offers an opportunity and a challenge , and welcomes people who would like to try their hand at becoming sort of D.J.s , or features editors , or are prepared to talk interestingly about subjects , and this you would only know from a local point of view . |
| 4 | The child was only freed from a fume-filled car when her frantic mother began knocking on the locked garage door . |
| 5 | Lin and his colleagues ( 1979 ) also set out to explain why support might be protective among 121 men and 49 women randomly selected from a Chinese-American community in the USA . |
| 6 | Over the past few years , that area has rightly moved from a marginalized position in cultural theory to become a focus for discussions around language , female desire and popular narratives . |
| 7 | Alison was returning from a night out with boyfriend Paul Reany , from Hemlington , Middlesbrough , and another friend , near the university when she was apparently shot from a passing car . |
| 8 | Others are obviously drawn from a wide range of vegetal , animal and architectural forms ; the diverse influences of mythology , folklore , history and the other decorative arts can also be seen . |
| 9 | Apparently forged from a mad mixture of screamingly right-on individuals from West Coast hardcore outfits , Rage Against The Machine are everything millions of moshpit enthusiasts have come to expect from music , only several times better . |
| 10 | Each litre of brine contains between 0–6 and 6.5 grams of zinc , However no one knows if the brine is concentrated enough to tap from a small area . |
| 11 | According to Sartre , history is only born from a sudden imbalance of scarcity which disrupts all levels of society and initiates conflict and therefore progression . |
| 12 | Jeff was obviously calling from a public place . |
| 13 | Grandfather was only suffering from a nagging cough and mild flu but he was , after all , somewhat of a grandee in the town because of his wealth . |
| 14 | A Samoan official could shed no light on his reasons and Koko himself was ‘ resting ’ in his hotel , apparently suffering from a slight cold . |
| 15 | You must realise that the King not only fell from a great height but the sea pounded his body to and fro against the rocks . ’ |
| 16 | So , if we knew that P was the first letter of a word we would know that the second letter could only come from a small group , and that A , E , I , O , and U are the most likely candidates , H and S are less likely but possible , and F and N very unlikely , but not impossible . |
| 17 | The regional tourist boards should now be strongly supporting the need for the national framework , for guidance and assistance that can only come from a central body — yet they dare not speak too loudly for fear that their reduced funding will be cut even further if DoNH reallocates it to the national level . |
| 18 | True knowledge and true understanding , it is implied , can only come from a divine source . |
| 19 | There were also several coloured photographs of the villa ‘ La Felicità ’ ; all taken from a low angle , so that it seemed to tower against the sky ; a place where the owners might appear on the battlements to a flourish of trumpets and a cry of heralds . |
| 20 | Thus the UK clearinghouse has been entirely funded from a national body , and in this respect it has been fortunate and unique . |
| 21 | Hundreds of them suddenly erupt from a tiny hole in the sand and start sprinting across the dune looking for the bodies of insects that may have collapsed from heat stress . |
| 22 | Aubrey and Cora-Beth had not long returned from a lengthy ride across the lush , undulating pastures and were still wearing jodhpurs and cool , open-necked shirts . |
| 23 | Moreover , there is such a difference between one man and another that the man of 70 may still be at a higher level than the man of 20 at his peak : although the latter , starting so to speak from a lower level , will normally reach the later age at a much lower point than the former . |
| 24 | And recently in April , when two young girls from one of the refugee camps in San Salvador were captured , we put their names across on the programme every day until they were eventually transferred from a secret prison to the Women 's prison , We regard it as a triumph to have got them into a public prison , although they are minors , and now we are demanding their release , of course we exhaust all the legal channels as well but these days we just think of it as a formality , There have been occasions when we have presented a Habeas Corpus petition to the Supreme Court of Justice and the official concerned has simply torn the paper up in front of us and told us to get out . |
| 25 | The error of rationalism , in Oakeshott 's argument , does not arise from the application of scientific methods to non-scientific material , but rather results from a mistaken understanding of the nature of reason . |
| 26 | The problem is to identify those cases that can most benefit from a further investigation . |
| 27 | December 8 , 1924 : I am at the moment just recovering from a heavy bout of drinking . |
| 28 | ‘ Standing on chairs is n't to be recommended when you 're just recovering from a sprained ankle . |
| 29 | They all came as a result of his marvellously intuitive support play , the best stemming from a masterly dummy by his scrum-half partner , Andy Gregory , in only the second minute . |
| 30 | As fast as it formed this spume was whisked away into the cave from where it was sucked into a natural wind tunnel and finally shot from a huge blow hole towards the centre of Fianuis . |