Example sentences of "[adv] from the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is derived entirely from the general meaning of car , together with the semantic properties of the context ( remember that general knowledge concerning cars and operations carried out on them is , on the view of meaning adopted in this book , embedded in the meanings of car , wash , polish , etc . ) .
2 The interest which the RUC has as a police force derives entirely from the social context in which it operates , but this context is both a spur and a hindrance to research on the RUC .
3 Slater called suddenly from the other side of the road .
4 Apparently from the centuries-old custom of throwing salt over one 's left shoulder in order to avert bad luck . ’
5 In this process in which the psychiatrist ( or psychoanalyst ) looks outwards from the individual psyche into his patient 's social network , he inevitably moves into territory which the social anthropologist ( and in Europe the sociologist ) regards as his — hence , of course , the boundary disputes alluded to above .
6 The initial depression will be the first to accumulate sediment and this will lead to a positive feedback cycle of further subsidence and sediment accumulation extending outwards from the initial focus of subsidence .
7 Foundries and mines , factories and tenements were spreading outwards from the old heart of the town , and an ever-present pall of smoke and soot hung in the air over the river .
8 The les fortunate guests had to come daily from the new hotel on Persepolis or even form Shiraz , forty miles away .
9 Until 1991 Vietnam had received an estimated US$1,000 million annually from the Soviet Union in credits and grants .
10 The fire had been lit in the bedroom , and Senga was sitting curled up in the rocking chair beside the fire quietly reading aloud from the latest issue of the " Girls Own Paper . "
11 My guess would be that they are the same advisers or perhaps from the same coterie of advisers .
12 The business community benefits greatly from the close involvement of chartered accountants in its affairs and there are a lot of good reasons why the audit should be retained .
13 It differs greatly from the family-based structuring of human life with its stress on the long-term bond between mates .
14 This is not a sensible tax structure viewed from the viewpoint of HM Treasury , far less from the wider viewpoint of the national interest .
15 Correlations in this area , especially in non-Marxist work but still in most Marxist work hitherto , have tended to proceed less from the steady analysis of evidence than from relatively a priori concepts , usually of a strictly contemporary kind , to which such evidence as there is is illustratively added .
16 The qualities required of a country-town solicitor appear clearly enough from the foregoing description of his work .
17 I collect a dozen or so from the dewy grass in the early morning and set off for a few hours ' chubbing , knowing I am going to catch several fish , providing , of course , the weather and water conditions are favourable .
18 Elsewhere he referred to it as ‘ developing socialism ’ , differentiating it from the ‘ developed socialism ’ that was supposed to have been constructed in the Brezhnev era and still more so from the utopian vision of a society rapidly advancing towards full communism that had been current in the Khrushchev years .
19 It virtually excluded from the student 's experience ( and so from the likely experience of that student 's future pupils ) any serious engagement with the imaginative and creative uses of the mother tongue .
20 Kirby Underdale is a pretty little village , lying in a fold of the Yorkshire Wolds , a mile or so from the busy road between Stamford Bridge and Fridaythorpe .
21 It is clear that the warp and woof of everyday life in stepfamilies differs from that of unbroken families not merely because of external constraints which frustrate the efforts of those who may seek , as some do , to recast their family lives in the mould of the nuclear family , but that family norms themselves may also be markedly altered , tempered to fit the limits of the new situation and fabricated anew from the post-marital residue of family beliefs and sentiments .
22 Secondly , we must pay attention to the extension of the activities of the state itself , which results not only from the increasing scale of societies , but also from many other influences that encourage state intervention ; and to take a specific example , those influences which effected the transition from a ‘ night-watchman state ’ to a ‘ welfare state ’ .
23 The example that I wish to mention is drawn not only from the delayed start of the debate but from the organised barracking of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury orchestrated from the Back Benches by a Labour Whip .
24 The official governmental explanation of this legislation sets out unambiguously that unlike the school system , the youth support service does not have an autonomous pedagogical mandate but can derive this only from the primary mandate of parents ( Bundestags-Drucksache , 1990 ) .
25 Significantly increased values of TNF-α were found in perfusates from both segments in colitis but only from the rectal segment in proctitis ( Table ) .
26 Once , a bat whirred inside his chamber , invisible and apprehensible only from the eerie displacement of the air , the frenzy of wings on a high note .
27 The door opened wider and a man stepped inside from the growing darkness of the street .
28 Propagation is done by stem-cuttings , especially from the top half of the plant .
29 During our debate on the Gracious Speech last Wednesday , we heard a different story from Opposition Members and especially from the hon. Member for Garscadden .
30 Time and again we have heard tonight — especially from the hon. Member for Withington — about shortfall and about the measures that we should take to meet it .
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