Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] from [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below 700m many of the soils are man-made — the soils on the terraces having been brought up from the river mouths or down from the bases of the escarpments . |
| 2 | We do not know in detail whence the monks were recruited ; but on the whole they seem mainly to have come from the upper classes , and perhaps from the families of substantial town-dwellers . |
| 3 | By using salvaged slates , it was possible to revise the roof of the garage to a ‘ cat-slide ’ form projecting out and down from the eaves of the main rear roof-slope at a slightly shallower pitch than this surface ( Plate 10 ) . |
| 4 | Erm , we 're doing all about this in er E D S the other day and apparently from the pictures on the T V at the time everyone thought it was whole of Ethiopia that was starving , and it was only actually twenty five percent of the population . |
| 5 | Why should I say the ‘ expression ’ derives its meaning from the feeling behind it — and not from the circumstances of the language game in which it is used ? |
| 6 | Residents say rats are coming from the council 's Hundens Lane depot and not from the allotments behind their homes . |
| 7 | An understanding of ‘ god ’ which was derived from the timeless story of evolution and life experience , and not from the results of the mindless suppression of the products of developing intelligence , would be a treasure indeed , and the very important first step in the establishing of this ‘ god ’ is the full acceptance of the premise that no such ‘ god ’ is already in existence , nor ever has been . |
| 8 | EVO , partly in reaction to the Voice , partly the result of its staff 's predilections , had rapidly settled into the acid freak end of the underground , and away from the politicos of the American new left . |
| 9 | They occupy a space which is potentially free , both psychologically and physically from the codes of ( patriarchal ) society . |
| 10 | Either way it was the inspiration for the academic success that took him faster and further from the streets of his childhood than even his mother 's success in business had . |
| 11 | Women 's claims to maintenance , however , are still derived less from their labour-market activities or the state and more from the men to whom they are married ( or with whom they cohabit ) . |
| 12 | Below them were moored feluccas with their long thin yards curving back and up from the masts in the same immaculate line . |
| 13 | With stereoscopic photographs and films , for example , we get information about the disposition of objects in the scene partly from practical experience of the size of such objects , and partly from the differences between our two eyes . |
| 14 | County clubs were financed partly through gate-money and partly from the subscriptions of members . |
| 15 | Morton remained on his feet , swaying backwards and forwards from the balls to the heels of his shoes . |
| 16 | ‘ And beneath from the pebbles in passing a spark |
| 17 | And apart from the peculiarities of the relationship with the German Democratic Republic , the structural problems of the West German State are in the main those common to most ( and less acute than in many ) advanced capitalist industrial societies of the present : problems of social equality and distribution of wealth , and of maintaining in an era of world-wide recession the economic growth so central to the legitimacy of post-war liberal democracies ; problems of the exploitation ( and often ruination ) of limited natural resources in the interests of the economy ; problems of national defence in a nuclear age ; and the corresponding problems of containing and absorbing often justified social and political protest without destroying civil liberties and undermining the very essence of the liberal democratic state . |
| 18 | And apart from the giggles from the party frocked section of the audience , there was little background buzz from the children as they became enticed by the bizarre tale . |
| 19 | ‘ As far as I am concerned diving is not an excessive calorie-consuming sport , and certainly from the numbers of divers that I see who are overweight , I do not actually believe that the statement in ‘ The Great Diving Adventure ’ , by Horace Hobbs , is actually borne out . |
| 20 | This suggests , perhaps , that the need for a prior epistemology depends , not on the character of the general questions which epistemology starts from , but rather from the kinds of solutions which , in this case , are offered — namely reductive ones . |
| 21 | One may remove the words ‘ next slide please ’ from the text , but not from the sequences of thought . |
| 22 | Both face tough competition in this 72-hole event not only from Davidson and Harris , but also from the likes of Scott Drummond , of Shifnal , Mark Foster , of Worksop , and David Hamilton , of East Herts . |
| 23 | Distress does not just arise from the symptoms of mental disorder but also from the consequences of the disorder as they affect the social and occupational life of the individual . |
| 24 | In South Africa , the British forces met with some resentment and opposition , not only from the natives , but also from the Settlers of Dutch descent , and in October 1880 , the first of the Boer Wars broke out . |
| 25 | The message came not only from multimedia boffins in attendance at the BA Conference in Torquay , but also from the presidents of both the Booksellers and Publishers Associations . |