Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ An early priority for an SNP government in an independent Scotland would be to remove any privatisation or franchising from the Scottish rail network and to expand the public service to meet the requirements of Scottish industry wishing to exploit the European single market . ’ |
| 2 | Executive circulars on 9 and 22 April had drawn attention to Conference and Executive decisions against Party members co-operating with or speaking from the same platform as members of the Communist Party . |
| 3 | While I sulked in the tent , nursing my wounds and recovering from the thorough sandbagging , Mick was hatching a plan . |
| 4 | Other developments , more modest in their expectations and deriving from the particular perception this or that group might have of the way in which Owen 's new view could be related to its own grievance or apprehension or aspiration , proceeded in parallel , propagated largely by the rapidly growing radical press which included a number of journals advocating Owenite ideas . |
| 5 | The result of these complex influences was a family model that carried heavily ideological concepts of what the distribution of power should be in the family and how sexuality should be expressed , interpreting , in particular , female sexuality as secondary , and deriving from the maternal instinct , and severely regulating childhood sexuality . |
| 6 | It has been suggested that the wild man , or wood-wose , who appears so often in medieval literature , is a conventional figure typifying madness and deriving from the mad king Nebuchadnezzar , who was ‘ driven away from among men , and did eat grass like an ox , and his body was wet with the dew of heaven ; till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles , and his nails like birds claws . ’ |
| 7 | Definitely an acquired taste was a clunky Spanish colonial gilt-metal mounted mother-of-pearl , tortoiseshell , pewter , ebonised and parcel-gilt cabinet made for a viceroy of Peru , and dating from the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 8 | A clay model from Arkhanes , and dating from the very end of the Minoan civilization , shows the sort of modest shrine that may have been erected in a sacred enclosure : an oval hut with a conical roof , entrance doors and a cult idol inside . |
| 9 | By 1845 Thomas was clearly more versatile , putting far more time in at the mine , performing better paid tasks such as kibble filling , and waggoning from the Deep Level to the dressing floors . |
| 10 | With the words had come the fleeting impression of dark , sinuous creatures who could slither out of the shadows and wind their cold , serpentine fingers about you , so that you were trapped , who could twine about your entire body , so that you were smothered and suffocating from the cold embrace … |
| 11 | For many people there is an aura of mystery about dealing on the money markets but it just involves picking up a telephone , ringing two or three numbers , asking the price of something ( the interest or discount rate ) , and buying from the cheapest source . |
| 12 | It 's rather late for the press releases on some months later , the press release coming from my group and coming from the Labour group it was a late conversion but not much of a conversion let's face it , the word tokenism springs to mind that 's what I 've written next to the Conservative line there , totally , and I do n't believe in nursery education but they know there are votes in it . |
| 13 | I mean has there been any , because there may be some argument in having a quick go at it at public protection , and hearing from the new department what they 'd like their chief officer to be called . |
| 14 | What emerges is a kind of fundamentalist dynastic priesthood associated with the principle of a Davidic Messiah and extending from the second century B.C. through the period covered by the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles . |
| 15 | The weight percentage of sediment retained on each sieve is plotted as a column rising to that value and extending from the relevant sieve mesh to the next coarser mesh used . |
| 16 | We combine these by choosing just a few random points in them , say two or three , and copying from the first string up to the first point ; then copying from the second up to the second point ; then copying from the first again ; and so on , switching between them at each point . |