Example sentences of "[vb base] from [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 2 | Adventitious roots grow from the upper parts of a plant , as often seen on the houseplant monstera , or on trailing stems of ivy and marrows . |
| 3 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 4 | The Working Party believed , and those we consulted concurred whole-heartedly , that competence in English is important , both in its own right and to enable pupils to gain access to and benefit from the other subjects of the National Curriculum . |
| 5 | Larger capital intensive firms equally benefit from the reduced levels of uncertainty surrounding their future investment plans . |
| 6 | Each year five million children die from the lethal effects of diarrhoea , four million from respiratory diseases like T B and bronchitis . |
| 7 | The mothers talking in this book are mainly in their mid to late teens , with children whose ages range from a few months to four years . |
| 8 | Comprising over 500 photographs , they range from the earliest daguerrotypes to contemporary compositions by such photographers as Lartigue , Erwitt , Doisneau , Horst and Wegman . |
| 9 | Operating areas range from the hostile waters of the UK North Sea to the deserts of Pakistan . |
| 10 | The posterior labral muscles which run from the tormal sclerites of the labrum to the wall of the head . |
| 11 | Even the article ‘ Conductor ’ in the New Grove dictionary of opera is , unfortunately , misleading : for all its caution , it attempts to paint the whole period from 1750 to Napoleon , and in doing so unjustifiably reinforces certain impressions we recall from the powerful pens of the Encyclopedists : |
| 12 | One would think that an old person would have to be living in an isolated cottage , in the heart of the countryside , to be so out of touch with the world ; but sadly we know from the frequent reports in the newspapers that such tragic loneliness can exist right in the heart of our towns and cities , and that the old have sometimes remained undiscovered for weeks and months after they have died in their own homes . |
| 13 | We also know from the honest remarks of the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney ( Mr. Shore ) that around two fifths of the Labour party opposed its Front Bench 's policy on Europe . |
| 14 | More recently , Habermas has distinguished a domain of critical thinking separate from the two domains of purposive means-end thought and thought founded on human interaction . |
| 15 | The temporary notes are then kept together in a box , separate from the other files of notes . |
| 16 | Many partnerships , of course , are characterised by much more superficial , less close relationships between education and business where , crucially , activities remain largely separate from the mainstream activities of both and owned only by those individuals who are involved rather their organisations . |
| 17 | It has remained the accepted practice that all important governmental decisions emanate from the central departments in Whitehall , a practice which is of great help to the political leadership as it collects all the levers of policy-making and administrative control into one , compact , signal box . |
| 18 | The most hard-fought provisions of the treaty , those legislating for monetary union by either 1997 or 1999 , are fast becoming dead letters as European economies waywardly diverge from the strict requirements on inflation rates and government budget deficits defined by the treaty . |
| 19 | The condition of the patient on transfer varies from theatre to theatre and depends upon whether or not the theatre has a recovery room where patients recover from the immediate effects of the anaesthetic . |
| 20 | The river Aver begins as a number of fast mountain streams which flow from the western slopes of the Dwarf fortress of Karak Varn just north of Black Fire Pass . |
| 21 | The Stir may be traced to the streams which flow from the western slopes of the Dwarf fortress of Karak Kadrin . |
| 22 | If you were a thrifty citizen and wanted a safe piggy-bank secure from the prying eyes of nasty parties such . |
| 23 | Both Africa and the Indian sub-continent suffer from the combined problems of over-population and a paucity of funds and personnel for health care . |
| 24 | The representational aspects of the five theories differ widely , but all suffer from the same problems of knowledge acquisition and inefficiency when implementations are attempted . |
| 25 | The grain size distributions of some sediments yield linear log-normal cumulative plots , but others deviate from the linear patterns to a greater or lesser degree , especially in the tails of the distributions . |
| 26 | In some ways it is easiest to describe the neighborhood by how its residents deviate from the public standards of the wider community … |
| 27 | The properties of individuals emerge from the many aspects of the complex whole . |
| 28 | They do not only make their way through stuffed and clamoring doorways , but emerge from the unseen bowels of the pub , as though they have held themselves privately for days in the cellar , waiting with bated breath , presenting themselves only as the hour grows ripe . |
| 29 | Chemical criteria for typical slab-derived magmas are given in Table 1 , where it is evident that the Cordillera Blanca rocks differ from the mantle-wedge-derived granitoids of the Coastal Batholith to the west ( Fig. 1 ) and apparently fit the characteristics of slab melts as defined in refs 3 and 16 . |
| 30 | The revised tenancies and those they replaced differ from the regulated tenancies under the 1977 Rent Act in that there is a weakening of security of tenure and other rights , and most rents will be set at market level . |