Example sentences of "[v-ing] from the [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The increase in gearing from the extremely low level of last year to 38% is primarily occasioned by the acquisition of BMK . |
| 2 | After passing from the most primitive stage of development , through the Asiatic , ancient and feudal stages , mankind enters the capitalist stage , the immense productive power of large-scale factory industry , and the division between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat . |
| 3 | Within Youth Allyah there were several competing Zionist factions ranging from the strictly orthodox Bachad to the moderate Maccabi Hazair , the Zionist scout movement . |
| 4 | Thus the following sections will outline the broad areas of Commission activity , ranging from the more passive information role , to its more controversial attempts at harmonisation through the Social Charter and European company laws . |
| 5 | This September some 300 staff at the brand new Nissan European Technology Centre Ltd will be offered catering facilities ranging from the very best European and Japanese cuisine to a simple vending service , all provided by CCG . |
| 6 | A directory I compiled in 1971 listed one hundred non-daily Zambian periodicals , ranging from the fortnightly Zambian language government newspapers to annual journals . |
| 7 | It is arguable that there is a spectrum of touchings , ranging from the obviously curative operation , such as the removal of an infected appendix , to the performance of somewhat exotic operations such as silicone breast implants and the removal of ‘ anomalous ’ sexual apparatus in sex-change surgery , including en route such operations as voluntary sterilization , rhinoplasty , and abortion . |
| 8 | Robin Belcher was paddling in Australian colours and he and partner Fraser dropped their K2 upside down into the water while relaunching from the moderately high jetty at Chertsey . |
| 9 | * Check over your drafts , and separate the overall process of writing from the more mechanical process of checking for correct spellings , grammar , etc. ( see p. 117 ) . |
| 10 | Pitchford is one of England 's most important timber-framed houses , dating from the later sixteenth century and in the same family since 1473 . |
| 11 | However , just as at a certain place on the earth 's surface we can still call ‘ down' ’ the direction towards the centre of the earth , so a living organism that finds itself in such a world at a certain period of time can define the ‘ direction ’ of time as going from the less probable state to the more probable ( the former will be the ‘ Past' ’ and the latter the ‘ Future' ’ ) and by virtue of the definition he will find that his own small region , isolated from the rest of the universe , is ‘ initially' ’ always in an improbable state . |
| 12 | In this context , it is likely that changes in the nature of marital relations resulting from the increasingly private nature of family life , together with an increasing tendency by working people to plan for the future , were the most important variables explaining the decrease in working class fertility during the inter-war years , at a time when the employed working man enjoyed a more regular and higher real wage than ever before . |
| 13 | Partly as a result of a slow trickle through the barriers , and partly as a result of internal inconsistencies , the analytic tradition has recently shown signs of moving from the strictly aloof position it adopted in the heyday of conceptual analysis . |
| 14 | Aside from relieving the area officer of a very large task , members of the sub-committee piloting the system in Surrey and West Sussex are benefiting from the hitherto rare opportunity of coming together with other managers in their area . |
| 15 | I hobbled my shameful way from First Buttress North on Lundy as the sun 's last rays winked over the darkening sea ( and last orders for food were being called at the island 's only pub ) after tumbling from the very last move of the 90ft first pitch of Road Runner . |
| 16 | Even if Shilton , inevitably cautious in his 41st year , is now most likely to be found out by teasing centres ( never mind the ‘ hand of God ’ , he should have been quicker , more positively to the ball than Diego Maradona in Mexico four years ago ) , his reliable and spectacular shot-stopping in Poland emphasised glaring inadequacies stemming from the grossly misguided philosophy that continues to gain ground in the Football League . |
| 17 | But to see communicative significance as deriving from the phylogenetically arbitrary status of apine dance , as a solution to their co-ordination problem , is open to a serious objection . |
| 18 | At the level of mass impact , the myth of the strong individual , the all-conquering hero , the leader — a myth deriving from the historically dominant role of military actions and actors in the shaping of Latin American nations — is firmly entrenched . |
| 19 | Loyalty to specific lords was an essential aspect of medieval life , running from the most humble serf , who was virtually a possession or slave , to the bond between vassal and lord that held the entire culture together at the highest levels . |
| 20 | During the period of industrial calm which followed 1906 , SRs and Social Democrats alike were reduced to a rump , party membership of the latter falling from the probably inflated figure of 150,000 to some 10,000 . |
| 21 | ‘ She was fighting from the very first minute and she is still fighting . ’ |
| 22 | The growing volume of eye-witness accounts emerging from the firmly sealed region make it possible to gain a clearer picture of how the protests grew . |
| 23 | It is unfortunate that the influential Dudek could only illustrate Leonard 's work by quoting from the admittedly despondent poem ‘ Rededication ’ , without a reference to the many other elements of positive delight that the book — and Leonard 's work elsewhere at that time — demonstrates . |
| 24 | What is striking from the admittedly patchy evidence regarding the health status of working class women is the apparent lack of any real improvement during the period . |