Example sentences of "be [v-ing] from a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It means we 're starting from a better baseline than if we were simply dealing with health services budget and social work 's budget and what the voluntary sector has managed to pull together .
2 Yeah , so if as you 're falling from a great height .
3 Worcester is the leading combination boiler maker in Britain , where sales are growing from a low base .
4 Since December they have been pouring from a new fissure in Etna , 7,500ft above sea level .
5 CALLERS to Colchester 's hospitals are benefiting from a new £18,000 direct dialling system .
6 We are benefiting from a flatter organisation , improved teamwork , better communication and a more versatile workforce .
7 have enough money with you if you are calling from a public telephone so that you are not constantly interrupted by the pip-pip-pi-p sound or cut off because you run out of change ;
8 If you are cutting from a severed stem , take it with you to the stock to be budded , or if you are taking a number of buds , get the stem into a deep can of water at once and use it as soon as possible .
9 The tireless charity worker , who had been suffering from a long illness , had overcome his own difficulties to talk of his hopes and plans for others .
10 He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour .
11 He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour and asked that Dodman be sent for psychiatric help .
12 The point is that you are suffering from a complex delusion .
13 The accommodation described is intended to meet the needs of confused elderly patients who are suffering from a dementing illness but not from gross behaviour disorders or severe physical disability .
14 Clearly the range of the Act is very limited , applying only to lucid adult patients connected or about to be connected to a ventilator who are suffering from a terminal condition ( as defined ) and who execute the appropriate directive.33 A first step , however , has been taken in clarifying the law .
15 All banks are suffering from a mounting pile of bad loans , especially against property , and the slowing of commercial lending .
16 Even if those who are living in institutions are excluded , it is estimated that half of old people under 75 and about two-thirds of those over 75 are suffering from a long-standing illness in addition to normal minor ailments .
17 ‘ All three parties are starting from a strong base .
18 Dalgliesh thought : Why is he behaving as if I need tactful handling , as if I 'm suffering from a private grief ?
19 His eyes seemed to be coming from a long way away .
20 He felt a peculiar sense of dislocation , and the sounds of those in the room seemed to be coming from a great distance away .
21 Very often this will be coming from a different department , who should be alerted in good time .
22 She was supposed to be suffering from a nervous breakdown , but that could be because the law did n't want anybody talking to her .
23 However , if a police officer is suddenly told by control that the member of the public with whom he is dealing may be suffering from a mental disorder , he may start to deal with that individual differently , and in a way that may not be particularly helpful .
24 And if anyone should encounter Patrick Phelan , give him a wide berth , since he will almost certainly be suffering from a contagious plague of boils .
25 If the young daughters of women with gonorrhoea are examined some 5 per cent will be found to be suffering from a gonococcal vulva-vaginitis .
26 In 1976 he was found to be suffering from a spinal disease which was unrelated to the accident but which rendered him totally unfit for work .
27 But Moubarak argued that he might have misjudged the colt 's preparation in not giving him sufficient work since he was found to be suffering from a minor skin infection on his legs after his previous race .
28 Moving this way , then , we would be starting from a causal theory of justification ; the causal theory of knowledge would simply be one of its consequences .
29 16.41 Pupils working towards levels 8 to 10 should be reading from a wide range of literature written for adults .
30 Otherwise the county champions are selecting from a full squad , with Mark Waugh keen to do battle against fellow Australian Dean Jones .
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