Example sentences of "he [vb -s] from [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the horologist the nominal essence of the clock is an idea of its real essence ; in this he differs from the gazing countryman , to whom the nominal essence is simply some combination of various observable features . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is churlish of me , after the kind remarks of the Minister , to venture to comment on what he has just said , but at the risk of being tiresome , may I point out that what I said before was that it does not follow that a decision made by the Home Secretary corresponds with the advice that he receives from the chief inspector . |
| 3 | But a Christian certainly would because he starts from a different basis . |
| 4 | He is involved , for example , in appointing professors : he chooses from a short list of three candidates provided by the university . |
| 5 | The defence have said medical evidence gleaned from tests on Mr Harris ' brain shows he suffers from a rare abnormality . |
| 6 | My vet has diagnosed that he suffers from an allergic syndrome , which could either be a contact allergy or photosensitivity . |
| 7 | ‘ The trouble with Joe , ’ one of his more affluent colleagues in the pop business told me , ‘ is that he suffers from the fatal curse of taste . ’ |
| 8 | It is far better to look upon the purpose of such negotiations as to define the risks which each party is willing to accept , and what benefits or rewards he requires from the other party in order to accept those risks . |
| 9 | This is his favourite event , together with the Open — an event where he is as surprised as he is flattered by the support he gets from the British public . |
| 10 | ‘ It insults the great players he mentions from a by-gone age , and does n't do Vinny , his club or football in general any credit at all . |
| 11 | These can be thought of in terms of seven organizational imperatives , which he derives from a larger set constructed by Jacques ( 1989 ) . |
| 12 | What sustains him is the comfort he derives from the spiritual world of the Indian , as he escapes the alienating environment of the school to listen to Quechua music and to renew his bonds with the magical world of nature , but his experiences call into question the effectiveness of Quechua values in the white world in which he must live . |
| 13 | He escapes from a fast food outlet and makes his way to the City of London where he gets a job as a securities analyst . |
| 14 | His unchecked activities are thought to derive from the strong support he enjoys from the Serbian government , which is either unwilling or unable to deactivate him . |
| 15 | Senna , however , will have plenty to occupy his mind once he recovers from the bitter experience of such a comprehensive defeat in front of his home city supporters on Sunday . |
| 16 | Lij Yasu has his head shaved in the Danakil fashion and is living with the Danakil ; what food or milk he requires he seizes from the nearest villages , and he is doing nothing but hunt occasionally . |
| 17 | The fee charged by the agent is , naturally enough , directly proportional to the compensation he gleans from the public authority on behalf of his client . |
| 18 | He works from a small workshop at his home in Blackpool and recently he exhibited at a craft fair in the resort , posing for our photographer with a collection of his work . |
| 19 | He resigns from the New Jerusalem . |
| 20 | In Europe , DEC has appointed Dr Juan Rada as director of strategy and new initiatives — he hails from the International Institute of Management Development in Lausanne , where he was director general . |
| 21 | Like Brown , he comes from a poor background and ‘ in an utterly priggish way ’ ( his phrase ) he had felt that Brown 's antics reflected badly on the working classes , including himself . |
| 22 | He comes from a musical family and might be faced with a difficult decision before he is much older . |
| 23 | Please sir , Axl 's doctor said we 're to be nice to him because he comes from a broken home and he has to wear a kilt . |