Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , if you stray from the healthy diet , you will know immediately ; your body will protest and send you a clear message , just as it would if you were too hot or too cold . |
| 2 | And the point is that all this is good , fair and equitable if you start from the conventional wisdom that : housewives do n't need money of their own because they are supported by their husbands ; they are supported by their husbands because they are dependants ; and they are dependants because they ‘ do n't work ’ . |
| 3 | For example , if we go from the 1792 clock 's slow ( perhaps spurious ) ‘ Quail ’ 'minuet' ( a ‘ traditional ’ title , no manuscript source is available ) to the 1793 clock 's fast Minuetto allegretto from Haydn 's ‘ Clock ’ symphony , the ranges on the Niemecz mechanical organs , flywheel going at 60 , go from dotted minim = 36 to 72 . |
| 4 | If we start from the raw data values X 1 we can either proceed up the ladder of powers by squaring or cubing each number or down the ladder by taking square roots or reciprocals . |
| 5 | If we move from the marginal to the average , a similar picture still emerges . |
| 6 | Even when the referential locus of noun and adjective are the same , however , there is no general guarantee that the overall " output " , in terms of intensional entities ( and the real or potential referents to which they may correspond ) will be the same under these two ways of linking an adjective to a noun , which amount respectively to introducing a subject x identified in part through having the property F , and to introducing a subject x and saying that it has the property F. For instance , if we move from the predicative structure : ( 7 ) clouds are small to the phrase small clouds , we pass to an expression which identifies a certain group of entities but does nothing more than identify them ; whereas expression ( 7 ) identifies a quite different ( and much larger ) group of entities , and says something about them ( which , as it happens , is not true , even though small clouds certainly do exist ) . |
| 7 | Denis wondered sometimes if they came from the same father and mother . |
| 8 | The curriculum is designed by teachers who unconsciously reflect the view that city life is best , even if they come from the rural areas . |
| 9 | One way of making it more difficult for the Community Charge Registration Officers to trace people will be if they disappear from the electoral register . |
| 10 | Howard Barker is described in the programme as a playwright ‘ known for his robust stance ’ — feet apart , biceps raised ? — ‘ against the tide of TV obsessed populist drama , ’ but the dialogue in A Hard Heart sounds as if it came from the violet-ink-filled pen of Oscar Wilde . |
| 11 | Obviously , if it ensues from the two variables originally considered , it does not need to be controlled . |