Example sentences of "it [verb] from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There was a rival party in the field , the Ghana Congress party ( GCP ) , founded in 1952 by Dr Busia ; it included several of the erstwhile UGCC leaders , but despite some impressive names it operated from a narrow base .
2 What is a voidable title and how it differs from a void title can best be shown by an example : A owns some goods which he sells to B who in turn sells them to C. If the first contract ( i.e. Between A and B ) is valid then title passes from A to B. If it is void for any reason then it is no contract at all and no ownership passes to B. If it is voidable then it is initially valid but can be avoided ( set aside ) later .
3 No , no , it 's not only their own er we have got er entries from W I members of other villages , but mainly its from the members who live in the villages and of course that is the beauty of the book , where it differs from the normal travel book , it 's the story of villages by people who actually live in them .
4 It differs from the ordinary railway by using lightweight trains , calling at more convenient places and operating economically by the use of advanced technology now available for the custom-built rapid transit systems .
5 It differs from the other consumer goods in the private market in four ways .
6 This was a large rectangular building in the same tradition as the mortuary houses at Phourni , with a rabbit warren of small chambers inside and a colonnade along the east front ; it differs from the Phourni mortuary houses in having been built all at once .
7 When you have seen an egg broken into a frying pan of hot fat so that it turns from a clear fluid into a rubbery opaque solid , you are inclined to believe that this is quite a good way to cook an egg .
8 Peripheral awareness becomes progressively blurred as it recedes from the foveal zone and adjusts to an overall equilibrium .
9 For example , is there any rust visible and was it broken from a larger object ?
10 There will be variations which stem from the background and cultural heritage of the children who are in attendance , from where the school is situated as well as the resources ( in quality and quantity ) which it receives from the local authority .
11 D. B. MacDonald has speculated on the difficult question of the origin of this view in Islam and has suggested that it arose from a Muslim heresy ‘ in that dark but intense period of theological and intellectual development which stretched from the death of Muhammad for at least two and a half centuries ’ .
12 The angular resolution of the observations was inadequate to show that the source was definitely located at the nucleus , but the strength and variability of the line suggested that it arose from a compact source .
13 Rather it arose from a fortuitous combination of circumstances which bore little relation to the long-run economic costs of producing and distributing electricity .
14 It arose from the recent conquest of the northern coastal area as far as Anglesey by his friend Hugh , earl of Chester .
15 The Marxist value system arose in this vacuum of values and it arose from the multiplying effect that machinery had on man 's labour .
16 We referred in Section 9.6.1 to the growing current account deficit of the USA , and Table 9.2 shows this clearly : it moved from a current account surplus of $6.9 billion in 1981 to a deficit of $ 154 billion in 1987 .
17 I can still remember how good that coffee tasted , and how different it tasted from the common-room coffee I was used to .
18 It rose from the demolished vastness of the old Army Clothing Depot .
19 Giray publicly attributed his resignation to personal differences with Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut , but sources within the ruling Motherland Party claimed that it stemmed from a factional rift concerning the organization of delegate elections for the party congress due in January 1991 .
20 In the first instance it stemmed from an understandable utilization of familiar forms to furnish a reassuring and acceptable face for the new means of locomotion and thus allay the fears of travellers for whom speed was a new and potentially alarming phenomenon .
21 The track had , he recalled , two branches , separating as it dropped from the heathy ridge that looked down upon the river .
22 It dropped from an annual increase of 15 people per 1000 until now , when the increase is about 3 people per year for every 1000 already in Britain .
23 At that time the party seemed to have many of the characteristics of a party which did not expect to win elections : it had changed its leadership only a few weeks before the general election was called , Lansbury having resigned and been replaced by Attlee on a temporary basis ; and it suffered from a good deal of internal factionalism , and found its major policy demand — collective security through the League of Nations — ‘ scooped ’ by Stanley Baldwin , the Prime Minister .
24 This is no accident ; it seems likely that it results from a deliberate policy decision taken somewhere on high .
25 The previous owner tells me he thinks it came from a 1976 vehicle but the distributor and starter motor are dated 1972 , 1971 .
26 I was about to return fire but saw it came from a Croatian position . ’
27 She sucked again from the tea-bulb , feeling its plastic smoothness dent as it emptied , knowing it came from a floating colony like she did but not knowing why it should be used on a steady-gravity planet like Mars .
28 No school-children so far , but I can hear the first faint scrapes and slushing of householders beginning to clean their pavements , and the sound is strange and hard to recognise in the almost silent air , seeming as if it came from a long distance , a country sound in the wrong place .
29 It is an area I do not know and the reason for choosing it came from a close friend who has put up with the knowledge of my obsession for many years now and still remains the closest of friends .
30 But it came from a reliable source .
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