Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susie , 41 , has suffered from multiple sclerosis for 20 years and knows from first-hand experience the difficulty in finding facilities geared up for those who actually gain most from regular exercise . |
| 2 | Anthony 's regular enquiries of his colleagues around Italy had at last borne fruit and Annunziata 's son had been discovered in a Roman hospital recovering slowly from serious wounds to his head and spine . |
| 3 | Liquid mixtures which deviate widely from ideal behaviour can not be separated by fractional distillation . |
| 4 | This fits in with the general tendency among much of the elite population in Shetland ( and Dunrossness ) to avoid raising ‘ issues ’ ( this has obviously happy consequences for those who are benefitting most from oil-related developments ) . |
| 5 | In such conditions , a brown forest soil seems to have developed widely from late glacial times through to the Bronze Age . |
| 6 | The latter are sometimes necessary to clear either the after-effects of these infections or inherited traits passed on from infected forebears before other remedies can work to clear up the case . |
| 7 | But high street use differs greatly from technical use in the hills , where getting the right balance between warmth , weight and function are critical . |
| 8 | About 10 years ago the use of ml and l for millilitres and litres respectively was banished suddenly from British Standards in favour of mL and L , though both are permitted as alternatives by the ISO standard dealing with the layout of standards . |
| 9 | From this a deduction has to be made for knife sharpening and shields , about 4d a week … the women suffer greatly from chronic asthma … and by the acids with which the Colonial skins are cleaned . |
| 10 | All the information about an object is stored on the computer within what is called a hierarchical database , meaning simply that the information is broken down from broad categories such as ‘ geography ’ into more specific ones such as ‘ continent ’ , ‘ country ’ , ‘ region ’ and so on . |
| 11 | Inspector-Generals of Prisons drafted in from other fields with little knowledge of , or interest in , prisons , while ‘ high flying ’ young administrators see the prison department as one to be avoided ( Sharma 1985 ) ; |
| 12 | Police divers drafted in from neighbouring Thames Valley force were yesterday searching an outdoor swimming pool and nearby pond . |
| 13 | Evidence about who actually acts as an unpaid carer has to be pieced together from various statistical sources , but the best informed estimates seem to be that very few people are cared for by non-relatives , and that women provide about 75 to 85 per cent of relative care . |
| 14 | The vast majority of these were hastily-assembled hack jobs , pieced together from published sources and fleshed out with the dubious reminiscences of alleged veterans . |
| 15 | The account which follows is pieced together from different sources : uncorroborated details are excluded and some motivations remain obscure . |
| 16 | A flower study by the seventeenth-century Flemish painter , Baptiste , is certainly by the artist , and bears his signature : but the blooms ( and signature ) were pieced together from pirated canvases . |
| 17 | The new bass essentially follows Warwick 's well-known design philosophy , but this time it 's crafted entirely from flamed German rock maple to give a different tonal character . |
| 18 | But users ' manufacturer preferences changed little from previous years : 90.4% chose IBM , followed by Digital Equipment Corp at 45.6% , Hewlett-Packard Co at 43% , NCR Corp 41.1% . |
| 19 | Some ( e.g. Smith and Goss 1955 ; Holton and Goss 1956 ; Vanderplas , Sanderson , and Vanderplas 1964 ) confirmed that subjects made to observe and attend differed little from experimental subjects . |
| 20 | Given such ambiguity , perhaps the notion of the inner city should be dropped altogether from academic analysis . |
| 21 | We restricted Apoel to one good chance in the first half and in the second they created little from open play . |
| 22 | The waiting-room was moderately full and there were several clients who had come in from neighbouring villages . |
| 23 | By that date Moscow had provided a mere three and a half million roubles , and one million had come in from other gubernii . |
| 24 | French Professor stands down from British transplant centre |
| 25 | The last American Air Force Squadron at RAF Upper Heyford stands down from active duty today . |
| 26 | Then offers started to come in from other amp and electronics companies , asking me if I wanted to branch off and do some design work for them , which I could see the advantages of — plus I wanted to have a life ! |
| 27 | But more than elephants , big cats and early man moved down from continental Asia across that early land-bridge to the islands . |
| 28 | A more recent and notorious example may be found in David Mach 's ‘ Polaris ’ , a sixty foot long ‘ submarine ’ built entirely from black tyres . |
| 29 | If this advice had come only from junior officials , he might have been able to over-rule it . |
| 30 | high or low — drop-outs — repeating — transfers in from other schools |