Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's difficult , when you were brought up to believe you would be looked after from the cradle to the grave . |
| 2 | But for the moment , that 's not the point — which is rather that those who have been , legitimately or at least understandably , affronted by the pretensions of Olson as poet should not therefore write him off as anything but what he was : an exceptionally earnest and magnanimous man , and a man moreover who knew , as few poets since John Milton have known , what the polity looks like from the point of view of those who administer it day by day . |
| 3 | Or they , what kind of problems do , problems tend to come with from the flats ? |
| 4 | They stayed mainly in the front room where there were rugs on a black-flagged floor that made it wonderfully cool to come into from the burning heat of the headland . |
| 5 | When you asked phoned up say from from the yard at Street , and asked an inspector , the shift er the man on the shift , Er what about er tomorrow ? |
| 6 | ‘ Girl , never doubt but he 'll come back to you whole and hungry , as he always used to from the butts or the wrestling when you were fretting over his lateness . ’ |
| 7 | Looked at from the West , Franois Mitterrand or perhaps Karl-Otto Pohl , president of the Bundesbank , might seem more appropriate technocratic candidates . |
| 8 | ‘ This is a technology , ’ says the UK Genetics Forum , ‘ which should be looked at from the point of view that if something goes wrong , it ca n't be put right . |
| 9 | Thus , as with biological theories , crime is seen as pathological ( a disease ) , as something to be looked at from the medical point of view . |
| 10 | But when the problem is looked at from the miners ' point of view a rather different history comes into view . |
| 11 | So , when looked at from the point of view of total social production , Dept . |
| 12 | So all lines of enquiry in regard to body stance are amenable to alternative explanations , perhaps because the issue is looked at from the wrong perspective . |
| 13 | The main point I want to make is that , looked at from the perspective of an individual teacher 's working life , this kind of action constitutes one very important strategy within a whole repertoire of ways of improving their pleasure and satisfaction in the job . |
| 14 | The same kind of problem arises if the system is looked at from the angle of the natural sciences . |
| 15 | Looked at from the other side , it should be realized that blandly-flavoured foods reduced the strong and exotic taste of many herbs , and this is where the secret of using herbs in cooking lies — to use herbs in such quantities that the strength of their flavours balances the strength and flavour of the food to which they are added . |
| 16 | Alternatively , you may come to the conclusion that there is a real distinction between the authorities , and in this event the problem must be looked at from the point of view of general legal principle or public policy to decide whether it should be brought under the one head or the other . |
| 17 | The relatively low cost of long distance inter-city bus services , combined with their comfort and strict passenger control has , for instance , made them a highly competitive force when looked at from the viewpoint of older or economy conscious passengers . |
| 18 | The report that hon. Members receive and that the public pick up outside would have been looked at from the point of view of the client , the promoter and the public interest . |
| 19 | Looked at from the Overseas Groups point of view , the pattern would look something like this : |
| 20 | Looked at from the ground , however , a rather different picture emerges , since it is clear that in many constituencies local issues were of greater importance , and even where national issues played a role , they were often distinctively shaped by peculiar local circumstances . |
| 21 | Looked at from the perspective of land distribution and usage , Great Britain could be described as a predominantly agricultural kingdom based on the three countries of England , Scotland , and Wales . |
| 22 | ( A new test must be applied for from the N.E.C. for each re-take . ) |
| 23 | This is less than best but it 's better than nothing , that 's the point and it is very nearly what we have argued for from the very beginning . |
| 24 | You simply have to weigh up your personal circumstances and what you are looking for from the job , keeping in mind any long-term plans that you may have for your future career development . |
| 25 | Floating voters tend to say things like ‘ Of course , being in carpets , what I 'm really looking for from the parties is a firm pledge on European weaving quotas , ’ and they tend to sound like Hurd and look like Gummer . |
| 26 | And the whole lot would be done up from the bottom as a winter ‘ do-up ’ to stop the mud from getting on to it . ’ |
| 27 | Indecent material may only be displayed in licensed sex shops which have no window display and can not be seen into from the street , do not admit people under 18 years of age and which carry a warning sign to this effect over the door . |
| 28 | Art you can dance to from the creative group called Halo |
| 29 | Whilst no-one can predict with certainty all the problems which will occur during the life of a firm , it is important that certain basic matters be attended to from the outset in relation to the conduct of the partners and their responsibilities . |
| 30 | They 're moved to from the base in heavily guarded convoys — ordinary motorists unaware that they 're just feet from a nuclear bomb . |