Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks as if Mr Honecker , 77 and only slowly recovering from a gall-bladder operation , is incapable of grasping the situation in his country . |
| 2 | It would appear they carried on trading from a different address some time beyond that date , though exactly when they stopped has yet to be established . |
| 3 | It took ten minutes of brisk walking to get my blood flowing again , my consciousness slowly returning from a journey beyond my body . |
| 4 | We 're grateful to those who provided them , not least the Cleveland chap who wrote on the back of a particularly unamused picture postcard of Queen Victoria , apparently eating from a box of Huntley and Palmer 's biscuits . |
| 5 | Lancaster grunted , as if suddenly waking from a reverie . |
| 6 | The seventh century sees the appearance of leadership by birth , perhaps resulting from a series of successful leaders from a single descent group . |
| 7 | A study of the health and ecological situation in the Ust-Kamenogorsk region of Kazahkstan has revealed widespread problems , apparently resulting from a mixture of nuclear and conventional air pollution . |
| 8 | However , the strange events at Ingrow Tunnel take the shape of black smoke billowing out of the tunnel , obviously emanating from a steam locomotive , which is very possible considering the K&WVR has plenty of steam motive power . |
| 9 | Try not to click with mouse and type on the keyboard while Windows is frozen because when it comes back it acts on all of the commands that you have given it — so apparently switching from a state of deep sleep to rapid activity that can look like another stage in a serious crash ! |
| 10 | Jeff was obviously calling from a public place . |
| 11 | Grandfather was only suffering from a nagging cough and mild flu but he was , after all , somewhat of a grandee in the town because of his wealth . |
| 12 | ALLEGATIONS of gross misappropriation of funds belonging to the sport by the former president of the International Judo Federation were made at the biannual congress yesterday while the man himself lay in a nearby hospital apparently suffering from a heart attack , writes Philip Nicksan from Belgrade . |
| 13 | A Samoan official could shed no light on his reasons and Koko himself was ‘ resting ’ in his hotel , apparently suffering from a slight cold . |
| 14 | Somehow it sounds even more so coming from a ballerina sitting in full-length black mink coat and twiddling with diamond earrings . |
| 15 | The Sparcserver 1000 is scalable and modular so upgrading from a base system to the high end is by simple addition and is $96,400 in upgrade charges . |
| 16 | December 8 , 1924 : I am at the moment just recovering from a heavy bout of drinking . |
| 17 | ‘ Standing on chairs is n't to be recommended when you 're just recovering from a sprained ankle . |
| 18 | They all came as a result of his marvellously intuitive support play , the best stemming from a masterly dummy by his scrum-half partner , Andy Gregory , in only the second minute . |
| 19 | Z Company were just returning from a fortnight 's well-earned leave while , as always , HQ Company were administering , paying , feeding , clothing and transporting the rest of the battalion . |
| 20 | Where you 're not buying from a trader , you 're buying from an ordinary member of the public . |
| 21 | Generally no stamp duty will be payable unless the conveyance is one on sale ( or taking over of a mortgage liability ) not resulting from a court order or agreement made in connection with the divorce ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't know whether I 'm in shock or just suffering from a hangover . ’ |
| 23 | She was not suffering from a complex , it was just common sense ; in any case , prizes could be symbolic only , appearing regularly at sales of work , bring-and-buy mornings , fêtes and tombolas , before finally coming to rest . ) |
| 24 | This is so despite the fact that your own company is not suffering from a reduction in work . |
| 25 | Although probably not suffering from a serious psychiatric illness , he is likely to feel confused , angry , and ( above all else ) hopeless . |
| 26 | Indeed , in an absolute sense a large part of British business was not suffering from a lack of market opportunities — as growing import penetration bears ample witness — but its capacity to exploit them was steadily weakening . |
| 27 | Lawrence Durrell sustains in his own way what he calls his ‘ challenge to the serial form of the modern novel ’ : in The Alexandria Quartet , he presents successively three different views of the same set of events , creating a novel ‘ not travelling from a to b but standing above time ’ ( Durrell 1957 and 1983 : 198 ) . |
| 28 | Euro-American society is already suffering from a bad self-esteem problem , and I expect that an uncritical belief in the moral supremacy of nature will make it worse . |
| 29 | In Phillips v Grampian Health Board ( 1989 ) The Times , 9 March a widow was held entitled to recover damages even though she married the deceased when he was already suffering from a fatal disease and she knew that his death was inevitable within a few years . |
| 30 | His season was cut to just four races , the first three of which he won impressively before going down to Forest Sun in the Rendlesham Hurdle at Kempton already suffering from a bug . |