Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [indef pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , ICL claims , ‘ allows you to keep all choices a la carte ’ , but it also provides the user with support — each user is free to take anything from the range he requires , and although they can have a personalised user interface , the products are integrated and conform to uniform design . |
| 2 | Equally , it was impossible to hide anything from him . |
| 3 | Her head was spinning , filled with so many thoughts that it was impossible to sort one from another . |
| 4 | If there is a country house surrounded by grounds and the public has access to the grounds but not to the house , a s.11(1) offence is not committed when the accused removes something from the grounds . |
| 5 | From what I was given on him it was very easy to construct something from his guilt , his sense of self-degradation . |
| 6 | It is also fairly easy to construct one from plastic waste piping as featured in my article PFK May 1991 . |
| 7 | HAVING run for office promising to reinvent everything from health care to youth training , Bill Clinton is now devoting most of his time to reinventing his five-month-old presidency . |
| 8 | Teachers are more likely to learn something from a recording if they have specific points to look for . |
| 9 | I find it hard to believe that this amount would be likely to deter someone from participating in a tournament . |
| 10 | They are the same size , have the same green skin , and overall it would be hard to tell one from another were it not for their distinctive styles of dress and skin painting . |
| 11 | This was a good example , Dexter thought , of Blanche being unwilling to exclude someone from their investigation at an early stage so that they could concentrate their efforts . |
| 12 | The idea has effectively been ruled out by the Commission 's clear reference to the need for a ‘ common economic policy ’ , but the myth that it is possible to separate one from the other persists in Britain . |
| 13 | You would think that , I think that the people in in your hospice would have been just as happy to see somebody from Eastenders and you would n't have to pay for |
| 14 | Robert had once put his ear to the door during one of his colleagues ' classes and had been able to hear nothing from Class 2 but an eery silence . |
| 15 | I doubt I 'd have been able to hear anything from the gallery . ’ |
| 16 | Output and display requirements dictate architectures which support high-resolution colour graphics , can display both RGB ( ‘ Red-Green-Blue' , the colour screen standard in which the three basic colours remain individually controllable ) and composite video information , and provide an audio capability able to handle anything from a feeble bleep to high fidelity stereo . |
| 17 | She had n't been able to read anything from the ice-chips that stared back at her . |
| 18 | And she would have little illusion about being able to save anything from the low wages she would receive from any of the available jobs . |
| 19 | Leaning forward , still shivering , wanting to be sick yet unable to raise anything from her empty stomach but an acrid bile which made her retch again , she attempted to find a chink somewhere in the blank wall , growing granite upon unyielding granite , around her . |
| 20 | Plumber 's snakes can be hired , though might be a tool worth owning — you may be able to improvise something from a length of net curtain wire with a hook at the end . |
| 21 | In Britain 's current enterprise culture , there 's money available to fund anything from a cow chiropodist to a breeder of edible snails , though there 's no guarantee that your venture will work . |
| 22 | Hectic and colourful weekly markets attract farmers and traders from local villages , backstreet blacksmiths and workshops buzz away making anything from brass paraffin lamps to yacht spares , while busy quaysides look after a thriving local yacht charter industry . |
| 23 | As to whether change is necessary or not one can not help pay some regard of that phenomenon of the post war world , Japan : If time travel was a fact and it was possible to transport someone from the middle of the social scale of Victorian Britain to the present time , he would think a revolution had taken place ; but the basic ground rules of social life and commerce would shortly become comprehensible to him . |
| 24 | Altho the players marks were as expected … you cant take anything from these normally as I reckon they do them from match reports rather than from going to matches … the one thing they CANT lie about is the shots/corners scores … and here goes … |
| 25 | It would be difficult to prove anything from the VW — it got pretty crumpled going down the hill . |
| 26 | They sometimes had secretaries who could imitate their master 's hand so perfectly that it is difficult to tell one from t' other . |
| 27 | It 's difficult to tell anything from that smooth Madonna face . ’ |
| 28 | He was agreeably surprised to find one from a friend who had joined the Mounties a couple of years previously . |
| 29 | But I soon reminded myself that such trivial slips are liable to befall anyone from time to time , and my irritation soon turned to Miss Kenton for attempting to create such unwarranted fuss over the incident . |
| 30 | Garden criminals range from gnome-snaffling pranksters to professionals who swoop on country houses at night armed with a crane and a lorry , ready to snatch everything from £20,000 orchids down to the last £700 Koi carp in the pond . |