Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The open day at the centre at St Catherine 's Hospital , Birkenhead , between 10am and 4pm , is aimed at people who have had a heart attack , are waiting for or recovering from surgery , or have a family history of heart disease . |
| 2 | William 's accession to the English throne marked a return to the attitude of hostility to France , and for almost all of the following 125 years England was either at war with France or preparing for war with France or recovering from war with France . |
| 3 | A saving is one way of looking at it or profiting from education is another way , apparently what the Conservatives would wish to do , they wish to make people pay for education and there is no other way of looking at it . |
| 4 | In the UK , lakes in Snowdonia National Park , most of mid Wales , the Lake District , Cairngorms , Pennines and even on the Surrey heaths , are dead or dying from acidity . |
| 5 | In the case of the spontaneous goals from which the ends are chosen , the same neutrality would be theoretically conceivable ; it is possible to imagine a being immune from pleasure and pain , who is moved towards or away without either welcoming or shrinking from awareness . |
| 6 | First , whether you are investing a lump sum or saving from income , you can never start too soon . |
| 7 | Whether you are investing a lump sum or saving from income , most financial advisers would agree that the vehicle with the lowest charges and the highest potential investment return is either a PEP or a unit trust regular savings scheme . |
| 8 | Left with no one with whom he could discuss the farm-work and stock when the day 's toil was over , Jonadab became more and more morose , spending most evenings staring into the fire or wandering from building to building , checking his animals . |
| 9 | A manual , based on a well-tested approach , for offering information and crucial support for people who are divorcing or separating from partners . |
| 10 | On the technical side , arguments include the ethics of analysing umpires ' decisions , the pros and cons of double-ended coverage and the problems of cutting short a broadcast at a crucial stage in order to accommodate a news bulletin or racing from Ascot . |
| 11 | For all who met her , of course , the fact of Belle 's self was like finding a rock in the ocean , or waking from nightmares to find yourself warm and safe . |
| 12 | Special lighting effects , such as spotlighting one performer , or moving from group to group leaving part of the floor in darkness , all helps to add atmosphere , but , of course , is only possible with a large number and in a suitably equipped arena or hall . |
| 13 | And now she seemed to be planning a new use for those skills as I watched her gaze , fixed on Boy , or shifting from O to Boy . |
| 14 | They evolved a view of landscape which incorporated an awareness of the energy balance of a place , seeing ch'i flowing through the landscape , concentrating in certain spots , becoming stagnant in or dispersing from others . |
| 15 | o Damage to or resulting from movement of solid floor slabs unless the foundations beneath the exterior walls of the dwelling are damaged at the same time . |
| 16 | I want first to focus on the latter meaning , and to describe in some detail what teachers are talking about when they say they are stressed , or suffering from stress . |
| 17 | McLeish was reasonably satisfied that Angela Morgan was not lying unidentified in any morgue , nor in any hospital , unconscious or suffering from loss of memory . |
| 18 | Dr David Horrobin , whose Efamol company specialises in evening primrose oil , says this natural product is approved by the National Health Service for the treatment of breast pain and certain forms of eczema and may soon be used as a way of preventing diabetics going blind or suffering from kidney disorders . |
| 19 | From working-class childhoods certainly there are memories of farm holidays , or travelling from Liverpool to Sheffield to see grandparents — but they are unusual . |
| 20 | Instead of being able to visit the School Library Service base to examine new titles ( usually approval copies sent by library suppliers ) , school librarians were turning to browsing in local bookshops , buying from travelling discount booksellers , or choosing from publishers ' catalogues . |
| 21 | Successful business has an inbuilt ability to change rapidly , whether it be in terms of identifying new markets and expectations or diversifying from customer bases . |
| 22 | ‘ My friend , if you 'd spent two years burning up with sulphur injections , or shaking from haloperidol , you too might develop certain uncanny abilities . |
| 23 | pedestrians who are crossing the road in which you are turning when entering or emerging from property bordering on a road , give way to pedestrians as well as the traffic on the road , remember pavements are for people , not for motor cycles motor vehicles |
| 24 | It will all depend on the choice to be made by the national legislatures , and in the case of countries which make the third choice the employee 's option not to transfer may give the worker no more than he or she already has under the Mikkelsen doctrine i.e. the option of going over or resigning from employment with the transferor . |
| 25 | They were idling uncomfortably behind him , neither reinforcing his fury , nor retreating from support altogether . |
| 26 | Some of the houses stood out by dint of their brightly painted front doors but mostly the only sign of decoration was the washing on the lines and hanging from windows . |
| 27 | In the same way , it is possible to move forward in a free-wheeling way , making adjustments as required and recovering from mistakes . |
| 28 | I could n't look as I stood helplessly at the top of stairs listening to him bumping and thudding from step to step until he reached the bottom . |
| 29 | Tried soaking the matches in paint , he wrote , and firing from toy cannon . |
| 30 | This fragmentary evidence could not , strictly speaking , be regarded as cumulative , being based on a variety of different criteria and deriving from children with varying degrees of residence in Britain , to mention just two complicating factors . |