Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most of the period , from the first conquests in the fourteenth century until the rise of the South Slav nationalist movements in the nineteenth century , the empire was either preparing for a war against its Christian neighbours , fighting a war or recovering from a war . |
| 2 | each given unit being already known by the receiver , or deriving from a preceding piece of new information . |
| 3 | Indeed , it is possible that clinicians would treat cases which they find particularly interesting or challenging from a clinical viewpoint , rather than those which offer the most returns ( in terms of health improvement ) in relation to the cost . |
| 4 | ‘ For this reason , purchasing from brochures or purchasing from a system demonstration on-site is simply inadequate . |
| 5 | Exemptions likely to be encountered include vehicles not exceeding 10 cwt unladen specially adapted for invalids ; vehicles brought from abroad for a temporary stay are exempt not exceeding one year from date of importation ; vehicles going to or returning from a vehicle test or being repaired etc. as a result of the test , provided in all cases prior arrangements have been made . |
| 6 | for proceeding to or returning from a workshop in which a body or a special type of equipment or accessory is to be or has been fitted to it or in which it is to be or has been painted , valeted or repaired ; |
| 7 | for proceeding to or returning from a place where it is to be or has been tested , or for proceeding to a place where it is to be broken up or otherwise dismantled . |
| 8 | Nothing is worse than feeling screwed up inside or suffering from a sense of utter emptiness and loss of interest or emotion . |
| 9 | The captain had to certify to the Port of Havana medical officer that no-one on board was ‘ an idiot , or insane , or suffering from a loathsome or contagious disease ’ . |
| 10 | Advice and assistance in making a will can only be given to a client who is over 70 , or disabled or suffering from a mental disorder ( or a parent or guardian wishing to provide for such a person ) , or a single parent wishing to appoint a testamentary guardian . |
| 11 | The same applies at every level of involuntary or semi-voluntary behaviour , in falling asleep or waking , health or sickness , interest or boredom , welcoming a scent or recoiling from a bad smell , snapping up a useful fact or closing the mind against an awkward one , or in any kind of creative or contemplative ecstasy . |
| 12 | Included here are such delights as classic commando style , where the rope merely slides through both outstretched arms and across the upper back ; or abseiling from a sling and descendeur with the sling attached to either wrist or ankle — all great fun . |
| 13 | And hanging from a hook in its holster , her father 's army revolver . |
| 14 | There was a turquoise stone set in a pendant and hanging from a fine gold chain at Debbie 's throat . |
| 15 | By the wall stood a rattan couch with cushions ; and hanging from a bracket by the open french windows was a small brightly polished bell with a faded maroon tassel hanging from the clapper . |
| 16 | And at 6.15 Miss Danziger entered the drawing-room , where at least eighteen of the guests were gathered drinking tea and eating from a selection of Danish pastries and pies , and talking with unusual excitement . |
| 17 | although many famous names were missing from the register : notably Moffatt , Nadin , Legrand ( already sure of retaining his crown and recovering from a knee operation ) , Rabatou , Godoffe , Cortijo and Edlinger . |
| 18 | More recently , Russian philologists have proposed a super-family of languages , bigger than Indo-European and deriving from a proto-language ( Nostratic ) twice as old . |
| 19 | There is , however , a large variety of killings which lie above that line but below the line demarcating murder : a killing in which D knew there was a risk of death , but was held not to have intended death or grievous bodily harm , would fall within involuntary manslaughter and might justify a high sentence ; whereas a killing in which D pushed a person during an argument in the street and the person fell backwards , cracking his head on the kerb and dying from a brain haemorrhage , might also fall within involuntary manslaughter and might justify a low sentence . |
| 20 | He had done the Royal Marines commando training , he had insisted on parachute jumping and escaping from a tank in 100 feet of water in a simulated exercise — an exercise that killed two men over the next two years . |
| 21 | Next , intermittent or semi-continuous explosions may hurl solid material up in a dense dark mass , with the leading fragments soaring straight up into the air , trailing smaller fragments behind them , and looking from a distance like rockets . |
| 22 | They had disturbed alligators in the shallows of the river , listened to unseen deer bark in the riverside thickets , and a herd of wild pigs had fled snuffling and grunting from a stagnant pool at their approach . |
| 23 | And when it came to moving them around , who was going to take any notice of vehicles coming and going from a hospital ? |
| 24 | After a long-running saga of development companies coming into North Shields and withdrawing from a relatively small-scale development ( 200 000 sq ft overall , 130 000 selling space ) , development of the town centre was begun on part of the original site in 1977 funded by the Coal Industry Pension Fund . |
| 25 | Breaking into and stealing from a caravan is usually the work of casual thieves . |
| 26 | Some 95 per cent of mail order transactions involve credit , and buying from a tallyman or doorstep credit trader virtually by definition means buying on weekly instalments . |
| 27 | They saw what they took to be a wild-eyed drunk , well dressed and bleeding from a blow on the mouth . |
| 28 | In the Christianson and E. F. Loftus ( 1991 ) study subjects were shown a series of slides with a critical slide showing either a woman cycling ( neutral condition ) , a woman lying on the ground near her bicycle and bleeding from a head injury ( arousal condition ) , or a woman carrying her bicycle ( unusual condition ) . |
| 29 | The child , a boy of about two and a half , was unconscious and bleeding from a gash on his head . |
| 30 | The Defence Ministry was ordered to submit proposals for military reform , including reducing the strength of the armed forces and moving from a conscript to a professional army . |