Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] from [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In this sense the neutralisation of a distinct country or region would be intended to lead to its withdrawal from the contest of interests between the Great Powers , at least in the military sphere , and would require assurances or guarantees from these powers to this effect .
2 The USA would vote against any proposed aid or credits from international institutions to which it was a contributor to the states on the list ( Cuba , Iran , Iraq , North Korea , Libya and Syria ) .
3 A child is disabled if he is blind , deaf or dumb or suffers from mental disorder of any kind or is substantially and permanently handicapped by illness , injury or congenital deformity ( s17(11) ) .
4 This means that the ‘ fact ’ that an individual has become an ‘ old person ’ , or suffers from regular illness or pain , or has become dependent upon others , whilst an important part of our understanding , is less important than how these facts make the individual feel .
5 Direct commercial influences are clearly involved where the corporation closes excess capacity in a particular product , or withdraws from that market entirely .
6 The level of disturbance payment given can also vary according to employees ' domestic circumstances taking into account , for example , moves from unfurnished or furnished rented property to new rented accommodation or moves from rented property to purchased housing .
7 Unfortunately , you no longer get tax relief on home improvements ( nor on the extended part of a mortgage used for home improvements ) , and grants from local councils have also been cut back quite dramatically .
8 There were screams and cries from Scottish Conservative Members , who said that , unless the Government did something , they would lose their seats .
9 Weissman carried on courageously with a complex but fascinating lecture on RNA splicing , ignoring the loud hubbub and intermittent squawks from his own microphone , and pausing often to wait out an eruption of roars and whistles from next door .
10 The process of growth out of the Oedipus complex is therefore very complicated , and differs from one individual to another , depending on the balance of male and female factors in the biological constitution of the person 's body .
11 Wolves provide Bull , who has yet to play in the First Division , with passes over the midfield and crosses from overlapping full-backs .
12 Casanova seduces , tricks , and bounds from one bed to another , from one betrayal to the final betrayal , his own .
13 What they do not tell , however , is the human dimension of the Pacific story — the human reasons behind the staggering growth of the region , the ways in which this virtuoso performance actually affects the lives of the men , women and children of the Pacific , and the ways in which the Pacific people are different in outlook , aspirations , fears and needs from those who live beyond the Ocean .
14 The systems approach is now explicitly used in biogeography and Simmons ( 1978 ) , for example , in discussion of the ecosystem scale distinguishes two approaches that are often made : one which is synoptic and develops from intuitive perception of an ecosystem to studies of ecological cohesion including , where relevant , the significance of human activity ; and another approach which is more analytical whereby measurements are made of the flow and partitioning of energy through the ecosystem and of the cycles of mineral nutrients within the system .
15 These include relative isolation , taken as more than 20 km from urban areas ; social class , defined as the proportion of the population in the registrar general 's classes I and II ; density of children , taken crudely as the number of enumeration districts in a given sector having 100 or more children ( postcode sectors are fairly large , and acreages of enumeration districts are not available ) ; and increases from 1971 to 1981 in the numbers of men working away from home in the construction and energy industries ( ‘ recent oil impact measure ’ ) .
16 With the dominant class , it shares in the control of the existing social order and benefits from that order ( Portes 1985 ) .
17 ‘ Return To Sanity ’ gathers together all the odds and ends from that session and , in so doing , provides the full picture of a band who probably deserved better treatment .
18 They are : the administration of the Crown Court and Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) ; the financing , organization and management of the Magistrates ' courts ; legal aid , legal services , and costs from central funds ( policy and provision ) ; and the appointment , or advice on the appointment , of almost all judges , judicial officers and magistrates in England and Wales , and in Northern Ireland .
19 The mixture of an SD1 engine , Range Rover flywheel and exhaust in a Range Rover does not give you the power that you might expect , so be careful when mixing engine components such as flywheels , camshafts , distributor and carbs from different engine applications .
20 The casually-dressed and suntanned pair were led through the airport building to shouts and insults from outraged travellers .
21 Similarly , some heads sought to accommodate to their ‘ core ’ philosophy ideas and concerns from other sources — their reading , their membership of award-bearing courses , their out-of-school reference and membership groups , their professional and social networks .
22 No one asks male thriller readers questions about their reading and extrapolates from that to their political state of health .
23 The pair became used to the waves and hoots from passing motorists , trucks and even train drivers as they journeyed to the Mediterranean coast .
24 It is the poorest of the three countries and suffers from inadequate social services , political repression and an economy heavily dependent on the export of one crop — bananas — controlled mainly by foreign companies .
25 However , the standard edition of Hobbes ' writings is nearly 150 years old and suffers from serious defects and omissions .
26 In this sense of the term , regionalism is a view from the centre looking out and suffers from similar tensions to those faced by would-be planners .
27 Memory has become restricted and suffers from cultural prohibition .
28 Kath Manson is eighty five and suffers from severe arthritis .
29 As a result he is very fat and suffers from constant agony due to chronic indigestion , which may explain why he is so fierce .
30 In addition , the CEGB has more than doubled , from £3.1 billion to £6.4 billion , the extra provisions needed ‘ for work still to be carried out on nuclear fuel and wastes from past years ’ .
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