Example sentences of "[v-ing] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a nice young man who wanted a bit of chivvying from a jolly girl-friend . |
| 2 | For me , going on a strict vegan diet where all animal products were banned , where there was no place for tea or coffee , where even fish , eggs , salt and sugar were forbidden , was like leaping from a warm bed into the icy seas of Antarctica . |
| 3 | Launching from the smallest of waves , more lift can be gained by lifting the windward rail thus enabling the wind to catch under the board . |
| 4 | In urging against the Aristotelian realists that ‘ general and universal , belong not to the real existence of things ; but are the inventions and creatures of the understanding ’ , he is , of course , reaffirming from a different angle his rejection of their ‘ forms ’ , and their talk of the possibility of there being ‘ real ’ definitions of things . |
| 5 | At Knossos , the two main chambers of the Throne Sanctuary and the principal chamber of the Snake Goddess Sanctuary had bench-altars ; at Phaistos , there were two chambers with benches opening from the Central Court . |
| 6 | There were three doors opening from the little hall . |
| 7 | Here is another chapter opening from the same children 's book . |
| 8 | International organisations , though on a bread-and-butter level becoming from the 1860s rapidly more important and active , were still very much on the fringes of conventional diplomacy . |
| 9 | In a second the blaze was over , the mixture and the wasp a single black lump of scarred and blistered debris cooling from a bright yellow heat . |
| 10 | But Fen seemed quite happy , relaxing over his coffee which he kept replenishing from the large pot he had ordered , exchanging remarks with the landlord which revealed that he was a regular customer here . |
| 11 | ‘ Enjoying yourself ? ’ asked Constance , appearing from the back garden . |
| 12 | In we saw the Health Authority choosing not to purchase services directly from the N H S for their but purchasing from a voluntary stroke private , privately motivated organization . |
| 13 | They 're part of the changing retail scene which ranges from the modern shopping centres at one end of the spectrum to squat shops , short term let shops and car boot sales at the other , for the other less source of er retailing , source of purchasing from a decreasing number of people erm trade in car boot sales are subject to the same controls as high street traders basically be product safety , erm , but as well as those problems we are increasingly coming across other problems in particularly counterfeit goods , goods like that on sale at car boot sales , quite attractive , wholly illegal and it wo n't be out for about six or nine months yet . |
| 14 | These questions have preoccupied fine minds for centuries , with interest intensifying from the late nineteenth century to the present day . |
| 15 | Low comfortable chairs had been set out in a square ; too comfortable for-some , because there was a distinct buzz of snoring from the other side of a rack of trade journals , broken only by the bats ' wing rustle of folding and refolding newspaper . |
| 16 | But the growing body of evidence that the onset of massive winds occurs right up to the dividing line suggests that a phase transition is occurring from a hot , magnetically confined corona to a cool , open , massive wind outflow . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Whether we take the retail prices index minus mortgage interest payments or producer prices , the rate of inflation has declined sharply in the past year and I suspect that the underlying measures of inflation will continue to decline in the next year — I can tell the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , who is interrupting from a sedentary position , that the underlying rate of inflation compares extremely well with the position under the Labour Government of which he was a member . |
| 19 | Whe he has a chest infection you can hear him wheezing from the next room |
| 20 | Although I do not wholeheartedly agree with the view the author takes of the mechanical world of the train being somehow better than that of nature , I can still find it interesting and thought inducing from a philosophical angle . |
| 21 | Natalie is dying from a rare form of cancer that has attacked her nervous system and is spreading to her bones . |
| 22 | After two years it was found that the fish eaters had up to 30 per cent less chance of dying from a second heart attack than those who had been told nothing about fish . |
| 23 | On a stormy night at the beginning of May he watched by the bedside of his brother-in-law , Robert Lovell , as he lay dying from a putrid fever , and tried to comfort Lovell 's young wife Mary , who was listening frantically to her husband 's ‘ loud , deep , unintermitted groans ’ during his final hours . |
| 24 | Those aged above 60 have a pedestrian casualty rate per head of population which is nearly double that of the 20–39 age group , whilst their greater likelihood of dying from a particular accident gives them a fatality rate six and one half times higher . |
| 25 | I have n't heard of anyone dying from a broken ankle — that 's if it is broken . ’ |
| 26 | We have not yet been sufficiently educated to realize that the risk of dying from the greatest killer disease in the Western world could be drastically reduced if only we took preventative measures by eating sensibly and looking after our bodies . |
| 27 | He was sobered to find that many Tahitians were already dying from the venereal diseases bequeathed to them on a previous visit . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Since neither the sole trader nor the partnership is protected by limited liability , both may find difficulty in raising sufficient money to commence trading from a secure financial position . |
| 30 | Little more than a year ago you could n't give away shares in the small computer company sector — so friendless were they that Star Computer Group Plc found it necessary to get into bed with a purveyor of pizzas to improve its visibility and rating : after Tadpole Technology Plc and now Division Group Plc — which soared to 107 pence on its first day of trading from the 40 pence placing price before settling at 96 pence — the rest of the sector looks set for a re-rating as investors seek to discern hidden charms that others have overlooked . |