Example sentences of "[vb -s] from an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But such an explanation is surely ridiculous to the modern reader forced to realize how far he stands from an age when mythological explanations were permissible . |
| 2 | Dearlove starts from an understanding of changes in local government as part of a struggle between different groups ‘ to control public power ’ ( 1979 , p. 105 ) . |
| 3 | To rub the message in he may add , for good measure , that it is also inconceivable and unthinkable ; and he sometimes quotes from an authority such as Richard Goldschmidt who also assures us that it is impossible and unimaginable . |
| 4 | The only green thing about many of our English rivers nowadays is profuse algal growth in the water , which results from an excess of fertilizer leaching off arable fields straight into the stream . |
| 5 | The human suffering which results from an accident can be severe and can result in some form of life-long disablement or disfigurement for the victim , not forgetting the stress and guilt which is borne by the person who may have had some responsibility for the accident occurring . |
| 6 | Cosmos refers to the kind of order which is grown and which results from an equilibrium set up from within . |
| 7 | Section 71(4) compendiously provides that ‘ a person benefits from an offence if he obtains property as a result of or in connection with its commission and his benefits is the value of the property so obtained . ’ |
| 8 | Commodore 's CDTV also benefits from an association with CD-A but approaches it from the other direction . |
| 9 | ‘ Women receiving help with childcare costs from an employer are still in a minority , ’ Dorries said . |
| 10 | It 's surprising how much moss and dead growth it clears from an area of established turf on the first use ; just the type of debris that tends to suffocate fine grasses . |
| 11 | The reason for this electoral angst stems from an incident in 1983 when his father was Minister for Agriculture and Nick was due to receive his degree from Newcastle University . |
| 12 | The dependency that they believe results from retirement stems from an inability to produce , but poverty stems from an inability to consume . |
| 13 | The dependency that they believe results from retirement stems from an inability to produce , but poverty stems from an inability to consume . |
| 14 | Part of the improvement stems from an upturn in the last few months of 1992 which was not evident last November , and part from an increase in North Sea oil , which is responsible for almost half the revision . |
| 15 | The extra for dual in the UK ranges from an average of £6.40 per hour for Wales to £12.23 per hour in Western England-South-East England for a change being close to the average . |
| 16 | The soloists are only accompanied with eerie sounding sounds from an orchestra . |
| 17 | Wollaton is the most extraordinary of his houses , but it suffers from an over-abundance of motifs not unlike the over-abundance which mars much Elizabethan literature . |
| 18 | Britain , it is suggested , suffers from an adversary form of Politics , in which a party formulates in opposition — largely for ideological and electorally opportunist reasons — the policies which are then carried into government . |
| 19 | In his essay in Salmagundi , Robert Scholes argues that conservatives desire a common curriculum — any common curriculum — because this would have a unifying effect upon a society that suffers from an excess of pluralism , and this unifying effect , an achieved cultural consensus , would in itself be a good thing for the country socially and politically . |
| 20 | It makes freedom subservient to control ; and as a result , communism in practice suffers from an inability to put adequate constraints on the urge to control . |
| 21 | In this sense , despite the greater sophistication of this analysis , it is still centrally located within an instrumentalist account of power in capitalist society and suffers from an over-reliance on defining the state as an object for class rule . |
| 22 | A duckling which suffers from an identity crisis is being cared for by a family . |
| 23 | Ken Connelly , 52 , who suffers from an aorta aneurysm , a problem with his main artery , was about to be operated on when he was turned away at the last minute — on two occasions . |
| 24 | Stolen in Oxford : antique jewellery worth up to £60,000 ; a 15th century painting valued at £15,000 ; and even two bronze busts from an Oxford College valued at £4,000 . |
| 25 | An abstracting journal ( or abstract ) differs from an indexing journal by adding to the indexing material a short summary , or abstract , of the article referred to . |
| 26 | A distributor differs from an agent in the following ways . |
| 27 | A gigantic horseshoe of rock ascends from an altitude of 2000′ ( the summit height of an average British hill ) to a lofty 4000′ . |
| 28 | If an electron jumps from an orbit n to the orbit with n 2 the loss of energy is |
| 29 | A second gang of skullcapped boys emerges from an alleyway , and fists start flying . |
| 30 | What emerges from an attempt to answer the last question is that the known low-cost reserves will have been significantly run down by 2025 , but total reserves are large , sufficient to last for more than 400 years at present rates of consumption , according to one estimate . |