Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] from [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | My arm was beginning to hurt pretty badly , so I decided to pull my chute straight away in case I fainted from loss of blood . |
| 2 | ‘ The day 's events are made all the more hectic by the many telephone calls and queries I receive from members of the public , fellow officers and councillors . |
| 3 | ‘ I heard from friends of mine that Hezbollah had lost faith in him , that he was talking to and seeing too many people . |
| 4 | I spoke from experience of how a common commitment to God 's plan can shake both black and white into reality — ‘ not the white man 's plan , nor the black man 's ; not British or Rhodesian . |
| 5 | Over the last year , something over seventeen million , in the forthcoming year there will be a review for about , I think from memory of ar of around about fourteen million . |
| 6 | During one of his many civil disobedience campaigns , which ranged from non-payment of taxes to blocking border posts into the US , he led a hunger strike in protest at alleged vote rigging in the presidential race . |
| 7 | Africa is characterised by rampant population growth , uncontrolled urban expansion , declining irrigated land resulting in food shortages and progressive deforestation , some of which results from use of wood as an energy source . |
| 8 | For Flew , the track which leads from equality of opportunity ( a phrase which he finds ambiguous ) to equality of outcome is not a slippery slope at all . |
| 9 | The Army was also promised that a large proportion of the financial savings , which flowed from ending of National Service , would be ploughed back into major re-equipment and barrack rebuilding programmes to make regular service more attractive . |
| 10 | The conjoint condemnation of enlightened reform from above and a radicalism which derived from doctrines of popular sovereignty was useful because it allowed conservatives to discredit any effort to reform traditional society ; it was possible because the generation of 1760 included pious bureaucrats like Floridablanca , esprits forts like Aranda , and cosmopolitan experts like Olavide ; it was made plausible by the Janus-like face of reform itself . |
| 11 | But there are two further points which emerge from considerations of a wide range of literature relating to public enterprise : big investment decisions have been complicated and delayed as a result of having to be considered by a number of government departments ; such decisions have been easy prey to party political pressures when they have involved the location of new plants and/or closure of old ones [ Knight , 1974 ] . |
| 12 | For years , US judges have relied on the standard , dating back to 1923 and too often honoured in the breach , defining admissible evidence as that which derives from methods of inquiry that are ‘ generally accepted ’ by the scientific community . |
| 13 | Hence , the abolition of the state , of representative institutions , of parties and of all loyalties which derive from acts of political will and reason rather than natural kinship . |
| 14 | As has been implied from the comments made , the nurse 's ability to identify patients ' problems with the AL of maintaining a safe environment which result from impairment/loss of the senses , to a great extent depends on an ability to be imaginative and empathetic . |
| 15 | Conversely the benefits which accrue from a fully fledged economic union are by definition more numerous than those which result from membership of a customs union . |
| 16 | Exchange differences which arise from translation of the opening share capital and reserves of foreign subsidiary undertakings are taken to reserves . |
| 17 | We will discuss problems such as these in chapter 8 by using an actual schedule which incorporates examples of mistakes , but before doing this we must also consider the problems which arise from lack of understanding of the question . |
| 18 | The usual difficulties which arise from restraint of trade and business secrets clauses in employment contracts occur because an employee has decided to set up as , or work for , a competitor of his employer . |
| 19 | The major theoretical problems which arise from explanations of language development as a process of learning verbal behaviours were first presented by Chomsky ( 1959 ) and , in many respects , this still represents the best critique of Skinner 's position . |
| 20 | All the experimental animals are housed and treated in accordance with the strict Home Office Regulations which stem from Act of Parliament . |
| 21 | Brusilov 's extensive command , which stretched from east of Kovel in the north to Czernowitz on the Romanian border , comprised four armies under generals of proven worth . |
| 22 | The representations which come from members of the public and others can not therefore be assumed in all cases to embody the approach which would be given were a a full understanding of the previous and proposed situations in the mind of those who made that proposal . |
| 23 | There is , indeed , much evidence to support such a view , especially on the corrosive effects of overmanning on productivity ; practices which spring from fusion of innate conservatism and the creed of job protection . |
| 24 | There was something essentially virginal about Sara Glynn , not the virginity of naivety or innocence , but the soured virginity which arises from resentment of the female role . |
| 25 | To avoid the waste of pupil time which arises from duplication of teaching in differing phases of schooling when the gap itself creates discontinuity , a variety of organizations have been used by LEAs to make sure that primary and secondary schools make clear to each other , first , what is being provided and later , as achievements and the needs of learning change , to help them to plan together to create a complementary or continuous curriculum between the phases . |
| 26 | ‘ Natural philosophy ’ does not consist of ‘ knowledge ’ , which arises from perception of connections between ideas , but of ‘ opinion ’ ; and Locke still associates the word ‘ science ’ with scientia and ‘ knowledge ’ proper . |
| 27 | This is particularly true when dealing with people who suffer from phobias of one sort or another . |
| 28 | A certain kind of great achievement , as revealed in power or influence over others , might itself spring from traits of a psychotic nature . |
| 29 | From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years . |
| 30 | She suffers from deterioration of the spine , but her family claims she was left sitting on a bed without any back support for three and a half hours . |