Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] from [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Studies of such drugs in food-intolerant patients have shown that a large proportion of them suffer from these minor enzyme deficiencies ( see p 233 ) . |
| 2 | erm I mean it 's interesting the lessons that Queenie learnt — the lesson that I learnt from French local government is that erm the French believe in local government , and they put their money where their mouth is . |
| 3 | Scots preparing for conquest are a wonderful bunch , not much different I imagine from those bearded clansmen of the middle ages . |
| 4 | I retreated from this scintillating conversation and helped Oliver and Cathy clear up in the kitchen , and shortly before eleven we slid to a halt in the port that was halfway across Canada on some rails parallel with but a little removed from the station buildings . |
| 5 | ‘ How did they get the £250,000 spare wealth needed to qualify in the first place ’ , is one theme I hear from these envy-driven commentators . |
| 6 | As I lie here under the green , seaweedy tent I remember from some trite television interview , a remark made by Brigitte Bardot , loopy Parisienne , namely that in all her many love affairs she was off at the first sign of the waning of passion . |
| 7 | Any family member of someone suffering from primary addictive disease may benefit from attendance at meetings of appropriate Anonymous Fellowships and may even benefit from residential care . |
| 8 | In the quest for solid ground , I struggled from one parallel route to another until I was stuck , north of them all . |
| 9 | With nervous steps , I crossed from one slippery wet boulder to the next whilst the water swirled and gurgled beneath . |
| 10 | I think from this unhappy tale there are a number of lessons to be learned . |
| 11 | Three quarters of them came from three major US cities and 95% were gay men . |
| 12 | Everyone suffered from that daily and prolonged exposure to a Baldersdale winter — swollen faces and aching joints were commonplace . |
| 13 | it 's not one that will inspire me with erm with , with great kind of nationalistic fervour as might have happened in the past when , when you look at nationalistic movements , so erm presumably we 're looking at a range of behaviour which goes from extreme fanatical group membership to relatively weak identification with a group but really does n't to anything else but saying you know if you ask me what I 'll say I was British . |
| 14 | This project aims to develop an approach to the study of kinship terminologies which differs from that traditional within anthropology . |
| 15 | He further suggested that sequences which deviate from this ordinary order do occur , and he called a rheme-theme organization of a message the ‘ pathetic order ’ ( Firbas , 1974 ) . |
| 16 | We began by exploring her beliefs about relationships with men , which came from two main sources . |
| 17 | Beyond these lies an archipelago of small regional or city broadcasters which range from dubious one-studio enterprises in the Sicilian hinterland to smartly presented local stations in the cities . |
| 18 | American and European paintings , prints and sculptures , account for only a fraction of the museum 's 100,000 objects which range from American Indian material , African art , and musical instruments , to Nabataen sculpture from Jordan , Egyptian and classical antiquities , Asian art , costumes , and 300 American , English and Continental portrait miniatures . |
| 19 | The government in the 1930s saw the BUF as a nuisance which needed to be watched , but which was felt to have little impact on wider society and which suffered from grave internal weaknesses . |
| 20 | There will , however , be longer-term consequences which flow from those dramatic weeks , which are still working themselves out and which may prove more serious . |
| 21 | Other shares on the move today included Rolls Royce which benefited from continued overseas demand and British Steel which rose on news of a major contract with Iran . |
| 22 | He was an Afghan who bemused Robert Graves , and in this book must be regarded as a bee which escaped from that capacious bonnet ; his Kabul cousins thought him a figure of pure comedy . |
| 23 | These are the subtle mind currents which emanate from all living creatures and constitute a part of their aura . |
| 24 | The metatheory needed to explicate this activity can not be one which derives from natural scientific work on a material , object world , in which there is no possibility of linguistic communication with the objects of investigation . |
| 25 | Individual union policy seems to have been a major factor behind signing technology agreements , most of which derive from four white collar unions : APEX ( general clerical union ) , ASTMS ( general technical and supervisory union ) , NALGO ( local government staff ) and TASS ( technical staff in engineering ) . |
| 26 | A Green Paper ( Cmnd 7944 , February 1981 ) advocated the notion of the ‘ incorporated limited firm ’ designed to combine the benefits which derive from separate legal personality but without adopting the fullest protection of limited liability currently available by incorporation . |
| 27 | And the railway made it worth while for us , who can now read the letters which resulted from that prolonged erotic oscillation . |
| 28 | Other distinctions that were drawn — between democracy and absolutism , between monarchy and republic , between Western political institutions and ‘ Oriental despotism ’ — expressed current political interests and ideological commitments ; and indeed all the attempts to construct a typology of political systems are marked to some degree by an intermingling of scientific analysis and the value judgements which arise from real political struggles . |
| 29 | A far more satisfactory , if idiosyncratic , account of the cultural contexts within which modern commodities operate is provided by Appadurai ( 1986 ) , especially in the introduction to this varied set of essays and examples , which follows from traditional anthropological concern with the nature of exchange . |
| 30 | The second conclusion which follows from this evolutionary view has to do with the concept of justice . |