Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a woman from an age quite different from Erika 's own ; separated by a gulf , a measureless chasm of experience distancing them each from the other as surely as though they were beings from two different planets . |
| 2 | I concluded my own column of that week as follows : ‘ After sneering at Lord Mogg , I suppose I should commit myself to a conclusion of my own from the last ten days ' dramas . |
| 3 | He could hardly ease himself free from the great stinking weight . |
| 4 | Phoebe was not going to devour her in love and thus keep her safe from the great fangs and wraths of Fenna . |
| 5 | First , the state remains bureaucratized , though with some interesting departures of its own from the classic Weberian model of bureaucracy . |
| 6 | The rebel republic has already declared itself independent from the Soviet Union and President Gorbachev threatened grave consequences if its parliament does n't renounce the decision . |
| 7 | With your wonderful knowledge of the Bible , Mr. Deputy Speaker , you produced the Lazarus motion which revived them all from the dead and they eventually passed on their way through the House . |
| 8 | Although appointed to represent a cross-section of British life — one each from Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland ; at least one academic ; one trade unionist ( almost always from the right-wing of the movement ) ; one with an interest in the arts ; usually a scientist ; a retired diplomat to represent the Foreign Office ; and in recent years one representative from the ethnic minorities — they have their amateurism in common . |
| 9 | AT the beginning of the 1980s passengers experienced great variances of comfort and style on InterCity and cross-country trains mainly according to whether they were travelling in one of the three basic designs that made up most of the fleet , one each from the fifties , sixties and seventies . |
| 10 | Imagination from other viewpoints depends on my having already perceived something analogous from the then present and my own , and is undernourished if I was distracted at the time by consideration of the future or of others . |
| 11 | It sighed and groaned and creaked so that sometimes it was easy to believe ghostly footsteps were padding about ; but this noise was something different from the usual spasmodic little creaks — it seemed regular and deliberate . |
| 12 | So unambiguously marked are these , that they draw attention away from other features of his — his odd stock of knowledge and his quiet eagerness to increase it — his unassuming inclination for the arts , and particularly music something different from the practical awareness that comes from being married to a singer — his compassion — his steadfastness . |
| 13 | However it is evident that he intended something different from the simple a cappella doubling of voices by instruments , and this ‘ something different ’ became known as the ‘ concerted style ’ ( stile concertato ) , a ‘ consort ’ of voices and instruments . |
| 14 | When I took it over from Matt I realised that a wilderness was something different from the average person 's orderly life . |
| 15 | If you want something different from the standard offerings of garden centres , order fledgling plants in plugs of soil , and seedlings . |
| 16 | When considering the passing of property from the seller to the buyer , we are therefore dealing with something different from the physical handing over ( i. e. delivery ) of the goods . |
| 17 | She had not felt it since her days of poverty , when she had faced the world alone ; it was something different from the polished ruthlessness that money had brought ; it was brighter-eyed , more truculent . |
| 18 | On the Continent mercantile law is still regarded as something separate from the ordinary law . |
| 19 | These efforts at information-gathering by fair means or foul were merely an intensification of something visible from the very beginnings of organised diplomacy . |
| 20 | The Lady Prioress raised tearful eyes , shook herself free from the clinging sisters and wiped her cheeks . |
| 21 | Rescuers took 19 minutes to cut him free from the mangled wreckage . |
| 22 | Well who are the Kuwaitis and how do they differ and how are they different from the Saudi Arabians and the southern Iraquis ? |
| 23 | She eased it free from the restraining material , and as she did so she felt his body tense and a shot rang out . |
| 24 | The therapist should prepare the patient for termination by making it clear from the first interview that a relatively short period of treatment is planned . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's angry and irritable and he 's made it clear from the very beginning that he does n't expect me to come up to scratch . ’ |
| 26 | Nor was it clear from the 1538 injunctions whether the offending images should simply be removed or totally destroyed . |
| 27 | Gilt ceilings and old silver certainly make it different from the usual run of East European cafés and on a warm early evening it is pleasant to sit outside and watch and chatter . |
| 28 | The first year of a king ran from the day of his accession in one calendar year to the eve of the anniversary of that accession in the following , his second from the first anniversary of his accession to the eve of his second , and so on . |
| 29 | Michael and Sue run it all from the new buildings down the valley . ’ |
| 30 | Rommel arrived at Alamein , the Russians drove the Germans out of Russia , English and American troops landed on the continent , whole German cities were razed to the ground in one night : I heard it all from the same patch of sand , four hundred yards long by a hundred wide in the middle of a Silesian Pine forest . |