Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working initially in pairs and then in groups , pursue the question : " What would you like to do a drama about ? " , seeking to find a dramatic starting point which stems from the interviewees ' interests . |
| 2 | Offe stresses the role of the state as a crisis manager and asserts that there is today a ‘ crisis of crisis management ’ itself which derives from the contradictions inherent in the state 's efforts to compensate for failures in market mechanisms without challenging the private ownership of the means of production and the primacy of market mechanisms . |
| 3 | The grasss carp , Ctenopharyngodon idella , which hails from the rivers of northern China , is a voracious planteater . |
| 4 | Chesarynth hoped all the secretaries were happily jacked in to some routine part of the system , or getting their jollies from the nerve-stimulators some of them were addicted to . |
| 5 | Far from taking this supply of trained musicians for granted , the local church should be providing its own kind of expertise to complement and augment that which comes from the schools . |
| 6 | I emphasise that I do not believe that any individual or manager in the health service has done anything in this case which departs from the principles upon which the health service is built . |
| 7 | ( 4 ) In determining the value of an action under paragraph ( 1 ) ( a ) : ( a ) the sum which the plaintiff or applicant reasonably expects to recover shall be reduced by the amount of any debt which he admits that he owes to a defendant in that action and which arises from the circumstances which give rise to the action ; ( b ) no account shall be taken of a possible finding of contributory negligence , except to the extent , if any , that such negligence is admitted ; ( c ) where the plaintiff seeks an award of provisional damages as described in s 32A(2) ( a ) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 , no account shall be taken of the possibility of a future application for further damages ; ( d ) the value shall be taken to include sums which , by virtue of s 22 of the Social Security Act 1989 , are required to be paid to the Secretary of State . |
| 8 | There are numerous footpaths including Devil 's Ditch , a long defensive fortification dating from 500AD , which runs from the woodlands south of Stetchworth , northwards to the Fens , and the Icknield Way . |
| 9 | Jane Austen may seem in Sense and Sensibility to join with Edward in preferring cottages in good repair , even at the cost of the picturesque ; but on another occasion , in Northanger Abbey , she appears to side with Catherine , who is so delighted by the view of ‘ a sweet little cottage ’ among apple trees which she sees from the windows of the parsonage at Woodston that her enthusiasm even saves it from demolition . |
| 10 | Down itself comes from the breasts of birds as a by-product — they 're farmed mainly in China for food . |
| 11 | For all their mutual confidence in each other and their shared patience — although one suspects from the records that the navigator had more of this essential quality than the adventurer — each brought his own special talents to this technique of beach reconnaissance . |
| 12 | When groundwater flows naturally or is pumped from an unconfined aquifer , it drains from the pores . |
| 13 | The labour input can be defined as consisting of all the human attributes which are used in producing goods and services and , as such , it differs from the inputs of the other factors of production in one major respect . |
| 14 | For example , if we consider the English phoneme , it is easy to show that it differs from the plosives and in its place of articulation ( alveolar ) , from in being lenis , from and in not being fricative , from in not being nasal , and so on . |
| 15 | Although I welcome the way in which my right hon. Friend has responded to pressure from those of us who are concerned about the future of the volunteers in the Territorial army and elsewhere , and I especially welcome his statement about the future of the Army Cadet Force and the support it receives from the reserves , what are his particular plans for the three reserve battalions of the Royal Anglians ? |
| 16 | Like Russian Formalism , Richards 's early work turns its back on positivistic scholarship , and calls for a criticism that deals directly with the distinctive properties of literature ; where he differs from the Formalists , however , is in defining these properties in terms of human experience and human value . |
| 17 | I have learnt that the sun and the stars are eternally good , and that my body leaps in contact with this sparkling world and everything that it contains from the minds of Beethoven and Shakespeare to food and drink and a soft night 's sleep . |
| 18 | Luz is green less from the rain — it is actually one of the drier valleys in the High Pyrenees — than from the water it gets from the mountains all around , from the lakes , the glaciers and the seasonal ‘ melt ’ . |
| 19 | It seems clear then that the Formalist position on all these issues ( authors , reality and ideas ) is not just an arbitrary preference , but that it stems from the concepts of defamiliarisation and literariness , whose differential basis will always serve to define literature in opposition to the things that it was traditionally viewed as expressing . |
| 20 | It stretches from the borders of Bretonnia in the west to the sweeping plains of Kislev in the east . |
| 21 | It ranges from the triumphs to the turmoils , and digs deep into Gazza 's private life . |
| 22 | A standard is acceptable on the authority of ‘ Be aware ’ to the extent that , when most aware of the recurring situation to which it applies from the viewpoints of those affected by it , one is spontaneously moved to act as it prescribes — which is what makes the standard feel right . |
| 23 | It appears from the accounts that quite a different reading is given to occasions of physical or verbal reprimand which fall within the acknowledged framework of official penalties . |
| 24 | Their Lordships must therefore begin by summarising the history of all four sets of proceedings , as it appears from the materials now before the Board . |
| 25 | Fig. 6.18 shows a plot of Lum et al. 's figures on the basis of average accesses per retrieval ; it appears from the curves that consecutive spill is only useful for larger bucket sizes , but the figures are misleading , as the chained overflow was to a separate file area , necessitating head movement . |
| 26 | Quite a lot , it appears from the matches in this group , the results of which are starting to bring back disturbing visions of those horrendous days under Eoin Hand , when the baleful gods of fortune were using the Republic 's aspirations as a kind of exclusive latrine . |
| 27 | Marxists argue that it derives from the needs of the capitalist mode of production , while elite theorists see it as an institutional-bureaucratic coincidence of interest . |
| 28 | As for Sir Robert , who is , I believe , a man with a strong marketing background , might I suggest that he emerges from the confines of his embattled empire and experiences at first hand the market in which he is now operating incognito during the evening rush-hour . |
| 29 | Now , since B is skew-symmetric it disappears from the equations , while C is now symmetric , so that the right-hand sides are equal and opposite . |
| 30 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what revenue he expects from the proceeds of privatisation for the period of the public expenditure survey . |