Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] from [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While conventional theories of ‘ modernization ’ have identified TNCs as carriers of democratic values and practices to the Third World , such views have been powerfully criticized from many quarters . |
| 2 | For adult offenders the picture showed little change from previous years and indeed the number of sentenced adult male prisoners had increased . |
| 3 | I am sure too , that this safety-first instinct has a lot to do with the fact that big bream are rarely caught from small bays , those semi-circular enclosures which are so appealing to the angler 's eye , and such deadly traps for the use of a pack of predators . |
| 4 | The worker was eventually to benefit from better conditions of work ; for the moment , electricity probably affected him most by providing transport for travel to his work from greater distances . |
| 5 | There are many examples which date from well into the thirteenth century in a style not much altered from 100 years earlier . |
| 6 | Nuisances and abominations of all sorts are without scruple committed to the streets at any hour of the day of night , to await the morning visit of the scavenger to remove them : and happy indeed is it for the humble pedestrian if his eye and nose alone suffer from these ejectments ; happy indeed if he comes not in contact with them , as they make their unceremonious exit from window or door … |
| 7 | Nor did the ‘ moderates ’ see much gain from Iranian films winning at international festivals . |
| 8 | The selected function-word-dependent phone models in SPHINX are perhaps distinguished from content words by similar stress and co-articulatory information , which we have represented explicitly in the lexicon . |
| 9 | In toto , these constitute an image of a world filled with dangers , human and non-human , known and unknown , which constantly menace from all sides , and against which the lone individual is helpless . |
| 10 | The cases were compared with 1800 control infants , who were randomly selected from all births in the study regions , except home births ( less than 1% ) . |
| 11 | Altogether 1800 control infants were randomly selected from all births in the study regions . |
| 12 | The RSPB applauded the scheme on the grounds that farmers should only benefit from European subsidies if they were prepared to join schemes which protected the countryside . |
| 13 | In terms of financial intermediation it is only externally funded schemes that carry out an intermediary function , as the funds collected for future pension payments are invested in financial assets ( and a small proportion in real assets — property and works of art ) in order to earn a return on investments to be able to pay out future pensions , whereas in pay-as-you-go funds are merely transferred from present employees to present pensioners , with no financial intermediation taking place . |
| 14 | On the former Johnson wished for accuracy of representation , by which means the portrait painter also creates a piece of history ; on the latter he applauded developments in which historians had begun to consult and interpret factual record instead of merely culling from other histories . |
| 15 | Generally she finds only support from male paddlers to her on the water though when there is a separate ladies ' event at a rodeo it is not always taken seriously . |
| 16 | After all , her young people all came from good families . |
| 17 | Let loose on the family estancia during the holidays , he and Pedro had played cops and robbers on horses , and later polo with his cousins , who all came from large houses nearby . |
| 18 | The workers not only suffered from moderate wages but also from a sense of resentment , humiliation and social isolation at taking factory work . |
| 19 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 20 | Yet all research projects seemed to be expensively commissioned from outside firms . |
| 21 | From their shapes , they were apparently copied from wooden originals , and it seems likely that the clay coffins are really copies in clay of wooden clothes-chests . |
| 22 | Two distinct types of botanical embellishment were used : some showed dissected plants and were obviously copied from engraved plates in authoritative works , while others were taken from live plants . |
| 23 | 1 The action should be entirely isolated from other actions , significant or non-significant . |
| 24 | Recording studies are not entirely exempt from these problems . |
| 25 | I ponder the huge genetic storehouse represented by these wayside wildings , all sprung from discarded cores and may crossbred with true crab-apples . |
| 26 | ‘ Margaret is merely suffering from pre-wedding nerves . |
| 27 | This brief discussion of regional policy may seem somewhat divorced from inner-urban problems , but it is , in fact , very relevant . |
| 28 | She will make no extravagant claims for her skin- and hair-care products , all derived from natural ingredients . |
| 29 | The reports , which apparently originated from Western diplomats in North Korea , were widely circulated by Japanese and South Korean news agencies but totally repudiated by the North Korean authorities . |
| 30 | And both McGahern and Dermot Bolger were highly praised from these quarters . ’ |