Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the molecules sediment , a layer of pure solvent is left whose refractive index differs from the solution . |
| 2 | Sewell tried in 1841 to establish a cattle infirmary at Thomas Flight 's famous dairy ( formerly Laycock 's ) in Islington , housing some 600 or 700 cows ( there were thousands of cows in London until the railways facilitated milk supplies from the country ) . |
| 3 | All lighting circuits are radial ones — that is one cable goes from the fuseway in the consumer unit to the first light position , and then on to the second , and so on to the last on the circuit . |
| 4 | In junction box wiring , the lighting cable goes from the consumer unit to a series of four-terminal junction boxes , each usually positioned roughly over the appropriate light switch ; cables lead from each junction box to a ceiling rose and to the switch . |
| 5 | It is also important , with porous rocks , to remove carefully all traces of the diamond polishing abrasives from the slide : industrial diamond grains have a brilliant green CL which produces halation spots , giving the impression of a larger grain , which is apt to be mistaken for an apatite or other heavy mineral gram . |
| 6 | So far as the La Pintada case [ 1985 ] A.C. 104 is concerned , that case differs from the present in the following material respects : ( 1 ) In the La Pintada case the plaintiffs were seeking to establish an extension of the common law that would apply in parallel to the statutory provisions . |
| 7 | This case differs from the case in which the agent cognitively agreed , i.e. expressed a belief that a person has certain rights in a situation in which he should have known that the hearer may reasonably rely on the utterance to his detriment . |
| 8 | Roughly speaking , the technique starts from the assumption that an object ( here a drawing ) consists of a bundle of observable characteristics ( true attributes such as technique used , subject , dimensions , artist , year of sale , etc ) and aims at inferring statistically the non-observable ‘ price ’ of each such characteristic . |
| 9 | The area has been associated with cavalry exercises from the beginning of the 15th century . |
| 10 | It was held that an applicant for a patent has all the rights which a holder has from the moment the complete specification of the patent is published . |
| 11 | The trail starts from the shop in the middle of the campsite and follows a road to the east leading to a well-marked trail climbing into a plantation of larch trees . |
| 12 | Further , British Rail , for example , would be distinguished from a Type B non-profit , even though it receives substantial capital and revenue grants from the Government . |
| 13 | The seif dune differs from the barchan , therefore , in that the slip faces are on the side away from the strong wind and not facing the direction of advance as in the barchan . |
| 14 | This is an interesting remark , because the British edition of Lucy differs from the American in key passages that deal with Kalb and officialdom . |
| 15 | The part-time members of the CSM are almost all reported to be advisers , consultants or in receipt of research grants from the drug barons . |
| 16 | The stimuli which the cell receives from the matrix can then initiate changes in gene expression with temporally related changes in cell structure which result directly from the same signals or are determined by concomitant but separate cell-matrix interaction . |
| 17 | Reasoning about diseases of the heart and blood vessels began to have a sound basis when , in the seventeenth century , William Harvey established that blood circulates from the heart , through arteries to the minute capillary vessels in every organ , and back by the veins to the heart . |
| 18 | In this respect gonorrhoea differs from the majority of other bacterial infections , for which it has always been assumed that a course of treatment lasting several days or even weeks is needed . |
| 19 | The research starts from the assumption that it is a product 's competitive edge rather than its design per se that determines its performance . |
| 20 | ( Under the Act , the Central Authority had to discuss their forward programmes and gain approval for their specific annual investment needs from the Minister . ) |
| 21 | The report goes on to say : ‘ Many professionals advise giving vitamin drops from the age of one month and we would support this practice , particularly if there is any doubt whatsoever about the vitamin intake at this time ’ . |
| 22 | Fairfax climbs from the plane and walks , surrounded by the tall warriors , across the darkening savannah to the laibon 's manyatta . |
| 23 | Bolinger , a Harvard Professor shoots from the hip . |
| 24 | As his mind rambles from the boy to the jersey to Ellen ( who knitted it ) , to the sea and the Borough ( via the fish Grimes is going to get rich by catching ) , back to Ellen and the future life they will never lead because Grimes can not escape his past — as his mind rambles in this way , so the music probes our sympathies by constant allusion back to the variations in the interlude . |
| 25 | Till blood drips from the mouth . |
| 26 | That Fido eats from the bowl of meat rather than from that containing eggplant is ‘ grounds for saying that the dog prefers his normal food ’ ( 85 ) . |
| 27 | General economic arguments , however , omit the spin-off benefits from the inventiveness of financial operators in search of bargains and easy profits . |
| 28 | A steep flight of brick steps leads from the churchyard to the rectory garden , and another long flight in stone connects the churchyard with the street above . |
| 29 | Now when the wind blows from the south east and I see willow warblers in the garden , or redwings and fieldfares in the Shetland hills , I can visualise the forests and marshes of Scandinavia where these birds have their summer home , and marvel yet again at the skills and abilities with which nature has endowed the birds which must migrate to survive . |
| 30 | The wind blows from the north , okay . |