Example sentences of "[verb] from the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is clear evidence that religious output , despite some criticisms of its style and approach , is by no means the anathema for viewers that it is supposed from the purely commercial viewpoint of some broadcasters . |
| 2 | The records which were kept varied from the elaborately formal and comprehensive , involving a good deal of detailed and meticulous clerical work , to the admittedly casual and labour-saving . |
| 3 | A shift from the predominantly hospital-based medical research into the community |
| 4 | In retrospect , the ending at this point of the long preponderance of Western Europe ( that is to say , Italy , France , southern Germany , Belgium and Spain ) — a preponderance common to the pre-conciliar Church , the Council and even the pontificate of Paul VI — in the affairs of Catholicism and its replacement by a far wider range of geographical influences , may appear as far more significant than any shift from the mildly liberal to the neo-conservative . |
| 5 | No amount of reflection on first principles will stop a Christian from assuming that the morality demanded of women , which in Islam he judges to be imposed by the physically stronger sex in its own interests , is in his own religion true to the equality of the sexes before God ; not until women become conscious of and vocal about their own interests does he appreciate that the difference from Islam has from the very first been only one of degree . |
| 6 | The light seemed to fade from the brightly shimmering early evening as she heard him , and her heart felt as if an iron band was tightening mercilessly about it . |
| 7 | This ranged from the fairly trivial practice of holding too many banquets and offering ‘ gifts ’ to customers to the more serious misappropriation of state funds and reselling of state supplies on the free market for large profits . |
| 8 | The time-scale ranged from the very short-term to the comparatively long-term : from daily to yearly , with many intermediate steps . |
| 9 | Responses ranged from the highly personal and impressionistic to the densely analytical . |
| 10 | The outrage in India stemmed from the very same reasons . |
| 11 | In 1956 we still breathed pure air , even in Athens ; the magic beauty of the countryside had not yet vanished from the most famous sites , and there was no discotheque on the islands . |
| 12 | With an estimated 250,000 refugees from more dangerous parts of Mozambique living in makeshift villages along the protected corridors , the greatest threat appeared to come from the increasingly desperate shortage of food , following the failure of the rains . |
| 13 | However , Tizard does acknowledge that the issue is complicated by social inequality — children who come into care tend to come from the most powerless sector of society . |
| 14 | Today we approached from the most picturesque direction , through a stile set in the wall of the narrow stone bridge whose elegant arches span the burn 's deep-cut ravine . |
| 15 | The increase in gearing from the extremely low level of last year to 38% is primarily occasioned by the acquisition of BMK . |
| 16 | Leadership might have been expected from the more substantial merchants , members of the élite merchant guilds established by Peter and reformed by Catherine . |
| 17 | This becomes clearer if it is considered from the more general perspective of post-modernism which has been widely characterized as involving a return of history , albeit as a category of representation . |
| 18 | They contended that pornography , lawlessness and other social disorders have been carried from the more permissive societies of the West , via the mass media , to the countries of the Third World . |
| 19 | Among the half century of steam locomotive development contained in the working locomotives going through their paces — subject to availability — will be a rear Yugoslavian ‘ Yankee Tank ’ rescued from the newly independent republic of Slovenia just hours before the start of the bitter civil war which is tragically still raging . |
| 20 | For human victims , the classic he-man response to this injury is the ‘ cut-and-suck ’ treatment , in which the unfortunate sufferer undergoes further trauma by having the site of the venom injection sliced open with a sharp knife and the blood sucked from the now gaping wound . |
| 21 | The effect of a dense concentration of the woollen textile industry is emphatically expressed by the manner in which the seventeen manufacturing villages and towns of Babergh hundred , Suffolk , differed from the purely agricultural ones ( see Table 2.13 ) . |
| 22 | A new , precoded , form was completed for each new activity undertaken ; the research instrument therefore differed from the more conventional diary approach in which the work done in specific time periods is recorded ( Mintzberg , 1973 ; Stewart , 1988 ) . |
| 23 | This position helps prevent the excessive trunk activity which might happen when the patient is standing erect , and it helps the patient to work from the very lowest part of the back , at the pelvis . |
| 24 | Who the other call was to Jihan has never revealed , but it is certain that it must have been someone of the highest importance , and that her purpose was to obtain from the most authoritative source possible some outside indication of what was happening in Egypt . |
| 25 | It will also be desirable if the inquiry be broadened from the largely financial analysis ( of concern to the CEGB ) to the broader social costs and benefits relevant to the country as a whole , for instance the real ( alternative ) cost of mine labour , the environmental costs of burning coal , and the relative costs of further expansion of energy supply rather than conservation . |
| 26 | ( 5 ) The more ducks a cat has to choose from the less likely it is to take one duck in particular . |
| 27 | ( d ) To require member states to depart from the universally recognised criterion of the owner 's nationality would place Community law in conflict with international law , which should be avoided ; in contrast , as a matter of general principle the E.E.C . |
| 28 | Child care research should help practitioners distinguish what is grave and enduring from the less serious and transient . |
| 29 | After passing from the most primitive stage of development , through the Asiatic , ancient and feudal stages , mankind enters the capitalist stage , the immense productive power of large-scale factory industry , and the division between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat . |
| 30 | Many of the patients referred to the General Surgery and ENT departments have complex problems and benefit from the highly specialist expertise available there . |