Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [v-ing] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intrigue and treachery , especially from former officials , were advertised in public as besetting him from all sides . |
| 2 | Better that than learning it from my visitors or this evening 's paper , I suppose they thought . |
| 3 | Of course , such a device is doing more than protecting them from an over-exciting adventure ; it is also in a calmer way building up their anticipation of a real mystery . |
| 4 | ‘ But the cost of buying and converting a barn is higher than building something from scratch , ’ says Wood . |
| 5 | The company may already have a mainframe computer with a data processing department and the manager might suggest that some potentially suitable software packages be evaluated and that obtaining a ready-made package should be considerably less expensive than writing one from scratch . |