Example sentences of "[adj] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have this from her own mouth , for I visited her house at the Falster ferry , at a time when her husband was arrested for a crime . ’ |
| 2 | Again , I know this from my long experience of yoga . |
| 3 | ( This from my pseudo-older-and-wiser alter-ego ) . |
| 4 | I have managed this from my own strength , as one who twenty-one years ago was an unknown worker and soldier of my people . |
| 5 | Some of his judges in Star Chamber waxed eloquent about Mynne 's misuse of his position , distinguishing this from his legitimate attempt to improve his status and rise in the social hierarchy . |
| 6 | An observer affected to be shocked at the absence of Bibles from the ‘ Bedside Books ’ section , but Fred Leson soon remedied this from his wonderful store . |
| 7 | In this one we had n't told you that you had to strip formwork , that you had to er , make the formwork , that you had to fix the steel , you had to know this from your own knowledge . |
| 8 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 9 | In fact , analysis of the interview material did not mark out the Irish women as particularly different from their British-born counterparts on any dimension of attitudes or behaviour . |
| 10 | Thus the volcanic rocks formed are drastically different from their oceanic counterparts . |
| 11 | Certainly Americans see it as being very different from their home-grown shows and for some reason they all seem to think that I ask rather cheeky questions , which I 'll take as a compliment . |
| 12 | They knew nothing of Judaism , did not feel Jewish , and yet had enough Jewish blood in them to make them somehow different from their former friends , if not quite enough for them to be welcomed unreservedly into the Jewish community . |
| 13 | His teaching was so authoritative that the people followed him because they could see it was different from their normal diet of religious half-truths . |
| 14 | The three woodpeckers are different from their nearest relatives in Java and Borneo . |
| 15 | Here , however , Christians could be found — at least in some areas — in greater concentration than in the West ; socially and culturally they were on a level not very different from their non-Christian peers . |
| 16 | Many words and terms have specific meanings in law which are different from their everyday use . |
| 17 | It has to be recognised that syllabic consonants are a problem — they are phonologically different from their non-syllabic counterparts . |
| 18 | The lands which the South Slav tribes first entered , in the middle of the first millennium AD , were geographically very different from their earlier homelands north of the Carpathians , in the Vistula basin and the Ukraine . |
| 19 | The crew were not to know that this day would be so different from their previous raid on Berlin . |
| 20 | Maybe what I was saying was n't so very different from what Old Mother Walsh had given the troops all those years ago . |
| 21 | Dona never had that problem because during her affair she entered a new and secret world that was so different from her other life . |
| 22 | The countryside here was so different from her native dales and moors . |
| 23 | She had a lot to learn about the man inside Ace Barton , world champion , and he was as different from her original crush as anyone with a modicum of brains should have expected . |
| 24 | They were nice , friendly people , with all the good-heartedness she 'd expected , but they were different from her own family . |
| 25 | The ultimate effect of a tax can be very different from its apparent effect . |
| 26 | Thus the late phases of a market culture are very different from its early phases . |
| 27 | The committees are empowered to suggest amendments , and the bill which is returned to the house ( if it ever is ) may be substantially different from its original form ; there may be a long period of debate between representatives of the two houses of the Legislature and the Executive before consensus can be reached . |
| 28 | In our view , rural development should be qualitatively different from its urban counterpart , given that the existence of narrow country lanes , agricultural activities and a dispersed settlement pattern make it necessary to develop a smaller scale pattern businesses closely related to existing enterprises . |
| 29 | Theirs is a distinctive type of cut-price retailing that emerged in Germany after the second world war and is subtly different from its American cousin . |
| 30 | ( a ) not less than 28 days before the change is implemented , of any change in the body 's name , registered office or principal office if different from its registered office ; |