Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William 's accession to the English throne marked a return to the attitude of hostility to France , and for almost all of the following 125 years England was either at war with France or preparing for war with France or recovering from war with France . |
| 2 | Any character may take this item , but each time it is used ( not just when it is worn ! ) , the wearer must make a successful WP test or suffer from despair for D10 turns . |
| 3 | In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand . |
| 4 | The sheet is then printed on one side with the sheet being turned or tumbled from front to rear to print the opposite side . |
| 5 | All of us assumed that she 'd wandered off to die alone and that , sooner or later , we 'd come across her body , sprawled in a ditch or hidden from view in a clump of thorn trees . |
| 6 | This is certainly a difficult poem for any translator to attempt — but then there is no Horatian lyric that could be called " easy " ; there are besetting problems , concerning metre and form , concerning word order , concerning a lexicon in which patent meanings are shadowed by possibilities of other meanings , concerning the importance of allusion , and above all the Horatian craft that mingles these elements interdependently , in patterns that persist or shift from strophe to strophe . |
| 7 | Within the chromosomes of a single individual , however , there are processes whereby pieces of DNA are duplicated , or moved from place to place . |
| 8 | In order to avoid this result the draftsman should define a reference to an Act of Parliament etc as including a reference to that Act etc as amended or re-enacted from time to time . |
| 9 | Left with no one with whom he could discuss the farm-work and stock when the day 's toil was over , Jonadab became more and more morose , spending most evenings staring into the fire or wandering from building to building , checking his animals . |
| 10 | Special lighting effects , such as spotlighting one performer , or moving from group to group leaving part of the floor in darkness , all helps to add atmosphere , but , of course , is only possible with a large number and in a suitably equipped arena or hall . |
| 11 | o Damage to or resulting from movement of solid floor slabs unless the foundations beneath the exterior walls of the dwelling are damaged at the same time . |
| 12 | It needs neither the approbation of ace tuner Alpina nor the motivation of an M-power badge to crack 140mph — 141–3mph on the Millbrook bowl is around 10mph faster than the old 325i could manage — or sprint from rest to 60mph in a sizzling 7.3secs . |
| 13 | McLeish was reasonably satisfied that Angela Morgan was not lying unidentified in any morgue , nor in any hospital , unconscious or suffering from loss of memory . |
| 14 | When Nietzsche is quoted directly as arguing that " tropes are not something that can be added or subtracted from language at will ; they are its truest nature " , de Man 's paraphrase seems innocuous : The mode of paraphrase frees de Man from the obligation of theoretical presence in his discourse while still allowing him to translate Nietzsche 's text into the terms of his own problematic . |
| 15 | In Adult Education you could raffle one or more memberships specifically , or pay from fundraising throughout the year . |
| 16 | Or go from pub to pubs |
| 17 | Complaints on the left side or go from left to right |
| 18 | Complaints are characteristically on the left side or go from left to right . |
| 19 | Groups may be included or excluded from participation in the system . |
| 20 | When phrases of the text are repeated or thrown from voice to voice , they may or may not be set to the same or similar melodic phrase ; imitation is free and texturally loose ; metrical symmetry is at a discount . |
| 21 | William of Jumièges ' statement that he later offered the æthelings a share of England is very difficult to credit ; it may owe something to Dudo 's story of the offer made to Rollo , or result from confusion with the events of 1041 , when Edward returned to England at Harthacnut 's invitation and according to the Chronicle C text was sworn in as king . |
| 22 | The men called to each other across the floor or wandered from group to group , while their womenfolk exchanged their own news in undertones . |
| 23 | It will all depend on the choice to be made by the national legislatures , and in the case of countries which make the third choice the employee 's option not to transfer may give the worker no more than he or she already has under the Mikkelsen doctrine i.e. the option of going over or resigning from employment with the transferor . |
| 24 | ‘ Form FLR A ’ means the form FLR A set out in the schedule to these regulations , as may be amended , modified or replaced from time to time ; |
| 25 | ‘ Form FLR B ’ means the form FLR B set out in the schedule to these regulations , as may be amended , modified or replaced from time to time ; |
| 26 | One day last week we 'ad to get us own lunch , me young See-all-hear-all-say-nowt upstairs , and then I had to bellow to get him down t'elp or I 'd 'ave been stuck 'ere in this chair wi'out a sup or bite from dawn to dusk and beyond . |
| 27 | You will be sad or distressed from time to time , as the care staff who are quoted in the section on care for the dying have said . |
| 28 | ( iv ) has been struck off or suspended from practice as a lawyer or a jurisdiction other than England and Wales ; or |
| 29 | read the following judgment of the court , prepared by Brooke J. In these two cases we have been invited to determine , as preliminary issues , the capacity in which judges of the High Court are acting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court to determine appeals against orders by which barristers are to be disbarred or suspended from practice by their Inns . |
| 30 | Her long hair was pulled through its centre to spring from her crown like a pony-tail that swished from side to side as she moved . |