Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Groups may be included or excluded from participation in the system . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The men called to each other across the floor or wandered from group to group , while their womenfolk exchanged their own news in undertones . |
| 6 | ( iv ) has been struck off or suspended from practice as a lawyer or a jurisdiction other than England and Wales ; or |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Women now want their daughters to be educated , rather than taken from school in their early teens and married . |
| 9 | These new thelodonts show an unexpected body shape in which the body is deep and compressed from side to side and the tail is perfectly symmetrical , rather like that of early heterostracans . |
| 10 | This is defined as the rent which it might reasonably be expected to command if let from year to year , with the tenant bearing the rates and the cost of insurance and repairs . |
| 11 | The house was thus one structure for the family , horizontal and open in its plan ; to the servants it was quite another , vertical and confined from attic to basement . |
| 12 | At the coastal town of Easky , two life-sized statues of cloth-capped old men appeared as if turned from flesh to blue-grey stone on the spot , one wheeling a bike , the other resting on a seat . |
| 13 | This stunning home , deep in the Welsh hills , was designed and built from scratch by these brave readers |
| 14 | The classic case is that of the American bison , reduced from millions to a handful of individuals , and saved from extinction by a hair 's breadth . |
| 15 | Sacha was a victim of skin cancer early in his career and suffered from cancer of the thyroid in 1971 . |
| 16 | While the defence division saw operating profit fall to £9.3m from £10.5m last time , and suffered from lack of new contracts , Hunting reckons the Atomic Weapons Establishment deal will be a significant contributor over the coming years . |
| 17 | Alexander looked at the stars and shifted from foot to foot . |
| 18 | His partner was much shorter and wrapped from head to toe in a brown cloak . |
| 19 | It was put together at the Camden New Technology Centre , which was loaned by the council , and administered from News on Sunday 's recently occupied headquarters in Caxton House near Waterloo station , the London offices of the print union , SOGAT . |
| 20 | We also found that cadherin epitopes on LC ( and KC ) were degraded by trypsin in 1mM EDTA ( TE cells ) and protected from trypsin by 1mM calcium ( TC cells ) , as previously reported for E- and P-cadherins ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 21 | ( a ) Legal privilege Certain information is by its nature privileged and protected from disclosure in legal proceedings . |
| 22 | There were not enough teachers , those there were harassed almost beyond bearing and driven from pillar to post , and no one ever seemed to know who Jasper was , still less remember his name . |
| 23 | Individual ministers were censured and driven from office by the House , examples being Russell in 1855 and Ellenborough in 1858 . |
| 24 | So we stayed five days in this backpackers ' , had a look round Auckland , visited MOTAT the Museum of Transport and Technology , opened a bank account , sold the Krugerrands which had been left to us by my Mum and which financed at least half the trip , and recovered from jetlag by sleeping only at night . |
| 25 | The old parish of Drumcree contained 66 townlands and stretched from Muckery to Ballyworkan . |
| 26 | I shall totter like a decaying bastion of English culture , right out of Somerset Maugham , rum-soaked and crumpled from bar to bar trying to remember What It Was All About ! ’ |
| 27 | McArthur 's Head at the south end of the Sound of Islay was built in 1861 and converted from oil to incandescent in 1907 . |
| 28 | The one on Chuirn Island at the south east of Islay was established in 1907 and converted from oil to dissolved acetylene in 1911 . |
| 29 | The Largs-based professional slumped to 51st on the Order of Merit last season but , thanks to his new extra long putter , he has solved his short game problems and gone from strength to strength . |
| 30 | Since those days — when he starred as the original Ribena Kid at the age of eight — Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo has taken that motto to heart and gone from strength to strength . |