Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondary evidence is second-hand information , removed in time and/or place from the incident referred to . |
| 2 | Unable to hold the stage in any other way he set out to organise a ‘ popular demand ’ for immediate independence without trusteeship , and having succeeded beyond his expectations now finds himself in the position of having to deliver the goods or recede from the front of the political stage and lose all hope of fulfilling his personal ambitions . |
| 3 | To prevent starvation on more plebeian trains , passengers had to take all their food with them or leap from the train the moment it drew into a station and rush for the buffet . |
| 4 | The sound effects fit the game nicely with solid ball striking and ‘ plopping ’ sounds and the odd cheer or sneer from the crowd . |
| 5 | Words such as privilege and poverty will either change their meaning or disappear from the vocabulary . |
| 6 | If it was the battery it must have finally given up the ghost , because there was n't even the faintest wheeze or whisper from the starter motor . |
| 7 | There is a tension in the air , each person lying awake yet pretending to sleep , aware of every sigh or murmur from the other 's lips . |
| 8 | Other elements are optional , or derive from the need to report on recent changes , or to justify changes which are proposed . |
| 9 | In the context of language learning , positive feedback could be evidence that one 's efforts at mastering a language are not in vain and that progress towards one 's goal is being made ; it could be simply a correct response in the language laboratory or praise from the teacher . |
| 10 | The biggest problem tends to be with young people , they will either go to live with someone else , or move from the countryside altogether . |
| 11 | If that means sterling has to have a long leave of absence , judicial separation or divorce from the ERM , so be it . |
| 12 | That is the sort of thing poets either have to learn to put up with , or retire from the scene in order to retain their sanity . |
| 13 | How does the fact that the painting was executed directly from the unclothed model alter our understanding of it ; does it add to or detract from the value of the final exhibited work ? |
| 14 | The first is growing discontent among many of the countries that borrow from the Bank and the IMF ( see page 70 ) . |
| 15 | I like all things that grow from the soil . |
| 16 | Serotonin is also affective in the neural circuits that descend from the brain to help block pain sensations . |
| 17 | No one noticed the dark stain of blood that spread from the tip of a razor sharp stiletto knife in his coat pocket . |
| 18 | He made a fortune from a variety of " rackets " , aided by the corruption of the city authorities that spread from the Mayor , " Bill Bill " Thompson , down to the policemen on the beat . |
| 19 | the centres are synchronized by interneurons that run from the ventilation centre to other interneurons which are antecedent to the spiracular motor neurons in the ganglion of the same segment as the spiracle concerned . |
| 20 | This structure extends over 0.3° ( 45pc ) but is part of an even more extensive 1° ( 140pc ) -shaped lobe that appears to be perpendicular to the plane and is reminiscent of the prominences and flares that protrude from the surface of the Sun ( Fig. 6 a ) . |
| 21 | Chevenement is finding that finance from the treasury , the banks or from private industry still rules aux quais de Paris . |
| 22 | The choice would be whether to draw one pair of curtains to stack back on the walls beside the windows , thus exposing the corner , or to have two separate pairs of curtains that draw from the centre of each window and thereby cover the corner area with fabric . |
| 23 | These latter awards will comprise groups of units containing the competences that emerge from the work of Industry Lead Bodies . |
| 24 | Further along the coast is the most amazing sight of all , the Aiguilles ( needles ) de Port-Coton : a chain of huge , spiky dark rocks that emerge from the sea like the petrified remains of some prehistoric monster . |
| 25 | In Poland , Catholic education is now obligatory ( replacing one dogmatic ideology with another ) , and in those predominantly Muslim states that emerge from the wreckage of the Soviet Union it is possible that some very illiberal Islamic regimes will develop . |
| 26 | In the rest of this chapter we will consider how state policies have reaffirmed the financial advantages that derive from the continuation of a dual structure of production . |
| 27 | In the rest of this chapter we will consider how state policies have reaffirmed the financial advantages that derive from the continuation of a dual structure of production . |
| 28 | As Skinner ( 1985 ) points out , plants or clones derived from the parent plant are not always genetically identical and those that differ from the parent plant are known as somatic variants or ‘ sports ’ . |
| 29 | A distinction should be drawn first of all between limits on the discretion of the directors that result from the company 's objects clause , and limits that depend on fiduciary duties . |
| 30 | In effect , the key range 000–200 is cut into 19 digit sections , and the remainders that result from the division in each section are superposed on each other to provide the record addresses . |