Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [v-ing] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am all for planning from the bottom up but I am also convinced of the virtues of the presentation of draft proposals as a means for making discussion possible . |
| 2 | He brought up Jason alone after splitting from the boy 's mother Sue and said I 'm very proud I 'm very pro that sort of thing ohm |
| 3 | He 'd looked around that shabby dwelling and smelled the poverty which he had vowed to help alleviate in his dedicated youth , and to his shame he had thought only of escaping from the fleas he might have picked up from that terrible straw mattress . |
| 4 | As a consequence of these practical deficiencies , the principle of strict traffic segregation has been replaced in most Western societies by a repertoire of policies developed not just to improve traffic safety , but to do so without detracting from the quality of life in residential districts . |
| 5 | You had organized it yourself shortly after graduating from the conducting class at the Musikhochschule in Vienna ? |
| 6 | First we may consider the phrase : ( 25 ) acrobatic performance In the light of the discussion above we may remark that this can be understood in either of two ways : first , as covering any performance which is so described because it is linked with the idea of an acrobat in the execution of his or her professional duties ; this would include expertise in juggling , tightrope walking , standing on one 's hands , and so on , even if they are performed by an amateur lacking any natural talent for the task ; second , ( 25 ) may be used to designate any performance which is acrobatic in itself , even if not part of the normal repertoire of acrobats , for instance , grabbing hold of a branch growing out from a cliff just after falling from the top . |
| 7 | In this section we look at some ways of doing this , and more generally of getting from the planning stage to the writing stage . |
| 8 | Our approach is informal and lighthearted ( including active participation from our toddlers ! ) hopefully without detracting from the many responsibilities , rewards and demands made by ‘ offspring ’ . |
| 9 | In recent years parts of the shed roof have been rebuilt by contractors , and Society members , hopefully without detracting from the original style . |
| 10 | ‘ Far from departing from the traditional view of the relationship between ranks , the moment has come for a return to it , ’ said Mr Roach . |
| 11 | ‘ I have certainly had it put to me that there is now no positive tax advantage to be had from donating agricultural land early , nor indeed in retiring from the family farming partnership , ’ said Mr Pardoe . |
| 12 | I could go on , but I think that I can make my points simply and graphically by quoting from the documents that I have with me . |
| 13 | All this was to be achieved by heading straight for Kuwait City and pinning down the Iraqis there ; and then by moving from the west in substantial force , enveloping and destroying Iraq 's elite reserve , the Republican Guard , with its T-72 tanks , described by French sources as ‘ the priority target . |
| 14 | N-E FEARS that tumbling property rents in London could lead companies to think again about relocating from the South-East have been dismissed by property agent Grimley JR Eve . |
| 15 | Instead of profiting from the enormous interest in gambling on football results through the ‘ pools ’ system , the FA 's puritanism led to a futile and absurd confrontation in 1936 , which involved the withholding of fixture lists to frustrate the pools companies . |
| 16 | Indeed , instead of starting from the misleading contrast between ‘ material ’ and ‘ cultural ’ , we have to define two areas for analysis : first , the relations between these material means and the social forms within which they are used ( this is of course a general problem in social analysis , but the discussion is limited , here , to cultural means and forms ) ; and , second , the relations between these material means and social forms and the specific ( artistic ) forms which are a manifest cultural production ( these will be discussed in the succeeding chapters ) . |
| 17 | Instead of talking from the stalls to actors in front of one another , he would always shamble up onto the stage with his peculiar hedgehog gait and take them aside separately . |
| 18 | Orford Ness ( Steers , 1953 ) is a spit of a different type : instead of departing from the coast at a marked angle , it runs roughly parallel to the coast for its entire length ( Fig. 8.27 ) . |
| 19 | She turned now and glanced towards Millie again before hurrying from the yard . |
| 20 | Taking it up , and with no very clear idea of what she meant to do — apart from escaping from the humiliations to which she had been subjected — Theda crept out of the room , down two sets of stairs , and slunk past the open door of the coffee-room , where the landlord 's voice was joined to those of his wife and the gentleman . |
| 21 | He also took the chance to visit the US during one of his vacations , and commented that , apart from benefiting from the opportunity to learn at one of the top colleges , he had also enjoyed experiencing a different culture during his time in London . |
| 22 | I look forward to hearing from the hon. Gentleman how he will deal with the complaints that I expect he will receive from his constituents , when he has to explain to those employed at Guy 's hospital why the Labour party 's policies would deny that hospital the opportunity to increase staff pay by £6 a week . |
| 23 | In the remaining 15 minutes we look forward to hearing from the Minister what he intends to do to advance that cause further . |