Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks as if Mr Honecker , 77 and only slowly recovering from a gall-bladder operation , is incapable of grasping the situation in his country . |
| 2 | This effect can vitiate scientific observation , as when seventeenth century experimenters , familiar with the concepts of post-Galilean mechanics but not of electrostatic attraction and repulsion , regularly reported observing chaff falling as though by gravitation , or mechanically rebounding from the electrified bodies which attracted them . |
| 3 | The price alterations are a study in themselves , an example being the First Return from Craven Arms to Eaton , the original fare perhaps dating from the last century , crossed out and altered by some unfortunate clerk , by gas light , with a fine nib pen and a bottle of railway ink. , round about 1915 . |
| 4 | The bowling alley , which is part of a Karachi fairground , is very old — perhaps dating from the 1950s — and seems to have been imported from the US , commented Faye Ashton who organised the event during HMS Chatham 's recent goodwill visit . |
| 5 | However , if we also add the timings of such movements from two more manuscripts of Lalande motets , F-Pn , H387 , a reduced score of the Miserere a grand choeur ( illus.4 ) , and F-Pn , Rés. 1363 , a reduced score of Dominus regnavit , both being copies apparently dating from the 1740s and probably prepared for the Concert Spirituel , we begin to notice the familiar syndrome of some slowing down in some tempos , compared with those of the earlier H400D . |
| 6 | They 're only paying from the top branch up to the last branch on the tree . |
| 7 | All I 'm try we 're only speaking from the best interests here , speaking from the bloody heart rather than the head probably here but we we do want th we do want the best but it 's the old old story , it 's botching it up is n't it , it 's fudging it , it 's trying to fit a square pet into a role cos we pay crap money y'know |
| 8 | Jeff was obviously calling from a public place . |
| 9 | Grandfather was only suffering from a nagging cough and mild flu but he was , after all , somewhat of a grandee in the town because of his wealth . |
| 10 | A Samoan official could shed no light on his reasons and Koko himself was ‘ resting ’ in his hotel , apparently suffering from a slight cold . |
| 11 | Perhaps arising from the close personal comradeship of those war years was Basil 's empathy with ordinary working folk . |
| 12 | Staggering to my feet , soaking but triumphant , I was greeted by loud clapping from the far bank . |
| 13 | Sedgefield Labour MP Tony Blair : ‘ Our commitment to the NHS , and to the elderly and families by increasing pensions and child benefits will bring to Government a sense of community and the need to help others so obviously missing from the Conservative party 's agenda over the last 13 years . ’ |
| 14 | To showcase the import of Impulse ! there is a truly superbly presented two-CD ‘ sampler ’ of many of the label 's highlights ( Coltrane with Ellington , Ellington with Coleman Hawkins and a Charles Mingus big band , to name a few ) , mostly dating from the mid '60s . |
| 15 | It is a small Stately Home mostly dating from the eighteenth century , but bits of it go back to Elizabethan times . |
| 16 | December 8 , 1924 : I am at the moment just recovering from a heavy bout of drinking . |
| 17 | ‘ Standing on chairs is n't to be recommended when you 're just recovering from a sprained ankle . |
| 18 | They all came as a result of his marvellously intuitive support play , the best stemming from a masterly dummy by his scrum-half partner , Andy Gregory , in only the second minute . |
| 19 | These new democracies face a variety of problems in their attempts at consolidation , largely stemming from the heavy levels of external indebtedness , which places serious constraints on their ability to resume economic growth . |
| 20 | He was sobered to find that many Tahitians were already dying from the venereal diseases bequeathed to them on a previous visit . |
| 21 | Euro-American society is already suffering from a bad self-esteem problem , and I expect that an uncritical belief in the moral supremacy of nature will make it worse . |
| 22 | In Phillips v Grampian Health Board ( 1989 ) The Times , 9 March a widow was held entitled to recover damages even though she married the deceased when he was already suffering from a fatal disease and she knew that his death was inevitable within a few years . |
| 23 | Such arguments are even more potent in the case of the peripheral regions of Britain which are already suffering from the alleged North-South divide and fear a haemorrhage of business and skilled labour to the South East when the Tunnel is opened . |
| 24 | Terrified commuters were already reeling from the first explosion which went off in a flower bed at at 8.39am when the second , larger Semtex blast came 90 minutes later . |
| 25 | The Financial Times of Jan. 28 noted that the co-operative and private sector was already reeling from the previous week 's monetary reform , having " relied heavily on the large cash economy and soaring prices to fuel its takeoff " . |
| 26 | A public fuss about sovereignty , the government reckons , might inflame feelings even more and touch off really ugly incidents , maybe bloodshed , in an area already smarting from the harsher side of unity , collapsing firms and soaring unemployment . |
| 27 | When he joined Littlewoods in 1983 the company was just emerging from a disastrous turn in fortunes that had seen profits plummet from £49 million in 1978 to £11.5 million two years later . |
| 28 | ‘ It will take a long time , we are just emerging from the dark ages , but things do n't happen if you do n't make them . |
| 29 | Jacques Darras : ‘ We are just emerging from the dark ages ’ . |
| 30 | A mercer in a fur-trimmed coat was already emerging from a small crowd of bystanders . |