Example sentences of "[art] [adj] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more populous the parishes became , the more diffuse the community grew , the more acute the problem : no longer did the overseers or the ratepayers know everyone receiving relief , and it was then far from an easy task to sort out the needy from the charlatans . |
| 2 | The hung from the rafters and hardly stirred when I walked beneath . |
| 3 | This applies limits to the things the supervisor can require the subordinate to do , and involves acceptance by the superior of limited deviations by the subordinate from the activities that are expected . |
| 4 | Valentine 's pertinent comments about the origins of different behaviour originating in structural constraints which excluded the poor from the life-styles of the more affluent have lost none of their force , but any consideration of everyday life in Cramlington and North Shields has to address the issue of different and distinctive life-styles which are none the less embedded in a common cultural matrix . |
| 5 | The significance of removal of the dead from the communities in which they had lived should not be underestimated . |
| 6 | Men , it seemed , were scarcely tolerated in the Jarman household and Mr Hawkins was nothing but a leftover from the days when old Mr Jarman was alive . |
| 7 | a leftover from the days |
| 8 | It was a left-over from the days when an admiral , who had spent the greater part of his life in debt to Gieves , none the less had the matter on his conscience and despaired of dying in that state . |
| 9 | The block in which I lived was no different from the others in that tight area of mean dilapidated streets . |
| 10 | The small piazza into which Zen eventually emerged had an eerie , underwater look , due to a uniform coating of lurid green light from a neon sign mounted on a building otherwise no different from the others . |
| 11 | Apart from the final point , these were no different from the policies being advocated by the Liberals . |
| 12 | A puff shook a glittering from the thorns , |