Example sentences of "[vb base] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Limped with him back to his tank , fed him , and retrieved the Climbing Perch from my rubber plant . |
| 2 | She found it easier to live in a faint fog , at one remove from what most people called reality . |
| 3 | It takes three generations to make a gentleman , they say ; but the sons and daughters of impoverished immigrants into London in Victorian times were only one remove from their humble roots elsewhere — every reason , therefore , to collect around themselves the trappings of grandeur . |
| 4 | Yeah I walk from my front door to my car as well and people say that 's not enough exercise . |
| 5 | But other scientists , together with indigenous leaders , stress the need to ensure that the local forest peoples benefit from their own knowledge . |
| 6 | But , even then , it may fail and it should again be emphasised that family members benefit from their own sake from involvement in the Family Fellowships regardless of what may happen to the primary sufferer . |
| 7 | Edinburgh hosts one of the UK 's largest concentrations of students from China as well as a substantial ‘ Chinatown ’ and students in the Department of East Asian Studies benefit from its intimate relations with both groups . |
| 8 | This move had three objects : to complete the education of our two younger children , Fiona at Fettes ( where my old Highfield playmate Inky Chenevix-Trench was now headmaster ) and Alastair at the Edinburgh Academy ; to have Moira 's mother who was living alone in an Edinburgh flat and becoming increasingly tottery to live with us ; and to own property once again and so benefit from its ever-increasing rise in value . |
| 9 | Clearly , if I speak from my critical parent state too often , patronising you and moralising at you , directing you as a child , and you retaliate in a parent state and attempt to direct me back as a child , we 've got a ‘ crossed transaction ’ . |
| 10 | This net income represents the profits , fees and commissions that UK-based banks , finance houses , insurance companies and related activities receive from their international business . |
| 11 | That is not a retrospective or prescriptive but a descriptive process and will allow the citizens of this country to measure the standards of service that they receive from their local authorities . |
| 12 | For example , community charge/council tax payers are , on the one hand , concerned with the efficiency of the services they receive from their local authority . |
| 13 | Firstly , it is this part of the brain which absorbs the social and sexual training which we receive from our earliest years and it governs our thoughts and actions accordingly . |
| 14 | Continuing with the above situation , when young carers do eventually withdraw their help and support from their ageing parent , they will almost inevitably feel guilty . |
| 15 | Hunt and Chambers ( 1976 ) conclude from their epidemiological research that heroin use becomes ‘ epidemic ’ when a group of ‘ susceptibles ’ is exposed to many ‘ infectious initiators ’ at the same time . |
| 16 | With a floating rate loan the borrower incurs uncertainty as to the loan 's cost over its term but benefits if market interest rates decline from their initial level when the loan was granted . |
| 17 | Dowie and Moore peppered the Forest goal with headers while Marriott frustrated Hurlock with a superb one-handed save from his 25-yard shot . |
| 18 | Cable & Wireless Plc also faces a $368m damages suit from its local partners after it withdrew from the project to provide telephone services in the Philippines , Digitel Telecommunications Philippines Inc president Eduardo Villanueva said : Cables refused to put up its share of a deposit on the $1,480m telephone project on Luzon island ; the local partners also want the government to blacklist the company . |
| 19 | His earnings will be doubled by a pensions package from his former employers . |
| 20 | Furthermore , this structure is split off from the actual social structure they carry ‘ in their minds ’ and which they internalise from their own culture . |
| 21 | Travel from your chosen departure point at a time that suits you . |
| 22 | A group of Puritans who felt that the Church of England was too close to the Roman Catholic Church had left England and gone to the Netherlands ; they noticed with regret that their children were becoming Dutch in speech and habits , and some of them decided that their best prospect of remaining both godly and English was to get in touch with the Plymouth merchants , obtain from them financial support and the legal right to found a colony , and go somewhere in America where English bishops would not interfere with them . |
| 23 | Your first problem as I recall from my masterly analysis , is that you have nowhere to live except a hotel that 's rapidly running out of vases . |
| 24 | The question is , as you rightly say , in psychoanalysis , the analyst usually has a vast amount much more than people normally realize , I mean , I recall from my own analysis , and mean I was going between two and four times a week erm , for an hour each time and it was a good six months before she would make any interpretations , and I used to get very frustrated , you know , I used to say things like , well , what do you think of this , Miss , you know . |
| 25 | The fact is that they know from their own experience that many of their contemporaries take drugs occasionally and do not become addicted . |
| 26 | David Hay deduces what this means for RE : There will be some pupils who know from their own experience what the RE teacher is talking about . |
| 27 | We know from our weekly surgeries the amount of work that immigration problems generate . |
| 28 | ‘ We know from our playing experience what can be achieved and how a successful club is run on and off the field , ’ he says . |
| 29 | We know from our informal discussions with politicians of all shades of opinion that we have a long way to go , but many have been sympathetic to our aims . |
| 30 | Well we all know from our own history books that fire has been with us for a long long time has n't it ? |