Example sentences of "[v-ing] from [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 2 | If the NCO saw Ella 's limbs protruding from beneath the supine lard he did not comment . |
| 3 | Joseph could see tufts of grizzled hair protruding from beneath the sweat-soaked turban wrapped around the head of his aged coolie and he did n't have the heart to order him to gallop . |
| 4 | Three of us , an American student , a German woman and I , watched newsreels dating from before the First World War to about nineteen forty-eight . |
| 5 | Editing methods and the standardisation of printing have opened up an immense field of choral music , dating from before the seventeenth century . |
| 6 | The find comprises five busts of various Roman divinities , two handles in the shape of lionheads and three winged brass sea-leopards dating from around the second to the third century AD . |
| 7 | Example 2:6 Right of way : unlimited times and vehicles The right in common with the landlord and all others having the like right to pass and repass ( but not to park or except in emergency to stop ) with or without vehicles at all times and for all purposes connected with the use of the demised property ( but not otherwise ) over the road coloured on the attached plan Example 2:7 Right of way : limited times and vehicles ; right to load , etc The right in common with the landlord and all others having the like right to pass and repass on foot and with vehicles not exceeding … feet in length or … tonnes ( unladen weight ) at any time between 6 am on Monday and 8 pm on Friday in each week ( except public holidays ) for all purposes connected with the use of the demised property ( but not otherwise ) over the road coloured on the attached plan and to park any such vehicle for such period as may be reasonable for the purpose only of loading or unloading it Example 2:8 Right of way : right to load etc in loading bay The right at all times with or without vehicles to pass and repass over the road leading from to the demised property ( but not to halt or park any vehicle thereon except in case of emergency ) for all purposes connected with the use of the demised property and the right for the same purposes to use the loading bay coloured on the attached plan for loading and unloading any such vehicle ( b ) Stairs and passages In a lease of property on an upper floor of a building there will be implied an easement of necessity to use a staircase that is its sole means of access ( Altmann v Boatman ( 1963 ) 186 EG 109 ) . |
| 8 | She made some coffee , and went out on the balcony in her cotton housecoat , where she could see the sun rising from behind the dark hills , and the slopes slowly become bathed with light . |
| 9 | The French government airlifted 450 troops to reinforce its 1,100 strong Chad garrison on Jan. 3 after armed rebels advancing from across the Nigerian border into the eastern Lake Chad region had captured the towns of Liwa and Bol and were reported to be threatening the capital , N'Djamena . |
| 10 | There was a strange rasping noise coming from over the next rise . |
| 11 | Muldoon rose immediately from his enormous black leather chair to greet him , coming from behind the vast desk with hand outstretched . |
| 12 | The noises were coming from behind the dark brown door on the first-floor landing . |
| 13 | I think it 's clear that the money 's coming from from the local parties . |
| 14 | Trent dived belly flat into the protection of a bush sprouting from beside the concrete piling . |
| 15 | In fact , some recent work stresses the active role of such groups — and of individuals in selecting the group they want to join — either in choosing from among the diverse products available ( see Van Elder en 1984 ) , or in asserting exclusivity vis-á-vis particular mass-produced music forms through a process of ‘ excorporation ’ from the hegemony of industry-defined meanings ( as against incorporation into those meanings ) ( see Gross berg 1984 ) . |
| 16 | The one we were hiding from at the fair . |
| 17 | As it stands , this claim will be of no explanatory interest if the relevant descriptions of events are trivial in the light of our projects and concerns , and a persuasive conception of determinism must therefore include some method of selecting from among the multifarious possible descriptions of events those that are considered to be significant . |
| 18 | Figures for the first pregnancies conceived before marriage show the same trend , falling from around the 40 per cent in the early nineteenth century to under 20 per cent in the early twentieth century . |
| 19 | Meanwhile Marcus 's face , emerging from beneath the soiled stubble , was looking remarkably clean and young . |
| 20 | For example it is generally accepted that , since the real-balance effect concerns the net wealth of the private sector , indebtedness arising from within the private sector should be excluded from the definition of NW . |
| 21 | While these two strata took different paths , one working from within the tsarist regime and the other confronting it , their aim was the same : both sought forceful economic modernization of backward Russia , and both aspired to monopolize power over the distribution of wealth in the new society . |