Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ An early priority for an SNP government in an independent Scotland would be to remove any privatisation or franchising from the Scottish rail network and to expand the public service to meet the requirements of Scottish industry wishing to exploit the European single market . ’ |
| 2 | We waited on the top-floor landing for a minute or two , but there seemed no coming or going from the other flats . |
| 3 | Executive circulars on 9 and 22 April had drawn attention to Conference and Executive decisions against Party members co-operating with or speaking from the same platform as members of the Communist Party . |
| 4 | ‘ It shall be the duty of the licensee to secure that — ( a ) no such occurrence involving nuclear matter as is mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) of this section causes injury to any person or damage to any property of any person other than the licensee , being injury or damage arising out of or resulting from the radioactive properties , or a combination of those and any toxic , explosive or other hazardous properties , of that nuclear matter ; and ( b ) no ionising radiations emitted during the period of the licensee 's responsibility — ( i ) from anything caused or suffered by the licensee to be on the site which is not nuclear matter ; or ( ii ) from any waste discharged ( in whatever form ) on or from the site , cause injury to any person or damage to any property of any person other than the licensee . ’ |
| 5 | Greenery was everywhere , in bowls and screens and hanging from the open balustrades , giving the teahouse the look of an overgrown garden . |
| 6 | While I sulked in the tent , nursing my wounds and recovering from the thorough sandbagging , Mick was hatching a plan . |
| 7 | In sharp contrast , Art of the Persian Courts : Selections from the Art and History Trust Collection by Abodala Soudavar gives a survey of Iranian and Persian manuscript painting , calligraphy and drawing from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries ( £55 ) . |
| 8 | Other developments , more modest in their expectations and deriving from the particular perception this or that group might have of the way in which Owen 's new view could be related to its own grievance or apprehension or aspiration , proceeded in parallel , propagated largely by the rapidly growing radical press which included a number of journals advocating Owenite ideas . |
| 9 | The result of these complex influences was a family model that carried heavily ideological concepts of what the distribution of power should be in the family and how sexuality should be expressed , interpreting , in particular , female sexuality as secondary , and deriving from the maternal instinct , and severely regulating childhood sexuality . |
| 10 | It has been suggested that the wild man , or wood-wose , who appears so often in medieval literature , is a conventional figure typifying madness and deriving from the mad king Nebuchadnezzar , who was ‘ driven away from among men , and did eat grass like an ox , and his body was wet with the dew of heaven ; till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles , and his nails like birds claws . ’ |
| 11 | Definitely an acquired taste was a clunky Spanish colonial gilt-metal mounted mother-of-pearl , tortoiseshell , pewter , ebonised and parcel-gilt cabinet made for a viceroy of Peru , and dating from the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 12 | This cobbled route is still a joy to follow ; the top half of it , as it curves down to the church and the river , lined with sober houses built from the local cocoa-coloured stone and dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — datable precisely in some cases from the inscribed lintel stones ; then the church , seventeenth-century and disappointingly dull ; the old bridge over the Nive , which is the place to look up — and downstream , at the houses built along the banks with their projecting wooden galleries ; and then on towards the Porte d'Espagne , past the shops and more very decent old houses . |
| 13 | A clay model from Arkhanes , and dating from the very end of the Minoan civilization , shows the sort of modest shrine that may have been erected in a sacred enclosure : an oval hut with a conical roof , entrance doors and a cult idol inside . |
| 14 | Plate tectonics appears to be the device , unexplained in Wegener 's day , that permits the continents to drift : it is a process whereby the rigid , relatively cool plates that cover the earth 's hot and partially plastic asthenosphere , forty miles down , shift slowly about , colliding and separating from the other plates by turn . |
| 15 | By 1845 Thomas was clearly more versatile , putting far more time in at the mine , performing better paid tasks such as kibble filling , and waggoning from the Deep Level to the dressing floors . |
| 16 | With the words had come the fleeting impression of dark , sinuous creatures who could slither out of the shadows and wind their cold , serpentine fingers about you , so that you were trapped , who could twine about your entire body , so that you were smothered and suffocating from the cold embrace … |
| 17 | We must , nevertheless , beware of looking at Spain through Andalusian spectacles and generalizing from the violent and precarious structure of the latifundia districts . |
| 18 | For many people there is an aura of mystery about dealing on the money markets but it just involves picking up a telephone , ringing two or three numbers , asking the price of something ( the interest or discount rate ) , and buying from the cheapest source . |
| 19 | The brave young woman , with hands blistered and bloated and bleeding from the venomous hair-fine spines of the prickly pear , opened the fruit , dried it in the sun , and spun it to a fine thread on a spindle . |
| 20 | Theoretical studies in this sense might adopt an approach which utilises the findings from a variety of national contexts in order to produce generalisations that attempt ‘ to distinguish the invariant from the variant , the stable and continuing from the fluctuating and transitory ’ ( Schollhammer , 1973 , p. 24 ) . |
| 21 | It 's rather late for the press releases on some months later , the press release coming from my group and coming from the Labour group it was a late conversion but not much of a conversion let's face it , the word tokenism springs to mind that 's what I 've written next to the Conservative line there , totally , and I do n't believe in nursery education but they know there are votes in it . |
| 22 | I mean has there been any , because there may be some argument in having a quick go at it at public protection , and hearing from the new department what they 'd like their chief officer to be called . |
| 23 | RF325 was transferred to SMR , carrying the codes ‘ H–D ’ and progressing from the white/grey maritime colours to overall dark grey circa 1952 . |
| 24 | And descending from the dizzy heights of Labour 's megalithic conference platform , he was as caustic as ever of the slick political selling job it symbolised . |
| 25 | But we 'll all be so busy reading all this wonderful stuff , and learning from the big bad world about how to market it , that we wo n't have time to do anything else . ’ |
| 26 | What emerges is a kind of fundamentalist dynastic priesthood associated with the principle of a Davidic Messiah and extending from the second century B.C. through the period covered by the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles . |
| 27 | The weight percentage of sediment retained on each sieve is plotted as a column rising to that value and extending from the relevant sieve mesh to the next coarser mesh used . |
| 28 | In a mild winter where snow cover is not prolonged , chaffinch and brambling from the Scandinavian forests will stay on to forage round the crofts . |
| 29 | erm sequences such as what happened yesterday , what happened today , what 's going to happen tomorrow — dyslexic people very often have great difficulty with this and transferring from the two dimensional to the three dimensional , like you might say to a dyslexic adult when he or she asks directions , ‘ Oh , well , it 's first right , second left and then there 's a tower on your right and you 've got to turn to the left after the tree ’ and so on , and a dyslexic person ca n't remember any of that at all , or transfer it from the map to the reality . |
| 30 | Since 1914 millions of Russians had been on the move — four to five million away from the advancing armies of the Central Powers ; at least twelve million fleeing into exile during and after the Revolution ; the largest land army in the world manoeuvring , dying , and deserting from the longest front-line in history — to give the major examples alone , with very approximate numbers . |