Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb base] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if we go from the 1792 clock 's slow ( perhaps spurious ) ‘ Quail ’ 'minuet' ( a ‘ traditional ’ title , no manuscript source is available ) to the 1793 clock 's fast Minuetto allegretto from Haydn 's ‘ Clock ’ symphony , the ranges on the Niemecz mechanical organs , flywheel going at 60 , go from dotted minim = 36 to 72 . |
| 2 | If we go from the battery to the bulb , from the bulb to the meter |
| 3 | But how it could be brought to bear on specific political decisions that had to be taken in for instance the 1930s — this was far from clear even to Eliot himself , if we judge from the dryly disenchanted tone of many of his editorial pronouncements and observations in The Criterion . |
| 4 | How if we draw from the records of our knowledge to find a way to drive this ship of yours without the use of machines ? ’ |
| 5 | The picture does not really change if we turn from the Bible to those seals and bronzes from the Persian period with which the Archaeological Museums of Jerusalem have made us familiar . |
| 6 | If we start from the bottom up , I think there has been a big advance in women as professionals , as producers , directors , starting to come into sound , quite a lot of editors , slightly more difficult with cameras . |
| 7 | If we start from the raw data values X 1 we can either proceed up the ladder of powers by squaring or cubing each number or down the ladder by taking square roots or reciprocals . |
| 8 | But if we start from the conception of the rational man who disciplines his spontaneity by an awareness independent of viewpoint , then it is for the egoist to explain why he claims priority for responses from his own viewpoint . |
| 9 | If we escape from the notion of sediment raining down every . |
| 10 | But if we retreat from the notion of perfect reliability and require only that the method be generally reliable , we invite sceptical arguments of our second type . |
| 11 | This masterpiece lacks its head ; but if we look from the hawk-priestess to some marble heads of the later sixth century we see the beginning and end of the tradition in which it must have been made . |
| 12 | If we move from the material world of technology and physical experience to the metaphysical world of moral ideas and the imagination we find that there is enormous discrepancy about what may be considered abnormal in different circumstances , but attitudes to the abnormal are always ambivalent . |
| 13 | If we move from the marginal to the average , a similar picture still emerges . |
| 14 | Even when the referential locus of noun and adjective are the same , however , there is no general guarantee that the overall " output " , in terms of intensional entities ( and the real or potential referents to which they may correspond ) will be the same under these two ways of linking an adjective to a noun , which amount respectively to introducing a subject x identified in part through having the property F , and to introducing a subject x and saying that it has the property F. For instance , if we move from the predicative structure : ( 7 ) clouds are small to the phrase small clouds , we pass to an expression which identifies a certain group of entities but does nothing more than identify them ; whereas expression ( 7 ) identifies a quite different ( and much larger ) group of entities , and says something about them ( which , as it happens , is not true , even though small clouds certainly do exist ) . |
| 15 | However , if we begin from the view that the deaf child is communicatively competent in sign language , given access to appropriate models , then all his learning goals can be reached through this language and the child becomes a second language learner in relation to English . |
| 16 | But , he warned , ‘ when we recover from the present recession , we had better be aware than another one lurks on the horizon ’ . |
| 17 | When we turn from the Rock-Drill cantos to the Classic Anthology , something is lost but much is gained . |
| 18 | When we emerge from the restaurant , it is late . |
| 19 | When we escape from the physical and the chains that bind us , we see the eternal and infinite being within us , then suddenly the mirror lake shivers and the images are stilled in frozen crystals . |
| 20 | When we dash from the street into the hallway of the boarding house , someone calls my name . |
| 21 | The aspiration after this effect is very ancient , as we know from the Greek derivation common to both ‘ epigram ’ and ‘ epitaph ’ . |
| 22 | The abbey church of St Ricquier , built in the 790s , had galleries in its apses , and choir screens round the area of some of its altars , with the idea ( as we know from the ritual order of its Abbot Angilbert ) of dividing the monks ' and boys ' choirs ; the building must have echoed to the sound of these choirs as they answered each other antiphonally from different parts of it . |
| 23 | Certainly women sat spinning upon them as we know from the description by Adam Sedgwick , a reliable witness . |
| 24 | The Sumerians certainly maintained trade contacts with India , as we know from the testimony of seal-stones . |
| 25 | 6000 , not of a male population in 431 of about 40,000 , could he accommodated on the Pnyx , the open-air meeting-place , and that total was regularly reached in the fourth century , as we know from the very many attested grants of citizenship , for which a quorum of 6000 was required . |
| 26 | It already embraced Brahmans , Magi , Egyptian priests and Druids by the beginning of the second century B.C. , as we know from the authors quoted by Diogenes Laertius in his prooemium . |
| 27 | Nick Hawkins is representative , as we know from the signatures to the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motion , of many of the new Members . |
| 28 | Mrs Padmore , as we know from the memorandum at the front of the file , is going to be transferring to the Economic Secretariat in a few weeks ' time . |
| 29 | British industry is well placed to grow as we recover from the recession . |
| 30 | At least , this is what Garrett tells me as we emerge from the outwash , half-crazed with adrenalin . |