Example sentences of "[is] [verb] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is differentiated from other ovine lungworms by its larger size and straight tail . |
| 2 | Ricardo Ellcock , the Middlesex fast bowler , plans to study in the United States for a career as an airline pilot after confirming yesterday that he is to retire from first-class cricket , as reported in Monday 's Daily Telegraph . |
| 3 | Mallett is recovering from dreadful first-half figures . |
| 4 | AXA has since ploughed almost $100m more into Equitable Life , which is recovering from heavy losses on its property portfolio , and reckons it will soon see a good return on its investment . |
| 5 | In other areas , notably in relation to the right of freedom of association and collective bargaining , the Commission is abstaining from any action , because it believes that these measures are best dealt with by social partners of industry , or , as appropriate , by the Member States . |
| 6 | And if it is diverted from national savings , it does not help anyway . |
| 7 | The inquirer is distanced from current results , and sees himself , not as finding things out but as contributing to the cognitive progress of a wider community . |
| 8 | Language orders the world of perception and at the same time constitutes a knowing subject that perceives and yet is distinguished from that world . |
| 9 | Since the human species is distinguished from other animals by — amongst other things — the capacity to plan and execute the use of tools and produce its own means of life , it follows that such activity involves labour . |
| 10 | In his book , The Pilgrim 's Regress , he says that the experience of intense longing is distinguished from other longings by two things : |
| 11 | On the contrary , as the next chapter will show , legal ownership is recognised and distinguished from equitable ownership in much the same way as a legal estate in land is distinguished from equitable interests therein . |
| 12 | Under Section 10 ( i ) of the 1974 Act , running-account credit is distinguished from fixed-sum credit . |
| 13 | So timeless Love is distinguished from temporal desire which , |
| 14 | For them the answer to the question of interpretation , and at the same time to the question of evaluation , is provided by the concept of structure ; good literature or poetry is distinguished from bad literature or non-literature by an objective structure of meaning , the balancing or reconciliation of opposing attitudes or terms . |
| 15 | It is often claimed that the government of many European States in the generation or more before the French Revolution is distinguished from earlier practice by the existence of something called ‘ Enlightened Despotism ’ . |
| 16 | The ruff is formed from two channels of tightly packed feathers , which funnel sound into the earhole . |
| 17 | A red string bag ( the kind that you buy oranges in ) gives a lively black and white pattern ; a piece of plastic bubble wrap makes a precise even pattern ; the familiar orderly weave of coarse sacking combines with its frayed , undisciplined edging ; the sinuous spiral is formed from ordinary string , and finally the animated and random pattern at the top is created from scattered uncooked rice grains . |
| 18 | The distinctive ‘ rattle ’ at the end of the tail is formed from modified scales and increases in size by one rattle section every time the snake moults its skin , which may be up to four times a year . |
| 19 | Different textures define areas of the garden : the pathway is formed from large pebbles set in concrete but circular concrete stepping stones give foot comfort ! |
| 20 | Similarly , it takes several hours before ozone is formed from photochemical actions involving oxides of nitrogen and volatile organic compounds ( hydrocarbons ) . |
| 21 | It is largely because the bran is stripped from white flour that our Western diet has become low in natural fibre content . |
| 22 | is amended from one point three for Harrogate to two point seven four . |
| 23 | Its new research and development centre is shielded from surrounding countryside by extensive landscaping and the project won the scheme 's Premier Award . |
| 24 | It is one of those forms of crime which appear to be ‘ catching ’ , as a disease is communicated from one country to another and one continent to another , like the importation of smallpox from India into London . |
| 25 | " But first , ladies and gentlemen , you should know that Dr McNab holds the discredited belief that you catch cholera by drinking … more precisely , that in cholera the morbific matter is taken into the alimentary canal causing diarrhoea , that the poison is at the same time reproduced in the intestines and passes out with the discharges , and that by these so-called " rice-water " discharges becoming mingled with the drinking water of others the disease is communicated from one person to another continually multiplying itself as it goes . |
| 26 | ‘ With money so tight and nothing is heard from local communities the facility could be lost by stealth . |
| 27 | The recently discovered Aberfeldy stratabound exhalative deposit ( Coats and others , 1984b ; MRP 26 and 40 ) in Middle Dalradian sediments is producing from open pit and underground sources . |
| 28 | ‘ At home you hardly know whether it 's raining from one day to the next but here you feel better every time the sun comes out . |
| 29 | A carefully planned programme of subsequent care should be arranged before a patient is discharged from psychiatric inpatient treatment . |
| 30 | ‘ As I expect you are aware , Mr Leland , my room in your Private Wing is booked from this evening , but as I wanted to attend a regimental dinner tonight , with Mr Remington-Hart 's consent I 'm not moving in until tomorrow . ’ |