Example sentences of "[vb -s] from [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We lie together beneath the crumpled warm sheet , and a tear trickles from the corner of my eye as if Jancey was dead . |
| 2 | The three streams which once ran beneath it have long since vanished , but , at the back of the town , the water still finds its way to the sea , as it has from the beginning of time . |
| 3 | It was like being in an elevator which suddenly drops from the top of a twenty storey building to the basement . |
| 4 | The report goes on to say : ‘ Many professionals advise giving vitamin drops from the age of one month and we would support this practice , particularly if there is any doubt whatsoever about the vitamin intake at this time ’ . |
| 5 | This picture of myself develops from a myriad of experiences , particularly from the feedback I get from other people . |
| 6 | Where the present study differs from this previous research is in the way it develops from a comparison of alternative versions of the same story . |
| 7 | In the latter he or she develops from the moment of birth . |
| 8 | The Moon accretes from the ring of material . |
| 9 | Corbett rode quietly between them , keeping a wary eye on Ranulf who , after staring round-eyed at everything , began to mimic the strange accents , and drew dark looks from a number of passers-by . |
| 10 | Note that appeal lies from the decision of a district judge to the designated family judge or a nominated care judge within the same court . |
| 11 | Wordsworth deliberately rejects a traditional Christian way of describing the progress of the soul ; he starts from a kind of zero , as the French Revolutionaries had restarted the calendar with the Year One . |
| 12 | I have said that the anorexic starts from a position of helplessness and hopelessness , and I have tried to demonstrate that this was so in my case . |
| 13 | Cockburn 's analysis starts from a view of the local state ( which includes local government , but also other locally based state agencies including offices of central government departments ) as having a functional role within capitalism , principally concerned with capitalist reproduction . |
| 14 | The process starts from a list of words for which collocation information is required . |
| 15 | Again , this starts from a point of origin and is divided into equal portions . |
| 16 | The high road linking the valley of the Adour to that of the Aure starts from the village of Sainte-Marie-de-Campan and crosses the Col d'Aspin . |
| 17 | One starts from the question of mind and behaviour and asks : ‘ How is it possible for a physical system , the brain , to produce this ? ’ |
| 18 | Just as the study of perception of the language used by deaf people starts from the discovery of difference , so does the study of memory . |
| 19 | The Second period is that which starts from the beginning of life and reaches onward to the time when the law of the survival of the fittest with its ruthlessness could no longer serve the aspirations towards increasing happiness that were beginning to creep into the dawning consciousness of primitive man . |
| 20 | A bright yellow mantle starts from the top of the head and broadens as it stretches across the body , extending into the tail . |
| 21 | Like Orwell , women 's relationship to miners starts from the basis of exclusion and mystery , but women live with the drama and danger of the pits , they live their solidarity with the pitmen . |
| 22 | It starts from the fact of disunity and asks which existing political mechanism can work best for unity . |
| 23 | Dearlove starts from an understanding of changes in local government as part of a struggle between different groups ‘ to control public power ’ ( 1979 , p. 105 ) . |
| 24 | As far as the author 's experience is concerned , what counts from the viewpoint of criticism is only what is embodied in the text , and that is wholly accessible to anyone with a knowledge of the language and culture to which the text belongs . |
| 25 | He writes from the perspective of later years when the dons of Magdalen were anything but congenial society to him . |
| 26 | Wrapp , in contrast , writes from the perspective of the chief executive trying to manage both the organization and his own task . |
| 27 | The area has been associated with cavalry exercises from the beginning of the 15th century . |
| 28 | As Kay and King ( 1986 ) stress , ‘ what matters from the point of view of social and economic policy is not the progressive or regressive impact of every individual element of the tax system but the impact of that system as a whole ’ ( p. 150 ) . |
| 29 | And er , concludes from the observation of his own children I suspect that the vague and very real fears of children , which are quite independent of experience , are inherited effects of real dangers , and abject superstitions during ancient times . |
| 30 | The treatment of slaves … anything and everything that happens from the time of enslavement in Africa through the Middle Passage and the final sales and treatment in bondage . ’ |