Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The holder of such an estate in land is , like an owner , entitled to the possession , use , and enjoyment of the land , and he can dispose of his interest ; but at the death of the person by whose life the extent of his estate is measured , the estate comes to an end , and nothing passes from the holder . |
| 2 | ‘ William ! ’ somebody yells from the crowd . |
| 3 | That this has not come about indicates either that everyone benefits from the system — which pluralist writers show is patently not so or that the democratic and neutral state is in fact nothing of the sort and that the scope for reform is severely limited . |
| 4 | In one sense , everyone benefits from the buoyancy of academic book publishing . |
| 5 | One starts from the question of mind and behaviour and asks : ‘ How is it possible for a physical system , the brain , to produce this ? ’ |
| 6 | So one starts from the position that that is the contractual position but not , as I venture to think , binding on the court . |
| 7 | This one starts from the car park near the Clacach sawmill , near Brodick Castle . |
| 8 | This throat-gripping melodrama about ‘ sex , greed and violence in our consumerist society — how everything passes from the mouth to the anus , ’ has a cast that includes Helen Mirren , Michael Gambon , Richard Bohringer , costumes by Jean Paul Gaultiere , stunning photography by Sasha Vierny and a score by Michael Nyman , ‘ the film — rich , intelligent , dynamic and funny — looks magnificent and confirms Greenaway as being in the forefront of European directors . ’ |
| 9 | In support of this view is the finding that the incidence of SAD amongst different populations increases as one passes from the equator towards higher latitudes — as do the length of the winter nights and the likelihood of waking in the dark on winter mornings . |
| 10 | One hears from the piano writing why Berlioz praised Lubeck 's technique : he does n't have to show off to demonstrate a familiarity with the keyboard , for this music is at its most fetching when at its simplest . |
| 11 | Oddly enough , it is not the silhouette one remembers from the Leone films but the extreme close ups , the sweat and the twitching mouth . |
| 12 | The movies tackled society on the broadest front and refused to be confined to any one social zone but for all that one senses from the trade papers and social surveys that the industry had become preoccupied with its fashionable down-town audiences and that the super-cinemas were thought of as the social cutting edge of the trade . |
| 13 | No one dissents from the purpose of that inspection . |
| 14 | In an extraordinary passage towards the end of the book , amplified in discussion at Marxism 90 in a debate specifically convened to discuss Modernism and Postmodernism , Callinicos described his experience of walking around an art gallery : ‘ I have often been struck by the tedium that overcomes one while walking through a gallery of twentieth-century painting arranged in chronological order as one moves from the excitement of the early part of the century to the desperate and all too frequently sterile iconoclasm of recent artists ' ( p. 161 ) . |
| 15 | This necessary maleness is equally the case if one moves from the Greek to the original Jewish framework . |
| 16 | This one dates from the introduction of warrants . |
| 17 | There will be a tendency , when everything comes from the computer , you hear it already , ‘ oh it was the computer ’ , and that , I think , we want to try to change as quickly as possible . |
| 18 | Always one returns from the coast relaxed and refreshed . |
| 19 | Erm the next one comes from The Spectator Magazine . |
| 20 | One arises from the increase in the sheer quantity of texts to be read , heard and ( ideally ) expounded , some of them very difficult both for preachers and for their congregations . |
| 21 | And everybody knows from the Depratment of transport downwards that it is n't going to work . |
| 22 | Why is n't it shouted from the start so that everybody knows from the start who you are ? |