Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gaitskell ( now dominating Labour 's economic policy and still smarting from the defeat over Clow ) cut the allocations to electricity more than to the other fuel industries ( which the planners felt could meet energy demand at less capital cost ) . |
| 2 | Her hand rose to her lips , soft and still tingling from the hard pressure of his possessive mouth . |
| 3 | Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive . |
| 4 | Allergies to cow 's milk protein are quite common in childhood and present a number of problems , including eczema , asthma or wheezing , infantile colic , hyperactive behaviour , nettle rash ( urticaria ) , constipation , diarrhoea , and even bleeding from the bowel , catarrh , and recurrent ear infection of " glue ears ' . |
| 5 | Some elderly people suffer from iron deficiency due to a very slight , and sometimes unrecognisable , blood loss from such conditions as piles , diverticulitis , hiatus hernia — and occasionally bleeding from the stomach , if they have been taking aspirin for rheumatism daily for long periods , and this may cause anaemia . |
| 6 | In the Talmud , and therefore dating from the very early centuries of the Common Era , there is the following comment on the Exodus story of the crossing of the Sea : ‘ When the Egyptian hosts were drowning in the Red Sea , ’ say the rabbis , ‘ the angels in heaven were about to break forth into songs of jubilation . |
| 7 | Indirect evidence from the 1911 census suggests that about 20 per cent of married women born in 1831–45 ( and therefore marrying from the mid-1850s onwards ) and over 40 per cent of those born 1861–70 were controlling their fertility ( Matras 1965 ) . |