Example sentences of "we [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like other unions we suffer from the severe loss of members due to unemployment and we are appalled at the devastation of family life when the breadwinner 's been sha cast on the scrap heap and the behaviour of the government it throws whole communities into depravity without a chance of any hope for the future and their children . |
| 2 | but I mean it was so good , because remember the letter we got from the wee boy with the drawing ? |
| 3 | We argued from the above that the two should correlate closely if the neutrophils are seeking a mucosal chemoattractant , less so if the chemoattractant is in the lumen , in which case the inflammation should be disproportionally greater than the blood loss . |
| 4 | We drew from the four books ( two double volumes ) and took the occasional snippet from our fellow adaptors . |
| 5 | Er but there was an implication by implication and the , the particular point was the extent to which surplus water draining off fields er was to the problem and we learnt from the Southern Water representative that there is a an area of uncertainty erm and divided responsibility perhaps erm about the ditches , about the highways in that vicinity . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ The reception , professional way the meetings are organised and the help we receive from the local authority makes us return here time after time . |
| 7 | Because of the competition we face from the new union , UNISON , we need application forms geared up to the particular industries that we require . |
| 8 | Even the article ‘ Conductor ’ in the New Grove dictionary of opera is , unfortunately , misleading : for all its caution , it attempts to paint the whole period from 1750 to Napoleon , and in doing so unjustifiably reinforces certain impressions we recall from the powerful pens of the Encyclopedists : |
| 9 | Such thinking was behind the absurd argument that the police should be restrained from giving hot pursuit to stolen cars , and it also lay behind much of the nit-picking objection to the Bill that we heard from the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook . |
| 10 | Although all of us are deeply concerned to know precisely what happened in East Timor , will she bear it in mind that , since Indonesia took over East Timor a few years ago , there has been considerable development of the infrastructure in that country , and that , although no one condones that massacre , we must know what has been going on before we adopt the language that we heard from the Labour party ? |
| 11 | We heard from the hon. Member for Leeds , North-West ( Dr. Hampson ) , and from the hon. Member for Warrington , South ( Mr. Butler ) . |
| 12 | We heard from the hon. Lady several times in Committee , but the Secretary of State for Social Services has kept her firmly muzzled on other occasions . |
| 13 | We heard from the few local women who did attend how they took the law into their own hands and arranged regular supplies of contraceptives from the North . |
| 14 | But , he warned , ‘ when we recover from the present recession , we had better be aware than another one lurks on the horizon ’ . |
| 15 | One would think that an old person would have to be living in an isolated cottage , in the heart of the countryside , to be so out of touch with the world ; but sadly we know from the frequent reports in the newspapers that such tragic loneliness can exist right in the heart of our towns and cities , and that the old have sometimes remained undiscovered for weeks and months after they have died in their own homes . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We know from the signed statement of the Secretary of State for Transport withdrawing the ‘ explosive device ’ certificate of public interest immunity , and would in any event have assumed in the absence of evidence to the contrary , that ‘ the Ministry of Defence retain the documents relating to Dr. Hayes ' work in respect of the Lockerbie air disaster . ’ |
| 18 | The aspiration after this effect is very ancient , as we know from the Greek derivation common to both ‘ epigram ’ and ‘ epitaph ’ . |
| 19 | That is , it is not clear how we get from the spoken word to the kind of abstract representations linguists use . |
| 20 | Philosophers , and especially philosophers of art , who say that visual perception involves something two-dimensional usually go on to say that it involves something else , a judgement whereby we get from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional , the world of solid objects at a distance from the perceiver . |
| 21 | And what about those assignments you see that erm , we get from the theocratic ministry school overseer , you 've all had them have n't we ? |
| 22 | And , as I have said before , the further away we get from the original blueprint formula , the more scope there is for books that do less in some directions and perhaps more in others than the standard design would seem to indicate as being possible . |
| 23 | The services that we get from the public sector affect all our lives and cost a great deal of money . |
| 24 | We worked from the 11 short sections in each case , as in the analysis of Fig.1 . |
| 25 | That is a good step as we emerge from the cold war , but it is not enough . |
| 26 | we evolved from the general fashion side , which is still as important to us , but the reason that we did probably evolve in in the the wedding side is because of th the need for us , it was n't us who pushed it from our end , more and more brides came to us , so therefore we grew . |
| 27 | Yet the London we inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is more or less a success . |
| 28 | It has gone in repaying the overseas debt that we inherited from the last Labour Government . |
| 29 | We proceeded from the old bay at Caraven Arms used by the BC Railway and walked by road to the site of the old Strettford Bridge Junction , where we took to the old track bed as far as Glen Burrell Bridge , where we joined the road again , calling in on the Rev. Ray Arnold at Horderley , who was waiting with coffee and biscuits . |
| 30 | This is where we differ from the Labour Party , whose answer is always more money , more money , more money . |