Example sentences of "is [adv] [prep] [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the current commuting age , when there are diverse calls on people 's time and energies and the countryside is constantly under pressure from urban development , the village community is anxious to retain the village 's rural character , whilst acknowledging the need to attract and maintain a balanced community . |
| 2 | First team custodian Fred Barber is only on loan from Peterborough for a month , so there is a good chance that Munson will make his Division Three debut before the end of this campaign . |
| 3 | There is also a simple desire to enhance one 's own well-being by widening the contrast with another 's distress ; and this too attracts towards his viewpoint , since it is only in awareness from other personal or temporal viewpoints that one 's well-being is experienced as relative arousing envy of another 's happiness or nostalgia for one 's own in the past . |
| 4 | A free country in a free world is always at risk from high winds and rough seas . |
| 5 | Finally , because of the difficulty which individual workers find in withdrawing from closed shop agreements , individual liberty in this country is directly under attack from the unions . |
| 6 | For example , when Mr Reynolds has fully recovered from his anaesthetic , he is still at risk from the possible complications of surgery . |
| 7 | Question time The BBC is still under attack from old Thatcherism that sapped its morale and split its audiences . |
| 8 | Israel is still under pressure from her surrounding countries who often threaten her . |
| 9 | Here is Collimore Phillips down the right flank he was offside that was unlucky from Forest 's point of view and Collimore dumped to the ground when he played the ball away then and er he 's just holding er his shin just above his ankle there and Cooper is still in trouble from that er shoulder he injured moments ago Cooper 's all right to continue and the Forest physio Graham Myers busy treating Collimore . |
| 10 | The interesting question is whether business is more at risk from short-term fluctuations or long-term trends . |
| 11 | Ford , 20 , is technically on loan from Rotherham until the end of the season , but the Millmoor club are giving him a free transfer . |
| 12 | In so far as the population of Africa , and especially that of Somalia , is clearly at risk from internal conflict and where the aid agencies can not deliver any assistance because of that conflict , is it not time for the British Government to urge the United Nations to take a more interventionist and far stronger role in resolving those disputes ? |
| 13 | Despite , or perhaps because of , these successes Channel Four is also under scrutiny from the ideologues and reformers . |
| 14 | Troubled Telecom Eireann has abandoned a plan to build a new headquarters in Ballsbridge , Dublin , and the decision may cost the company more than £6m ; it bought the site for £9.4m in 1990 , but it is now worth only around £5m ; the company may also be required to pay for a government investigation into the purchase , which is also under scrutiny from the Fraud Office . |
| 15 | Traditional English teaching is also under attack from the rainbow coalition of the left . |
| 16 | The Commission is also under pressure from the Swedes who blame nations like Britain and West Germany for the acidification of their lakes . |
| 17 | Freshwater life is also at risk from what is known as ‘ acid pulse ’ . |
| 18 | The viability of this centre is now under threat from new shopping developments , which will be dealt with in the next section . |
| 19 | But it is now under threat from a consortium of millionaire promoters from Jersey who have offered a ‘ blank cheque ’ for the rights to stage future tournaments . |
| 20 | Early last year , farmers and fishermen in southern Chile — which is particularly at risk from the Antarctic ozone " hole " — reported that sheep , rabbits and fish were going blind — possibly from cataracts . |
| 21 | This effect is particularly on iron from vegetable , non-meat sources , so that the tea-drinking vegetarian may be particularly as risk . |
| 22 | Figures suggest that more than 40 per cent of arable land in England and Wales is potentially at risk from erosion by wind or water . |
| 23 | In this sense he is like Mrs Ghandi , who as India 's prime minister ordered the attack on the Sikh Golden Temple and was later murdered by her Sikh bodyguard : having desecrated the holiest places of a fierce and unforgiving religion , Saddam 's life is potentially in danger from every Shiite he comes into contact with . |
| 24 | Wildlife is there in profusion from black bear and caribou to no-see-ums and fresh fish out of the river . |
| 25 | If Thompson is correct , then such presentations are as simplistic as many of the police images which imply that society is consistently under attack from rampaging and ubiquitous criminal enemies , and which ( it follows ) only they can fight off and defeat . |
| 26 | It seems rallying in Ireland is again under scrutiny from insurers and Cork , the last big event of the year , will be closely monitored — hence the RIAC 's insistence on a strong safety plan . |
| 27 | Perhaps more important , the Administration is again under pressure from US exporters who fear that the high dollar will drive them out of international markets . |
| 28 | It is currently under fire from a further attack by the Serbs . |
| 29 | Moving from the foot of a high mountain to its peak is very like travelling from the equator to the pole . |