Example sentences of "is [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The value of the work done in some cases ( although less frequently in industrial construction ) is calculated from bills of quantities . |
| 2 | ‘ It has been described to me as an isolated house in the midst of fields , through which are only rough and rutty waggon tracks , and I have been told too , that it is hidden from passers along the road by a dark grove of trees . |
| 3 | Doubts as to even the possible reality of such a law , arising from an excessively empiricist conception of the possibilities of being , prove unreasonable in the light of the establishable fact that both the every day world in which we live , and we ourselves , are only appearances of a realm of things in themselves whose true nature is hidden from us. for this opens the possibility that what we are in ourselves is essentially rational beings , belonging to a society of rational beings , while what we are as appearances is sensory beings . |
| 4 | In descent rock features may look quite different , distances are hard to judge and much of the terrain is hidden from view by intervening convexities . |
| 5 | It is developed from research into the characteristics of companies at risk that best differentiated those which ultimately failed from those which were able to recover . |
| 6 | Any sound image will do , as long as it is distinguished from others in the system . ’ |
| 7 | Here D 1 is the diffusion constant within the tube , and is distinguished from translation outside the tube which will be slower and more difficult . |
| 8 | However , apposition is distinguished from co-ordination by criterion B , since the conjunction of co-referential elements is unacceptable . |
| 9 | In John Thomas and Lady Jane , Connie is distinguished from Parkin by the type of English she uses ( middle-class , standard ) . |
| 10 | Nigel Haigh of the IEEP points out that in 1979 the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution reported that evidence for the other major health worry — the potential for nitrite , which is formed from nitrate in certain conditions , to create ‘ nitrosamines ’ and cause stomach cancer — was only ‘ weak and equivocal ’ . |
| 11 | Say L' is formed from L by replacing each such string S in L by the variable symbol X which spans it . |
| 12 | Lava is formed from magma by cooling and the loss of gas . |
| 13 | Bark is stripped from trees by hand , or with high-pressure water jets . |
| 14 | The total divi is hiked from 13p to 14p with a second interim of 5.5p ( 4.5p ) . |
| 15 | Mr Clark said : ‘ The tarpaulin is erected like a tent around the cash dispenser inside the bank so that burning is disguised from members of the public passing by . |
| 16 | He designed the Palazzo del Tè , Mantua , in 1525 , and decorated it with frescos ; in the Sala de' Giganti the room is painted from floor to ceiling , so that the spectator feels overwhelmed by the rocks and thunderbolts hurled down by the rebellious Titans . |
| 17 | At its simplest the didactic element is shown in the way action is halted from time to time so that the author can explain , in plain , precise detail , a point of navigation , ship 's structure or deck organisation . |
| 18 | The treatment that is received from councils by the trade is shoddy and inconsiderate and often disrespectful and contemptuous . |
| 19 | It is also not uncommon to find that the projection used to map a particular phenomenon is altered from time to time . |
| 20 | If she is withdrawn from school for two years to help produce a new language course eighty children will lose out . |
| 21 | Notice that this is an example of the first method I mentioned of concentrating substances on one side of a membrane : oxygen is withdrawn from solution by being bound to a haemoglobin molecule which is far too large to pass out across the lung membrane . |
| 22 | If there is a Breach of Warranty the Insurer is discharged from liability from the day of breach . |
| 23 | In The Lost Ship , for instance , a couple of merchant navy apprentices , overboard by accident from a tanker , are picked up by a sinister couple planning to snatch gold from a wreck on a Caribbean island , and in Horseshoe Reef a similar young couple is rescued from shipwreck by a strange , isolated family with criminal intentions . |
| 24 | Thailand 's GDP per head , for example , is lifted from $1,780 to $1,580 . |
| 25 | The state attracts seasonal labour because it has an intensive agricultural economy that complements the Mexican growing season : two-thirds of all state produce is harvested from June to September , when Mexico is not harvesting . |
| 26 | What 's to become of the pool of labour when the heart and soul is torn from London by the ruler of the political obviously , no consideration for the human consequences of its policies . |
| 27 | Furthermore , it is planned to market the package , and interest in purchasing the materials is expected from educationalists across the U.K. |
| 28 | The scheme may well now be complete , but revision is recommended from time to time and thought must be given as to how this might be achieved . |
| 29 | Nitric oxide is synthesised from L-arginine in a reaction catalysed by NO synthase . |
| 30 | Our results are in agreement with those of thers who found that activated and non-activated macrophages and granulocytes relax vascular smooth muscle by release of NO that is synthesised from L-arginine by a stereospecific enzyme , NO synthase . |