Example sentences of "was [v-ing] from [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They thought it was dying from old age , but I did n't think so , though , to tell the truth , I was n't quite sure what was wrong with it . |
| 2 | That was where Obispal was heading from one direction . |
| 3 | The debt counsellor said that as long as I paid all the money I was getting from Social Security for the house , they could n't take it away from us . |
| 4 | Florence was moving from one foot to the other as she helped her off with the coat . |
| 5 | But it was still very difficult , because every day I was in London I was moving from one business to the other and they could not have been more different in character . |
| 6 | He also loved the fear that was emanating from this girl . |
| 7 | Starkly outlined against the pale skin of his lower jaw , a thin trickle of blood was running from one corner of his mouth . |
| 8 | seen me I was running from one room to the other . |
| 9 | I wondered what he wanted , so I did it ; and in the interval of the rehearsal he came and said he was suffering from nervous shock because the moment I started he realized I was doing exactly the contrary of all the things he had taught the orchestra . |
| 10 | However , in February 1925 , only a few months after entry to the rue d'Ulm , he was suffering from nervous depression and planned a trip to a Swiss sanatorium . |
| 11 | She immediately had to be ‘ warded ’ as she was suffering from acute torticollis . |
| 12 | ( Cabrera withdrew early from the campaign itself , on Oct. 29 , ostensibly because he was suffering from acute pancreatitis , although there were rumours that he had been shot . |
| 13 | The death penalty was retained for repeated murders , while a new defence of diminished responsibility , imported from Scotland , allowed a charge of manslaughter to be substituted for murder if a defendant ‘ was suffering from such abnormality of mind … as substantially impaired his mental responsibility for his acts … ‘ . |
| 14 | At the time of the incident Capper , 47 , of Fairfax Drive , Westcliff , was suffering from mental illness , said Mr. Higgs . |
| 15 | A marriage is so voidable if it has not been consummated because of the incapacity of either party , or because of one party 's wilful refusal to consummate it ; if the marriage was entered into without the consent of either party ( e.g. by reason of duress , mistake , or unsound mind ) ; if at the time of the marriage one party was suffering from mental disorder of such a kind as to render him or her unfitted for marriage , or from venereal disease ; or if the wife was at the time of the marriage pregnant by some other person than her husband . |
| 16 | In Rourke v Barton ( 1982 ) The Times , 23 June the plaintiff was a woman whose husband was suffering from terminal cancer . |
| 17 | Lord Penrose said in a written judgment that he accepted medical evidence that Mr McKenzie was suffering from early asbestosis . |
| 18 | Two consultants believed that the plaintiff was suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis but also considered the possibility that she might have Hodgkin 's disease . |
| 19 | One was suffering from deep depression , the other believed he was beginning to lose control of his mind . |
| 20 | In mitigation Ronald Coia said his client was suffering from deep depression because his business had failed . |
| 21 | The final casualty ( to date ) was Atherton 's Lancashire team-mate , wicketkeeper Warren Hegg , who was suffering from glandular fever : Worcestershire 's Steven Rhodes stepped up . |
| 22 | Bradley Gibson was suffering from bronchial pneumonia but it was far from a life-threatening illness when he was taken into Grantham and Kesteven General Hospital in Lincolnshire on 29 March 1991 , said John Goldring , QC , prosecuting . |
| 23 | He was suffering from frequent migraine attacks and had persistent desert sores which refused to heal . |
| 24 | Raising funds for a redundant church is extremely difficult , particularly in a town like Halifax , which was suffering from industrial decline and had numerous other major buildings in search of funds . |
| 25 | It was later generally accepted that he was suffering from multiple neurofibromatosis ( von Recklinghausen 's disease ) , a very rare and incurable disease characterized by the tendency to form neurofibromas ( tumours of the nerve and fibrous tissue ) . |
| 26 | In 1891 , after she learned that she was suffering from progressive myopia and would have to give up painting , embroidery , and other close work , she turned whole-heartedly to garden designing . |
| 27 | Argentina was suffering from spiralling inflation ( prices rose by 79.2 per cent in January with a similar figure projected for February ) , while the currency , the austral , was collapsing against the US dollar ( from US$1=1,000 australs at the beginning of January to US$1=5,000 australs as at Feb. 23 ) . |
| 28 | By the time of the second inquiry the house had effectively been abandoned for nearly twenty years and was suffering from extensive coal mining subsidence ; and it was likely to suffer still more in the future . |
| 29 | Clarence had sexual intercourse with his wife knowing that he was suffering from venereal disease and without disclosing this fact to her . |
| 30 | The giant was suffering from hormonal imbalance and the midget was a case of genetic dwarfism . |