Example sentences of "be [adj] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be preferable from the warrantor 's point of view to use the subjective phrase ‘ so far as he is aware ’ to reduce the risk of constructive knowledge . |
| 2 | The hon. Lady did not seem to realise that the diversification policy of those industries can not be cross-financed from the core businesses — I wish that the hon. Lady would listen , because she might learn something and avoid mistakes in future . |
| 3 | The gloomy Scotsman , of Menlove Avenue , Calderstones , Liverpool , says he was doomed to be depressed from the day he was born … 67 years ago . |
| 4 | The earliest in the series of brooches is thought to be that from the cemetery at Chessell Down ; the various combinations of the design elements on the other examples in the series make it possible to suggest the sequence in which they were manufactured . |
| 5 | At that time , the museum will have a Learn to See system that ‘ will be complete from the point of view of showing how well the Musee d'Orsay can develop a multimedia system , ’ said Herve Lebec , the Orsay account manager for DEC France . |
| 6 | Since more than one successful path through the grammar may be necessary ( more than one syntactic combination may be possible from the candidate words ) a parallel process would also appear to be a logical choice . |
| 7 | ( c ) Linked transactions Where there is a sale and a purchase these can be adequately dealt with on the same completion statement , thereby working out in the relevant income and expenditure columns the balance that will either be due from the client or payable to the client . |
| 8 | Could be confusing from the scorebox — and the Press-box . |
| 9 | The device must be unplugged from the mains socket . |
| 10 | Obviously it is impracticable for the average hobbyist , however enthusiastic , to rear several thousand fry , and in any case this would be undesirable from the quality point of view . |
| 11 | A reference may be controversial from the start , with allegations that the question referred for decision is outside the terms of the expert clause : if a reference is outside the scope of the expert 's jurisdiction , there it will stay , and the issue will be unaffected by an expert having purported to make a decision about it . |
| 12 | What we mean by this is that the lexical sub-system we use for recognising printed words in reading may be different from the sub-system we use for producing printed words in writing . |
| 13 | I could n't see any reason why this story should be different from the rest . |
| 14 | Thus the way a prison warder , or even a shopfloor supervisor , exercises authority to get subordinates to do what he wants will be different from the way in which the director of a public company or the managing director of an audit firm will exercise theirs . |
| 15 | would be different from the reputation of , of the |
| 16 | Moreover , the nature of crowd behaviour may be different from the past not just in style but in substance . |
| 17 | This method may be different from the machine of which it is part . |
| 18 | For example , the composition of a design team will be different from the team created to implement that design . |
| 19 | Nothing could be further from the home life of our own Combined Services Sports Board , which has yet to recognise the 13-a-side code . |
| 20 | The depth of focus will be small if the lens aperture is larger , ‘ stopping down ’ will bring the extreme rays closer to the axis so that the true focus can be further from the film while still giving the same size of blur spot . |
| 21 | Nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 22 | Let me say here that nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 23 | It was a race which highlighted his incredible distance running ability , and the TV and newspaper press naturally assumed that Zarei was an athlete dedicated to winning and record breaking , but nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 24 | At Barclays nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 25 | Nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 26 | You can see , therefore , that when hypnosis is compared to being asleep , nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 27 | Nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 28 | The British Aerobatic Team was somewhat saddened to read Mr. Thomas 's letter in the September Pilot , and the suggestion that the participation of the British Team in the World Aerobatic Championships was a self-indulgent jaunt could not be further from the truth . |
| 29 | Alternatively it may be that you hanker after some lost love and are therefore convinced that we are doing the same , when in most cases nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 30 | The impression was that we wanted sponsors cash even if it detracted from development funds , but nothing could be further from the truth . |