Example sentences of "as from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as methods go , we may learn as much from their old techniques as from their new ones . |
| 2 | The risk in doing so would be that new patients might well not see the need to do so and might feel that this would be an inappropriate intrusion into the realm of individual freedom of choice in their personal lives and , further , that life might not be much fun in the straitjacket of abstinence from all these substances as well as from their prime drugs of choice . |
| 3 | At the same time the Trust stepped up its routine programme of raising woody plants of species from seeds gathered in the wild as well as from its own properties . |
| 4 | She stared up at the granite-harsh features , trembling as much from the insidious effect of his hands on her back , pressing her against the male strength of his body , as from her growing anger at his arrogant , hurtful lack of confidence in her … |
| 5 | He draws and paints from his flayed nerves as much as from his baulked emotions . |
| 6 | Malcolm was followed by his red-haired brother William ‘ the Lion ’ ( from the beast on his standard as much as from his personal courage ) , instigator of the first of so many attempts over the centuries to form a binding union with France against the English . |
| 7 | US Navy Commander David Carlson wrote a year after the episode , in the US Naval Institute 's Proceedings for September 1989 , that he ‘ wondered aloud in disbelief ’ as from his nearby vessel USS Sides he observed the Vincennes shoot down what was plainly a commercial airliner in a commercial corridor , perhaps out of ‘ a need to prove the visibility of Aegis ’ , the missile system abroad the Vincennes . |
| 8 | A similar point is made now in the context of assemblies : " When a man came to the assembly from one of the regions , the king was concerned to ask him what news he had brought with him that ought to be reported and discussed , and he would be strictly required before he next returned to the palace to make exhaustive enquiries outside as well as within the realm , getting information from outsiders as well as from his own people , and from enemies as well as from friends , without concerning himself overmuch about how any person questioned had come by his information . " |
| 9 | Similarly , it may take no more than a momentary pang of empathetic distress to convince me that if I could become as aware from the sufferer 's viewpoint as from my own I would be spontaneously moved to help him even to my own cost . |