Example sentences of "of [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ernest 's words were drowned in the call which went up from the ship , and the outburst of cheering from the Flamingo 's passengers . |
| 2 | At the end of the first public showing of her new collections Lisa was obliged by the uproar of cheering from the crowd to step out on stage and take a bow . |
| 3 | There was sadness at the absence of Steffi Graf , who had to return home without playing because , within days of recovering from the flu that had disrupted her appearance at the Hopman Cup , she went down with German measles . |
| 4 | While the area had been designated a National Archaeological Reserve , he expressed fear of looting from the site . |
| 5 | She took his hand and , with a sense of stepping from the present into the past , from the known into what had become utterly strange , scrambled up and ran after him into the night . |
| 6 | Firstly , it is alleged that there was a failure to advise the plaintiff er before the contracts for this business were exchanged , as to the necessity for ensuring that there was adequate finance to er complete the purchase granted on terms that the plaintiff could meet and which were set out clearly in a letter of offer from the bank and there was a failure to advise the plaintiffs as to the risk of relying upon oral offers of financing from the bank . |
| 7 | Although he had removed all trace of labelling from the cassette the Duty Men were not fooled . |
| 8 | I tend to be guilty of deviating from the subject matter , this being tantamount to stealing the thunder from the individual under scrutiny . |
| 9 | The judgment on what constitutes an emergency for the purpose of deviating from the rules on drivers ' hours merits close attention . |
| 10 | Where the comparative blameworthiness or culpability of the parties is taken into account , then the test is an objective one of deviating from the standard of behaviour of the reasonable man . |
| 11 | In the great hall henchmen were laying tables for the banquet and the air was thick with the tangy wholesome odour of cooking from the kitchen which made both men 's mouths water . |
| 12 | The madness of the hatter was paranoia , one of the several symptoms of poisoning from the mercury used in the trade . |
| 13 | Ramazzini described the symptoms of poisoning from the lead which was regularly used by house painters , plumbers , glaziers and potters as well as by the extremely short-lived wretches actually employed in lead works : " First their hands become palsied , then they become paralytic , spenetic , lethargic , cachectic and toothless , so that one rarely sees a potter whose face is not cadaverous and the colour of lead . " |
| 14 | On 28 April the Lisbon forces disembarked at Ponta de São Laurenço under cover of firing from the ships . |
| 15 | Instead of profiting from the enormous interest in gambling on football results through the ‘ pools ’ system , the FA 's puritanism led to a futile and absurd confrontation in 1936 , which involved the withholding of fixture lists to frustrate the pools companies . |
| 16 | In such conditions , where drug combinations are not used for an adequate length of time , resistant strains have every chance of profiting from the destruction of their more sensitive relatives , and establishing a reservoir of intractable organisms . |
| 17 | Karadzic accused the " enemy " of profiting from the London agreements to lift the siege of certain towns and to retake territory ; Moslem forces did indeed advance in Gorazde on Sept. 18 . |
| 18 | Although the government changed its way of profiting from the sale of drink mainly for negative reasons — to stave off rural unrest and reduce under-the-counter payments to civil servants — the abolition of the vodka farm looked like a victory for the common man . |
| 19 | Equally it might be argued that since withdrawal from NATO was the last card he could play in his campaign against American influence , short of defecting from the West altogether , there were good reasons not to play it until it seemed likely to be effective or became absolutely necessary . |
| 20 | ‘ A person who has symptoms of cardiovascular disease has much more to gain from reducing lipid levels [ because he or she already has a higher risk of dying from the disease ] than does someone with desirable lipid levels , ’ he says . |
| 21 | We have not yet been sufficiently educated to realize that the risk of dying from the greatest killer disease in the Western world could be drastically reduced if only we took preventative measures by eating sensibly and looking after our bodies . |
| 22 | Low comfortable chairs had been set out in a square ; too comfortable for-some , because there was a distinct buzz of snoring from the other side of a rack of trade journals , broken only by the bats ' wing rustle of folding and refolding newspaper . |
| 23 | He did n't kiss Lyn , he never touched women , or men either for that matter , but he seemed to make a principle of shrinking from the touch of women . |
| 24 | Look out for products from companies such as Marshalls who have an attractive range of paving from the rugged , riven-faced textures of Heritage through to the seven shades of the brick-sized Keyblock system . |
| 25 | Within minutes of disembarking from the boats and starting the search we all found to our disappointment that the good weather still had n't dried out the long grass of the islands , and we were all soon soaking . |
| 26 | Little more than a year ago you could n't give away shares in the small computer company sector — so friendless were they that Star Computer Group Plc found it necessary to get into bed with a purveyor of pizzas to improve its visibility and rating : after Tadpole Technology Plc and now Division Group Plc — which soared to 107 pence on its first day of trading from the 40 pence placing price before settling at 96 pence — the rest of the sector looks set for a re-rating as investors seek to discern hidden charms that others have overlooked . |
| 27 | Protection is given to the malicious and the reckless as the price of protecting from the threat of vexatious litigation all who are under a powerful duty to state facts and opinions frankly . |
| 28 | No , the sound of crunching from the hallway confirmed that Holmes was having a remote control snack . |
| 29 | Bailey 's chapter ( 4.2 ) ‘ The Challenge of Economic Utility ’ , which comes from his book Challenges of Liberal Education ( 1984 ) sets out to distinguish the liberal goals of understanding from the goals , which he describes as both indoctrinatory and utilitarian , of ‘ respect for industrial and commercial activity ’ , a view based on the goal of ‘ helping children properly to appreciate how the nation earns and maintains its standard of living and properly ( esteeming ) the essential role of industry and commerce in this process ’ . |
| 30 | So in general I am in favour of timetabling from the start . |