Example sentences of "of it from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't even attempt to do any of it from memory . |
| 2 | Although it achieved classic status , it did not become generally known until the late Victorian period , when Frances Hodgson Burnett [ q.v. ] , who had read the book as a child , retold part of it from memory in St Nicholas in 1887 , and the proper text was ‘ rediscovered ’ . |
| 3 | One or two members already had some knowledge of it from press reports and Black 's fellow employees in Short Brothers . |
| 4 | The audience can pick up the dramatic thread running through the cadenza and make sense of it from beginning to end . ’ |
| 5 | The first is the energy , most of it from fossil fuels , required by modern agriculture and the system which delivers its produce to the customers ; the other , the peaking of the ‘ miracle grain ’ revolution . |
| 6 | With government grants and private sector donations of £100,000 , much of it from paper and plastics group Bunzl , NI set up a series of programmes to clean the estate and create more jobs . |
| 7 | Other high figures come from Central America and Mexico , where 24 per cent of soils are seriously degraded , and Africa , with 14 per cent soil loss , much of it from wind erosion from overgrazed pastures in arid areas such as the Sahel and much of South Africa . |
| 8 | ‘ -if I knew of the lady 's death before Monday morning , I learnt of it from Monsieur de Craon . ’ |
| 9 | The routine of the annexe on Friday after school was disturbed by Mr Crumwallis making ineffectual invasions of it from time to time . |