Example sentences of "from a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carlton Communications came from a broadly similar direction but with even more spectacular growth . |
| 2 | Dunbar , amongst current researchers operating from a broadly Darwinian perspective , offers salutary ( and , for ardent sociobiologists , perhaps the most disheartening ) advice : |
| 3 | Although studies of miscarriage from a broadly sociological perspective have been undertaken in Great Britain , none have had the specific focus of this study . |
| 4 | Their study used letters between Poles in the USA and at home to attempt to analyse problems of the integration into American culture of people from a practically feudal home culture . |
| 5 | Emblematic of the limited but crucial shift the fabliaux make use of from a thoroughly familiar world to one that is somewhat different is the extent to which the stories take place in the deep darkness of the medieval French night : as , for instance , all the tit-for-tat stealing and impersonation of Barat et Haimet . |
| 6 | He had refused , however , and sought advice privately from a medically qualified nutritionist . |
| 7 | William Glen has approached the revolution in Earth science from a most specific vantage point — that of the University of California at Berkeley . |
| 8 | Alternative fishing and help came from a most unexpected quarter , in the shape of a book by Anya Seaton called Devil Water ; a marvellous historical novel by a master story-teller , describing the tragic , romantic life of James Radcliffe , Earl of Derwentwater , and his younger brother Charles , both executed for their support of the Jacobite cause during the revolutions of 1715 and 1745 . |
| 9 | At the other end of the social scale Moschos , the son of Moschion , the Jewish slave , has now emerged from a most improbable place — from the temple of Amphiaraus in Boeotia . |
| 10 | The idea of such a journey came about , I should point out , from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago , when I had been dusting the portraits in the library . |
| 11 | And this one from a most complimentary lady in Northampton : ‘ I hope the programme will give lots of people the determination to persevere as you did . |
| 12 | What is worse still , they start from a wholly inadequate skill base which hinders more than it helps by carving up approaches which should be integrated into arbitrary professional divisions called ‘ occupational therapy ’ , ‘ physiotherapy ’ and so on . |
| 13 | For just as he had begun to survey the picture from a wholly different angle , just as he thought he espied a gap in the clouds that hitherto had masked the shafts of sunlight the switchboard-operator dashed any hope of such a breakthrough with the simple statement that she 'd known Theodore Kemp very well indeed . |
| 14 | The Christian Bible with its progression from a wholly imaginary Garden of Eden to an authentically historical Roman Empire by way of a geographically very mixed up Land of Egypt and Land of Canaan is prototypical of a species of origin saga which can be encountered in all parts of the world among all kinds of people . |
| 15 | Sympathy began to flow their way from a normally sceptical press . |
| 16 | Smoke coming from a normally disused building , a vehicle heading for a deserted spot . |
| 17 | By the entrance to Spring Place were two two-storey houses the first occupied by the Henstridge family , then followed a terrace of six , gaunt looking three-storey houses built from a singularly unattractive deep red brick . |
| 18 | Performances are idiomatic , with well sprung rhythms and sensibly chosen tempi , and benefit from a generally cool and restrained approach . |
| 19 | Director Caroline Fitzgerald has coaxed fine performances from a generally strong cast — in particular from O'Meara and Graham Arnold as the colourful butterflies that fly so distractingly around Alec 's head . |
| 20 | I came from a pretty poorish background and now it 's nice to be able to give my parents money , and let them do things like go on holiday . |
| 21 | Comes from a pretty awful home , apparently . |
| 22 | A society frankly committed to legal pragmatism would be different from a self-consciously conventionalist society . |
| 23 | Metamorphosen is comparatively prosaic and suffers from a slightly top-heavy balance which gives undue prominence to the leader . |
| 24 | Sometimes the position is considered from a slightly different viewpoint and only poor performance — as assessed by accidents or errors — is considered . |
| 25 | Handy , looking from a slightly different perspective of the whole organisation , comes to essentially similar conclusions — everyone will have to be a manager but at the same time , no one can afford to be only a manager . |
| 26 | From a slightly different perspective , there has been a shift in emphasis among some councils towards seeking to influence the wider environments within which they find themselves rather than concentrating on direct service provision . |
| 27 | Divertimento gives you a chance of looking a second time , without much delay , from a slightly different point of view . |
| 28 | The answer to the second question requires that we look at psychosis from a slightly different point of view from that adopted in most medical literature . |
| 29 | Your finger will no longer be aligned with the picture — because you are looking at it from a slightly different direction ; your eyes are not in the same place . |
| 30 | We must therefore expect certain aspects of computer design to reappear throughout the book , to be seen from a slightly different angle each time . |