Example sentences of "it from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that horrid state , the mind may be considered as a city without walls , open to every insult , and paying homage to every invader ; every idea that then starts with any force , becomes a reality ; and the reason , over fatigued with its former importunities , makes no head against the tyrannical invasion , but submits to it from mere imbecility . |
| 2 | Whether we inherit our temperament from one or other of our parents or whether we absorb it from prolonged contact is not certain . |
| 3 | Possibly this shortfall was met by grain production on the Lasithi Plain , but if Lasithi was not tributary to Mallia , the city would have had to look overseas for grain , ‘ buy ’ it from neighbouring territories , or go hungry . |
| 4 | He has little knowledge of a shepherd 's life since he writes his idyllic poem from the town , as a wealthy poet , and can not possibly see the reality as one would have it from experienced eyes . |
| 5 | The bowl was filled with water and the old man , chanting softly to himself , poured powder into it from small leather pouches . |
| 6 | The railway police and station staff were always telling them that but they had never had it from fellow buskers before . |
| 7 | It is time for the government to act to protect it from future ecstasy |
| 8 | The pool was large for a private one , lying at the bottom of a vast expanse of immaculate lawn and surrounded by a high yew hedge which effectively hid it from all directions ( unless you were on a horse or a double-decker bus ) . |
| 9 | What most visitors who admire it do n't know is that its original home was the middle of Oxford town centre — just below Carfax tower — with traffic flowing around it from all directions . |
| 10 | At night she leaves her bed , lights a lamp , and gazes at it from all points of view . |
| 11 | One answer is to cut out a gull in white paper and sketch it from all angles ; at other times you can catch these interesting shapes with a camera . |
| 12 | My first step was really to get to know London by walking and drawing it from all angles . |
| 13 | Automatically dissecting the problem into the code of coloured balls and prismatic chains that was the symbology of her interface , Chesarynth looked at it from all angles . |
| 14 | For clearly one of the principal characteristics of sculpture in the round is that the spectator is able , and is indeed often encouraged or compelled , to walk around it and study it from all angles . |
| 15 | It 's all hard and cold , but Marie laughs and turns me round so she can see it from all sides . |
| 16 | I have climbed it from all sides , every time making new discoveries , finding new surprises and delights and , let me confess , secret places from which I have recoiled in horror . |
| 17 | Some Slovenian bankers pointed out that it would have made better sense to have carried out a ‘ consolidation ’ , which would have preserved more of the assets of the firm than the policy of attacking it from all sides ( Politika , 1 October 1987 ) . |
| 18 | Always lay the rug on a flat and even surface , and after smoothing it out , carefully view it from all sides to see if there are any ridges or troughs . |
| 19 | The runway , running east to west , had individual taxiways leading off it from all sides , taxiways to the circular parking bays where Russian helicopters had once parked . |
| 20 | Bettacare 's Head Hugger — a softly quilted , specially shaped cushion which rests around the baby 's head , supporting it from all sides , provides the answer . |
| 21 | Well I got it from that travel agents |
| 22 | Else he 'd of took it from that way . |
| 23 | And if we look at it from that standpoint I think we can begin to see , perhaps , that actually we 're all programmers , some of us less clear about it than others . |
| 24 | I can see they 'll get it from that quarter and before very long . |
| 25 | The General Strike in no way deflected it from that course and it is difficult to see that event as an historical watershed in the evolution of trade union policies and attitudes . |
| 26 | With his own modest roots he dismisses the attacks on a class-based judiciary : ‘ The youngsters believe that we come from a narrow background — it 's all nonsense — they get it from that man Griffith . ’ |
| 27 | It , too , must now be separately assessed in order to distinguish it from that part of general damages that bears interest — namely , damages for pain and suffering and loss of amenities ( Pickett v British Rail Engineering Limited [ 1980 ] AC 136 ) . |
| 28 | Well , of course , it is inevitable that one thinks of it from that angle from the way one has been brought up but actually one ca n't think of anything more barbaric than the Crucifixion and that way of killing somebody . |
| 29 | They 've put it from that wall , and they 've stuck it on to this wall . |
| 30 | Maybe they 've taken it from that video . |