Example sentences of "it from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably were n't I do n't know but they seemed to us I may be looking at it from a child 's eyes but er that 's how they seemed to be to me . |
| 2 | HMG 's total budget is P£4,000 per year , so maybe you should multiply all my figures by about three to see it from a minister 's perspective : the poor dears are trying to run the country on poverty-line wages . |
| 3 | And just to put together a way that you can change it from a feature into a benefit , using either of those ways . |
| 4 | Conscious that it was operating in an extremely competitive market which faced the possible de-regulation of traditional milk marketing boards , this East-Kilbride-based family company opted in 1988 for a radical marketing strategy to change its fortunes and take it from a West of Scotland dairy company to a major force . |
| 5 | But instead of filtering food from huge quantities of water they have to extract it from a mass of indigestible vegetable matter . |
| 6 | Eventually he pulled it from a pile of papers . |
| 7 | But you chose to switch on the news that day , or to hear it from a friend ; and you chose to have certain thoughts in response to that news . |
| 8 | Minton bought it from a friend , the painter David Bevan , whose wife had recently committed suicide , and this fact , so Minton told George Barker , had influenced his decision to acquire it . |
| 9 | He got it from a friend of his , a soldier in the Scots Guards . |
| 10 | We may , therefore , take a beam of neutrons or electrons , all having the same , known velocity , and pass it through or reflect it from a sample . |
| 11 | Widgery acquiesced , aiming to do it from a position in keeping with the times , and from his revolutionary socialist stance . |
| 12 | But she had wanted to give it from a position of power , of strength . |
| 13 | In the end , he did n't — he started bouncing , so he got one hard wallop and promptly jumped it from a standstill . |
| 14 | I take it from a detective story of the 1930s written by J.C . |
| 15 | If you are lucky enough to see one , observe it from a distance . |
| 16 | Parasite genes can have effects on host bodies , not just when the parasite lives inside the host where it can manipulate by direct chemical means , but when the parasite is quite separate from the host and manipulates it from a distance . |
| 17 | In other words , you do not creep into the ‘ enemy 's ’ camp , but bombard it from a distance . |
| 18 | It is like the surface of an orange : if you look at it close up , it is all curved and wrinkled , but if you look at it from a distance , you do n't see the bumps and it appears to be smooth . |
| 19 | We can calculate their relative preference for the Conservatives on the unemployment issue as C/ ( C+L+A ) , that is , as the mark given to the Conservatives expressed as a proportion of the total mark given to all three parties ( or multiplied by 100 to transform it from a proportion into a percentage ) . |
| 20 | ‘ I got it from a novel I read at school , ’ she said , looking down and shuffling her feet . |
| 21 | So I see evaluation as a very democratic activity , which allows people perhaps to appreciate each other 's viewpoints a little more than might otherwise be the case erm and does n't pretend that people all feel the same about things , but at the same time it does n't attempt to sort of countermand the realities of the situation that , you know , each person ca n't go their own sweet way , there have to be quite a lot of collective decisions and people have to recognise where the majority opinion is , but at least they do it from a standpoint that erm where they feel their own value still has some worth and is still being recognised . |
| 22 | ‘ He stole it from a girl , ’ she explained quickly , before she could feel intimidated . |
| 23 | Who did they rent it from a farmer or something ? |
| 24 | And er now the group are beginning to be able to take a lot of pride in what they 've done , you know , changing it from a jungle into a productive allotment . |
| 25 | They 've turned it from a Council that was determined to tackle the social deprivation in this city , was determined to tackle the disadvantaged , such as racial disadvantaged , by supporting the C T C , which gives a unique opportunity to Asian children in this city for education . |
| 26 | This is supposedly a well known fact in certain circles.I heard it from a segment of this circle . |
| 27 | I do it from a sense of duty for my country . |
| 28 | One can just as reasonably move it from a church to a gallery , from a museum to a bedroom … |
| 29 | The best speech synthesisers are capable of producing speech of such high quality that only an expert can distinguish it from a recording of a human being 's speech ; less sophisticated synthesisers are becoming so cheap that they can now be bought for attaching to ordinary micro-computers . |
| 30 | It has already reduced it from a peak of 36,000 to around 26,000 . |