Example sentences of "be [verb] from a " in BNC.

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1 A contestant may withdraw , or be withdrawn from a competition through injury .
2 He further announced on Jan. 29 , 1990 , that 2,750 military and civilian personnel ( including their dependants ) would be withdrawn from a number of bases in the United Kingdom and elsewhere ( for other announcements of US defence expenditure cuts and for European concerns about reduced US miliary commitment to Europe see p. 37226 ) .
3 Indeed , the comparative analysis of two versions of the same text may be undertaken from a number of linguistic perspectives ; it has been the concern of this article to suggest but two of this range of possible models .
4 It is not to deny that some culturally elaborated behaviour can usefully be explained from a biological perspective .
5 Why should I be debarred from a career in an area that interests me just because you 're a Grand Prix driver ? ’
6 Several young plants can be formed from a single stem by making a series of wounds at a convenient distance apart and burying each in a prepared hollow in the ground .
7 Histoire , whilst at one level a transposition of the discontinuity of experience , can at the same time be considered as providing an implicit commentary on the nature of fiction and writing : the text can be said to be formed from a meditation on a collection of postcards which the narrator is sifting through .
8 The Collins English Dictionary ( CED ) lists other derivatives that can be formed from a headword .
9 He also suggested that a government might be formed from a coalition of post-Solidarity parties which would choose their own leadership .
10 Where lava erupts from a single vent a low exogenous dome may be formed from a succession of flows , but basaltic lava flows so readily that such features will only develop on nearly level surfaces .
11 It possesses , nevertheless , a striking richness and complexity , demanding to be examined from a variety of viewpoints , notably that of musical production ( in relation to general production in capitalist societies ) , that of musical form ( discussed by Adorno in terms of ‘ standardization ’ ) and that of musical reception and function ( which he sees as almost totally instrumentalized , in the service of the ruling social interests ) .
12 4 Now many 250g bags of sugar can be filled from a 20kg sack of sugar ?
13 March 3rd , pure gloom ; ‘ For days I have seen nothing but the most terrible things that can be painted from a human mind . ’
14 This distinction may be justified from a limited epistemological standpoint , it might be said , but it does not really make sense in physical terms .
15 Some government statements have come perilously close to saying ‘ we can not afford old people ’ and those who care for old people must not be diverted from a moral stand by economic filibustering .
16 Progress on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project , expected to become an important additional source of income and employment , was not expected to be affected by the political crisis in February 1990 ; the military government confirmed its intention of proceeding with the scheme under which hydroelectricity was to be generated in Lesotho and water was to be diverted from a catchment area in Lesotho to South Africa 's industrial heartland in the Transvaal [ see pp. 31304 ; 34789 ; 35815 ] .
17 If the solid is isotropic , the following mechanical parameters of the solid can be calculated from a knowledge of only CD , CT and density — of the solid :
18 If some departure from the optimal velocity profile can be tolerated , the potentially high costs of additional store can be reduced in two ways : ( a ) the acceleration delay values can be used , in reverse order , for deceleration , ( b ) an approximate recursion formula may be devised , so that each delay value can be calculated from a limited number of previous values .
19 The advantage of the former is that standardized information can be gathered from a large population , although there is always the problem of those who do not respond and how far the characteristics and opinions of such people match the general population .
20 The door was open and orchestral music could be heard from a radio somewhere within .
21 These parameters require an injured State to be distinguished from a third State for the purposes of defining the accountability of the wrong-doer and the rights of other States .
22 Both these controls must be distinguished from a third , namely external financing limits .
23 Cases like these should be distinguished from a superficially parallel set of cases such as shrug the shoulders and pout the lips .
24 However , a concern to understand social policy may be distinguished from a preoccupation with the determinants of welfare .
25 Further , British Rail , for example , would be distinguished from a Type B non-profit , even though it receives substantial capital and revenue grants from the Government .
26 He was protesting at the injustice of the world ; the word ‘ referendum ’ could be distinguished from a flood of complaint .
27 Liquidated damages are to be distinguished from a penalty .
28 This was illustrated by Glanzer and Koppenaal ( 1977 ) , who showed that animate words are more likely to be recalled from a list than inanimate words ; and many experiments have established the existence of priming effects in word recognition ( see Chapter 6 ) .
29 Therefore all curves must be developed from a continuum of short straight lines , related to VP 's by rectilinear grids .
30 Consents to pollute come in the form of emission or effluent standards which prescribe the temperature , amount , and kind of polluting matter which may be discharged from a particular source .
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