Example sentences of "from [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The investment represents a personal victory for the city 's Principal Arts Officer , Elizabeth Goodall , who has led a long campaign to educate local politicians of the cultural and economic rewards to be reaped from properly investing in the visual arts infrastructure . |
| 2 | The catarrhal state may be lower down in the trachea which becomes extremely sore from much coughing for days and weeks , again is worse ( < ) morning and evening , a rattling , wheezing , barking cough in an oversensitive , chilly patient . |
| 3 | Do they claim authority simply on the basis of electoral victory to do as they please , including changing the constitutional framework , or do they find themselves restrained from so acting by certain fundamental principles ? |
| 4 | It can not even decide its own procedures ( and has been prevented from so doing by the Conseil Constitutionel ) . |
| 5 | Perhaps he really did want to cut loose and was restrained from so doing by Maman , who would have regarded it as disloyal . |
| 6 | Although SDPJ leader Takako Doi had wanted to field more candidates she had been prevented from so doing by pressure from sitting socialist members of the Diet . |
| 7 | Reactions to the Maastricht Treaty demonstrated that , despite the pressures from above emanating from the processes of globalization and integration , there is continued vitality in the nation-state . |
| 8 | The choice of this unyielding , deeply religious man for this particular post was a sharp reminder that , when it came to how Spaniards viewed their own country and the outside world , and to how outsiders would see Spain , their opinions would still be shaped from above according to the scale of values which had informed the Franco regime from the start . |
| 9 | We were n't charged anything for the food , so we were there as guests , although everybody else was working but we was given the most comfortable er room to stay , so it , there were quite a few people living there because of this reason , that er people coming from outside looking for a job , they would automatically er obtain the accommodation without being charged for it . |
| 10 | I felt that I had progressed from just wanting to ‘ be gay ’ to being ‘ Black and gay ’ . |
| 11 | Dot knew from just looking at him that he was no hero , no villain either . |
| 12 | The principal aim is to create the impression from just looking at the street that it is not , just there for cars but for pedestrians , cyclists and residents too . |
| 13 | It is the two hundred and twenty five , but how could we calculate that from just looking at , if they just told us and you did n't use the protractor . |
| 14 | It happens that what we 've done is we 've taken it and hung it on the starlight , the magic of starlight — how wonderful it is , how much you can tell from just looking at a star through a telescope and measuring the light that comes out of it , and this takes us into realms of why a star shines ; what do you mean by time when you go back millions of years into the universe lifetime ; what do you mean , why do stars shine with different colours . |
| 15 | But it 's important that they get abroad and see these because they also imbibe a lot of feeling from just walking around these places and seeing what the ladies are wearing so it 's very important for them to go to those places . |
| 16 | This ‘ technological ’ view of education and teaching also prevents teachers from deliberately gravitating to schools whose ideology they like , and in which they will feel comfortable . |
| 17 | Second , in the insurance murder cases , the constructive trust prevents the beneficiary from directly profiting by her unlawful act . |
| 18 | It may be extremely difficult to discern when a decision-maker has ‘ commenced ’ his inquiry , and to prevent the courts from ever looking beyond the formal invocation of the finding ‘ furnished tenancy ’ is too limited . |
| 19 | At that very moment , Jack Warner , having heard what was going on , walked on to the set and barred Hopper from ever working for Warners again . |
| 20 | Horror stories abound : of the rogue 's law that prevented any port agent who sold directly to fishmongers from ever trading with a Billingsgate merchant again ; of the nepotism that determined who could have a stand in the market ; and of prices that varied according to who you were and whether you had a good introduction . |
| 21 | There was a core of hardness to him that prevented him from ever responding to her . |
| 22 | Swinderby was freed , but prohibited from further preaching without licence ; he returned to Leicester briefly but soon left for Coventry . |
| 23 | This suggests to us that there 's probably no advantage to be gained from further tinkering with the law . |
| 24 | Because the arbitrator is meant to decide on the basis of certain reasons , the disputants are excluded from later relying on them . |
| 25 | A particular problem which frequently arises is a claim by an employee that even if he must have realised , in accordance with the principle laid down in the Printers and Finishers case , that he was under a duty to maintain a confidence , such duty was in fact overridden by the way in which his employer acted towards the information ie that the employer is estopped from now relying on confidence . |
| 26 | It 's a constant challenge that I 'm centuries away from even thinking about mastering , but it 's definitely presented me with a universe of what 's out there left to do . |
| 27 | ‘ In our research , we found disabled people were being discouraged from even thinking about setting up in business , ’ she said . |
| 28 | ‘ Yet you still get young people from here arriving in London on a Friday evening thinking it 's going to be easy to find a place to stay in right away . |
| 29 | I know that I will continue to get great pleasure from simply looking at this beautiful image . |
| 30 | I had joined a group who are still fixated on a classification of ‘ disorder ’ which homes in on those who attack property , ; and since the amassing of property has been a primary aim of capitalist society , it should come as no surprise to find that to prevent the dispossessed from simply taking from the élite has been the primary structuring principle of policing . |