Example sentences of "often [adj] [to-vb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirdly , it is often impossible to tell from the inventory whether a person was poor or whether he was living in comfortable retirement , having already passed on most of his estate to his children ; a yeoman with very few possessions is likely to have been in the latter category . |
| 2 | He painted Jeanne many times , but was often glad to escape from the apartment and from Madame Hébuterne 's endless criticism of him . |
| 3 | He exists in a series of time-capsules , deeply aware of personal responsibilities , of demands made on his time , of kindnesses he wishes to offer , but nonetheless often unable to escape from the maelstrom he has created around himself . |
| 4 | Conclusions are often discordant , however , and the predictive value of the results is often difficult to assess from the data . |
| 5 | An interesting example is the work of the deconstructionist critic Paul de Man , whose analytical prose is deeply dialogic , in the sense that it is a composite of different voices , cited , reported , paraphrased , conjectured , which are often difficult to distinguish from the critic 's own commentary and judgement . |
| 6 | Other places were also hit savagely from time to time , but it is often difficult to tell from the registers which particular disease was responsible for an unusually high number of deaths . |