Example sentences of "from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Home care Coordinator , Margaret Gillies , currently has a team of 20 volunteers from a variety of churches providing practical help to a number of clients already referred . |
| 2 | Returning from a visit to Uganda , where he met with patients in the villages and with other agencies , Maurice Adams said , ‘ It is a beautiful country which is being devastated by a disease which can be stopped . ’ |
| 3 | Over a year or two , therefore , we have shifted from a population of recently diagnosed AIDS patients , often reasonably well but with lives dominated by a threat of pneumonia , to a population surviving longer and developing a range of further complex problems of a chronic debilitating nature . |
| 4 | Although he is suffering from a type of septicaemia , he is clearly having a good spell . |
| 5 | from a toilet |
| 6 | from a swimming pool |
| 7 | The chance of getting infected from a pint of blood is less than 1 in a million . |
| 8 | The person 's circumstances may change rapidly , from owner occupier to homelessness ; from a good income to living on sickness benefit ; from young and active to housebound and disabled . |
| 9 | A payment will not qualify under Gift Aid if it is made to enable the charity to purchase a property , or other assets , from the donor or from a ‘ connected person ’ . |
| 10 | From a handful of POCs in the early Sixties , the number of cases taken up by Amnesty now stands at 42,000 of which 38,000 are now closed . |
| 11 | Recently , an anonymous note , clearly composed from a dialogue between a prisoner and a sympathetic guard , was smuggled out . |
| 12 | ( From a student released from an East Berlin jail in 1964 ) |
| 13 | It is here that the Germans have done so much pioneer work , and indeed the whole tendency of their art historical studies has been to regard works of art almost entirely from a chronological point of view , as coefficients of a time sequence , without reference to their aesthetic significance . |
| 14 | These same qualities are needed by lecturers , so it is no surprise that some excellent critical writings , such as many of John Ruskin 's books , were first read out from a lectern . |
| 15 | A committed critic writes from a social , nationalist or political conviction , which interacts with an aesthetic response to a work of art . |
| 16 | He knew and practised all the rules of art , and from a composition of Raphael , Carracci , and Guido , made up a style , of which the only fault was , that it has no manifest defects and no striking beauties ; and that the principles of his composition are never blended together , so as to form one uniform body original in its kind , or excellent in any view . |
| 17 | Here is a passage from a classic work on etching and engraving , about Dürer : |
| 18 | In the chapter on technique the author describes the process of carving a figure from a wood with particular properties . |
| 19 | The best preliminary plan may be for the reader to open the book upright at ( the illustration ) and then go to the other side of the room , to be imposed on from a distance : it is the nearest the book can offer to the proper first encounter with the figure . |
| 20 | This begins with the figure impinging powerfully from a distance , in this case as one walks into St Martin 's at Landshut , more powerfully than other things in the field of view . |
| 21 | What can be deduced from a self-portrait is often controversial ; a critic is especially likely to read into a self-portrait some opinion held about the artist . |
| 22 | Subsidies are available from a limited number of sources , such as government agencies , charitable foundations , and , today very rarely , private individuals ; there is a factor of prestige to be counted in this sponsorship , mediated by the decisions of committees . |
| 23 | An exception may be illustrated by a passage from a classic biography , that of John Constable by Charles Leslie . |
| 24 | To borrow a phrase from a biography of Van Gogh , the writer had had the advantage of having the artist as a coauthor . |
| 25 | A decline of the sculptor 's reputation derived not only from the political discredit into which the regimes of the years before 1914 had fallen , but also from a distaste for allegory , and a revulsion from naturalist sculpture ( which the young Brancusi expressed forcefully as a dislike for ‘ beefsteak ’ ) . |
| 26 | It comes from a book on Tintoretto by Hans Tietze ( the references are left out ) . |
| 27 | From a letter to Francesco Gonzaga , written in 1622 and published by A. Luzio , in which among others a self-portrait of Tintoretto is offered to him , Pittalunga argues that the Paris picture may have been the one mentioned and which formed part of Rubens 's estate . |
| 28 | In New York , gifts of pictures by artists to critics may follow a favourable review , though a critic is likely to refuse payment , even for a catalogue introduction , from a dealer . |
| 29 | This fuller appreciation may result from a short or a long article , even occasionally some unexpected insight or well-phrased judgement ; but it will not come from a brief comment off the cuff , an item of gossip , or a mere listing . |
| 30 | This fuller appreciation may result from a short or a long article , even occasionally some unexpected insight or well-phrased judgement ; but it will not come from a brief comment off the cuff , an item of gossip , or a mere listing . |