Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [pron] [vb -s] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He embarked on his hobby three years ago and sells examples at modest prices to recover the cost of materials , some of which he buys from America and Germany . |
| 2 | During the last few months as we have got to know him better , he has shown himself to be exactly the sort of person we had hoped Annabelle would marry — charming , sincere , reliable — with a clear idea of what he wants from life and how to achieve it . |
| 3 | Any resistance or reluctance by the scion to take everything , perhaps because it is getting some of what it needs from its own roots , and the stock has to start looking for ways to get rid of the unused energy , and that means making its own top growth , which takes the form of suckers or ‘ briars ’ . |
| 4 | The ease with which he passes from provincial gaucheries to suave Franco-Italianate portraiture , which made him painter to King George III , is fully recorded . |
| 5 | Stories for de Man are , like Rousseau 's parable and Proust 's image , metalingual allegories , and this accounts for the ease with which he passes from specific examples to general rules about language . |
| 6 | In the third and highest phase of development the child understands the way in which she differs from and is interdependent with the outside world , and once again feels ‘ at home ’ in the world . |
| 7 | He does not , however , explain why the causal influence of the forces of production is always , and necessarily , greater than that of individuals , and only takes up this point in a second argument , in which he shifts from the discussion of character traits to consider the role played by individuals of extraordinary talent . |
| 8 | ‘ The idea I have in view whilst I make the demonstration ’ may be of a particular right-angled triangle with sides of a certain length , but I may , nevertheless , be sure that it holds of all right-angled triangles if , by not mentioning the ways in which it differs from them , I use this one to stand for them all . |
| 9 | There can not be a moment from which it passes from the class of invalid into that of valid covenants " . |
| 10 | Well if we 're continually in contact with people as growing children who do n't allow us to express our feelings , or who behave in a way that would seem to deny that those feelings of hate and rage and love in their extremes exist at all , then obviously one does n't develop a sense of trust in what one perceives from oneself , and that erm on erm an accumulative basis is going to result in a person who does n't feel terribly confident about the feelings and their awareness that they have . |
| 11 | ( a ) in what it selects from or assumes about an historical problem . |
| 12 | It is inevitably highly selective , both in the Acts it covers and in what it includes from each Act . |
| 13 | We may define ‘ egoism ’ as the principle of acting only for the goals to which one inclines from one 's own viewpoint , and suggest two directions from which it might be approached . |
| 14 | If dyspepsia is to be used to identify a particularly high risk group ( such as coal miners ) , then we must know the rate of dyspepsia in the group we are studying and the extent to which it differs from that in the general population . |
| 15 | A standard is acceptable on the authority of ‘ Be aware ’ to the extent that , when most aware of the recurring situation to which it applies from the viewpoints of those affected by it , one is spontaneously moved to act as it prescribes — which is what makes the standard feel right . |
| 16 | It is quite often the case that the person making the arrangements has not had to do this job before and so relies heavily on what he remembers from other funerals he has attended and on the undertaker 's advice . |
| 17 | The sentence above would still be true if the Greek words meant ‘ ethics ’ , ‘ myth ’ and ‘ lexis ’ ( the technical term for what one gets from dictionaries or lexicons ) . |
| 18 | Job satisfaction or dissatisfaction is a function of the perceived relationship between what one wants from one 's job and what one sees it as offering or entailing . |
| 19 | At this point the rate at which iodine passes from CCl4 to water equals the rate at which it passes from water to CCl4. |
| 20 | A geometer , however , would define it in terms of its curvature , the rate at which it moves away from its tangent , and its torsion , the analogous rate at which it departs from its osculation plane . |