Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] from [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some patients seemed to gain psychological advantages from being ill with their neuroses , and were peculiarly difficult to cure . |
| 2 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where a member state prohibits retail premises from being open on Sunday for the sale of goods to customers , save in respect of certain specified items sales of which are permitted , and where the effect of the prohibition is to reduce in absolute terms the sales of goods in those premises including goods manufactured in other member states , and correspondingly to reduce the volume of imports of goods from other member states , is such a prohibition a measure having equivalent effect to a quantitative restriction on imports within the meaning of article 30 of the Treaty ? |
| 3 | I hope that red tape will not prevent the use of the enormous reservoir of skill and good will that is held in our reserve forces from being available for use at such times purely and simply because Departments might haggle over who will be billed for the cost . |
| 4 | My father being a railwayman and er asking and doing various jobs from being ordinary shunter and man-about , eventually graduated by way of He 's he was a Lancashire man , you see ? |
| 5 | But this does not prevent other functions from being present , lower down in the hierarchy , in texts in which the poetic function is dominant ; equally , the poetic function may be present in texts which are mainly expressive or referential . |