Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following morning , after breakfast , a bruised Clare cut a photograph of herself from the local newspaper ; luckily , her face was totally obscured by the banner , which had wrapped itself around her like a winding sheet . |
| 2 | One reason must be the inevitable distancing of oneself from the intensity and nearness of the experience . |
| 3 | Why did n't he just go while she could still maintain some degree of composure , this deliberate distancing of herself from the rapture that had possessed her before the telephone rang ? |
| 4 | He 's a sort of help and partner , and he 's had part of the rearing of her from the time I took her , and his advice is always sensible . |
| 5 | ‘ Because you 've been a part of it from the start . ’ |
| 6 | And he saw the work of an old favourite of his from the London days , J Maris , who had some beautiful things on show . |
| 7 | This separation of me from the rest has led psychologists to develop a concept called ‘ the self ’ . |
| 8 | In England and Wales , the Registrar General 's social classes , which are derived from people 's occupations , are used to look at the distribution of everything from the incidence of stillbirth to the distribution of owner occupation . |
| 9 | In all these arrangements , it is clear that the aim of everyone from the pope downwards was to keep Anselm happy during his lifetime , while retaining the power to make new arrangements for the more distant future after his death . |
| 10 | And there 's nothing to the costume — I 've got a string of them from the greengrocer round the comer , for you to hang around your neck … ’ |
| 11 | I wanted the approval of everyone from the bus conductor to the Pakistani shopkeeper , because he owned a shop and spoke English . |
| 12 | As the quotations above show , there is a recurrent recognition by the great minds of the Christian faith that we can not separate the knowledge of ourselves from the knowledge of God . |
| 13 | I can remember and I think the rest of us from the Three-Ninetieth can remember when there were very little time when we had it this quiet . |
| 14 | Of the other two paintings , one is a picture of a friend , a girl who was also a student , posing in the same life-room , and the other , a portrait I made of a fellow student and good friend of mine from the Royal Academy , James Tower , who became a noted ceramicist . |
| 15 | You may or may not be familiar with Acton , one gets a glimpse of it from the train , but it largely consists of railway yards , goods depots , great piles of broken-up cars . |
| 16 | Younger MPs commented adversely on the absence of anyone from the 1983 or 1987 intakes . |
| 17 | Indeed , he thinks that whereas the master fails to gain a proper sense of himself from the slave , because the slave merely carries out his ( the master 's ) will , the slave does gain a certain degree of self-consciousness by means of the work he performs for the master . |
| 18 | As she passed through the gate , to walk beside the stream , Bob Lamb caught sight of her from the other bank of the beck . |
| 19 | Yes , if one separates the controlling element , i.e. the timing , the sort of electro-mechanical aspect of it from the controlled interfaced circuits , i.e. the motors and the drive electronics that go with that , i.e. one compares the reliability of the let's assume the single chip microcomputer replacing the electro-mechanical conventional timer , then the reliability is n times better . |
| 20 | The sale was notable both in content and in consignors : more pieces from the collection of Mrs Barbara Johnson ; a number of lots from the Luton Hoo Wernher family collection ; from John Kluge ; and sixty lots from the Meikleour Estate Trust which comprises the celebrated collection of furniture assembled in the first half of the nineteenth century by the comte de Flahaut de la Billarderie , natural son of Talleyrand , and his wife , Margaret , Baroness Keith and Nairne . |
| 21 | Conflicts spread over thousands of years have still not resolved the problems arising from that claim , and justification of it from the scriptures , has proved completely ineffective , and surely this is bound to happen , for the human race , whether in part or as a whole will never meekly submit to having a religion or political system simply thrust upon it . |
| 22 | Cheap petrol at present does not reflect the true environmental costs of global warming and the effects on the health of everyone from the atmospheric pollutants discharged by road vehicles . |
| 23 | With about £0.5 million that I have collected , a large sum of it from the Minister and other sums from other places , I went and bought , and watched the purchase , delivery , consumption and use of the simple bare necessities of people in the camps . |
| 24 | Sovereign Worldwide would be delighted to arrange your ‘ Wedding Package ’ , taking care of everything from the registrar to your flowers . |
| 25 | Her strange deep voice pronounced the words like a parody of someone from the Trento area , where the warm and cold currents of Italian and German meet and mingle . |
| 26 | And , as we have seen , for that to happen , the student has to transcend the confines of his or her own discipline , to take a dispassionate view of it from the outside . |
| 27 | And because it has open server in front of it from the client 's side it looks like a server , so any of those two hundred clients or any of front end tools can have access to the email system as if it was a resource or server . |
| 28 | So the paper you 've got in front of you from the last meeting then . |
| 29 | A parcel sent with Amtrak is given a unique barcode at the start of its journey which means the company can keep track of it from the moment it leaves until it reaches its destination . |