Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [adj] from " in BNC.

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1 Three women are plucked at random from their seats by the great Dame 's magic purple possum plucker to nose around someone 's house .
2 The opposition thoughtfully provided a batting line-up of stroke-playing dashers , and bowlers that could easily have been selected at random from a passing Delhi omnibus .
3 The spins of the two protons are measured along axes which for each proton on each occasion are selected at random from the possible choices unc Sometimes both protons have their spins measured in the same directions ( both o , say ) , sometimes they are in different directions ( one A one y , say ) .
4 From Assumptions 1–5 in Section 2 , the expected utility of a union member can be written as Here represents the employment probability and represents the probability of being unemployed , where workers are selected at random from the entire pool of workers in the sector ( because the closed shop is not legal ) .
5 I am waiting for quiet from everyone .
6 The winners will be selected at random from the correct answers received .
7 The winners will be selected at random from the correct answers received .
8 These six should ideally be selected at random from an alphabetical class list .
9 Certain protected expenses were to be financed in full from the budget , and submitted to the Supreme Soviet for approval .
10 Three winners will be chosen at random from all the correct answers received by us on 14 December 1992 .
11 Ten workers performing the most menial tasks imaginable were picked at random from the processing line .
12 Forty primary and twenty secondary schools were selected at random from those thus eligible .
13 The World Spring Championships and the amazing Train performances are covered in full from page 41 .
14 All maintenance is deducted in full from the welfare which the custodial parent receives ; this , in turn , is a clear disincentive for the non-custodial parent to pay when the only body benefiting is the state .
15 Carers can not receive another contributory or non-contributory benefit as well as ICA ; and ICA is deducted in full from means-tested income support and housing benefits , so that some carers receiving these latter benefits may see no advantage to be gained from claiming ICA .
16 The 693 quarto reissue was a belated attempt to catch up ; and since much of that ( 44 text pages out of 52 ) was carried over unchanged from 1692 , it needs to be tested critically too .
17 So far , all the investigations of definitional overlap using the MRDs have been based on one sample of data , which was selected at random from a corpus of business letters .
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