Example sentences of "from [noun] [adv] [conj] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the best broadcasters in Africa have had little in the way of schooling : there is a place in radio for good storytellers , musicians and other men and women with knowledge and wisdom gained from experience rather than from formal education . |
| 2 | Within the cluster of sites 2-4 cleavage at position 77 reappears earlier than any of the lower bands suggesting that dissociation from site 4 is faster than from site 2 ( site 3 is occluded as described above ) ; i.e. actinomycin dissociates from CGCG faster than from AGCG . |
| 3 | Great Britain still had great industrial resources : there were specialized skills available among her workers , she still had huge supplies of her excellent coal , she had opened up new markets as fast as she had been pursued into her old ones by her competitors , and she had an enormous income from investments overseas and from the services which she supplied — in transport , banking and insurance , for example — to the rest of the world . |
| 4 | It always surprised me how few toys were actually used , even though there were cupboards full of them ; toys which indulgent fathers or uncles or stepfathers brought home from trips abroad or from some new shop in Abu Dhabi . |
| 5 | One of the most striking features of IBM 's lamentable personal computer business is that there is not a single reason embedded in the hardware why IBM mainframe and AS/400 users should buy their personal computers from IBM rather than from its army of tormentors led by Compaq Computer Corp : presumably few customers have actually asked IBM for 3270 and 5250 emulation in ROM on the motherboard at no extra charge in its PS/2s — or perhaps IBM thought that would kill off its dumb tube business and resisted until it was too late — now it makes no money on personal computers and sells few dumb tubes . |
| 6 | Here the models were from chemistry rather than from history ; the idea was to give an account of how the parts of the organism were formed in embryology , and how they functioned in life . |
| 7 | Approaching the board from side-on rather than from the rear quarter . |
| 8 | They were , however , opposed by many working people on the grounds that those in need — low-paid workers , including most female workers — could not afford to contribute , and deserved after a life of labour a benefit paid from taxation rather than from their own pockets . |
| 9 | The evidence , whether in the form of a time series or a cross-section of individuals , industries or regions , comes not from taxation directly but from hours of work supplied at different wages net of tax — which , of course , is not quite the question at hand . |
| 10 | The extent to which silver was obtained from galena rather than from natural silver-gold alloys can be judged in part through the presence of lead artefacts and more directly by the purity of silver artefacts . |
| 11 | In some areas , such as in Scotland , increased production would be of existing commodities , such as sheep-meat , but produced from grass rather than from imported soya or petroleum derivatives . |
| 12 | In any case , her main ideological inspiration , like that of Lloyd George , came from people rather than from books . |
| 13 | With the Tunnel , you can commute to the City from France faster than from , say , Wiltshire or Dorset — which are the in places to live at the moment . |
| 14 | Tolkien was a Catholic who never entirely ceased to resent Lewis 's preference for Anglicanism ; others were High Church ; and Lewis , who always claimed to see religion as an escape from superstition rather than from atheism , held himself scrupulously above such disputes . |
| 15 | With the symmetry of the rest of the geometry we can only assume this to be from choice rather than from the limitations of the designers ' technology . |
| 16 | By 1957 , it had become clear that it was easier to direct affairs on the far side of the Arab sea/air barrier from London rather than from Cyprus , which had little or no contact with Aden and Kenya . |
| 17 | Yet the harsh fact remains that Rushdie has won much greater commitment from politicians elsewhere than from those in the country of which he has been a citizen for a quarter of a century . |