Example sentences of "from [pron] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 It is so far removed , not only from my normal run of experience , but from anything I have ever done that it seems beyond the realms of reality , a fantasy production , a dream come true .
2 Feeling flustered and guilty that I had departed from my normal custom of never working on a pupil 's painting , I foolishly replied " Yes " .
3 Personally , I doubt that I have ever completely recovered from my first experience of a communal shower almost 20 years ago .
4 All have been duly diagnosed and dealt with — but all have been quite separate from my varied catalogue of imaginary disasters like adolescent appendicitis and last week 's coronary .
5 Some years earlier , I had lost almost 2st ( 12.7kg ) from my heaviest weight of 10st 3lbs ( 65 kg ) , but I still had revolting hips and thighs as you will see from my ‘ before ’ photograph .
6 From my personal experience of writing a Wainwright-inspired , though only palely comparable , book about York 's alleyways , I have learnt that updating is a never-ending task , with a new edition necessitated every two years .
7 I know from my personal experience of the valuable work that Apex has been doing .
8 ‘ I do n't care what is said — from my personal point of view Unilever will be a hierarchy until I leave , ’ says Floris Maijers , Chairman of Unilever N V. For John Drummond , a consultant on business ethics and co-author of Good Business , Kanter is missing a crucial point .
9 Again , I know this from my long experience of yoga .
10 ‘ I hope I can give Gavin some help from my long experience of captaincy if he needs it , ’ he said .
11 I did indeed see him as a kind of Christ figure , perhaps as someone who had come to save me from myself , from my ineradicable loneliness of mind and soul .
12 Or , at least , the bat 's sensation of her mate may be no more different from my visual sensation of a flamingo , than my visual sensation of a flamingo is different from a flamingo 's visual sensation of a flamingo .
13 From my present point of view the question of whether the manufacturers on opposite sides of a human arms race are enemies of each other or identical with each other is irrelevant , and interestingly so .
14 From my brief observation of Mr Connon 's hedges , he seems to have a peculiar fondness for a near lethal mixture of African thorn , briar rose , and bramble . ’
15 It was an awareness of a new kind of potentiality , one very different from my old sense of the word , which had been based on the illusions of ambition .
16 Once again I can only speak from my own experience of what my patients have told me .
17 From my own experience of listening to nurses who want to return , the reasons they give and the levels of motivation they express are multifarious .
18 A good example from my own experience of this problem is the constant re-examination of our oil strategy in ICI .
19 Criteria I 've su criteria I 've suggested narrows the geography pretty precisely but if you felt the need , the local authorities felt the need , for even further protection it does seem to me from my own experience of the Nottinghamshire precedent it is possible if if you felt so inclined and the county was to agree you could narrow it even further by naming one or two erm local authorities such a site erm should be discovered .
20 I know from my own life of faith that my thoughts , my words and my often fail to match up to the Christian ideal there is much that I do that hurts other people and there is much that I do that does not reflect Christ .
21 Q Please could you tell me if I can keep a Lionfish in my tank — and is it safe to do so , from my own point of view ?
22 The " fundamental ontology " essentially paints a picture of the world from my own point of view .
23 From my own point of view I want the business but bearing in mind what 's happening I 'm asking you before I do anything .
24 If you have a child who appears to show a talent at one thing , then of course it 's natural to let the child do what it enjoys doing , but that might be the very moment for saying well what is this child not talented at and ensuring that this child gets some experience of the kind of world that it not part of its own talents , so I would feel , from my own point of view and as a psychologist , that if you have a child who is very talented in mathematics , then fine , it 's going to be quite good at mathematics one would assume , now 's the time to say well is it as equally talented in music ?
25 The whole concept of the various courses here and schools here , I think they work marvellously and I think they 're stimulating and I think , from my own point of view , admirable in this breadth of examination and erm investigation and enlightenment , which personally I think is desperately erm important in our current erm communities and that to specialising too soon erm really can be almost counter-productive .
26 If you have a child who appears to show a talent at one thing , then of course it 's natural to let the child do what it enjoys doing , but that might be the very moment for saying well what is this child not talented at and ensuring that this child gets some experience of the kind of world that it not part of its own talents , so I would feel , from my own point of view and as a psychologist , that if you have a child who is very talented in mathematics , then fine , it 's going to be quite good at mathematics one would assume , now 's the time to say well is it as equally talented in music ?
27 " From my own examination of your account with us it would appear that the shipping company in your group — the T. and T. line is the major provider of cash for your present business .
28 We are not prepared to accept the fact that women , such as one woman from my own city of Manchester , can make skirts , blouses and trousers and be paid as little as 25p per pair of trousers .
29 Or , to get at it another way , here is a miscellaneous list from my own notebook of possible motives for murder : financial gain , self-protection , to preserve status , fear , to protect a loved one , for a principle , for revenge ( but remember credibility here : only in some societies is revenge stoked up enough to lead to killing ) , the drive to power , compensation for past humiliation , removing a bar to sexual happiness ( bother the permissive society , but impediments do still exist ) , jealousy , the desire to cock a giant snook at the whole world .
30 There were no doubts or misgivings about the move from my chosen field of journalism to the wider horizons of radio broadcasting .
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