Example sentences of "as we [vb base] from " in BNC.

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1 This is a procedure like Swift 's , except that Leapor is staking her claim to real dignity ; she asserts that she does not wish to be valued for beauty , but for her wit and , as we glean from other poems , her morals .
2 There is , however , a bigger variation of meaning as we go from one group to another .
3 It gathers up the movement of the house as we pass from kitchen to living room or dining room , or kitchen to bedrooms .
4 The book , as we gather from a plan in his notebooks of the same period , was to deal with four large areas : ethics ; aesthetics ; religion and mythology ; and politics , law and education .
5 As we observe from Table 16.3 , VAT is essentially a mildly regressive tax , whereas other indirect taxes are strongly regressive .
6 Yet as we unbend from looking at the grass
7 The aspiration after this effect is very ancient , as we know from the Greek derivation common to both ‘ epigram ’ and ‘ epitaph ’ .
8 Sleep is not a single process , as we know from our own experiences .
9 The abbey church of St Ricquier , built in the 790s , had galleries in its apses , and choir screens round the area of some of its altars , with the idea ( as we know from the ritual order of its Abbot Angilbert ) of dividing the monks ' and boys ' choirs ; the building must have echoed to the sound of these choirs as they answered each other antiphonally from different parts of it .
10 Certainly women sat spinning upon them as we know from the description by Adam Sedgwick , a reliable witness .
11 Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson , as we know from his rages at players who 've had as much as a sniff of the barmaid 's apron , is the man who put the temper in temperance .
12 But there is , as we know from work , a price to pay .
13 But as we know from British history one of the understated reasons why erm there was a lot of hostility to home rule for Ireland in Britain was because of the fear of the creation of a hostile state er erm off , off Britain 's shore .
14 Creatures that have neither clocks nor books are alive to all manner of knowledge about time and the weather ; and about direction too , as we know from their extraordinary migratory and homing journeys .
15 The second aspect is the relative stability in the proportion of transport workers over the two decades , despite , as we know from Figure 3.1 , the job losses that have occurred in the transport service industries since the 1960s .
16 The Sumerians certainly maintained trade contacts with India , as we know from the testimony of seal-stones .
17 6000 , not of a male population in 431 of about 40,000 , could he accommodated on the Pnyx , the open-air meeting-place , and that total was regularly reached in the fourth century , as we know from the very many attested grants of citizenship , for which a quorum of 6000 was required .
18 Notionally , each of the bureau should be able to provide an identical service but , as we know from our own experiences and those of our clients , this turns out not to be the case .
19 And since Felicity — that 's my wife — ca n't now experience what 's happening five years ago — because it 's receding faster than the speed of light , and the speed of light is a constant which , as we know from Einsteinian physics , can not be exceeded …
20 It already embraced Brahmans , Magi , Egyptian priests and Druids by the beginning of the second century B.C. , as we know from the authors quoted by Diogenes Laertius in his prooemium .
21 I do not think for a moment that the Letter of Aristeas should be taken as a Festal Scroll , something like the Book of Esther , to be read in the Alexandrian synagogues every year on the day on which ( as we know from Philo ) the Alexandrian Jews commemorated the translation ( De vita Mosis 2.41 ) .
22 As we know from any game , say cricket , only when an individual scores more on his last ( marginal ) innings than his average for all previous innings , will his overall average actually rise .
23 To the extent that the destination of building society lending is different , as we know from section 4.1.1 it is , then the flow of funds will have materially altered .
24 Nick Hawkins is representative , as we know from the signatures to the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motion , of many of the new Members .
25 surprising proposition is not merely that pastoral peoples do in fact show a fastidiousness with regard to the excremental functions which is totally unknown among primeval hunter-gatherers and rarely seen among agriculturalists ( although in their case the situation is complicated by subsequent introduction of domesticated animals ) , but that toilet-training and the mastery of the anal sphincter is , as we know from observation of our own children , intimately involved with sadistic instinctual trends and consists in the child accepting self-censorship of his anal and excremental drives .
26 As we know from time to time but not in time .
27 Some time that same day , or the following one , the new Prime Minister has entrusted some study of strategy , or some strategic study of something else , to an outside expert — and by the 7th , as we know from Summerchild 's first letter , Wilson has somehow been persuaded to staff and service this new operation through the Government Commission .
28 Mrs Padmore , as we know from the memorandum at the front of the file , is going to be transferring to the Economic Secretariat in a few weeks ' time .
29 Um , as we know from studies of re story telling , as we know from studies of memories for story structure and recall , memories for everyday events mm there 's er a substantial way in which memories are scripted , which memories um seem to fit a schemer , which memories ah are n't stored as a literal description of something but they 're something that we re-construct as we tell them .
30 Um , as we know from studies of re story telling , as we know from studies of memories for story structure and recall , memories for everyday events mm there 's er a substantial way in which memories are scripted , which memories um seem to fit a schemer , which memories ah are n't stored as a literal description of something but they 're something that we re-construct as we tell them .
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