Example sentences of "[noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | What surprises also is the sheer climb to the green — 70ft in elevation from the hollow in the fairway . |
| 2 | News of Sutton 's sudden elevation from humble production editor to rabble-rousing orator reached Pilger in Australia from Ben Lowe as well as Hayling . |
| 3 | All three ‘ brothers ’ had earned their rapid elevation from the Scouts . |
| 4 | A gun which at any elevation from point blank to five degrees could stand two hundred rounds without a strain , at thirty degrees would almost certainly burst before fifty rounds had been fired . |
| 5 | Quaternary lavas have erupted through these deposits to form over 900 volcanoes ranging in elevation from 5000 to 7000m ( Fig. 3.12 ) . : |
| 6 | These drinks work to counteract the acidity of your urine , which will ease the burning sensation on passing water , and also help to stop any bacteria in the bladder from multiplying . |
| 7 | To correct for the displacement of the longitudinal image of the gall bladder from the central axis , a correction factor is calculated from the longitudinal and transversal scans of the gall bladder . |
| 8 | As well as this posh pedal thingie , Quickjoy also have a number of natty new joysticks poised for release — a good few of 'em looking pretty damn mean from the blurb sheets , too . |
| 9 | Lower oesophageal sphincter pressure was measured as the mean from nine rapid pull through readings . |
| 10 | Their visitor , Father Timothy Browne , was a slightly built intellectual from Staffordshire , who was due to take ship that night on his way to join Dr Allen in Rome . |
| 11 | Tyne mouth was a separate county borough from 1849 to 1974 and this reflected its distinctiveness as a port-town from the coal field which surrounded it . |
| 12 | Last year out of the two thousand nine hundred and thirty nine that were lost in the Rotherham borough from coal , engineering and steel there were two hundred and sixty jobs lost at Templebury steel plant in November . |
| 13 | As well as the intense flower fragrances of the South of France , he used cardamom from India and Sri Lanka , the frankincense resin from south Arabia , the rare Yuzu lemon from Japan with its wonderfully refreshing combination of lemon and lime , patchouli , sandalwood and the whole spicy spectrum of Central America . |
| 14 | The Pennine Bridleway from Hexham to Matlock is another very important development . |
| 15 | It can not have been easy for an ordinand or a curate to stand up to contemptuous persiflage about his religion from one of the ablest minds of the generation who happened to be his own brother . |
| 16 | After exhausting the gamut of expression from Cockney pub-talk to Dante , and running across the broad acres of comparative religion from intichiuma to St Magnus Martyr , Eliot seems to be generating the commands of a new religion reborn from the old , by returning in his rainmaking to the origin of religious rites . |
| 17 | Many adherents of the young church were Pharisees , a meticulously devout party among the Jews anxious to preserve their national religion from liberal assimilation to the surrounding Gentile world . |
| 18 | Whether this is seen as a straightforward historical progression from polytheism to monotheism , or whether it is seen more as bringing out ideas implicit in the Jewish religion from the beginning , there is a clear case for identifying Judaism as a monotheistic religion despite its limited recognition of other gods . |
| 19 | for these children the field is wide open to start all over again , and to introduce them to the idea of religion from scratch . |
| 20 | Similarly , it is as a participant in the Hindu way of life that he understands what it means to talk of Religion ; he understands the meaning of the term Religion from its use in his own form of life . |
| 21 | As laicisation has forced religion from community to private practice , we should not be surprised that so few people know how to mourn together and share common griefs . |
| 22 | For many it transformed the view of religion from a confused mystery into a practical guide for everyday life . |
| 23 | In this paper , I have tried to suggest briefly some of the questions posed by the study of religion from a sociological perspective . |
| 24 | In the twenties , both in England and in America , we have a situation in which the infant and child mortality rates are fast declining , mainly owing to new advances in medical knowledge ; at the same time , the world 's values have been shaken by the First World War , writers and journalists have both more freedom and more inclination than ever before to discuss religion from an agnostic point of view , and the vengeful God of heaven and hell no longer impresses in quite the old way . |
| 25 | The contradiction was less dramatic for the revolutionaries in Cuba , where the Church 's influence was not great , partly because of the presence of vestiges of African religion from the slave culture and partly because of the comparatively developed state of Cuba 's economy and educational system . |
| 26 | 2nd , Life and Soul : Religion from the animal perspective . |
| 27 | A resolution unexpectedly approved on Nov. 21 advocated " the independence of religion from state " , in view of a " politicization of religion " in which " religious institutions are abusing the values of democracy " . |
| 28 | He then refers to the conference held in 1991 with some 300 theologians , historians , educators and lay leaders from 25 countries who endeavoured to disentangle what is considered legitimate use of religion from its apparent misuse . |
| 29 | A bourgeois , a man of the moderate liberal left , and unquestionably ready to confront the forces of conservatism and religion from the late 1850s ( though not before ) , he politely rejected the offer of Karl Marx to dedicate the second volume of Capital to him . |
| 30 | Professional religious education teachers like Marjorie B Clark ( Points of View , today ) are doing valuable work in many secondary schools in trying to separate the facts about religion from the myths and fantasies with which they have become encrusted . |