Example sentences of "[adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her anthology of poems for children , The Selector ( 1823 ) , ranges eclectically from Alexander Pope to Lord Byron and Jane Taylor [ qq.v . ] . |
| 2 | William Downes ' study of King Lear 's famous question to his daughters is a superb example of the level of depth and insight that stylistics can reach when it draws eclectically from a variety of areas within linguistics in order to relate the surface features of the text to the situational , historical and cultural contexts which are relevant to their effect and interpretation . |
| 3 | Briant ignored that and looked instead at a man waving his notebook eagerly from the back row . |
| 4 | She snatched it eagerly from his hand and began to eat with great relish . |
| 5 | These contributions will enable us to subsidise our Annual Outing which members look forward to eagerly from year to year . |
| 6 | He swung himself nimbly over the fence and was disconcerted to come face to face with Henry Yaxlee , walking purposefully from the direction of the school . |
| 7 | The essence of the association 's idea was to develop flats for sale and this would make it possible to bring in private institutional finance — eg from a building society which might then become involved in providing mortgages for the individual purchasers . |
| 8 | ( iii ) From their reading of pre-20th century literature , pupils should be encouraged to identify some of the major changes in English grammar over the centuries , eg the loss — except in some dialects and in religious uses — of thee and thou ; the simplification of the verb system eg from have , hast , hath , to have and has ; the change in the structure of negatives eg from I know not to I do n't know . |
| 9 | ( iii ) From their reading of pre-20th century literature , pupils should be encouraged to identify some of the major changes in English grammar over the centuries , eg the loss — except in some dialects and in religious uses — of thee and thou ; the simplification of the verb system eg from have , hast , hath , to have and has ; the change in the structure of negatives eg from I know not to I do n't know . |
| 10 | Show an increased awareness that a first draft is malleable , eg by changing the form in which the material is cast , eg from a story to a playscript , or by moving text around ( either on paper or on a computer screen ) , or by altering sentence structure or choice of vocabulary . |
| 11 | ( iii ) In the context of their own writing and reading pupils should be introduced to the complex regularity that underlies the spelling of words with inflectional endings , eg bead-ing , bead-ed , bed-d-ing , bed-d-ed. ( iv ) Teaching should encourage discussion of the range of vocabulary , eg from informal to formal , everyday to specialist , its use in different settings and for different purposes and the effect of particular choices of words , eg the kinds of topics slang is used for ; the situations in which slang is used ; the need for specialist terms and the effects of their use outside the specialist group . |
| 12 | Secondly , a number of views of this procedure can be considered relevant , eg from the point of view of the individual who is concerned with the speedy settlement of claims , the administrative assistant who checks the claims for errors , and the boss who is concerned with the effect on his status if a large number of false claims were to be made , and discovered outside the section . |
| 13 | Whenever possible , information will be collected from more than one source , eg from both town council and church accounts , to try to discover if a single labour market operated in a town . |
| 14 | We strongly suspected that when these Black women sought assistance , eg from local authority housing departments , institutionalised racism plus the sexism they experienced , were compounded together and further exasperated their problems . |
| 15 | Transfers between degree courses are permitted in some circumstances , eg from the MPhil or MLitt to the PhD , or from the MSc or the Diploma to MPhil or PhD . |
| 16 | Should coal run out , it was argued that as long as hydrogen could be obtained ( eg from solar or nuclear sources ) plus carbon dioxide ( from chalk or air ) such processes would still be viable . |
| 17 | Although there was a break in the snowfall , the wind still blew fiercely from the north , moaning round the house and whipping up the fallen snow so that it skimmed across the fields like fine powder , piling up in deep drifts where its progress was interrupted by hedgerows . |
| 18 | I wrench it fiercely from his weak grasp . |
| 19 | But in practice he found himself able to control the Residents only by appointing men he deemed to be sufficiently compliant , an expedient to which he resorted when Temple retired prematurely from the service in 1917 . |
| 20 | In 1674 , the pressure exerted in parliament by Protestant MPs forced Charles to withdraw prematurely from the war against the Dutch . |
| 21 | Now her body was fat and scarred from constant childbearing , and her face wrinkled prematurely from habitual frowning . |
| 22 | Some children may be removed prematurely from their families while others may be entrusted to incapable mothers whose difficulties remain undetected and untreated . |
| 23 | Many die prematurely from the medical complications of the illness or by suicide . |
| 24 | She felt nothing very much , except the sense of moving inexorably from one moment to the next , and accepting what each brought . |
| 25 | The artillery petered out somewhat from 3am to 4am and then started again . |
| 26 | All the big firms have strong international links that cushion them somewhat from domestic troubles . |
| 27 | Agnes never took part in such conversations ; she never spoke badly of Paul , even though she sensed that this alienated her somewhat from other women . |
| 28 | Concurrently with his rural work , Whiteley became a prominent member of the Ipswich branch and his support of some of its antipathetic policies and attitudes towards the District distanced him somewhat from Wash , Pateman and Shearman , who became District Vice-Chairman in 1931 . |
| 29 | Reeling somewhat from the gin concoction , and making for the captain 's office , I console myself with the thought that if I need anything from an appendectomy to open heart surgery , there is no shortage of equipment or expertise to hand . |
| 30 | It follows that Gandhi 's view of symbols differs somewhat from that of Tillich in the sense that they do not point to a hypostasized Ultimate . |