Example sentences of "from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , 11 stated that it was poorly written , and all but one of those 11 rewrote the passage so as to make it conform to Hankamer & Sag 's parallelism condition — some changed the antecedent from are critical of to criticize , others changed the form of the ellipses ( e.g. … anyone who is … ) or eliminated it ( e.g. … anyone who was openly critical … ) . |
| 2 | Therefore ‘ spin-offs ’ into the economy as a whole from advances in military R&D , in telecommunications or electronics from are few and far between . |
| 3 | Only weeks after first use , the glasses I am drinking from are etched into cloudy streaks . |
| 4 | The aircraft at the club I fly ( train ) from are well maintained and do have silencers — albeit they do point downwards . |
| 5 | The two decisions appealed from are , first , that of Potts J. in B. v. Islington Health Authority [ 1991 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 6 | Now , however , a comparison … has made clear that what the older version mainly suffers from are considerable deficiencies in ‘ discourse structure ’ , i.e. , in the way the sentences are combined into well-integrated paragraphs , and these in turn into a well-constructed whole . |
| 7 | Among the 50 or so battlefields to choose from are : Wellington 's defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo , the ill-fated Dardanelles campaign , the cowboys and Indians of America 's Wild West , and the Battle of the Somme . |
| 8 | Some things they 're obliged to tell you where those come from are n't they ? |
| 9 | The options you can choose from are Art or Physical Education or Drama , French or German , Geography or History . |
| 10 | Health officials and experts from are trying to trace the cause of the gases at Junior School . |
| 11 | The methodological problem arises , it is argued , because all we can observe and gather data from are individuals . |
| 12 | That is , of course , because people who steal biscuits from are usually are usually middle class etcetera etcetera but people who steal cars generally tend to be toerags , I think the expression is , erm and therefore nobody much cares . |
| 13 | Erm , a bit on the recommendations one they 're seeking approval er that erm the er tenders from are left from March nineteen ninety four to March nineteen ninety eight which seems to me to be quite a long time to let that go if we 're all a little bit concerned about what 's going on . |
| 14 | Timbmet are Britain 's second importer of tropical timber — they argue that if any of the companies they buy from are found guilty of illegal logging , they 'll stop trading with them . |
| 15 | The window locks , which there are many , many different types to choose from are now not the deterrent they were . |
| 16 | Not unless I get a few phone calls from been here today . |
| 17 | across the road from in n it ? |
| 18 | Benelux is made up from Be lgium , the Ne therlands ( Holland ) and Lux embourg . |
| 19 | I know but we ca n't do , we ca n't do anything apart from be told what to do by the teachers . |
| 20 | Police officers who have taken statements from detainees will also be exempted from being questioned in court unless they agree to do so , making it difficult for detainees to challenge the validity of any confessions made under torture . |
| 21 | Here is a passage which shows that a survey can benefit from being used with other books ( even though three of the sculptures mentioned are illustrated by Janson ) . |
| 22 | Of the illustrations in any general book relatively few are in colour ; a careful author is bound to consider which works suffer least from being reproduced in black and white . |
| 23 | On a patch where the rough surface of brickwork was exposed , someone had vomited , probably a passing drunk whose sense of propriety , demanding privacy , had deterred him from being sick in the street ; or a returning resident who could not wait to climb the few steps to the communal toilet on the first half-landing . |
| 24 | According to the narrator , Patrick is ‘ so far from being anti-semitic that a couple of his best friends really were Jews ’ ( but who can these two best friends be — can Ormerod , unmentioned in the later novel , be one ? ) . |
| 25 | The desire can be surmised , without recourse to hindsight , in some of what he wrote , but is far from being the point of what he wrote . |
| 26 | Far from being a conclusion of the ‘ consumer-led ’ revolution beloved of propagandists , the change is the child of a retail revolution which , for the consumer , constitutes only a re-arrangement of his or her individual powerlessness . ’ |
| 27 | This is far from being an indication of cultural superiority , but is due to the fact that English manufacturers extract the essential oil through their milling process . ’ |
| 28 | From being a peripheral figure for most of my working life , I now had to adjust to being on centre stage . |
| 29 | ‘ You mean you went from being a university lecturer to being a tramp ? |
| 30 | Similarly , congested seedlings will become thin and drawn , with soft , weak stems that eventually collapse from being forced . |