Example sentences of "[adj] from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , he believed his skull to be so exceptional that he willed that after his death it be given to a doctor for examination , but nineteenth century sentiment and regulations prevented this from being carried out . |
| 2 | ‘ I think being a press photographer is not a lot different from being a team sports person . |
| 3 | It would encourage the idea that to be old and disabled is not so different from being young and disabled ; that dementia is a mental illness , not an inevitable feature of old age . |
| 4 | Thus the notion that being 70 is qualitatively different from being 70 in centuries past , assuming comparable social circumstances , is imprecise . |
| 5 | It was entirely different from being on an out-station . |
| 6 | Coming to terms with the fear that we all feel when in danger is different from being fearless . |
| 7 | In addition to their genetic differences they will each have a different nurturing experience within their family , for example being the first born and only child is different from being the second or third child of parents already used to dealing with small babies and the noise , bustle and demands of older siblings . |
| 8 | There may be occasions when we feel ourselves in favour of particular activities that are defined as crimes ; but that is entirely different from being in favour of crime . |
| 9 | The experience of watching someone lecture to a live audience is very different from being there yourself . |
| 10 | So he has an interesting idea that we can set up democratic procedures to protect the minority within those procedures so that tyranny of the majority is something that afflicts only certain types of democracies , but if we have other types of democracies then we can protect the minority and the idea for proportional representation is often claimed in this light , but actually it does n't work as an idea , because although it allows a minority to be represented , represented is a different from being protected and so even if there 's a member of parliament with the one member of parliament with your unpopular views , that does n't mean that your unpopular views wo n't be made illegal say , because the fact that there 's one member of parliament wo n't mean that |
| 11 | And yet I do n't think there 's anybody in this room who could last a minute in a ring with a sumo wrestler because obviously being fit for sumo wrestling is quite different from being fit for sprint running , you need a completely different physique . |
| 12 | Curiously , at precisely the same time as the Rosenstein archive slipped through the letter box at Collectair a really superb flying model of an Etrich Taube arrived fresh from being fully restored and re-rigged ( F ) . |
| 13 | It was damp from being buried in the leaves . |
| 14 | But now they face a battle to save another from being stripped of trees for a paper and pulp mill . |
| 15 | One in five appellants had made some attempt to obtain advice prior to the hearing , but only one in eight appellants is represented by an expert , as distinct from being accompanied by another member of the family or a friend without expert knowledge . |
| 16 | As he did so , he found a jar of water and a flat loaf of bread still warm from being baked in the hot ashes . |
| 17 | English law is commonly portrayed as adversarial , embodying a series of safeguards to prevent an accused from being wrongly convicted . |
| 18 | Only ‘ serious ’ disorders should excuse the accused from being found guilty . |
| 19 | 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 … ) . |
| 20 | It is unfair , to say the least , in a country that increasingly believes that incentives should be the dominant motive force , that the interaction of taxation rates and benefit eligibility levels should preclude the least privileged from being able to improve their own lot . |
| 21 | The net result was that the United States moved during the 1970s from being 90 per cent self-sufficient in energy to importing 50 per cent of its needs . |
| 22 | I was trying to communicate between David and Tony , trying to get them to talk to each other , and as a result was going back and forth between the two of them which was a very frustrating experience , added to which I was tired from being on the road and I was very unhappy . |
| 23 | This shift in the economic status of the elderly from being predominantly without assets in the early years of this century towards having at least some private financial resources must represent an overall increase in the economic independence of the elderly population . |
| 24 | They do not protect the less powerful from being killed , sexually exploited , deprived of what little property they possess , or physically and psychologically damaged through the greed , apathy , negligence , indifference , and the unaccountability of the relatively more powerful . |
| 25 | Oh Major I bet he wanted to be right from being a kid , wanted to be prime minister . |
| 26 | As we emptied our dustbins out we noticed another bin full of cold ravioli and bread left over from lunch ; the bread was mixed in with the garbage and was soggy from being in a dustbin of cold ravioli for two hours . |
| 27 | Or they thought they were and the only people they 're going to get any more from is the parents , nowhere else , nobody else is going to give them anything I 've got no illusions about it , I do n't expect you to get anything from anywhere else , and I know that you , you would n't get anything from anywhere else because they , they 've cut it , they 've cut it to the bone and the only people that can afford to go now and to live in anything like |
| 28 | So Waleran goes where his roots are , to keep them safe from being torn up , even if he must do homage to Anjou for the soil they 've been firm in for generations . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |