Example sentences of "[noun sg] from the " 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 | All three ‘ brothers ’ had earned their rapid elevation from the Scouts . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 2nd , Life and Soul : Religion from the animal perspective . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | it differs in direction and speed from the true wind experienced when standing still . |
| 11 | Knowing their speed from the films and their weight and limb lengths , McMahon found that the configuration of motion in human walking perfectly matched what he had predicted from 19th-century physics . |
| 12 | Programmers Vektor Grafix managed to get a fair amount of graphical speed from the C64 to provide an accurate conversion of the popular arcade machine . |
| 13 | A child can only learn at his or her own speed from the starting point which has been reached . |
| 14 | The two-way went dead and Gregson replaced it , pressing his foot harder on the accelerator , coaxing more speed from the Scorpio . |
| 15 | Donna frowned and put her foot down , coaxing more speed from the Volvo , her eyes flicking back and forth from windscreen to rear-view mirror . |
| 16 | She pressed down harder on the gas pedal , coaxing more speed from the car , trying to put more distance between herself and the maniac in the Audi , but whoever was driving the pursuing car had no intention of letting her get away . |
| 17 | There were more horses coming now , less hurriedly than the advance party , but still approaching at a brisk speed from the Cross . |
| 18 | So that 's the , the , you can read off their speed from the graph , you can calculate it . |
| 19 | However even these workers opt for something that they call ‘ interactionism ’ , in which there is a clearly modular , autonomous element which can be studied in isolation from the knowledge systems . |
| 20 | There is a sense of isolation from the rest of the world , a sense of the power in the dogs , and a wonderful feeling of being in control , but only just . |
| 21 | You can not , in isolation from church doctrine , and in isolation from the plain facts of literary history , say that Jesus said this ming or that thing . |
| 22 | Lindsay Anderson showed his isolation from the Hollywood rush with If … ( 1968 ) . |
| 23 | And Defence policy can not grow in isolation from the rest of national decision-making in Whitehall . |
| 24 | Scottish schools are renowned for their isolation from the community ; in the Western Isles , where culture and language have tended to further that isolation , the task of linking school and community has been considerable . |
| 25 | In contrast with earlier enquiries — especially Beckford — they were criticized for paying too little attention to parents and for having ‘ a strong focus on the needs of the child in isolation from the family ’ ( DOH , 1988 , para. 4. 57 ) . |
| 26 | Functions of personal social services can not be considered , however , in isolation from the values which underpin the political , economic , and social systems , from which welfare departments derive their legitimacy . |
| 27 | It is not because of the poor 's isolation from the modern sector that they remain poor , but because they provide a cheap human resource for that sector . |
| 28 | He explained , ‘ Successful disposal of high-level waste requires total isolation from the biosphere for hundreds of thousands of years , time-spans exceeding by a huge factor anything within our technological experience . |
| 29 | There is no doubt that Le Bas was shocked by the softness of the atmosphere which surrounded the young Prince , arising not only from the superfluity of femininity which guided him but also from the child 's isolation from the world . |
| 30 | No stage makes sense , or is particularly useful , in isolation from the others . |