Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] from " in BNC.

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1 I 'm not what you 'd call the retiring type , and I rarely flinch from a fight when I 'm sure of my own righteousness ; but there is one thing I can not cope with , and that is unprovoked aggression .
2 The English still play golf for exercise , while Scottish amateurs , whose inner conceit about inventing the game holds them back , mostly suffer from little inclination to practise .
3 But the Indians rarely profit from the mahogany trees cut from their land .
4 True , Shearer got little change from the skirmish with Neil Ruddock , his pal from Southampton days .
5 The postcrania are only known for ‘ Kenyapithecus ’ from Maboko Island , and they indicate little change from the generalized arboreal quadrupedalism present in the early Miocene hominoids like Proconsul .
6 For adult offenders the picture showed little change from previous years and indeed the number of sentenced adult male prisoners had increased .
7 They are extremely heavy and expensive and eventually suffer from corrosion — particularly when used with copper pipe .
8 Considerable pressure to conform exists within the lesbian feminist communities , and those of us who conspicuously deviate from the norm either get stared at or are ignored .
9 But then I lose what I most want from it , that it be in a room with other objects .
10 I think they have very little say from the point of diagnosis to treatment of anything .
11 Women whose ovaries produce too much suffer from hair on the face and chest , which they find very upsetting .
12 Nuisances and abominations of all sorts are without scruple committed to the streets at any hour of the day of night , to await the morning visit of the scavenger to remove them : and happy indeed is it for the humble pedestrian if his eye and nose alone suffer from these ejectments ; happy indeed if he comes not in contact with them , as they make their unceremonious exit from window or door …
13 In production , therefore , they continue to play safe and so refrain from using one of the terms until they have worked out more fully what difference in meaning ( here a difference in language ) is associated with the observable differences in form .
14 The nicest and the nastiest all suffer from it .
15 Nor did the ‘ moderates ’ see much gain from Iranian films winning at international festivals .
16 Here , I can only think that he was saying , ‘ well , we do n't know that there 's the full authority of the city council in this view ’ , but erm I 'm not going to put up a defence , I just think that what we do is basically stress from yourself and from the chief officer that we do want this file known .
17 Ah yeah well they perhaps mean from his wrist then .
18 Kadiatu and her family live on a meagre rice diet and so suffer from protein and calorie malnutrition .
19 A region dominated by branch assembly facilities and devoid of senior decision-makers , in contrast , is likely not only suffer from a sense of remoteness from those who control its destiny , but will also tend to lack social diversity and cultural vitality .
20 The reason is simply that there are so many XT and 286 machines that are in perfectly good working order and only suffer from the fact that they are not 386s !
21 Sebastiana : I only suffer from overwork nervos .
22 Then suddenly there 's this loud bang from somewhere and they all fly off , like a mirror that 's been smashed — pieces flying everywhere .
23 Well we 've been talking about the benefits which the local firms obviously gain from the work that 's going on here , but the question could be asked , what benefit do the academics in the University and also the students gain from the , the programme ?
24 In toto , these constitute an image of a world filled with dangers , human and non-human , known and unknown , which constantly menace from all sides , and against which the lone individual is helpless .
25 Furthermore transport from one place to another could be by the River Thames rather than the roads , which were not always safe and often impassable in some weather conditions .
26 As it 's been noted in the previous conversation there is er a possibility of obviously dust from the i it 's spoil by the way not coal .
27 Ok , I see your point now ; - ) Im sure he would nt need to learn much from Wilko at all tactically etc , maybe in the practical aspects of mgt — so I cant see MUCH benefit from sitting next to him in the dug out .
28 Transport has been relatively slow to see much benefit from the information technology revolution .
29 And since the Budget revision of PEP rules , investors can now place their full £6,000 PEP contribution in a trust which has at least half the portfolio in UK and EC equities , and so benefit from the tax concessions .
30 This move had three objects : to complete the education of our two younger children , Fiona at Fettes ( where my old Highfield playmate Inky Chenevix-Trench was now headmaster ) and Alastair at the Edinburgh Academy ; to have Moira 's mother who was living alone in an Edinburgh flat and becoming increasingly tottery to live with us ; and to own property once again and so benefit from its ever-increasing rise in value .
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