Example sentences of "[adv] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The only minor disappointment is the rather short chapter on the personal social services which suffers somewhat from a rather overambitious attempt to cover too much ground ( i.e. the role of the statutory sector as well as the contribution of both the informal and voluntary sectors ) . |
| 5 | Training , for the younger members of the family through ATB courses , was sometimes seen as an ‘ easy option ’ by the father who felt that instruction of the son came better from a professional than from himself . |
| 6 | It is here that the Germans have done so much pioneer work , and indeed the whole tendency of their art historical studies has been to regard works of art almost entirely from a chronological point of view , as coefficients of a time sequence , without reference to their aesthetic significance . |
| 7 | In drama schools , improvisation is about finding a way of expanding the imagination and liberating the senses , which can get too confined if students work entirely from a text all the time . |
| 8 | Each papilla arising entirely from a single area is represented by the letter m . |
| 9 | Viewed entirely from a technical standpoint , this was rather an unfair struggle . |
| 10 | But even the Treasury was reluctant to blow a trumpet yesterday , because the upturn came entirely from a leap of 6.3 per cent in oil and gas output . |
| 11 | In fact , it was copied almost entirely from an apartment in the Dakota building , outside which John Lennon was shot some years later and where Yates himself would live . |
| 12 | She carried on for another year and then died suddenly from a heart attack . |
| 13 | So I 'm still there when Casey appears suddenly from a cut-through up the other end . |
| 14 | The ordinary , everyday behaviour of army and settlers flows quite naturally from a government and a public which hold such views . |
| 15 | A clause excluding liability for " consequential loss " has been held not to exclude liability for losses which arise directly and naturally from a breach of contract , under the first head of Hadley v Baxendale ( 1859 ) 9 Ex 341 . |
| 16 | you realise how important it is , that a , you 've got to learn self control in life , and that 's what Jenny learnt , she , she , never had to learn it , she had it from naturally from a , a little child . |
| 17 | As he says of himself at that juncture in his career , his quitting in Monaco was ‘ the climax to a situation which had existed all year , stemming … basically from a lack of interest and enthusiasm ’ . |
| 18 | According to convention the arrows on the lines point outwards from a positive point charge . |
| 19 | Although his support for Darwinism was unusual , his concept of successive waves of migration radiating outwards from a centre of progressive evolution seems to have struck a chord in the minds of his contemporaries . |
| 20 | In the second painting , every irregularity in her figure had been emphasised so that the girl stretching outwards from a balcony to pick a ripe , hanging fruit appeared as misshapen as a fairy-tale goblin . |
| 21 | The three-course dinner is served daily from a table d'hôte menu and is cooked by Judy Fawcett . |
| 22 | The parents of toddlers and preschool children were encouraged to give several servings daily from a variety of fibre rich foods such as whole grain breads and cereals , fruits and vegetables , and legumes . |
| 23 | Instead the horizon became vaguely apparent — an uneven charcoal line separating the inky sea below from a deep grey stain of sky above . |
| 24 | The case of the large organisation versus the tenant farmer is summarised below from a file of 63 letters , plus documents . |
| 25 | But the nearest they came to scoring was in the forty third minute ; Neil Keller in the Rayners Lane goal saving brilliantly from a fifteen yard volley from Martin Shepherd . |
| 26 | As she felt the muscular ridges pulsing and throbbing she almost sobbed aloud from a mixture of fear , curiosity and excitement , but at least the thing was no longer between her legs . |
| 27 | Now and again , of course , you have to deal with the awkward moments , like someone reading aloud from a Sunday paper the ‘ sordid story of perverted vice ’ which has obviously been concocted over a few jars by a hack hounded by deadline . |
| 28 | When invited to lecture at Cheltenham Art Gallery he merely read aloud from a printed copy of his talk , Speculations on the Contemporary Painter . |
| 29 | In the opening shot I see Garfield at a lectern reading aloud from a Shakespeare first edition , bound in unborn calf . |
| 30 | Martha , whose head was as strong as her sister 's , sometimes climbed up as well , and , clinging on about a foot lower down , read aloud from a horror comic . |