Example sentences of "[v-ing] from [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , in construing a written agreement the court is entitled to take account of surrounding circumstances ( with reference to which the words of the agreement were used ) and the object appearing from those circumstances that the person had in view ; but the court may not look at the prior negotiations of the parties as an aid to construction of the written contract resulting from those negotiations ( Prenn v Simmonds [ 1971 ] 3 All ER 237 ) . |
| 2 | There is indeed an immense amount of relevant work appearing from several directions that might be cited on the effect of organisational setting on individual information behaviour : see , for example , Boisot ( 1987 ) ; Tricker ( 1988 ) on cultural factors ; an interesting paper from an R & D perspective : |
| 3 | It embarrassed him still more when she arrived dressed for bed herself as well , a complex bundle of diaphanous nightwear from the midst of which her poised cigarette arm stuck out oddly , like an awkward projection emrging from some ill-wrapped Christmas parcel . |
| 4 | In the wild the male remains with the nest , protecting from all intruders except other females which he will attempt to entice in to spawn with . |
| 5 | This convergence was , they claimed , occurring from both directions : ‘ conventional ’ deviants were organising politically to alter their treatment ( prisoners rights organisations , gay liberation , organised ghetto riots ) and politically marginal groups were using conventional deviant methods such as robbery and violence to achieve political goals ( black power movements , the weathermen , the angry brigade in Britain ) . |
| 6 | Eliminating from these last two expressions gives . |
| 7 | ‘ If we win this game then we still have a good chance of qualifying from this group . |
| 8 | The defendants displayed outside their Oxford Street shop a sign reading ‘ Closing Down Sale ’ and were still trading from that shop 18 months later . |
| 9 | W H Smith has been trading from these premises behind the elegant arcades of the Rue de Rivoli in Paris since 1903 |
| 10 | Once settled in , Crawford established a routine of returning from each night 's performances at the Ethel Barrymore Theater and sitting on the floor eating English food , drinking orange squash out of Woolworth glasses and playing Monopoly . |
| 11 | And when , within five weeks of returning from that injury , she was beaten up by a yob , she still did n't dream of quitting . |
| 12 | Blatcham station never exuded sweetness and light at the best of times , but the last train from London pulled into an atmosphere of peculiarly depressing gloom and resentment : gloom of the fatigued and silent travellers , and resentment of the station staff , who evidently considered it a gross imposition that they were compelled to keep open the station until 11.20 for a handful of passengers returning from some nocturnal debauch in the metropolis . |
| 13 | She was disappointed , having glimpsed the possibility of returning from this expedition into the cultural heart of darkness with some creditable achievement to report to Charles and Penny Black . |
| 14 | With the casualty beds still unoccupied the medical staff in hospital grew bolder in their attempts to help Fulham 's children , who were returning from this first evacuation in large numbers . |
| 15 | About a month after returning from this trip , she suddenly developed full-blown rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 16 | Returning from this success , Kimon was obliged to deal with a major allied revolt , that of Thasos , an island in the north Aegean , rich in minerals . |
| 17 | for proceeding to or returning from any garage , auction room or other place at which vehicles are usually stored or usually or periodically offered for sale and at which the vehicle is to be or has been stored or is to be or has been offered for sale as the case may be ; |
| 18 | That if we had a response here of two one zeros I 've scored at the bottom of that , we 've actually got two of the logic terms matching from this particular class . |
| 19 | One of the logic terms matching from this particular class and none for this particular class . |
| 20 | One of the chief reasons for believing that heterostracans were fossil relatives of hagfishes ( Fig. 2 A , b ) centred on the fact that in the modern hagfish , Myxine , and heterostracans there is a single external branchial opening emptying from several internal gill pouches . |
| 21 | at the request of the Policyholder any person ( other than the person driving ) in or mounting into or dismounting from any motor9 car described in the Schedule |
| 22 | ‘ Forgive me , ’ Legion interrupted , sincerity oozing from each of its voices , ‘ but I have only just arrived in this solar system . |
| 23 | We were initiating a major change in the teaching of English which would need great good will and understanding from all teachers . |
| 24 | She knew in her heart that she did not need drugs , she needed rest , patience and understanding from those around her . |
| 25 | You find the tax due by deducting from that two reliefs : |
| 26 | In disengaging from that strategy and withdrawing to his study to memorialize the de Gaulle of history , the General reverted to his original concept of the leader-in-reserve — the solitary hero to whom the nation would inevitably turn in a moment of dire emergency . |
| 27 | ’ ‘ e 'll be ‘ iding from that lone German , no doubt . ’ |
| 28 | As the plain rose towards the plateau , I saw two poles in the ground ; with a rag flapping from each they looked like wind socks . |
| 29 | She fell towards them , wishing she had the energy to turn her gaze away from this blankness , but as he moved closer to her a little light caught his cheek and she saw , or thought she saw , tears there , spilling from those dark eyes . |
| 30 | If the spokesman risks this hazardous operation , he should stand well back from the edge of the pavement or risk being splashed by the mud and water spilling from these ‘ sealed lorries . ’ |