Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The march , scheduled to end in the Kashmiri capital , Srinagar , on Jan. 26 ( Republic Day ) , had reportedly been organized to express the BJP 's opposition to the special constitutional status accorded to Kashmir and , in particular , to a clause prohibiting non-Kashmiris from owning land in the state . |
| 2 | How is VFM auditing different from traditional auditing or management consultancy ? |
| 3 | This fresh blow came just as Exxon felt it was struggling free from the morass of the Alaskan spill . |
| 4 | Bernard Comrie also points out that where languages mark degrees of animacy by means of case inflections , as is done in Slavonic languages , gender is sometimes a relevant factor distin-guishing high from lower degrees of animacy — that is , women may be designated as of ‘ lower animacy ’ than men . |
| 5 | True , the Liberal Nationals were becoming indistinguishable from the Conservatives , while National Labour was too small to be able to exert very much influence upon the massed ranks of Conservatives , although the prestige of the Prime Minister , Ramsay MacDonald , gave it — as Marquand shows — an influence far greater than its mere numbers would have warranted . |
| 6 | In the move to the middle ground of politics , it risked becoming indistinguishable from its rivals , except that it was tarnished with holding office for so long . |
| 7 | It is thought that the old style ambulances are becoming indistinguishable from many normal commercial vehicles and that something more eyecatching was needed . |
| 8 | By fortunate chance , often a major factor in war , Hawke , on the afternoon of 16 November , learned from a victualling ship which was returning empty from taking supplies to the blockading force that it had sighted the French fleet the previous day . |
| 9 | Those who thought that Morrissey 's profile in 1984 was becoming detached from the rest of the band certainly could n't have appreciated the enormous media attention he generated in spring 1985 . |
| 10 | The only hazards , in fact , lay in the presence of pockets of scalding water , and in the possibility of a newly-formed pillow becoming detached from the steep flow front and rolling down on top of them . |
| 11 | But , in fact , in the same way as the very ambitious career woman of today risks becoming detached from her home surroundings , so it must have been extremely difficult in the past for upper-class ladies , running homes that were full of servants , to put personal qualities into the home when all the physical work was taken on by others . |
| 12 | Subsequently , due to defective design ( i. e. not the broken locking mechanism ) , the coupling failed while in use and a road accident occurred as a result of the trailer becoming detached from the Land Rover . |
| 13 | There were several shepherds out there carrying loads of hay on pitchforks , but her father was working with them , his wrappings of leather and tweed and sacking indistinguishable from theirs , his voice as thick and soft , his movements every bit as practised . |
| 14 | Most will have taken a Foundation course in Art and Design , but applicants from a wide range of backgrounds are welcome , including those applying direct from sixth forms . |
| 15 | However , in responding to their situation criminals are seen as becoming distinct from the mainstream , non-criminal population . |
| 16 | The markings should be located as follows : a spot over each eye ; on cheeks ; as a strip around each side of muzzle , but not on the bridge of the nose ; on throat ; triangular mark on either side of prosternum ; on forelegs from carpus downwards to toes ; on front of rear legs from hock to toes , but not completely eliminating black from back of rear pasterns ; under tail ; black pencilling on toes . |
| 17 | The fact that the song and the receptor change together in the hybrids suggests that there is some control mechanism which prevents the two from becoming uncoupled from each other ; such a mechanism would have the effect of making it more likely that , whenever a male or female cricket changed its song or song-preference during evolution , some other individual of the other sex will have made the complementary change . |
| 18 | In Britain , Huxley introduced this kind of physiology from France and Germany from the 1850s ; and in the last quarter of the century his pupils ( trained in South Kensington , in what became Imperial College ) filled chairs in British universities , where the field was now becoming separated from medicine . |
| 19 | The draughtsmen were by this time becoming separated from the engineers , in that specialization which was such a feature of all aspects of life in the age of science . |
| 20 | He insisted that ‘ we shall never win the people by keeping aloof from them … |
| 21 | The process will necessarily be a dynamic one with DHAs updating their plans annually and modifying their pattern of contracts both to reflect changing needs and to respond to new services becoming available from current or alternative providers . |
| 22 | ‘ I have been excluded from my children for five months and I am very worried that they are becoming isolated from me , ’ said Allen , 57 , afterwards . |
| 23 | What would be extremely damaging to us would be Britain becoming isolated from the rest of Europe . |
| 24 | This is why , though the ideas were becoming common from the late eighteenth century , effective alternative and oppositional formations became common only in the second half of the nineteenth century and increased markedly towards the end of the century . |
| 25 | At the same time , finance is becoming inextricable from questions of industrial policy : do differences in the cost of capital , or in how it is provided , or in the way in which firms are owned , affect firms ' competitiveness in America , Europe and Japan ? |
| 26 | Heads adopting a ‘ managing director ’ or ‘ boss ’ role were more likely to be office-based and thus to run the risk of appearing remote from everyday classroom concerns , especially in larger schools . |
| 27 | Lieutenant Simon Doggett , who had been charged with keeping Nosey from killing the chickens that pecked in the inn yard , followed Sharpe out to the road . |
| 28 | Few of them improve , and even fewer recover , many behave like members of cults , obeying their doctor without question , paying huge sums of money , and becoming estranged from their families . |
| 29 | After becoming estranged from Kim Dae Jung following their inability to agree upon a single candidate to oppose Roh Tae Woo in the 1987 presidential contest , in 1990 he led his opposition party into an amalgamation with Roh 's ruling party to form the DLP . |
| 30 | I make myself aware of a three-dimensional object by synthesizing what I perceive from here with what I imagine from there , of a continuing event by synthesizing what I perceive now with what I remember from past and anticipate from future viewpoints ; and in either case ‘ Be aware ’ obliges me to let myself be moved from the different viewpoints , as a causally necessary condition of becoming aware from them . |