Example sentences of "[adv prt] from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That victory followed on from success in the Dewhurst International in March , where she came through from being a reserve qualifier to reach the semi-finals . |
| 2 | But there comes a point at which audio-visual presentations take over from being an aid to the speaker and become an end in themselves . |
| 3 | Are we to assume then that he had now switched over from being an evangelist and was a deliberate artist in the making , out in the open for all to see ? |
| 4 | The West should take time off from being Gorbacharmed to think about recent events in Russia 's outer empire and the awkward question they raise : how to undo Europe 's post-1945 division without undoing its post-1945 stability . |
| 5 | When Leith took time off from being absolutely furious with Naylor Massingham and his high-handed behaviour , though , she experienced odd moments of wanting to tell him openly that she was not , and never had been , romantically interested in his cousin . |
| 6 | Benelux is made up from Be lgium , the Ne therlands ( Holland ) and Lux embourg . |
| 7 | A good caddie also has to be something of a psychologist , knowing when to cajole his player into making a better effort ; calming him down when he 's just three-putted or blazed a drive into the rough ; or steadying him up from being over-confident or over-zealous when the adrenalin is flowing after a couple of good holes . |
| 8 | Without consultation , Hayling had invited Pilger to move up from being a mere adviser to the new post of editorial director . |
| 9 | And they 've caught up from being one of the most illiterate countries in Europe to on the edge of the leading group . |
| 10 | Matthew Miles has moved up from being a National Account Executive in the Multiples Sector to become National Account Manager in the sector , reporting to Gary Lunt . |
| 11 | You know i it 's pick picked him up from being very much an also ran for whom there was virtually no no hope , er to leaving the school with a a really good qualification and a sense of pride and purpose |
| 12 | The need is to move unions on from being state-controlled agencies for controlling industrial production to collective bargaining organisations . |
| 13 | How they went on from being carried and put in things to sitting in the front seat of cars , opening things for themselves , unlocking the tame mysteries of life . |
| 14 | Iain Laughland , for one , has gone on from being a long-serving cap from London Scottish to be the exiles ' representative on the Scottish Rugby Union committee and , ex officio , chairman of the Anglo-Scots ' committee . |
| 15 | The Open School 's approach of learning more fully through experience will help enable Johannesburg 's black children move on from being the victims of apartheid to grasping and using the challenges now facing them in the changing South Africa . |
| 16 | You moved on from being on the dredger ? |
| 17 | There 's a picture of er er flour , going out from 's Mill er latter part of er last century , erm going out to 's bakery in the town . |
| 18 | Does n't Locke ‘ s definition rule it out from being knowledge at all ? |
| 19 | One of the things one of the most important things is to break out from being an Aids victim . |
| 20 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 21 | All the nineteenth-century conventions of comedy pointed to the need for universality and in any case Chaplin 's own personal inclinations must have pulled him back from being sectionally committed at a time of class warfare . |
| 22 | ‘ Flaubert is writer of rare merit , — he replied , using Gustave 's family name in a manner that shocked me , ‘ but he is held back from being a genius by ill health . ’ |
| 23 | I know they were not complacent about the Swiss because it was only a year earlier that they had been forced to come back from being two down to snatch a vital European point against them . |
| 24 | That had held me back from being able to grow into a woman really . |
| 25 | Let's have a word Colin shall we about er Saturday 's display , er get your thoughts together on that and w we 'll enjoy the goals from that er great victory against Palace at Lane when er Notts fought their way back from being two down against the team that were second in the table , great fight back . |
| 26 | Despite the disappointing erm what opening twenty four minutes , you must be pleased with the comeback , and it shows a bit more confidence in that the side can still come back from being three none . |
| 27 | Following heavy rationalisation , it generated £200m turnover last year , and has turned around from being loss-making to earning ‘ profits that are less than the industry average ’ . |
| 28 | The mill purchased by from was built during 1973 and at the time of the take-over was producing around 70,000 tonnes a year . |