Example sentences of "[vb -s] from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A day passes from being merely ordinary ( chronos ) into one irradiated with a special significance ( kairos ) because of the event with which it is permanently associated . |
| 2 | The club 's Revenue Account , which shows a profit of £8 4s. 3d. , benefits from being credited with all the subscriptions paid since the summer of 1907 , against course upkeep , which does not officially begin until May 1908 on ‘ hand over ’ . |
| 3 | The analogue recording is clean , smooth , and well-balanced , but benefits from being given a little extra playback volume to help bring the instruments into focus ; fortunately tape hiss levels are as low as you 'd expect on a good digital recording . |
| 4 | Right now , Iran benefits from being part of the UN 's siege of Mr Hussein . |
| 5 | But Hot Air also benefits from being published by John Brown Publishing , the company behind Viz . |
| 6 | Usually this is at least 38 cm ( 15 in ) deep , but benefits from being deeper , particularly if you are considering overwintering fancy goldfish out of doors . |
| 7 | Concrete of the same consistency as is used for pool construction is used to form the waterfall , which like the pool benefits from being 15 cm ( 6 in ) deep . |
| 8 | This instrument benefits from being highly portable and has considerable international potential . |
| 9 | This sort of work frequently benefits from being set up to create a triangle , so that each group has some relationship with the other two , each group needs and services the other two . |
| 10 | CAME 'S BEAUTY stems from being built in the palest of pale Portland stone , arguably the finest building stone in Britain , quarried over the down a few miles towards the sea . |
| 11 | The oral shield varies from being roughly pentagonal to distinctly arrow shaped . |
| 12 | Now , however , a comparison … has made clear that what the older version mainly suffers from are considerable deficiencies in ‘ discourse structure ’ , i.e. , in the way the sentences are combined into well-integrated paragraphs , and these in turn into a well-constructed whole . |
| 13 | The disease Thomas suffers from is a rare condition called A-T which makes him unsteady and prone to infections — and cancer . |
| 14 | The rhythm section flickers between Happy Mondays , Ride and The Cure ( Robert Smith is coincidentally scrubbed and present ) but suffers from being too quiet . |
| 15 | And if the current show suffers from being too long and too scripted , his ad libbing is good enough to carry it along . |
| 16 | Certainly there are plenty of magnificent seventeenth- and eighteenth-century streets ; but it suffers from being planned as an adjunct to the palace . |
| 17 | He says Springhill Open Prison suffers from being in the shadow of Grendon gaol , the highly respected prison that shares the same site . |
| 18 | ‘ We are looking for a new partnership with the LAS and believe that together it is possible to ensure this vital lifeline goes from being the worst in the UK to being the model service . ’ |
| 19 | ( a ) prevent any proceedings to which this Order applies from being taken or completed earlier than is required by this Order ; or |
| 20 | The strength and the value of the contemporary monarchy derives from being above and avoiding political decisions . |
| 21 | ‘ The space he speaks from is empty . ’ |
| 22 | That 's where it em , that 's where it emanates from is n't it ? |
| 23 | Hair sometimes changes from being dry to becoming greasy at this age but as likely as not will revert later to its usual condition . |
| 24 | It changes from being a cost centre to a profit centre , and this should stimulate management to aim for better performance and should provide increased job satisfaction . |
| 25 | Dr Roger Pertwee claims it is only a matter of time before marijuana moves from being regarded as a drug of abuse to a substance which can be used positively . |
| 26 | Having external angles equal to internal opposites follows from being a figure of three lines , but is no more a part of that idea than being yellow or malleable would be part of a detailed idea of the corpuscular constitution of gold . |
| 27 | Whatever happens , try to protect these stone sets from being dug up and thrown away . |
| 28 | Exactly where all this speed comes from is difficult to pin down ; obviously Virtual Processor code is pretty low level stuff and assembler code tends to run quickly by its very nature , however Hinsley is optimistic that the kind of performance seen today will be preserved even when applications are written using the C++ and Parallel Basic compilers that are currently nearing completion — compilers that produce Virtual Processor code , of course . |
| 29 | Exactly where all this speed comes from is difficult to pin down ; obviously Virtual Processor code is pretty low level stuff and assembler code tends to run quickly by its very nature , however Hinsley is optimistic that the kind of performance seen today will be preserved even when applications are written using the C++ and Parallel Basic compilers that are currently nearing completion — compilers that produce Virtual Processor code , of course . |
| 30 | If it 's been credited , then the only person who will be able to tell you where it comes from is Sesostris . ’ |