Example sentences of "from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seems general agreement that the mind does not work like a camera , faithfully recording everything in front of its lens , for apart from the discrimination of sensations and the filtering out of some of them , the information that is passed on undergoes considerable re-organisation and change so that there is always a discrepancy between the sensory input and what is perceived . |
| 2 | Thus the very vibrancy of Impressionist or Pointillist paintings may well result from the discrimination of thousands of similar bits of colour data , all emerging as dots of similar hue , brightness , size or shape so that each momentarily stands out as a mini-figure against all the rest . |
| 3 | A canister is recovered from the craft , the contents of which solidify into an at first small creature called an Ymir . |
| 4 | Data from the craft are swapped via a global telecommunications system coordinated by the World Meteorological Organisation in Geneva . |
| 5 | In Britain it came from the craft unions which , due to the early date of industrialisation , were already well established in the workplace . |
| 6 | These volumes are aimed to provide serious students with the rudiments of the craft , and yet to launch them from the craft into inspired practice . |
| 7 | He watched the tiny figure fall away from the craft , twisting silently in the air , a tiny star of darkness against the white , growing smaller by the second , then shuddered again , a strange mixture of pain and incomprehension making him shake his head and moan . |
| 8 | The tabloid business supplement and the stapled A3 heat-set high-colour Sunday Review were greeted with immediate applause by advertising executives and journalists alike ( ’ a striking combination of the New York Review of Books and Rolling Stone circa 1972–3 ’ wrote one fugitive from The Correspondent ) . |
| 9 | With average British fields , this needs to be at least one field length back from the boundary . |
| 10 | Detached garages with a floor area of less than 30sq m ( 325sq ft ) are exempt from control , so long as they are constructed wholly of non-combustible material ( which most garages are ) , or are more than 1m from the boundary in the case of wooden buildings . |
| 11 | Empirical investigation using UK Department of Industry 1 km square data overlaid on polygon boundaries of north-west England employment office areas revealed that only 60 per cent of the points in the industry database could be positively assigned to an employment office area by being within a polygon and away from the boundary by a distance greater than epsilon . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Oldham 's forgotten man Andy Barlow steps from the Boundary Park shadows to face in-form Spurs . |
| 13 | The general rule is that the more combustible your wall is , the greater distance it has to be away from the boundary . |
| 14 | This will occur if the viscosity of the magma is low enough for crystals to escape from the boundary layer on the convective timescale rather than remaining to contribute to the density evolution of the boundary layer . |
| 15 | Hydra sprawls from the boundary of Canis Minor through to the south of Corvus and Virgo . |
| 16 | The degree of fire protection needed is reduced as the distance from the boundary increases until no protection is needed ( i.e. external walls may consist entirely of unprotected area ) . |
| 17 | The spacing of the building from the boundary is the main defence against fire spread from one building to another with consequent risk to life . |
| 18 | The arrows in the drawing are moving back from the boundary of the information field to the centre . |
| 19 | The solution for an elastic cylinder in place strain is need to be found from the boundary conditions , Now if is the circumferential tension in the thin band it is equal to b times the interfacial pressure . |
| 20 | If my hon. Friend will look at the recommendations already coming from the Boundary Commission , she will see that it recommends that there should be eight rather than seven seats in Dorset . |
| 21 | Planners felt one block of flats would be too close to houses in Melsonby Crescent only nine metres from the boundary when the usual minimum distance was 21 metres . |
| 22 | You know that from here on in the best that can be hoped for is a sufficient economic upturn , plus a helpful nudge from the boundary redistributions , to carry you back into power — again probably , with a modest parliamentary majority and all the headaches it brings . |
| 23 | That assurance , derived from the conviction that the WEA had a major role to play in society and that the Eastern District was successful in fulfilling it , was apparent in the paper , ‘ A Consideration of Aims and Purposes ’ , written by former treasurer Edward Miller in 1956 . |
| 24 | More prosaically , resistance to delegation may stem from the conviction that one is being over exploited , being asked to do considerably more work but without any increase in pay . |
| 25 | The result is quite striking : the richer respondents claim to be more prepared to break the law than the poorer ones , despite their apparent lesser chances of actually breaking it from the conviction statistics . |
| 26 | In point of fact , in terms of Catholic tradition , the challenges here might be less awkward than those of phase 2 ( and to some extent John Paul II was able to recognize this ) , but the crucial ecclesiastical issue once more ( as in phase 1 ) had become the acceptability of diversity , and the curial mind had never escaped from the conviction that unity requires uniformity . |
| 27 | However , for musicians to take advantage of such technology , they needed to detach themselves from the conviction that high-cost studio technology and expertise was essential for the production of successful and valuable recordings . |
| 28 | THE woods seem but just freed from the horror of primeval sea , if that is not primeval sea washing their bases . |
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| 30 | It had been silly to think that she needed to protect him from the horror . |