Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking notes is one of the best ways to stay alert and gain most from lectures , but how many notes and what sort ? |
| 2 | The fungus Verticillium lecanii was developed commercially from work at Littlehampton . |
| 3 | For a few moments she stood watching him as with quick little movements he fed himself , his sharp eyes darting suspiciously from side to side . |
| 4 | It is in the battle scenes that the new film differs most from Olivier 's prototype , and Branagh can fairly claim to have stripped the veneer of jingoism from the play , by showing war in its true horror . |
| 5 | It is not as though his position is remotely like that of modern emotivists who have compared ethical statements with imperatives ( and Hare 's ethics differs most from Kant 's where it comes nearest to emotivism ) . |
| 6 | It differs widely from marriage as seen in earlier periods of social development or in some other Western countries . |
| 7 | In fact , the length of time that Standard English has had this status differs widely from place to place : over three hundred years in Jamaica , less than two hundred in Dominica . |
| 8 | The account goes on from year to year , for as long as you want . |
| 9 | One view is that , even though the current physical self will perish , the spirit goes on from life to life ; if this is the case , one of the things that spirit has to learn is how to deal with all areas of negativity. 1 believe that , by the time the spirit enters the body , it has already chosen the lessons it wishes to learn and the difficulties it wishes to overcome during that lifetime . |
| 10 | Now that the state itself is disintegrating around us , while folk culture goes on from strength to strength , they need to be re-stated ( ibid : 95 ) . |
| 11 | The ginger tomcat glared up at her , its tail lashing furiously from side to side . |
| 12 | Heavy machinery : Machines can range widely from bandsaws to bottling plants . |
| 13 | A visually outstanding picture book revealing the megalomania of Stalinist architecture both on paper and as realised with amazing diversity in popular palaces deriving most from Boullée , Piranesi and the Gothic cathedral . |
| 14 | ‘ Love is a local Anguish , ’ he wrote after he and Hucks had travelled on from Wrexham . |
| 15 | We gain little from minute attention to the manufacturers ' congratulations for our choice of car , or from the swearing-in in court , and , on a first reading of a novel , it may be more important to follow those parts which forward the plot than those which set the scene . |
| 16 | As other studies have shown that working class people suffer most from ill-health and also use health services less effectively than others , the research investigates three small samples of such people in three different areas : East London , Birmingham and Leeds . |
| 17 | Communities which suffer most from crime are often the most disadvantaged in the first place . |
| 18 | Merseysiders in general worry a lot about crime but those under the greatest social and economic pressure also suffer most from crime : they worry more , perhaps too much , but they do have the most to worry about . |
| 19 | In general , enzyme defects are inherited — passed on from parents to children in the form of an abnormal gene . |
| 20 | It is an oral history , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 21 | For hundreds and indeed thousands of years , this knowledge has only been intuitive , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 22 | CUSTOM — A well-established , traditional mode of socially relevant behaviour passed on from generation to generation that prescribes the proper ways of behaving in given situations or under given conditions . |
| 23 | ‘ Are you interested in the actual fishing that used to go on from Lowestoft ? |
| 24 | The former came from ‘ blues ’ ( amphetamines ) as it was common for dances to go on from Saturday into Sunday . |
| 25 | For instance , if we want a trajectory that goes then we start in region 1 ; to get to region 3 we must be in the right-hand " third " of region 1 ; if we are going to go on from region 3 to region 4 , we must be in the right-hand " third " of that " third " ; and , to go on to region 2 , in the left " third " of that " third " , etc . |
| 26 | He was to retire altogether from films , declaring himself ‘ tired of knocking my head against a brick wall . ’ |
| 27 | So Ritschl offered his own definition of Christianity , which resembles yet also differs strikingly from Schleiermacher 's , |
| 28 | They drag on from generation to generation and emigration to Britain makes very little difference . |
| 29 | It is generally assumed that pus-cells in the urethra are synonymous with infection and the pus-cell is treated vigorously from Bath to Bangkok and from Memphis to Madras as if it were an infectious organism itself . |
| 30 | However , productivity differs less from country to country for non-traded goods than for tradables . |