Example sentences of "from [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And last but far from least , the greatest pleasure of all — and sometimes the most hard-won — freedom . |
| 2 | Once there was virtually nothing ( what there was usually only available in Japan ) , now there is a positive deluge of reissues and , indeed , of duplications from Pearl , Biddulph , Music and Arts and , far from least , from EMI . |
| 3 | At first doctors believed he was suffering from little more than sunstroke . |
| 4 | Abrasive cleaners : At their simplest these are the scouring powders formulated from little more than sand or feldspar , the aggregate and a small amount of chlorine release agent . |
| 5 | This most popular show , which ran for 12 years and hooked 22 million viewers at its peak , operated under all the usual constraints of economy sit-com — restricted set , small cast , tiresome re-establishment of norm every week — but somehow extracted magic from little more than the relationship between Harry H Corbett and Wilfrid Brambles . |
| 6 | New bike prices range from little more than £1,5OO for all rounders to more than £6 , OOO . |
| 7 | Even if the world looked different from that height , even if it looked changed , even if what on the ground seemed important was transformed into insignificance . |
| 8 | She 'd say , moreover , that you could always get out of a boat and go ashore , but from that height you could only crash . |
| 9 | The condition of the Northern catholic — nationalist minority has been very different from that of the majority in the South . |
| 10 | They prefer British to Irish rule and seem unlikely to move from that position . |
| 11 | In addition , Roman catholic schools in Ireland , in continuity with the belief and practice of Roman catholics in a number of other countries , have a different concept and practice of teaching religion in the schools from that of the majority of protestant traditions . |
| 12 | Interesting to examine the old masters from that point of view , he wrote . |
| 13 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 14 | It can be argued that its success with critics and failure ‘ at the box office ’ both stem from that fact . |
| 15 | I resolved to take the first thing that came along and from that base to look further afield if need be . |
| 16 | And I drew a lot of strength from that . |
| 17 | If I only ever give you one piece of advice in life — which is highly likely on the face of it — it 's stay away from that man . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I 'd still like to get married , but if someone actually proposed to me I 'd probably run a mile from that as well . ’ |
| 19 | I managed to dissuade her from that and we settled on lunch together the following day . |
| 20 | Fortunately , the flowering of successive groups usually overlaps , and as most of the best varieties are in the mid-season group , just one from that group will pollinate most other varieties . |
| 21 | From that time on it was easier to spot . |
| 22 | The creation of this order at the time a new Official Secrets Bill was being pushed through Parliament by an increasingly interventionist government is significant , and the idea of a senior officer 's having ‘ first read ’ of any essay to maintain the integrity of the institution manifests the importance of the legalized surveillance of allegedly dangerous material and enhances the separation of the world of control from that academic enquiry ; although its implementation is only randomly applied . |
| 23 | Well , apart from that camp every other day thrill … |
| 24 | ‘ I will speak to you today on a text from that book , the Book of Exodus , which is so replete with wisdom concerning the leader and the led . |
| 25 | Coming as it did from such a family — not only from Lazarus ' and Lyon 's own strenuous devotions to their faith , in which names are of the greatest significance , but also from that of Solomon Klinitsky-Klein , his maternal grandfather and his very similar tradition . |
| 26 | From that time he was dedicated , a marked man . |
| 27 | There must have been several dozen possible suggestions for an essay from that paper — political , industrial , military ( the Korean war was still ongoing ) , in sport or arts , etc. etc . |
| 28 | Now London in the late fifties was very different from that of the ‘ seething sixties ’ . |
| 29 | The causal thread that reaches from the perceived object to the perception and on from that to the overt activity of the perceiver symbolizes the ontological homogeneity of the world . |
| 30 | You could approach your writing from that angle . |