Example sentences of "from the [noun sg] [prep] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Generally speaking most tradesmen have some ways peculiar to themselves which they either derived from masters who taught them or from the experience of things or from something in the course of business ’ , but this did not strictly apply to undertakers , |
| 2 | Just as well , she felt like saying , from the look of things . |
| 3 | If the doctor 's right about the sandbag or lead piping in a sock , and from the look of things it seems right , they did n't want any blood . |
| 4 | " It would depend on nervous strain or other excitement , of course , but from the look of things this strikes me as a fairly cool job . |
| 5 | From the look of things , it was odds on he 'd done a runner with either the till , a barmaid or the Christmas Club fund . |
| 6 | Rose of Lima wrote no spiritual works ; influenced , in her time at least , no worldly powers ; reformed no evil Church authorities ; fought no public battles ; and lived anyway in a Third World country thousands of miles from the centre of things . |
| 7 | Better , from the sound of things , than Thiercelin 's German . |
| 8 | From the sound of things you were lucky to catch him in . |
| 9 | Beeney did OK from the sound of things though . |
| 10 | Profound technological developments have already critically restructured the economies of developed societies from the production of things to the production of knowledge . |
| 11 | It must not be claimed that anyone can sense time itself apart from the movement of things or their restful immobility . ’ |
| 12 | Since both were senior members of the Government and neither , from the nature of things , was a potential candidate for the Premiership , they acted with strict propriety in a difficult situation . |
| 13 | But under these circumstances it must , from the nature of things , be at least an even chance that the jury called upon to find a publisher guilty may sympathise with his language … as fair and laudable criticism of official errors . |