Example sentences of "is [verb] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is differentiated from other ovine lungworms by its larger size and straight tail . |
| 2 | Ricardo Ellcock , the Middlesex fast bowler , plans to study in the United States for a career as an airline pilot after confirming yesterday that he is to retire from first-class cricket , as reported in Monday 's Daily Telegraph . |
| 3 | His move to Japan 's Grampus Eight club hinges on the health of his baby son George , who is recovering from acute myeloid leukaemia . |
| 4 | Mallett is recovering from dreadful first-half figures . |
| 5 | AXA has since ploughed almost $100m more into Equitable Life , which is recovering from heavy losses on its property portfolio , and reckons it will soon see a good return on its investment . |
| 6 | And if it is diverted from national savings , it does not help anyway . |
| 7 | The inquirer is distanced from current results , and sees himself , not as finding things out but as contributing to the cognitive progress of a wider community . |
| 8 | In his book , The Pilgrim 's Regress , he says that the experience of intense longing is distinguished from other longings by two things : |
| 9 | Since the human species is distinguished from other animals by — amongst other things — the capacity to plan and execute the use of tools and produce its own means of life , it follows that such activity involves labour . |
| 10 | On the contrary , as the next chapter will show , legal ownership is recognised and distinguished from equitable ownership in much the same way as a legal estate in land is distinguished from equitable interests therein . |
| 11 | Under Section 10 ( i ) of the 1974 Act , running-account credit is distinguished from fixed-sum credit . |
| 12 | So timeless Love is distinguished from temporal desire which , |
| 13 | For them the answer to the question of interpretation , and at the same time to the question of evaluation , is provided by the concept of structure ; good literature or poetry is distinguished from bad literature or non-literature by an objective structure of meaning , the balancing or reconciliation of opposing attitudes or terms . |
| 14 | A red string bag ( the kind that you buy oranges in ) gives a lively black and white pattern ; a piece of plastic bubble wrap makes a precise even pattern ; the familiar orderly weave of coarse sacking combines with its frayed , undisciplined edging ; the sinuous spiral is formed from ordinary string , and finally the animated and random pattern at the top is created from scattered uncooked rice grains . |
| 15 | The distinctive ‘ rattle ’ at the end of the tail is formed from modified scales and increases in size by one rattle section every time the snake moults its skin , which may be up to four times a year . |
| 16 | Different textures define areas of the garden : the pathway is formed from large pebbles set in concrete but circular concrete stepping stones give foot comfort ! |
| 17 | Similarly , it takes several hours before ozone is formed from photochemical actions involving oxides of nitrogen and volatile organic compounds ( hydrocarbons ) . |
| 18 | It is largely because the bran is stripped from white flour that our Western diet has become low in natural fibre content . |
| 19 | Its new research and development centre is shielded from surrounding countryside by extensive landscaping and the project won the scheme 's Premier Award . |
| 20 | ‘ With money so tight and nothing is heard from local communities the facility could be lost by stealth . |
| 21 | The recently discovered Aberfeldy stratabound exhalative deposit ( Coats and others , 1984b ; MRP 26 and 40 ) in Middle Dalradian sediments is producing from open pit and underground sources . |
| 22 | A carefully planned programme of subsequent care should be arranged before a patient is discharged from psychiatric inpatient treatment . |
| 23 | MP after MP is returning from awkward constituency surgeries in the shires with tales of hard-saving but far-from-affluent constituents , Tory to the marrow , boiling with rage at what they see as a government out of touch and misdirected . |
| 24 | The look is rescued from male parody with ruffle-fronted dandy shirts or lace-collared cavalier blouses . |
| 25 | The government has said to the European Community that , of the 7.7-percentage-points improvement it hopes to make in the total public-sector deficit between 1992 and 1996 — from 9.6% of GDP to 1.9% — more than half , 4.1 percentage points , is to come from extra taxes . |
| 26 | Clear advice on what is expected from successful candidates |
| 27 | The state of Texas is making a substantial contribution , and about $1.7 billion is expected from foreign partners . |
| 28 | Stage 1 : Offline Stores — During this stage the Offline System ensures that two good copies ( Primary and Secondary ) are taken before a module is deleted from online storage . |
| 29 | Its state is transitioned from CREATED to OUTSTANDING and all users who may be affected by the SPR are informed , via the Mail System , of its existence . |
| 30 | Lead is omitted from modern pewter which is often termed ‘ English Pewter ’ . |