Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's unheralded side twice fought back from behind to snatch a deserved point against Poland in the first match of the Olympic qualifying tournament in Sheffield last night . |
| 2 | For a moment , when Miles had looked so meltingly at her as those words poured from him , it seemed as though he were speaking to her , and the dark , wet night simply faded away from around her , and she was transported to a warm summer garden on the night of a Royal Ball . |
| 3 | The French monarchy probably benefited little from this horde of officials , who lay , in the words of a contemporary Englishman , ‘ as thick as the grass-hoppers in Egypt ’ . |
| 4 | But in general it can be said that authority and direction within cultural production either derived directly from the integral social organization within which such duties were assigned , or , as in the case of classical Greek drama , were assigned within a civic organization and became , in effect , a process of tender and hire . |
| 5 | In the enlightenment of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , scientific medicine finally struggled out from beneath the dead hand of classical authority . |
| 6 | Then they would have entered the conical shadow cast by the moon , and the stars would have become visible again for a brief time before the Lift sank beneath the surface itself and came to a standstill , its massive kinetic energy somehow conducted away from the lower terminus and stored in a way that Alex Bannen would have killed to learn . |
| 7 | As I pointed out in the last chapter , working-class attachment to institutional religion never picked up from the moment that peasants moved off the land and became urbanised . |