Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pulled from the river with her nightdress apparently wound around her head , she provided Magritte with an image which haunted his art and inspired the long and diverse series of compositions in which the head is concealed by a veil or an apple , metamorphosed into a plank of wood , or shown only from the back view . |
| 2 | In any case , there are almost certain to be many transactions which are difficult to discover or to understand merely from the books and papers of the company . |
| 3 | There is one person responsible for ensuring that the individual does not ‘ slip through the net ’ or drift away from the service , a factor which is particularly important in mental health services . |
| 4 | At other times I may be delighted to see them , for if the writing is not going well the writer welcomes any excuse to lay down his pen or turn away from the typewriter . |
| 5 | Outcidence is the opposite of incidence , and primarily consists of those users who stop taking heroin , but also includes a small proportion of users who die or move away from the area of study . |
| 6 | Before the 1979 election the party took advantage of the Winter of Discontent to toughen its manifesto proposals , promising to curtail flying pickets , or picketing away from the pickets ' place of work , and provide funds for pre-strike ballots of union members and for the election of union officials . |
| 7 | This link with an organization that operated directly from the White House raised a disturbing question — where had the authority for the break-in originated ? |
| 8 | The relief as she left the place and walked along the track that led away from the Hacienda de Nieve was astounding . |
| 9 | Still dazed , Mrs Lomax put the car into gear and drove slowly in a semi-circle , back to the rough track that led away from the Monument . |
| 10 | She found herself standing on a wide terrace , with steps that led away from the house . |
| 11 | The Greece that got away from the Turks was a country of peasants , local clan chieftains and Orthodox priests , with only a sliver of a mercantile and professional upper class . |
| 12 | It was hard for the Major to see the little procession that moved away from the Administration block towards the heart of the camp , but he fancied he could still make out one dark head amongst the hazing image of the retreating column . |
| 13 | Gilligan sees this as a morality of responsibility that stands apart from the morality of rights underlying Kohlberg 's conception . |
| 14 | Our hypothesis was that hypoxaemia occurred more often than suspected clinically from the presence of cyanosis and that selected clinical signs , including respiratory rate , would be useful to predict its presence . |
| 15 | Whenever it was Charlie 's turn to spend four days in the advance trenches his section seemed to occupy most of their time filling their billycans with pints of water , as they struggled to bail out the gallons that dropped daily from the heavens . |
| 16 | Such plants , together with primitive mosses and liverworts , formed green tangled carpets , miniature forests that spread inland from the edges of estuaries and rivers , and into these the first animal colonists crept from the sea . |
| 17 | The latter two are vital in controlling particulate ( soot ) emission , as burnt oil and sulphates make up a significant chunk of the black stuff that swirls away from the exhaust stack . |
| 18 | The warp describes the strands of material that run lengthways from the top to the bottom of a rug and form the fringes at the ends ; the weft runs widthways and forms the selvedges , or sides . |
| 19 | A wind that blows away from the shore . |
| 20 | Clements was an influential writer who developed a philosophy of ecology that differed fundamentally from the reductionism of Warming and Cowles . |
| 21 | On the other hand , rather than move away from an area where similar firms operate , some firms may consider that it is in their own particular interest to move into such a location . |
| 22 | Phosphorus that diffuses upward from the bottom is absorbed by the accumulated bacteria and algal cells at the top of the anoxic layer ; very little penetrates to the less saline layers above , which are thus limited to the very small amounts brought in by Onyx River . |
| 23 | But ‘ belong ’ — she is fearful that for her at least the word may explode , may vanish in a puff of smoke as delicate as the smoke that trickles from Fenna 's nostrils when he is asleep ; as delicate as the fronds of smoke that drift mysteriously from the end of Phoebe 's cigarette when she gestures impatiently in conversation . |
| 24 | I watched the crew of a grubby Polish reefer vessel : they were taking pictures of each other against the background of the Gatun Locks ; three hours later , they were gazing with rapt attention at the passing majesty of Culebra ; their cameras were out again for the Pedro Miguel , for the distant flags of the American bases , for the Miraflores Locks , and for the immense red-white-and-blue bandera of the Panama Republic that waved lazily from the summit of Mount Ancon , over the old wooden houses of Panama City . |
| 25 | The old-age pensioner could not hear it , but for everyone else it continued to throb with the promise of its message , drifting over Dynmouth on the breeze that blew gently from the sea . |
| 26 | Being a firm believer in purchasing-power parity as a forecasting tool , I find the Big Mac index significantly more accurate than the myriad of economists ' forecasts that spew forth from the profusion of banking and security-firm literature . |
| 27 | At least 2000 seeds are needed , and only ripe material that falls easily from the heads should be collected . |
| 28 | In despair , I scrambled all the way down to the gully that falls directly from the col and tried to climb it quickly before the sun got up . |
| 29 | They passed a great dark wood that grew southwards from the road and , quite suddenly , the pale strip of the paved high road stretched stark across the landscape ahead . |
| 30 | Housing is another local authority service that grew rapidly from the beginning of the present century , particularly after the First World War ( Cullingworth 1966 ) . |