Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the level of interest is not backed up by the right level of knowledge either from prospective users or from many of the suppliers . |
| 2 | Eliminate most other unnecessary activities in bed apart from sleep — do not eat in bed , watch television , or read . |
| 3 | Oh God do n't wan na do my fucking musical , I 've got ta make a flipping piece of music out from a stupid scale . |
| 4 | The Faculty has the advantage of being located in the centre of the Scottish legal system with its own distinctive legal traditions , one of which is an historic openness to influences both from the civilian systems of Europe and the Anglo-American common law . |
| 5 | Uncertain whether to knock politely on the kitchen door , or just thrust it open and make a dramatic entry , Leonora dumped her bag on the flagstones and pushed wet rat's-tails of hair back from her face . |
| 6 | Most of those leaving the cities have done so through the commercial market and they have moved for a variety of reasons ( Kennett and Hall , 1981 ) : more freely-available , cheaper , owner-occupied housing might be found beyond the cities in environmentally-attractive locations ; households are more mobile — car-ownership rates doubled between 1961 and 1981 and the electrification of some InterCity lines has encouraged a marked decentralization of people away from London to areas such as Peterborough , Stamford ( Lincs. ) and even Newark ( Notts. ) ; many move out of cities on retirement ; and for the economically active in the south of England , movement out of London becomes ever more attractive as many commercial activities leave the capital . |
| 7 | There are very few French employers in Scotland apart from tyre giant Michelin , which has a large factory in Dundee , Pernod Ricard which owns several distilleries and drilling rig builder , UIE Scotland , which is a subsidiary of Bouygues Offshore . |
| 8 | The temptation and the suspense novel , a book in which a high degree of identification both from intellectual curiosity and emotional involvement is necessary for the writer as much as the reader , is to catch hold of some intriguing initial situation , sit down at the typewriter and go racing ahead from there . |
| 9 | It was in this major area of economic policy that early on the civil administration exercised a high degree of autonomy even from the totalitarian party . |
| 10 | A clear shift of power away from the hospital consultants was apparent . |
| 11 | Particular subjects of interest include changing levels and patterns of employment , the size and residential distribution of incomers both from overseas and other parts of the United Kingdom ; the changing demographic , occupational and social characteristics of the various city and suburban neighbourhoods ; and changes in social class and occupational patterns in the area . |
| 12 | These years saw a shift in both French and foreign perceptions of legitimacy away from Vichy and in favour of de Gaulle and Free France . |
| 13 | There was also trouble with yasyri , that is slaves seized , not for formal reasons like the amanaty , but for the personal use of men far from home and family . |
| 14 | If the poll tax really became a tax on voting , was it non-registering residents , rather than any enthusiasm for Major or Lang , that pushed the Tory percentage in Scotland up from a poll average of about 21 to an actual 25.5 per cent , and proportionately diminished the impact of the Labour and SNP campaigns ? |
| 15 | It is accepted that the corridor effect may well operate in the years immediately after 193 and the current rush of development is , of course , partly designed to offset the loss in employment caused by general economic decline and the likely transfer of business away from the Channel ports to the Tunnel . |
| 16 | She tossed her head , sending the silky swath of hair tumbling over her shoulders , and sensed rather than saw the sudden shift of emotion away from anger to a raw wild passion that stole her breath and made her legs go weak . |
| 17 | The title not only confirmed the centrality of the hippocampus to studies of animal learning , but was also symbolic of the conceptual shift amongst psychologists away from the crudities of behaviourism and simple associationism towards an understanding of animals , like humans , as cognitive organisms . |
| 18 | Chicks , squatting on the ground in the open , are in constant danger of attack both from the ground and the air . |
| 19 | At one of the nearby graves , there was a sudden scattering of earth away from the grave , leaving a pair of arms visible — the normally dark skin was now the grey of the fungal covering of a rotten potato , while the undersides of the arms were almost black with blood that had gathered there since the heart had stopped pumping . |
| 20 | But those who wish for a basically Northern solution , even a dual national state with inputs both from the Republic and Britain , can interpret the policy as suiting their needs , and can thus find space on the ballot paper for the SDLP . |
| 21 | I I 'm not certain that they were particularly group organised , but er , certainly I shall be looking forward to deposit a large number of files there from our group . |
| 22 | His basic pay of £575,850 up from £344,586 in the previous year was topped up with a one-off , long-term performance bonus of £2,714,624 . |
| 23 | There is no natural flint in Islay so from where did the inhabitants obtain the great quantity of nodules they would require from which to make their tools ? |
| 24 | Lord Dacre kept twenty-eight indoor servants at Hurstmonceux who , with a constant stream of visitors , needed prodigious quantities of food both from the estates and from farther-flung markets . |
| 25 | ‘ You work all over the place , and you must spend a great deal of time away from home . ’ |
| 26 | No neon lights , no jukebox , no slot machines , so what sets the Black Horse at Checkenden apart from other pubs ? |
| 27 | Twin Disc Inc has reported second quarter net profits up 67.7% at $218,000 , on turnover up 6.7% at $34.4m ; mid-term net losses of $14.2m up from losses of $97,000 last time , after $14.4m charges due to the cumulative effect of an accounting change , on turnover that rose 8.6% at $66.7m . |
| 28 | If , on the other hand , it is continuously generated in a flowing system — gas or liquid travelling at a uniform rate down a tube — its subsequent decay establishes steady-state concentrations at points down-stream from the region of generation . |
| 29 | There was an attempt to push the balance back in favour of the consumer , but privatisation has achieved the opposite because it has resulted in a major shift of power away from the consumer to the producer . |
| 30 | Printronix Inc has reported third quarter net profits of $603,000 up from $1.7m losses last time on sales up 9.0% at $23.8m ; nine month net losses were $3.2m , after a $1.0m charge , down from $7.2m losses last time on sales up 8.3% at $70.6m . |