Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] be [adv] [vb pp] from " in BNC.

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1 Often the counsellor of ageing people will experience this when , after talking with them for a short period , many of the pressures and worries appear to be visibly lifted from their shoulders .
2 Even novels which appear to be furthest removed from the lives of those who wrote them — the work of Kafka , of Lewis Carroll , of the contemporary feminist writer Marge Piercy — have drawn on the real life surroundings of their authors .
3 Offshore plants tend to be financially controlled from abroad , they tend to be rented rather than owned , and their managers tend to have cosmopolitan rather than local perspectives .
4 Second , they often live some distance from the black communities and so their black children tend to be socially isolated from immediate relatives and from other black people .
5 Lots are drawn to see which lucky members will have a horse or pony to compete on , and the excited youngsters have to be forcibly restrained from arriving at the stables before 5am and disturbing the local residents with their assiduous preparations .
6 For example , facilities like swimming pools , water sports , chair lifts etc. require maintenance and sometimes have to be temporarily withdrawn from use for such work to be done .
7 In order to direct the discussion towards the particularity of the artefact form , rather than the problem of the mainly linguistic sign , artefacts need to be explicitly distinguished from language .
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