Example sentences of "it is [verb] [adv prt] from [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is cut off from the world by a level crossing which the Labour candidate , the genial Ralph Knight , another adopted Lancastrian , admits made him nervous when he first ventured over it .
2 However , in another , crucial sense it is closed off from the world .
3 He said : ‘ The market is definitely thawing out from the big freeze we experienced last year , and it is thawing out from the bottom up .
4 This is because investment business is not regulated business unless : ( 1 ) It is carried on from a UK office ; or ( 2 ) Where relevant , it is carried on with or for customers in the UK and is within the FSA 's territorial scope ( see page 39 above ) .
5 It is set back from the road with a sweeping drive and an ornamental fish-pond in front , now stagnant .
6 It is set back from the main road , has a small shopping centre and typically Italian lakeside cafés , and is linked to the other lake resorts by steamers .
7 ‘ Everybody knows Harlowe Place , ’ Lovelace comments dismissively , ‘ for , like Versailles , it is sprung up from a dunghill , within every elderly person 's remembrance . ’
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