Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the services listed offer free guidance to anyone over the age of 19 who has been away from education for a significant period . |
| 2 | She may also use it as a greeting when she has been away from the kittens for a while . |
| 3 | In this sense the particular manipulation of reality found in the adventure story , at least until the past two or three decades , has been away from the practicalities of extended cohabitation , whether in or out of marriage . |
| 4 | With a new emphasis on the importance of the Word , the trend has been away from hymns , anthems and settings . |
| 5 | In music , as with other subjects , the trend has been away from regimentation towards an individual approach and small group work . |
| 6 | The trend , in recent years , has been away from a system of strict , item by item controls to broad limitations upon total borrowing . |
| 7 | But as someone who has been away from the industry for five years , I see a surprisingly rosy future for the book itself . |
| 8 | The June 5 announcement that Foreign Minister Ghozali was to be the new Prime Minister prompted favourable international press comment ; Tehran radio said that he was " recognized by the Islamists as someone who has been away from domestic confrontation " . |
| 9 | Mature Student was defined as someone who has been away from continuous education for more than one year . |
| 10 | Peaceful , mellow and noble , in the shade of a great sycamore , it is the sort of house that feels as though it has been there from time immemorial . |
| 11 | Its profits record , which has been far from outstanding , suggests that it is wrong . |
| 12 | Both her looks and personality came from a ride to stardom that has been far from comfortable . |
| 13 | The task of loading and storing the data has been far from trivial ; for one thing , the total raw data in the SAS/LBS for Great Britain at all areal levels comes to some 6–7 gigabytes . |
| 14 | But the year since Robert Maxwell 's death has been far from comfortable . |
| 15 | In Ivory Coast the transfer of ownership has been essentially from the foreign private investor to the local private investor : government remains the owner of 50 per cent of corporate capital ( as it has been since the 1960s ) and the foreign investors ' share has been reduced to 30 per cent , with the local private sector taking the remainder . |
| 16 | The sovereign power inherent in the British Crown , as exercised through Council and through Parliament , derives not from a treaty or document or compact , but from prescription , from the fact that it has been so from time immemorial — that it is immanent in the nation itself . |
| 17 | Within an hour of sitting down at my old desk , reading through my old files and shouting at my not so old secretary I felt as if I 'd been away from work for maybe just a week 's holiday . |
| 18 | But when we moved in here , because I 'd been away from him for five months and I 'd learned to cope for myself , I started standing up for myself and he did n't like it . |
| 19 | And I 'd been there from six in the morning till quarter to nine . |
| 20 | He 'd been there from the beginning , that 's we know |
| 21 | We 'd been certain that Frank had been kept with a Frenchman in the apartment we 'd been in from February to early May . |
| 22 | As I pull up at the back of the hotel Mr Shah is waiting with a folder full ; his expression , although friendly , contains around his mouth a little reproach that I should have been away from the action for so long . |
| 23 | ( Even so , Valentin 's marriage did not survive and it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that its atmosphere must have been far from normal . |
| 24 | In the exciting report of the prospect of finding a Roman amphitheatre at Newstead in the Borders ( 11 March ) the legions are said to have been there from ‘ about 43 AD ’ . |
| 25 | He had been apart from Irina on many occasions — too many — but a permanent separation was something he still had to get used to . |
| 26 | City had been ahead from the 12th minute when full-back Hill was left unmarked at a Brennan corner and took advantage with a crisp header . |
| 27 | Now she knew that Fernando was in contact with Maria Luisa and probably had been right from the off . |
| 28 | By this time she had been away from her native Russia scarcely a dozen years . |
| 29 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 30 | He had been away from his wife and family for nearly two weeks now . |