Example sentences of "[adv] from [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wrench it fiercely from his weak grasp . |
| 2 | I need hardly say that my wife 's first impression of Lewis differed somewhat from my own . |
| 3 | I expected better from someone half my age . |
| 4 | The Board has met the deficit entirely from its own resources and has had to budget , as I 've said , a continuing deficit into the current financial year . |
| 5 | Only a few species inhabit both polar regions ; each region has recruited almost entirely from its own hemisphere . |
| 6 | ( b ) They are essentially personal , and although historians may try to be objective and impartial they can not free themselves entirely from their own ideas about people and the world , their personal likes and dislikes , and the assumptions and values of the age in which they live . |
| 7 | This has been an experimental year for the social programme , with speakers chosen almost entirely from our own members . |
| 8 | The importance which Engels attributed to this came entirely from his anthropological sources and really reflects an old-fashioned type of archaeology obsessed with material remains rather than with the general way of life . |
| 9 | Whether this redirection has yet had much effect in the classroom is another matter entirely from my own observations there seems as yet to have been few major changes in practice . |
| 10 | They do not usually break out suddenly from their traditional framework and veer off in a new direction . |
| 11 | Across the table Erika looked up thoughtfully from her smoked ham . |
| 12 | Using all the words that come to you spontaneously and in sequence " spray " your information ( names , facts , concepts ) , however irrelevant or bizarre , along lines that run outwards from your central idea . |
| 13 | And the little one will lose heart and its life will drift away if it 's cut off for too long from its own animal world . ’ |
| 14 | In aggregate , substantial gross flows occurred between all zones , although an inflow to an individual ring was not necessarily from its own core or outer ring . |
| 15 | So its badness would follow necessarily from its intrinsic nature . |
| 16 | The fact that , for Moore , the value of a thing follows necessarily from its intrinsic nature , from what it is like , makes it a little misleading to say , as is often done , that it is supposed to be always an open question whether something characterised in terms of its natural , or metaphysical , properties is good or not , and that this is his chief reason for regarding good as indefinable . |
| 17 | The third missed opportunity could have been the try of the season after Botica broke brilliantly from his own line and beat man after man but Offiah could not hold his pass on halfway with no-one between him and the Bradford line . |
| 18 | The door was shut , and no smoke plumed skywards from its grey chimneys . |
| 19 | Can the Directors of the Court of the Bank see down from their lofty offices to the struggles that the Bank Assistants endure/ Is it possible that the clouds get in the way ? |
| 20 | People had moved back down from their temporary dwellings on Jimale and the village was once again alive with activity . |
| 21 | And the Postman 's spectacle was covered in greenflies from the vigorous activity up the tree : " No , but I says to him " — " Really , all right " — " Well " — " and " — " Oh , you 've done it " — " Must go down to the " — " Taps , got to get some " went the song to the rhythm of empty beer bottles dropping into the side pocket receptacles of tree-holder number 29 on the dustmen 's route — and the tip-holding pockets for the dustmen were not full or anything cos the ladies had all forgotten their purses , and the paper , folding , crumpled , torn money had long since fluttered down from their knicker-elastic banks . |
| 22 | The Glen came down from their right turgid and fast , shut in by hills on either side , round the rim of the Cheviots and the great curving flank of Yeavering Bell , and across their front to empty itself into the Till . |
| 23 | A long and inconclusive stand-off in the Middle East , when oil prices could probably edge down from their recent $28-odd a barrel , would string out the recession but not deepen it greatly . |
| 24 | Mr Morton needs to bring the contractors down from their revised cost forecast of £7.5bn . |
| 25 | Already , both the top Republican contenders have backed down from their original pledge to rescind Mr Florio 's tax increases the minute they take office . |
| 26 | He had no time for the ritual marriage with the Everqueen since the legions of Nagarythe had swept down from their grim realm , bearing the banner of Malekith before them . |
| 27 | Whenever the Phantasms rode the dropshafts down from their native upper levels into tech factory territory — or daringly deeper still , into the filthy honeycomb of the undercity — the impact of those brats was far from foppish . |
| 28 | The Ecology party fielded 109 candidates in 1983 ( up from 53 in 1979 ) , the right-wing National Front 60 candidates ( though down from its 1979 peak of 303 candidates ) , the British National party ( a breakaway movement from the National Front ) 54 candidates , and the Communist party 35 candidates . |
| 29 | It is not all that many months ago that the right hon. Gentleman was saying to the House and to people beyond it that the most important thing was to get inflation down from its then level of 10.9 per cent . |
| 30 | This still lovely riverine landscape must have been settling down from its major reshaping when William Morris bought Kelmscott Manor in 1871 . |