Example sentences of "[adv] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We strongly suspected that when these Black women sought assistance , eg from local authority housing departments , institutionalised racism plus the sexism they experienced , were compounded together and further exasperated their problems . |
| 2 | Now her body was fat and scarred from constant childbearing , and her face wrinkled prematurely from habitual frowning . |
| 3 | She felt nothing very much , except the sense of moving inexorably from one moment to the next , and accepting what each brought . |
| 4 | Or should it be able , despite being owned by the State , to distance itself somewhat from political authority ? |
| 5 | Agnes never took part in such conversations ; she never spoke badly of Paul , even though she sensed that this alienated her somewhat from other women . |
| 6 | All the big firms have strong international links that cushion them somewhat from domestic troubles . |
| 7 | When István Széchenyi Proposed the regulation of Hungary 's rivers , he probably did not realise that his suggestion would eventually lead , later in the century , to the three little islands in the Danube , just a couple of miles upstream from central Budapest , being girdled together by a retaining wall . |
| 8 | Now upstream from Golden Girl , Trent looked back . |
| 9 | The Scouts had rushed skiddingly from one pod to the next , annihilating languid swanky drugsters , warbling liquorites , squirming orgiasts who were responding to the war in their own indulgent style , if they even heeded it at all . |
| 10 | So there is some choice and ah , yeah , we perhaps need to think about whether you know better from last year whether it 's still a half term . |
| 11 | Up till the outbreak of the First World War the needs of the industrial world could still be met almost entirely from alluvial deposits . |
| 12 | A more recent and notorious example may be found in David Mach 's ‘ Polaris ’ , a sixty foot long ‘ submarine ’ built entirely from black tyres . |
| 13 | Had they not had such a resource at their disposal some might have had to forego particular orders , others might have been obliged to withdraw entirely from certain markets , whilst still others would have been less willing to innovate with new products offering chances of survival or expansion . |
| 14 | It is capable of running entirely from floppy disks and so allows computer users without a hard drive to produce professional scores . |
| 15 | Because of its East Bank Palestinians , Jordan could not abdicate entirely from diplomatic attempts to regain the West Bank . |
| 16 | Little of the CO 2 -induced increase in potential WUE might be realized if higher A/g resulted entirely from stomatal closure . |
| 17 | The labour group , unable to free itself entirely from structural constraints during its period of office , effectively capitulated , losing power in the 1900 election . |
| 18 | The danger has been a real one , but it has flowed entirely from distorted views about what the differences are , not from acceptance of difference as such . |
| 19 | There is a third point of view : that of weary or wilful ignorance , which has since banished the question almost entirely from intellectual discussion among ordinary , concerned people . |
| 20 | These are required for obtaining , checking and retrieving specific facts and pieces of information , particularly but not entirely from secondary sources … |
| 21 | This micro-colony , set at 16,700ft , was supplied by air-drop , constructed entirely from discarded jerry-cans and covered with white parachute cotton so as to stand out like a sore thumb ! |
| 22 | Boyd Orr 's malnourished population was drawn almost entirely from this section of the working class and it was their lives which changed little during the inter-war years as Carl Chinn , and other writers have noted . |
| 23 | On the assumption that net investment , x t , is financed entirely from retained earnings , net investment is determined as follows : where ( ) is the retention ratio ( i.e. one minus the payout ratio ) . |
| 24 | We 've been behind the scenes of the Society , which is funded entirely from public donations . |
| 25 | It builds its nest entirely from air-borne material such as cotton , plant fibres , hairs and feathers . |
| 26 | The later stages , at still higher Rayleigh number , have not yet yielded to theoretical analysis and our knowledge of them comes entirely from experimental observation . |
| 27 | Early magnetrons tended to switch suddenly from one wavelength to another — just as a simple tube ( like a bugle ) can play several notes . |
| 28 | Instead the pattern jumped suddenly from one picture to the other as the voltage was varied . |
| 29 | About 10 years ago the use of ml and l for millilitres and litres respectively was banished suddenly from British Standards in favour of mL and L , though both are permitted as alternatives by the ISO standard dealing with the layout of standards . |
| 30 | In hyperacute cases sheep die suddenly from haemorrhagic gastritis . |