Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] from [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Heavy machinery : Machines can range widely from bandsaws to bottling plants .
2 You would not think so from January 's media furore on British Telecom 's new identity .
3 It 's not likely that they 'll fall entirely from grace , and this is n't meant to be a sob story of any sort .
4 Dana 's shrill voice made Claudia jump away from Roman as if she were guilty of something , but Roman had only been about to say he had asked Dana to model for him in order to get to know her better .
5 Although some of its own experiments were now showing that air pollution in southern England damaged leaves and made them fall early from trees , it could not bring itself to say as much .
6 Regional newspapers , which include the Yorkshire Post , saw profits edge up from £25.3 million to £26.6 million , despite the continued depressed state of classified advertising revenues .
7 During this period the contribution of oil will fall significantly from 73% of demand in 1983 to 51% in the year 2000 .
8 You must have cared an awful lot about her to deliberately stay away from London because of her .
9 Well direct sales you you know I always tried to sort of stay away from companies that you know had a reputation for that .
10 ‘ With any luck he 'll stay away from Nogai for a while .
11 Ca n't I stay away from Pepe 's for once ? ’
12 ‘ Could … do you think you could stay away from Taipei for a while , Luke ? ’
13 I 'm very aggressive in my work , but I must stay away from referees . ’
14 So far , we have carefully avoided any suggestion of calculation , and we can still stay away from arithmetic by using tables for gore heights as they apply to a range of ‘ chute diameters .
15 Anyway , I would stay away from Brigade H.Q for the time being .
16 When the children were older , Green took them out on longer walks , when he was painting or drawing in the hills , and occasionally took one of them on one of his excursions , when he would stay away from Ambleside for a week or more .
17 ( For relatively poor States , whose residents would benefit most from programmes designed to aid those suffering from poverty , refusal to participate would mean losing out in a potentially redistributive process . )
18 Although many children with pneumonia are hypoxaemic , the limited availability of oxygen in developing regions indicates that the clinical studies should be designed to determine which hypoxaemic children will benefit most from treatment .
19 We hope that progress will be made on the difficult task of working this material into the education of the less academically inclined pupils who would benefit most from money management education .
20 There are many individuals and community groups throughout the Highlands which would benefit highly from gatherings with this type of approach .
21 Indeed it is vital that they should do so from time to time .
22 Unlike Poland and Hungary , East Germany will not have to coax in private capital : the stuff will flood in from West Germany .
23 In barracks he was where Sims could find him and while he did n't expect much from Sunday dinner in a near-deserted mess , just being back with the Army was sauce enough for the moment .
24 Sikilo said that the countries of Africa would benefit greatly from stations that could receive the data directly .
25 Imperceptibly the voluntary spirit would distil away from adult education …
26 The evidence that the continents have drifted , that South America did indeed break away from Africa for instance , is now literally overwhelming , but this is not a book about geology and I shall not spell it out .
27 The experience of other advanced economies would lead us to expect the increasing dominance of larger manufacturing firms who can benefit more from economies of scale as the level of output and capital investment increases .
28 Because she had spent so much of her teenage by herself , she had found plenty of time to read the newspapers and the books Patsy would bring home from school , or take out for her from the school library .
29 Roderick 's interests were wide ; for example sport ( cricket , tennis and football — both varieties ) , good music ( he played the violin ) , verse ( he read extensively and composed , when inspired or provoked , to match an occasion and could recite extensively from memory — particularly W. S. Gilbert ) , games and puzzles ( chess , cribbage , mathematical conundrums and crosswords ; he could , at his zenith , do The Times Crossword any day in less than twenty minutes ) , and art ( he was an active member of The Bristol Savages ) .
30 Other sorts of dates do , however , crop up from time to time , namely the regnal year of a particular ruler , such as one of the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt .
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