Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , suddenly , a jay looks down from a hiding place in a lichened oak and slips away without breaking the silence : stealthy , cunning , typical of the inveterate egg thief . |
| 2 | If an allotted day is one to which a Motion for the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 20 ( Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration ) stands over from an earlier day , paragraph ( 1 ) of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) shall apply to the proceedings on the Bill for a period of time equal to the duration of the proceedings on that Motion . |
| 3 | ( 4 ) If an allotted day is one to which a Motion for the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 20 stands over from an earlier day , the bringing to a conclusion of any proceedings on the Bill which under this Order are to be brought to a conclusion on that day shall be postponed for a period equal to the duration of the proceedings on that Motion . |
| 4 | Visual fatigue can sometimes be lessened if the pupil looks away from a task briefly , or closes the eyes for a minute or two . |
| 5 | This mode of political religious action no longer starts out from a universal centre and figure , such as the papacy , but rather from the national or local church within the state , whose ‘ magistrates ’ — Calvin 's term for lay political leaders — are ideally Christians of moral rectitude , who perform this duty as one ordained by God . |
| 6 | Gillian Lacy and Roberto Mader 's Capoeira Quickstep is the most ambitious and also most disappointing of the collection , a ‘ fictional documentary ’ about the Afro — Brazilian dance-cum-martial art which sort of spins off from a relationship between a British girl and a Brazilian but meanders somewhat in sub-Terence Davies style without even coming up with much in the way of dance . |
| 7 | This official history is lavishly produced , profusely illustrated with maps and well-chosen photographs , and quotes extensively from a selection of the British documents — indeed , seems to reproduce some of them in full in the text — as well as vividly recounting the actual fighting . |
| 8 | The end-point of the walkable , or sometimes scramble-able section of the Gorges is at a waterfall , where the water shoots out from a hole in the rock on the left and falls sixty or seventy feet into the stream . |
| 9 | The Crying Game sees the city from a fresher , less knowing perspective , as Fergus arrives there from a disastrous kidnapping in the Irish countryside and views everything in a daydream of sun and strangeness . |
| 10 | Four pieces , four airs in four different keys ; each air , moreover , is strewn with notes that go out of the key , and the so-called key of the work , the one in which it begins and ends , is the one that prevails least ; the work goes directly from an air in E♭ major to another in E [ minor ] , which is unheard of … |
| 11 | Each spherulite grows radially from a nucleus formed either by the density fluctuations which result in the initial chain ordering process or from an impurity in the system . |
| 12 | When it roars away from a traffic light , its burning tyres leave a patch of smoking rubber on the road behind . |
| 13 | The greater focus on labour process also leads away from a primarily sectoral basis of analysis . |
| 14 | One of the other things that leads off from a job analysis by finding out exactly what a person 's supposed to do is that you can start doing things like a personal training log , cashiers , cash sell this is a word this is real life example . |
| 15 | An RFL who practises mainly from an office or offices in England and Wales can apply for this status without further change . |
| 16 | The trapeze hangs lightly from a toggle , the toggle hangs from the end of a proper fishing line , the line passes over a springy pole to the door over the mouth of the basket where the little fish 's wriggling so free . |
| 17 | The first of the new spreadsheets , called Improv , which builds spreadsheets using simple English commands rather than manipulating clumsy grids of rows and columns , should sell 500,000 copies before June , when the price goes up from an introductory $19 to the full $195 . |
| 18 | The suburb , Colonia San José Buena Vista , suffers acutely from a lack of proper housing , clean water and basic education . |
| 19 | The only minor disappointment is the rather short chapter on the personal social services which suffers somewhat from a rather overambitious attempt to cover too much ground ( i.e. the role of the statutory sector as well as the contribution of both the informal and voluntary sectors ) . |
| 20 | Above right A Green Man with double foliage stares down from an arch-boss in the chapter house of Southwell Minster , Nottinghamshire |
| 21 | Once you 've done them , people expect them to happen again and that takes away from a stable environment . |
| 22 | This stems largely from a failure to embrace new work practices and is no part of the new deal . |
| 23 | Such moments happened mostly during the ungodly first hours of a new day , those breathless hours when a soul sighs away from a dying body . |
| 24 | She takes off from a field behind the hospital . |
| 25 | By his technique , by the force of words and theme , by the disciplined speed of his narrative , he draws us into a fiction which takes off from a foundation of known fact and recognisable truth . |
| 26 | Child Number One breaks off from an inspection which proves that the ball has not been tampered with but is merely the egg-shape common to three-for-£1 seconds from the local market . |
| 27 | It stems partly from a failure to understand fundamentalism as a modern political force right across the world . |
| 28 | The horrific catalogue suffers slightly from a lack of named direct sources — hence its claim to represent al ‘ the facts ’ is a touch ambitious . |
| 29 | Though the possibility of hazard should never be ignored , however remote it may seem , the ethical position in prevention trials often stems mainly from a balance between the extent of benefit ( if any ) , and the cost of the intervention . |
| 30 | Lowland fresh water of all kinds , in winter also on estuaries and sea coast ; dives either from a perch or while hovering to catch fish . |