Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social order on the street had the characteristics of a truce , a lull in which warring parties tacitly held back from strife . |
| 2 | Such famous errors surely resulted not from incompetence , but from Cortot 's nervous , high-pitched intensity ; a sheer involvement that could easily cloud his composure or unsettle his equilibrium . |
| 3 | At Grassington the miners worked in small setts , or meers , and there were regular disputes over boundaries and underground trespass despite the presence of a Barmoot Court and Barmaster , and other customs anciently brought in from the lead districts of Derbyshire . |
| 4 | Lexical and grammatical forms often entered in from Creole sources , although which forms , where they appeared , and how frequently , varied greatly from speaker to speaker . |
| 5 | However , crime has been displaced recently at the centre of race politics by another issue which points equally effectively to the incompatibility of different cultures supposedly sealed off from one another forever along ethnic lines . |
| 6 | They were easily built and repaired using tools and skills often passed down from father to son . |
| 7 | He said nothing of miraculous creation and instead proposed that the ‘ new ’ populations simply migrated in from areas not affected by the catastrophe . |
| 8 | Such was the slowness and enclosedness of all her movements that the girls instinctively looked up from their school books to follow her closely . |
| 9 | The competitors were in various categories for judging and were to be judged by professionals specially flown in from the States . |
| 10 | Maura froze in his arms then pulled away from him . |
| 11 | Three ice islands recently broken out from the Ronne-Filchner ice shelf , in the southeast corner of the Weddell Sea , in area totalled 11.5 thousand km 2 and in thickness some 500 m ( Ferrigno and Gould , 1987 ) ; a single one almost 160km long with an area of over 6200km 2 , released from the Ross Ice Shelf in 1987 , was estimated to contain enough water to last the State of California over 600 years ( Polar Record , 1988 ) . |
| 12 | There are one or two old professors here left over from before the liberation ( apparently no profs have been appointed since ) and the professor of English , Prof. Chen Jia , is a charming though deaf old fellow who studied in the U.S.A. , and who used to write books on English literature before the Cultural Revolution put a stop to all that sort of thing — but even so he quoted a bit of Chaucer to me surreptitiously at the dinner table . |
| 13 | These unhealthy trends needed to be corrected , he warned , and students firmly guided away from the false ideals of bourgeois liberalism . |
| 14 | There is an increasing number of young inmates so cut off from their feelings that they have no fear and no sense of compassion . |