Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this lack of division that most effectively concealed from Clara the basic , classic structure of the building , for she had been brought up with the notion that walls must be above eye-level , lace curtains impenetrable , bedrooms facing discreetly into the void . |
| 2 | Tuathal , who knew that thoroughness was the secret of success , had long since extracted from Thorkel Fóstri all that he could tell about Earl Siward of Northumbria , and had deduced a good deal more . |
| 3 | THE irritating Buzby has long since flown from BT 's nest . |
| 4 | The lake had long since disappeared from view . |
| 5 | Egyptian jewellery adorned the statue of Victory long since looted from Tarentum in southern Italy and displayed in the Curia Julia , named after the Julii , Octavian 's family . |
| 6 | ‘ But they have long since vanished from Ireland , Fergus , and it may be that I will be the last Queen to have seen them and heard them . |
| 7 | But it is gon na be a lengthy er injury and that is a major blow so successfully converted from centre half to striker . |
| 8 | Twenty two patients have hitherto not suffered from recurrence of Dieulafoy 's bleeding . |
| 9 | Win Morgan had obviously just woken from sleep , her eyes were heavy and her thin grey hair ruffled . |
| 10 | She phoned to say that , having only just returned from Chester , it would be around nine before she could get over with it , and would that be all right ? |
| 11 | She did n't seem surprised to see him sitting there still in his cloak and obviously only just returned from Mass , and he knew at once that she had been told about the murders . |
| 12 | Miss Driver , 22 , has appeared in the television series Lovejoy , House of Eliott , Casualty and Kinsey , and has only just returned from Budapest — filming a Maigret adventure . |
| 13 | Then there was the question of the paternity of Mrs Clancy 's last child : Mr Clancy had only just returned from Egypt after a two-year posting , and — as Peony had pointed out — the child was only 14 months old . |
| 14 | Balor had never been so rudely awoken from slumber in his life . |
| 15 | This was important , because it showed that it was not a protein , and so clearly differed from lysozyme . |
| 16 | With the kind of support so far received from SOED and SRC , the indications are that the learning and teaching of modern languages will become increasingly effective — especially for those children in need of support . |
| 17 | And if you 're still mired in sentimentality , look at it this way : the admission fees so far received from visitors to the carp pond have already enabled the Boy Scouts to build and maintain several church halls in the area . |
| 18 | In another version of this theme family law stands accused of having so far departed from principle and precedent as to be arbitrary , thereby losing its claim to guide conduct . |
| 19 | But they were also so far removed from conditions elsewhere in Italy that Banfield 's attention centred on this intra-national gap , and noting the many efforts which had been made by successive Italian governments to deal with ‘ the Southern Question ’ , he asked why these peripheral ‘ backward societies ’ were , as he put it , ‘ ultra-stable ’ , apparently trapped in dependency and poverty . |
| 20 | Why take on an unprofitable company , in a line of business so far removed from shipping , that 's going to demand so much of your time ? ’ |
| 21 | Our own children are now so far removed from danger , at least of the primal kind , and these Masai are so close to it , that you would expect them to be cowed and fearful . |
| 22 | By turning the show into a theatrical display , Laura felt comfortable ; it was so far removed from reality that it could be viewed as a staged drama with no intention of portraying a ‘ Laura Ashley ’ customer in real life . |
| 23 | In markets having higher temperatures than the UK , the 37°C and 45°C conditions are less far removed from market conditions . |
| 24 | In forty-four years the British had yet to recover fully from victory in the Second World War , even though the Germans and Japanese had so manifestly recovered from defeat . |
| 25 | Having raised quite unreasonably high expectations , the intellectuals were among the first to invoke God 's judgement against those very processes they had so recently emancipated from God 's direct intervention . |
| 26 | The smallest breed is one that has only recently arrived from Singapore , where it was known as the ‘ drain cat ’ . |
| 27 | Rather could Offa have been securing himself in territory only recently recovered from Cynewulf . |
| 28 | The new Minister , Idris Wakil , who had only recently come from Zanzibar to join the new Cabinet after the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar , explained the reason for the new Ministry. : |
| 29 | Serbia , only recently released from EC sanctions , was defiant . |
| 30 | Naturally , there has been controversy concerning the status of these Minoan settlements , but they are identifiable by their coastal location , irregular street plan , Minoan style of architecture , Minoan burial customs , Minoan shapes worked in local pottery wares ( and thus not imported from Crete ) , and Minoan religious ritual . |