Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Viscose : A synthetic fabric normally made from wood fibres . |
| 2 | He announced that by September only 38 per cent of the US$3,360 million in promised Soviet imports had been delivered , a figure already reduced from $5,130 million in 1990 . |
| 3 | His former ward , Alan Breac Stewart , a military adventurer and Jacobite courier recently returned from France , was presumed to be the murderer , though never apprehended . |
| 4 | She was a large , beefy creature , with wisps of hair just freed from curlpapers writhing round her moon-like face . |
| 5 | The research studied fifty-one cases of child sexual abuse randomly selected from Child Protection Registers of four local authority social work departments in Scotland in 1987 ( Waterhouse and Carnie , 1990 ) . |
| 6 | And notwithstanding the invariable belief of these coaches that their own programme-of-the-moment is writ large on a tablet just descended from Heaven , there are no absolutes about which kind of exercises are best to get you fit over a short period of time . |
| 7 | To the east of the wall , we reached a kind of well , an ancient cistern partly constructed from masonry but also cut into the rock . |
| 8 | In 1636 Payne translated Galileo 's Della scienza mecanica from a manuscript probably brought from Italy by Hobbes . |
| 9 | Often people think of imagination as necessarily fantasy far removed from reality . |
| 10 | The famous and high-born simply moved from room to room , inclining their heads or smiling as they acknowledged their friends and acquaintances . |
| 11 | BY COACH Fully Escorted from London |
| 12 | There are five ex Great Western locomotives on the site all rescued from Barry scrapyards . |
| 13 | Usually there was a vitality apparently drawn from nature itself . |
| 14 | Discs has also sponsored a women 's football team by supplying them with a kit partly drawn from Billy Bragg 's Red Star Belgrade promotional shirts . |
| 15 | And just as a bulldozer began clearing the coal , another demonstration of anger was taking shape at the unlikely venue of Cheltenham ; a town far removed from collieries and pits , but nevertheless a hotbed of outrage . |
| 16 | TUBULAR BELLE Carvin Quad X-Amp Guitar Preamp With an overdrive sound freshly sprung from hell , Carvin promise to orchestrate your nightmares … |
| 17 | She brushed loving fingers over the wisps of dark hair clearly inherited from Charles . |
| 18 | The smile slowly faded from Jennifer 's face and she sighed , then a far-away look came into her eyes as she added , ‘ A lot 's happened since then . ’ |
| 19 | Eleanor 's perfectly shaped mouth registered a small smile of triumph as the colour slowly filtered from Jessamy 's face . |
| 20 | By the time I was in sight of Granpa 's pitch my grin already stretched from ear to ear . |
| 21 | As for Mrs Dunstaple , she was so distraught that she no longer knew what she was doing and had been taken away , given a composing draught surreptitiously obtained from Dr McNab , and put to bed on her shelf in the pantry . |
| 22 | The Germans were evil , but fighting them was a concept far removed from Samuel Reichmann 's mentality . |
| 23 | Recycled : Packaging partially made from material which has been used before . |
| 24 | He spent most of his free time working for the Overseas Workers ' Union , a clandestine anti-colonial organisation chiefly recruited from Indians and Chinese . |
| 25 | Charles 's boyhood sufferings taught him a patience far removed from defeatism , reinforcing Christianity 's message that to be humbled was the prelude to triumph . |
| 26 | Juvenile further distinguished from Middle Spotted by moustachial streak reaching bill , and obscure reddish breast band . |
| 27 | The radioactive components in the pottery and the soil are uranium , thorium and potassium , which can be readily detected by analytical techniques such as neutron activation analysis ( see glossary ) , and their contributions to the dose rate then calculated from knowledge of how they decay radioactively . |
| 28 | 1984 ) was claiming that motor function invariably recovered from damage to the cerebral cortex . |
| 29 | In effect , the intellectual centre of gravity slowly moved from parties to pressure groups and a new theory emerged that quickly gained wide acceptance . |
| 30 | The hydrogen sulphide gas thereby freed from calcium sulphide was burnt to produce elemental sulphur , which was used to make sulphuric acid . |