Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also pointed out the difficulty of bringing a peer down from the Upper House-not only the short-term difficulty of the delay but also the psychological impact on the country . |
| 2 | The user must bring the test card in from the left and , with similar messages will be told in which of twenty-six vertical strips covering the subject area ( not the reference area ) the righthand edge of the card lies . |
| 3 | ‘ Now when I know the boys are preparing for another game and I 'm not there , I will miss it ; the familiar routine , meeting at the Petersham Hotel in Richmond on a Wednesday night , the late meal , the exchange of views as people come in ; the Thursday morning training , dashing round to golf or wherever in the afternoon , the team meeting in the evening , the Friday session , probably going to the cinema at night , the leg pulling , the nervous jokes on the Saturday of the game itself , the closing in from the outside world . ’ |
| 4 | They are also starting to attract some of the best young talent away from the money-centre banks — and good brains allied to the skills of good management are almost as scarce as profits in America 's banking parlours these days . |
| 5 | With rapid and sustained economic growth more capital becomes available to finance investment in labour saving machinery , and higher labour rewards in the advanced sector of industry are thought to encourage the mobility of labour away from the small firm sector . |
| 6 | Climbs can weep for a while after heavy rain , but the rock away from the natural drainage lines dries quickly . |
| 7 | In fact , five minutes after checking the record collection ( nothing worth taping ) and the obvious places where you 'd lock the booze away from the hired help . |
| 8 | In the latter regard , assault on an employee away from the normal ‘ work ’ premises is also the concern of the authority . |
| 9 | Mercifully , these days , it 's easier to avoid costly mistakes by splashing out on a large bottle of something which is transformed into ‘ Eau de Old Socks ’ by your skin 's individual chemistry : if you ask politely in department stores , many perfume houses gladly hand out miniature sample vials of their wares , enabling you to make up your mind away from the high-pressure squirtings of over-zealous tester-bottle-wielders . |
| 10 | He turned his mind away from the private conviction that little Mickey Annan was somewhere lying dead ; deep beneath bracken on the moors ; under an old sack in some outhouse ; it did n't matter where . |
| 11 | Is it an old family ? ’ she asked brightly , trying to tear her mind away from the constant , destructive need to touch him . |
| 12 | US trade associations have claimed that this represents a diversion of 1.93 billion lbs of aluminium away from the solid waste stream . |
| 13 | The first trend is the movement within the philosophy of religion away from the Cartesian view that if God existed some proof of His existence must be capable of being set out , in the way that Descartes himself attempted to set it out . |
| 14 | At this stage it is so far extended as to receive a supply of sand from the original barchan even during the prevailing wind , X. Thus it will continue to grow both during the prevailing wind , X , and the strong wind , Y , with slip faces developed on the side away from the strong wind . |
| 15 | The seif dune differs from the barchan , therefore , in that the slip faces are on the side away from the strong wind and not facing the direction of advance as in the barchan . |
| 16 | The most fundamental issue at stake is whether it represents merely a continuation of the earlier process of suburbanization and metropolitan deconcentration , albeit on a much larger geographical scale , or instead constitutes a fundamental switch away from the urban concentration process associated with industrialization towards a new ‘ post-industrial ’ settlement pattern based on medium-sized and small centres ( Hamnett and Randolph , 1983a ; Robert and Randolph , 1983 ) . |
| 17 | In fact , it did much to disguise Sadat 's unpopularity at home and his break away from the other countries of the Middle East . |
| 18 | The book aims to chart the direction in which communication in the Philippines can ‘ break away from the lingering structures and controls of the past regime towards the democratic , just and humane future Filipinos yearn for . ’ |
| 19 | I do not believe in patronage even from the Labour front bench . |
| 20 | Villagers in parts of South America are reputed traditionally to vacate their villages , lock , stock and barrel when a large ant army is approaching , and to return when the legions have marched through , having cleaned out every cockroach , spider and scorpion even from the thatched roofs . |
| 21 | Interestingly enough , broadside probably derives from the naval tactic of firing all the guns from one side of a ship of war at once , without giving the recipient the necessity of awaiting installments Such sheets are of historic importance , since they date back to the sixteenth century , when popular poems and ballads were issued in this form ; and royal and official proclamations took to the streets in this guise almost from the first days of printing . |
| 22 | One film , however , Now Barabbas Was A Robber , directed by Gordon Parry from the play by William Douglas Home , brought him his best review yet from the finest film critic of her day , C. A. Lejeune , in The Observer . |
| 23 | The match was crap apart from the last 15 minutes or so . |
| 24 | Some galleries are long , like those at Yew Tree and Monk Coniston , where a great ( or walking ) spinning wheel could be used , the spinner requiring space to draw her thread away from the great wheel and , turning , to reverse the wheel and walk back to wind the spun yarn on the bobbin . |
| 25 | Movement , in Western music , even as early as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , has always been in a direction away from the diatonic and through dissonance . |
| 26 | The males … are innovating in a direction away from the local Scottish prestige norm , but in accepting r-lessness their usage happens to coincide with a much larger national norm . |
| 27 | The anticipated strong showing for candidates affiliated to the nationalist Moldavian Popular Front appeared to have been matched by an equally strong showing for the rival Yedinstvo ( " Unity " ) movement , drawing its support largely from the Russian and Ukrainian minority communities . |
| 28 | Nirvana away from the petty tour drama ( and drama queens ) : Chris Novoselic , Kurt ‘ Mr Disguise ’ Cobain and Dave Grohl |
| 29 | And it let an old house alongside with nothing in it and hardly a door on it and that stood right alongside of that one and it must have been like a comb it just must have gone in strips the gale for that house was now twelve foot away from the other one . |
| 30 | When he , Larsen and Karen had settled into the high cab , the girl in the middle , Rocky selected first gear and started them rolling slowly forward , following the other rig away from the roaring inferno behind them . |