Example sentences of "[adv] from [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four of these companies are quoted separately from CB on the Paris Bourse ( CB received a London listing in 1973 ) : UCB ( 33 per cent owned by CB , in housing and property finance ) , UFB Locabail ( 66.2 per cent , business equipment finance ) , Cetelem ( 67.7 per cent , consumer finance ) , and Cardif ( 56 per cent , life insurance and savings products ) . |
| 2 | Arran is the most southerly of the Inner Hebridean islands , 15 miles away from Ardrossan on the Ayrshire coast . |
| 3 | There was a gradual move away from insistence on the inter-related nature of all social , political and economic problems and a shift towards specialization . |
| 4 | The Times for the morning of Wednesday , 29 May 1839 , announced that the Orynthia was cleared outward with cargo for Demerara and Honduras ; the woman 's bust figurehead was leading her brave boys away from home on the long voyage south-west . |
| 5 | In education recently , there has been a move away from over-emphasis on the assimilation of facts to an appreciation of the need for pupils to experience the processes by which one learns . |
| 6 | But Ceauşescu 's continued use of the slogans of independence belied a growing reality : whereas in the 1970s , Romania had diversified its trade away from dependence on the Soviet bloc , by the mid-1980s only Comecon countries were willing to buy each other 's low grade products — and Romania 's were amongst the lowest . |
| 7 | Come home from work on the Saturday and assume he went shopping or something , apparently he hurt his hand . . |
| 8 | ‘ It still leaves the business of you having to come home from Dublin on the bus every night , ’ Eve said . |
| 9 | But you 'd be perhaps fetching some pigs home from Wicken on the Monday morning , you see , and she might go again during the week , perhaps Wednesday at Wicken to fetch some more , three or four more pigs . |
| 10 | The methods used in determination of size vary widely from calipers on the coarsest fragments , through sieving and techniques dependent upon settling velocity , to those detecting changes in electrical resistance as particles are passed through small electrolyte-filled orifices . |
| 11 | They can be raised or lowered as well as moved horizontally from controls on the platform . |
| 12 | When the river broadened , the Avignon began to encounter other craft that had started downstream from Saigon on the favourable tide , and Joseph wondered why the battered-looking Chinese junks , with their shabby , patched sails , did n't sink as they lumbered past among a succession of grimy workhorse freighters from Europe and Latin America . |
| 13 | Two lamps glowed softly from brackets on the wall , and she stared at them stupidly , her thoughts unfocused , her mind disorientated . |
| 14 | Mile after mile of undulating uplands extend in sombre silence to distant horizons in anonymous array with no distinguishing landmarks apart from cairns on the nearer Gragareth skyline . |
| 15 | Here , apart from reliance on the rigours of a large-scale examination system , new areas of modern knowledge were set up as autonomous academic disciplines with a related German style system of professoriate , administrative hierarchy , and departmental structure , and a commitment to research — none of which was characteristic of the operations of the traditional classical curriculum . |
| 16 | The ‘ Black Album ’ , being a pure black sleeve ( apart from lettering on the spine ) , was also particularly easy to reproduce . |
| 17 | In a statement reportedly approved by Commonwealth Secretary-General Chief Emeka Anyaoku , the group expressed " deep concern " about allegations of " violence , misconduct and intimidation , apart from impropriety on the part of officials " . |
| 18 | Not that the gay Oz had been his idea , or even that he had provided much input , apart from advice on the telephone . |
| 19 | Improv is unlike any other spreadsheet ( apart from Improv on the NeXT machine , from which it is derived ) as you 'll see from the review on page 97 . |
| 20 | After the shopping Denis would sit in the orderly room , watching his father write in ledgers twice as wide and twenty times as thick as his school exercise-books , or he 'd gaze longingly at the Royal Irish Constabulary uniforms of his father 's colleagues with their shining buttons and belts hanging neatly from pegs on the wall , the caps , the spiked helmets and the little pill-box hats of the cavalry police lined up , as if on parade , on a table along with whistle-chains , handcuff-cases and batons . |