Example sentences of "[adv] from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grasses suffer somewhat from being eaten by cattle , but the competitive weeds suffer even more . |
| 2 | Fine strike comes in from one of the substitutes , makes it three two , direct from the free kick and suddenly from being three nil up , into the last ten minutes it is three two . |
| 3 | But the hermeneutic tradition prevents such final accounts at least from being easy and perhaps from being possible . |
| 4 | When my hon. Friend returns to his desk after the next election has been won by the Conservatives , will he bear it in mind that in the past 10 years west Lancashire has benefited greatly from being a development area ? |
| 5 | Each transmitted photon has had its polarisation state changed instantaneously from being along X " to being along y . |
| 6 | Our Carl brought it away from 's , he was that ashamed of it ! |
| 7 | ‘ Any landing you walk away from is a good one , ’ she exclaimed as they taxied in to the small terminal . |
| 8 | What we certainly want to get away from is the present situation where two sub teams do n't have a complaint examiner . |
| 9 | So far the TUC has begun a series of training seminars with Solidarity aimed at pushing it away from being a political and highly regionalised organisation into being an industrial and truly national one . |
| 10 | Senior sources say it is appropriate for Whitbread to move away from being a family-dominated group , saddled with an arcane share structure , in 1992 , its 250th anniversary . |
| 11 | Standing 16.3hh , Ambassador was given plenty of time to mature , only beginning his competitive career at the start of the current season , and testimony to his brilliance is the fact that he is only a couple of points away from being Advanced . |
| 12 | This reflects the general evolution of the new churches whose emphasis has shifted away from being a community , enjoying being a family and enjoying God . |
| 13 | And when you realise that there 's only one cop for every hundred people … you realise that feeling you have of safety and society order is just a f—ing whiff away from being gone . ’ |
| 14 | The hotel , which is three months away from being finished , is being maintained . |
| 15 | But , because I felt even further away from being masculine , I was forced to amend this self-assessment and tell myself that I was not yet feminine . |
| 16 | ‘ Right now I 'm two months away from being broke . |
| 17 | The banks have any number of excuses for this further move away from being a friend to thrifty and sensible private and business customers . |
| 18 | He is being wooed by three counter-arguments : first , that when it comes to big , company-wide computer systems , customers still prefer to buy everything from a single , proven supplier ; second , that mainframes will remain at the heart of many of tomorrow 's systems , in which a network of PCs will be served by a central processor ; and third , that IBM is moving away from being hardware-dominated to become , increasingly , a one-stop-shop for computer consultancy and services . |
| 19 | She preferred laughter and skylarks to solid endeavour and while she could be noisy she shied away from being the centre of attention . |
| 20 | Burun guessed that Kiku had been no more than a hair's-breadth away from being impaled on the st'lyan 's gilden horn . |
| 21 | It was much , much easier to be mischievous , to be slightly bad ; and while , of course , being very good was an infinity , an eternity , away from being very bad , being a bit bad was very similar to being a bit good and unfortunately offered more opportunities for fun . |
| 22 | And then , hustling her along without actually touching her , he got Lucy away from being the unwelcome centre of the foyer 's attention and ushered her into an office behind the reception desk . |
| 23 | But that nearly ended in disaster , too , with Dublin just 90 minutes away from being on soccer 's scra-pheap for good . |
| 24 | What will happen to their pay packets when they end up working in the private sector , often for less money — because we know that the national health service is simply a Bill away from being privatised ? |
| 25 | Although the government has gone to great lengths ( £1 million spent on marketing the proposals ( in an attempt to convince us that the NHS will still remain a National Health Service and will still be free to those requiring health care the proposals clearly spell the future of a health service which will move away from being a public tax funded service to a two tier service , with those who ca n't afford to pay on the bottom level receiving inadequate and cash starved services . |
| 26 | ‘ Then I 'll let you make the decisions that affect all nomes ’ bodies , ’ said Gurder , his voice just one step away from being threatening , ‘ and you 'll let me make the decisions that affect all nomes ’ souls . |
| 27 | The strengths of the approach are clear : it gets away from being content-dominated and takes the teaching of skills seriously , especially skills of stilling , centredness and attentiveness . |
| 28 | and so on , but he 's moving away from being a completely response lead |
| 29 | The vessel was days away from being scrapped in 1991 when SNF came up with a £300,000-plus sponsorship . |
| 30 | A decent man doing a difficult job with players who are light years away from being the world 's best , he has been treated for the last week like a cross between a child molester and a Nazi war criminal . |