Example sentences of "[adv] from the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mounted men in ones and twos appeared suddenly from the cover of trees , or out of folds in the ground . |
| 2 | As Labov and Sankoff point out ( 1980 : xi ) , the emphasis in recent years arising naturally from the maturing of sociolinguistics as a research area has been less on purely methodological concerns such as measurement techniques and the presentation of correlational relationships between linguistic and social structure . |
| 3 | The Bangladesh Vice-President , Moudud Ahmed , said on Oct. 4 that Bangladesh would lose about $1,400 million annually from the loss of exports to , and remittances from , Iraq and Kuwait . |
| 4 | The peoples who survived in the northwest area gained greatly from the mixture of arts and race but retained their individuality also until the tide turned once more and the northwestern island increased its influence eventually over the whole of Spain . |
| 5 | The lands which formed the military frontier had suffered greatly from the passage of armies in both directions during the fierce fighting of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries , and when the defensive zone was established many of the villages had been depopulated . |
| 6 | Her first impression was one of sunlight pouring in from the wall of windows facing her , casting bright patches across the fitted almond-green carpet . |
| 7 | One or more levels were put in from the side of Levers Water to carry out a shallow sub-surface investigation of veins which appeared to be untried , or suspected to be covered at outcrop . |
| 8 | But i it grew slowly over the weeks and I think Christmas was an example of just the actual logistics of what we did at Christmas must be something of a feat in that so much stuff came in from the volume of presents and then the way in which they could be distributed . |
| 9 | Indeed , the ice sheet 's frozen cargo may include meteorite specimens derived not only from the fragmentation of asteroids and possibly of comets but also from the Moon and Mars . |
| 10 | The three cornerstones of this legislation were : the attempt to break away from the categorisation of children , allied to the concept of a continuum of need ; the importance attached to successful integration ; and the belief that a partnership with parents was vital . |
| 11 | His cough had returned and he longed to rest away from the noise of questions . |
| 12 | Welcome back : Thousands of teenagers will be packing their rucksacks to travel around the world this summer , and get away from the stress of exams . |
| 13 | Some learning theories ( differential association was an example ) moved away from the idea of criminals being identifiably different kinds of people : their criminal behaviour was seen as being acquired in much the same way as any other behaviour was acquired ; it did not require any special , predisposing characteristics for it to happen to particular people . |
| 14 | Rosie Kruger was in the Rollercoaster , her favourite bar on West 43rd Street , less than a hundred yards away from the heart of Times Square . |
| 15 | He lashed out at it and sent it flying down the road , away from the trio of kids . |
| 16 | In the hullabaloo , he creeps away from the row of houses , silhouetted against the night sky . |
| 17 | The Father broke away from the knot of priests , shrugging off the efforts of the men to restrain him , and came across to Owen . |
| 18 | The barman dragged himself away from the knot of men deep in conversation about the price fetched by a piece of land across the road . |
| 19 | This demonstrates not only a continuing uncertainty about the precise objectives but also a change in emphasis away from the provision of courses towards other forms of dissemination , of which more will be said below . |
| 20 | He rarely veers away from the subject of relationships ( ‘ Go Out And Get 'Em Boy ! ’ , |
| 21 | All he really wanted to do was walk away from the Skein of Geese and never return . |
| 22 | I looked carefully about me , hiding behind one of those contorted shapes , and glimpsed Dana in the distance , walking away from the group of friends and joining a young woman , tall , pale , dark , distinguished-looking — could it be that dancer of his ? |
| 23 | It adjoins Aquila , and may be found by sweeping away from the line of stars of which Altair is the central member . |
| 24 | The advocates of a more rapid rundown were hampered by the domination of the debate by manpower figures , which led the issue away from the balance of payments . |
| 25 | Sweepers raked the dirt and dung away from the front of stalls ; a muezzin called from the minaret of a nearby mosque ; chai wallahs pulled their blankets closer around them and lit their burners to boil the first tea saucepan of the day . |
| 26 | In time he would seek a solution to this problem by envisaging a brotherhood of painters living self-sufficiently , away from the worldliness of towns and thus uncontaminated by modern fevers and distractions . |
| 27 | He swam up and away from the tangle of lines and disappeared on the other side of the iceberg . |
| 28 | This encouraged a move away from the study of artefacts and ‘ cultures ’ based on them which had developed in the absence of such dating methods , to a more all-embracing study of past human societies . |
| 29 | The last ten years have seen the beginnings of a trend away from the study of objects for their own sake , stimulated partly by the discovery and excavation of settlement sites which have encouraged the formulation of a new range of questions ; the nature of and change in human societies have replaced the barren side of the artefacts . |
| 30 | Over the same period there was an accompanying shift away from the use of fines . |