Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A barricade of flagstones prised up from the floor had been erected for a final stand and the Collector , snatching a moment to look back towards it , was dismayed to see that the other party was already behind it , thus leaving himself and his men exposed on the flank . |
| 2 | By a notice of appeal dated 6 September 1991 the solicitors appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) under section 6(2) of the Act of 1986 the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of section 3 of the Act to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell and ( b ) under section 61(1) of the Act the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of any rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell ; ( 2 ) the court had no jurisdiction under sections 6(2) and 61(1) to award claims for compensation for loss against persons knowingly concerned in such contraventions in contrast to sections 6(3) to ( 7 ) and sections 61(3) to ( 7 ) ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) the power of the court under section 6(2) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court might direct for restoring the parties to the transaction to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into and ( b ) the power of the court under section 61(1) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention of the rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to take such steps as the court might direct to remedy it included power to make a financial award against such person directing payment by that person to individual investors of sums equivalent to the amounts paid by such investors pursuant to the said transaction , neither subsection empowering the court to order restitution by the repayment of moneys outside the possession or control of the person concerned ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law ( a ) in his construction of sections 6(2) and 61(1) in failing to have regard to the principle ‘ generalibus specialia derogant , ’ in particular in holding that there could exist within each of sections 6 and 61 two parallel powers to order financial redress at the suit of the plaintiff , one derived from sections 6(3) and 6(4) and sections 61(3) and 61(4) respectively , which was subject to the limitations set out in those and subsequent subsections , and the other derived from section 6(2) and section 61(1) , which was subject to no such limitations ; ( b ) in rejecting the submission that sections 6 and 61 were essentially procedural and did not create new substantive legal rights and remedies ; and ( c ) in failing to have regard to the fact that the orders sought under paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim required payment to the plaintiff or alternatively into court of moneys recovered thereunder from the solicitors despite the absence of any provisions for such orders in the Act , his dismissal of the summons being inconsistent with his finding that there was no provision in sections 6(2) or 61(1) directing payment into court and that any order under the sections would have to direct repayment of the sum paid to each individual investor who had made the original payment . |
| 3 | Accompanied by superb colour plates of objects drawn largely from the museum 's collection and newly re-photographed the multi-faceted , sometimes ethereal nature of glass is explored in all its astounding variety , from ancient civilisation onwards . |
| 4 | Foreign imports into Britain continued to grow rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s while UK exports of manufactures levelled off from the late 1970s , making the UK a net importer of manufactured goods for the first time in the long history we have described ( Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 5 | There is another pair of climbers starting up from the same ledge . |
| 6 | Erm and we find in the office that we get lots of forms coming in from the Paymaster General asking us to confirm that mister X is employed you know on a on a part time basis . |
| 7 | On the short mixed ridge leading to this minor training summit , you can view an endless stream of parties coming up from the Grands Montets cablecar station for a taste of a real alpine mountaineering . |
| 8 | He left the car again , and saw something else on the other side of it — a pair of legs jutting out from the bushes nearby . |
| 9 | Sometimes the pastor found himself speaking to an empty church ; sometimes to a church filled with schoolchildren ; sometimes to a congregation supplemented by the relatives of islanders brought over from the mainland , and other tourists . |
| 10 | Eventually Cinzia turned up a set of steps rising steeply from the street and unlocked a door at the top . |
| 11 | A flight of steps leads up from the courtyard and there is entry also from the house end . |
| 12 | She could tell she was going to get no response from Coffin , although he was being polite , when a crowd of youngsters swarmed in from the local youth club . |
| 13 | Four hundred tons of potatoes arrived daily from the Channel Islands . |
| 14 | We had to halt as cartloads of bones dug up from the cemetery were taken down Paternoster Row to the charnel house . |
| 15 | I watched a gradually widening circle of splashes go out from the centre of the explosion as the debris came back to earth . |
| 16 | Over the following days between attacks he managed to pen his brilliant fifteen-page paper called " On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type " , and mailed it to Darwin , whom he had never met , with shy requests for his comments . |
| 17 | The people of my constituency are appalled that Monmouth borough council has millions of pounds tied up from the sale of council houses and can not use that money for housing . |
| 18 | Professor Fred Stone of Glasgow University called for a countrywide network of agencies made up from the police , social workers , teachers and other agencies to spot potential troublesome children . |
| 19 | As she walked across it , Cleo gazed at the blaze of lights shining out from the imposing architectural piles that dominated the hills ahead . |
| 20 | These differences in land values ( which mean higher rents or higher prices for land or houses ) provide the mechanism by which different groups are distributed throughout the urban area , often in the form of circles radiating out from the centre . |
| 21 | ‘ After the quarantine period 's over , ’ he went on , with an air of simplifying an impossibly complex process , ‘ the containers are transferred into the decanning cave through a series of sub-ponds leading off from the main storage pond . |
| 22 | While Bantock , Holbrook , Inglis and those English teachers who support the ‘ élitists ’ , recommend the employment of stimuli drawn exclusively from the music , painting and literature of high art , and make it clear that they view creativity partly as a way back into appreciation , a radical teacher like Searle rejects this culture completely . |
| 23 | The steep sided mountains with a dense covering of trees rose majestically from the valley floor . |
| 24 | Is responsible to a Board of trustees drawn mainly from the churches . |
| 25 | The violence in Abidjan started , according to local reports , when a group of youths broke away from the body of the march and attacked the court where Ahipeaud was due to stand trial . |
| 26 | After a meagre supper of beans left over from the orderlies ' meal , Pétain slept , huddled in an armchair . |
| 27 | Fisheries are sustained by the plankton which depends upon a constant re-cycling of nutrients stirred up from the sea bottom . |
| 28 | They had expected some throwing of stones and worse from whatever straggle of peasants ventured down from the hills to the banks , and that they received . |
| 29 | A sudden flurry of shots rang out from the direction of the cainca , confirming the older man 's prediction , and without further argument the two boys turned and followed him into the jungle at a run . |
| 30 | It is , however , unrealistic to expect all of these to be visible in all locations , especially in rural areas where the balance of tenures differs considerably from the national picture . |