Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vocatives in general are an interesting grammatical category , again underexplored , Vocatives are noun phrases that refer to the addressee , but are not syntactically or semantically incorporated as the arguments of a predicate ; they are rather set apart prosodically from the body , of a sentence that may accompany them . |
| 2 | This story has lasted well during the past two millennia and many people still believe it , so that tom-cats are always kept carefully away from nursing mother cats and their young kittens , in case the urge to commit lust-inspired infanticide overcomes them . |
| 3 | Managers in public industries are often paid quite differently from those in private industry . |
| 4 | Much against their natural inclinations , Jesus 's earthly followers were gradually persuaded that far from the Friday being the disastrous and final demise of their hero , by some inexplicable divine miracle he had dealt death itself a death-blow , and had risen from the grave to a new and everlasting life-form . |
| 5 | Compared with animal tissues , those of land plants are low in fat and protein ( and this is often built quite differently from animal protein ) , while cellulose is almost universal and the phenolic toughening compound , lignin , is found in all woody ones . |
| 6 | ( I can assure you that this book was not written straight through from beginning to end ! ) |