Example sentences of "to be [verb] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I do n't think he is going to be stepping back from the front line , ’ he said .
2 It is difficult to say that such a vast group of people has special needs , and indeed many older people may prefer not to be separated out from the rest of the adult population .
3 But they 're going to be cut out from the two litre bottle range er if they 've got a bad back or these sort of situations .
4 Over a thousand years ago the Phoenix King Morvael introduced a system of training large bodies of troops to be called up from the populace .
5 And we had sixty pullets at the point of lay in this house to be moved out from the house to a field .
6 And when she straightened up and went to take the key from the lock his hand was there before hers , and as he handed the key back to her , he said on a laugh , ‘ I see you do n't intend to be locked in from the outside . ’
7 Writs for the holding of the regard in forests such as Sherwood , Galtres , pickering , Inglewood and Rutland continued to be sent out from the Chancery during the fifteenth century , but the Forest Eyre , which would have punished offences revealed by the regard , had now almost fallen into desuetude .
8 Instead , the mechanism inside the cylinder allows the ‘ primary ’ circuit to be filled up from the cold water supply to the hot water cylinder When it is full , a large air bubble prevents the two mixing — provided the water in the boiler circuit is never allowed to boil .
9 Such funding would have to be clawed back from the contraction of the institutions .
10 Orders were issued for the cattle and geese to be driven in from the commons , the gates to be shut , the walls and bastions manned and all preparations for siege put into immediate operation .
11 Nor was she unaware of the interest Matt and Silas took in her movements , having caught glances passing between them as they paused to watch her fold the table napkins round the knives and forks which were left in readiness to be picked up from the end of the table .
12 It would not be a source of comfort to the hardpressed British public if they were to become aware that ( reckoning our overseas statistics globally not a single bean of substance for themselves or of capital equipment for British manufacturers is likely to be left over from the American credit ; and that we shall require , on balance , the whole of it , and , unless we change our ways , much more to feed and sustain Allies , liberated territories and ex-enemies , to maintain our military prestige overseas , and , generally speaking to cut a dash in the world considerably above our means .
13 It 's to be found in From the Life ( 1944 ) : one hundred sheets of wartime austerity paper to which Phyllis Bottome commits ‘ six studies of my friends ’ — that 's to say , Alfred Adler , Max Beerbohm , Ivor Novello , Sara Delano Roosevelt , Ezra Pound , and Margaret MacDonald Bottome ( this last the writer 's American grandmother who in her forties became an influential evangelical orator ) .
14 But not in the lake ; the lake water itself was caustic , and all our water had to be brought over from the mainland .
15 On either side of the gangway doors were small doors on the floor level ; these were for the double purpose of allowing a hosepipe to be brought through from the line for washing out purposes , and also to allow free escape of water .
16 The profit per tonne in Aegina is falling , because trimming the trees and picking the nuts is a laborious business that modern workers can insist on being paid more for , and much of the water the trees need has to be brought in from the mainland .
17 Even so the sum of money Minton had donated was so large that drinkers had to be brought in from the street .
18 There 's a couple more to be brought in from the pack on the horse .
19 True enough , but to be incorporated into the protein the radioactive amino acid has first to be taken up from the bloodstream into the neurons .
20 It has to be taken out from the bladder end .
21 The honourary medical officer of the Longhope lifeboat is Dr Tony , and he would normally be assisting casualties to be uplifted , but that day he himself was to be winched up from the lifeboat to the helicopter , and once that part of the exercise was completed and he was back , safely on deck , I asked him , How was that ?
22 Puzzled at first on noticing the familiar shape of Windmill Hill broken by another small , moving outline , she gazed with heightened interest as semaphore signals began to be spelled out from the ridge against the background of the sky .
23 The hon. Member for Gordon ( Mr. Bruce ) made an important point when he referred to the need for health and safety to be designed in from the beginning .
24 Theory and tactics were to be laid down from the centre .
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