Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA got a most dispiriting Christmas present on Christmas Eve when the US General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals snatched the $740.3m Desktop IV US Air Force personal computer contract away from Bull 's Buffalo Grove , Illinois-based Zenith Data Systems . |
| 2 | Thus in the same building as the photographs of SS officers selecting the Jews on the ramps of Birkenau are news pictures of British paratroopers ordering the concentration camp survivors away from postwar Palestine . |
| 3 | fwd[n] takes the navigation n steps forward from the current position . |
| 4 | I could see it now , like a slow motion film , Mr McNaughton peeling me off Sharon Latimer like peeling chewing gum away from a desktop … |
| 5 | " [ Mrs Kit Nash ] , year by year , extended the boundaries of her plot by trimming the bramble hedges always from the inside , allowing them to spread and flourish on the outside … |
| 6 | With the industry hours away from its first formal truce since the Unix wars began ( UX No 388 ) , DEC returned to the rhetoric that marked the outbreak of hostilities . |
| 7 | The beetles immediately started running around in circles chalking the ground , and falling over themselves as they stretched the tape measure across from one side of the circle to the other . |
| 8 | Estimates by town hall staff suggest there are seldom more than 140 cars in Russell Street car park apart from on Saturdays and Bank Holidays . |
| 9 | They 've been protesting against the council 's decision to stop the car park there from being women only . |
| 10 | While it might help submarines to detect fishing activity , it should not be seen to take the onus of avoiding fishing vessels away from submarines . |
| 11 | He watched the tiny figure fall away from the craft , twisting silently in the air , a tiny star of darkness against the white , growing smaller by the second , then shuddered again , a strange mixture of pain and incomprehension making him shake his head and moan . |
| 12 | Folly could imagine what sort of ‘ activities ’ he meant , although the thought of such collective revelry made her mind twist away from the image it evoked . |
| 13 | Therefore the increase in numbers to a hundred , for this particular rule , seems to be a logical move , as a branch with less than fifty would be unrepresentative of the G M B both from a democracy point of view and an administration point of view where cost plays an enormo important role . |
| 14 | That sociologists have been partially blind to this possible contributory cause of corporate crime springs ironically from the central position Merton 's famous essay ‘ Social Structure and Anomie ’ ( 1957 ) played in forming criminological consciousness . |
| 15 | The hammers in Stein 's vis-à-vis piano action point away from the player . |
| 16 | It will be interesting to see if in the long term the claims that this product prevents damage to valve seats etc. from using leadfree fuel are true . |
| 17 | Paradoxically however the demand for better films saw the American film industry move away from its natural habitat and take up residence in a suburban section of what was essentially a southern Californian oasis . |
| 18 | Incidentally , I notice you have steered the talk right away from the Japanese , to whom in fact you were rather nice . |
| 19 | confirm that you undertake to deliver the Investment Overview expeditiously , or identify those on the list which you prefer receive the Investment Overview directly from the initiating member |
| 20 | A former stir fry chef at the Fremont Hotel in Las Vegas 's Glitter Gulch , the young Johnny is remembered next door at the Horseshoe for arriving in the card room straight from his shift , his white apron around his waist . |
| 21 | If a horse shies , he is fundamentally ignoring the rider 's inside leg , so rather than worrying about the horse shying , it is more important to concentrate on exercises which make the horse move away from the leg such as leg-yield , shoulder-in , enlarging and decreasing the circle . |
| 22 | I mean I 'm no historian , you 'd have to check up on this with my hubby , but as far as I know the Reformation started up North in Europe a guid lang mile away from Rome and the Pope and that , up in the Region of what we now know as Holland , and Germany and Alsace Lorraine . |
| 23 | The prediction changes rapidly from the Tories being short of a majority by three seats to a majority of three seats . |
| 24 | Whilst national debate has shifted the focus of urban regeneration policy away from the narrowly defined goals of physical development , the extension of its boundaries has forced MDC to confront the issues of jobs , training and social housing provision , although MDC would argue that these objectives were always part of its long-term agenda . |
| 25 | A short boat ride away from Cancun lies the island of Cozumel , a one-street paradise which offers beautiful views as you sip your Tequila Sunrise at sunset . |
| 26 | If you 've got an idea or a message to send it has to be encoded in some way then there 's various mediums or media by which it can be transmitted but it 's got to be decoded by the receiver for the idea or message to be understood , and there 's some kind of feedback mechanism potentially from the receiver to the sender . |
| 27 | I was sent to Nongkhai province in the North East of Thailand on the Maekhong River across from the capital of Laos . |
| 28 | The winners include : i ) the Martineau company of Haute-Garonne , which has developed an electrochemical technique for removing metals from industrial effluent ; ii ) Matussiere and Forest Paper , for producing web offset paper entirely from non-chlorine bleached recycled fibres ; and iii ) the Banque populaire du Haut-Rhin for devising a discount loan scheme for anti-pollution equipment . |
| 29 | He was heading for Inverness ultimately but made several sketching forays westward from Laggan Locks . |
| 30 | Step in gently and push the boom out to help the boat turn away from the wind . |