Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who were not traced differed slightly from those who were : their birth weight was 0.2 pounds ( 91 g ) less , for example . |
| 2 | Erm , he has stripped away from these true selves everything that we normally think of as institute of , of a self . |
| 3 | Since 1986 Rytasha has broken away from her guru and set up on her own with a charity called Food Relief International , which raises money from the fiercely competitive matrons of Palm Beach and distributes it to the starving people of Bangladesh . |
| 4 | Corgi is trying a new approach and has broken away from the single figure on the cover , giving this one an old master oil painting reproduction which makes it more sophisticated . |
| 5 | The comic has travelled far from schoolboy stories of daring-do to sophisticated art form . |
| 6 | The 26-year-old midfielder has flown home from Italy while recovering from a knee operation to help in the kitchen of his wife Rachel 's Italian restaurant Amici Mia in Wolverhampton . |
| 7 | But over time the Conservative party divisions on economic policy became less marked , partly because of electoral success and partly because unemployment has fallen steadily from June 1986 . |
| 8 | The report made a series of recommendations on increasing CID strength , which has fallen sharply from 10 per cent of the force in 1973 to 7.4 per cent , despite an overall large increase in numbers and a recommendation by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate that provincial CIDs should make up 12.4 per cent of police . |
| 9 | The larger ‘ aréolé ’ or Mirandais variety , which has pink mucosae , is nearly extinct and has fallen sharply from about 1,000 in 1979 , mainly through crossing with the Piedmont , the old Garonnais and the black-mucosae variety . |
| 10 | The radical critique has originated both from within medicine , particularly epidemiology , and from sociology . |
| 11 | The Government has shied away from forcing unions to discipline members who take part in unofficial action , and has put proposals to curb strikes in essential services on the back burner . |
| 12 | In the magazine , the influential journalist and author Gail Sheehy writes : ‘ Hillary boils over at what she perceives as a double standard — that the press has shied away from investigating long-standing rumours about George Bush . ’ |
| 13 | He has shied away from too many tournaments and has escaped the pressures of London , including his 10-month-old daughter Kiveli to spend long periods with Grandmaster Lubosh Kavalek , his trainer , in Virginia . |
| 14 | The Committee has shied away from recommending any sanction more drastic than public censure , such as delisting , for failure to include the statement of compliance , and it is to rely on shareholders to use their influence to ensure compliance with the elements of the code . |
| 15 | Half an hour later Penelope was encased — for it was a fraction too tight for her — in the lame cocktail dress with the hem roughly tacked up , the sequin trimming torn away from the neck and a string of black beads hanging down below the waist . |
| 16 | Physicists know only too well from studying crystalline materials that an understanding of solid-state physics is borne out of a sure knowledge of atomic structure and this has come traditionally from X-ray crystallography . |
| 17 | To acknowledge hunger ( which is not a disease but a social illness ) would be tantamount to political suicide among leaders whose power has come traditionally from the same plantation economy that produced that hunger in the first place . |
| 18 | THE EXCITING new astronomical knowledge we have gained over the past decade has come largely from satellites . |
| 19 | Although the original inspiration for this latest ‘ anti-fashion ’ movement has come largely from London street style ( and not its designers ) , the mood is being nurtured and developed in Paris and northern Europe . |
| 20 | A white woman named Jane has come here from London , drawn by the glamour of the Third World , supposing herself to have arrived where the action is , where the ‘ doers ’ are . |
| 21 | Information on step-families has come primarily from researchers following up the impact of divorce , practitioners working with divorced parents and step-families , and most recently from step-parents themselves . |
| 22 | Help has come partly from donations , but cash for a resistance movement in a drawn out conflict could come from the Kuwait investment office ; it has a hundred billion dollars in foreign assets . |
| 23 | This Simone has come directly from playing the Dame of pantomime and maintains that character from her very first entrance when she shakes a tablecloth out of the window and then furiously throws every vegetable in sight at Colas because she finds him waiting for Lise . |
| 24 | The whole operation has cost about £60 million , around half of which has come directly from central government . |
| 25 | Margery 's conversation with her husband when she has come home from the Exhibition |
| 26 | A NORTH Belfast student has come home from her first attempt at the British Long Distance Swimming Championships with a medal . |
| 27 | The increase in thermal insulation ( energy confinement time ) has come mainly from building larger machines , as well as from higher magnetic fields and cleaner plasmas . |
| 28 | Apart from the Head Chef , who is 53 , opposition has come mainly from the Accommodation Manager , who is unqualified but very experienced : he believes that the old ways are the best ways and has generally received the support of his department heads , who owe their positions to him . |
| 29 | Criticism has come mainly from local authorities , which reckon that the funding so far promised falls far short of that required . |
| 30 | One can safely say , however , that the learned world in which Civizade moved differed greatly from Hocazade 's . |