Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] from " in BNC.

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1 There is no hope for man apart from the Cross . ’
2 It shifts interaction between pupils away from casual social conversation in the direction of discussion about the task in hand , and in doing so it reduces the amount of time spent by the teacher on matters of routine .
3 We have had requests for coverage already from the United Press International .
4 I was allowed to disrupt a ‘ social skills ’ course — one of a number of educational opportunities for men apart from the usual classes — and took the opportunity to test out some of my impressions against their own , well-informed ones in a session that , in the end , lasted twice as long as its scheduled time .
5 ‘ You work all over the place , and you must spend a great deal of time away from home . ’
6 Such a configuration would tend to make a plate slide under the force of gravity downwards from a mid-oceanic ridge towards a subduction zone ( Fig. 2.17(E) ) .
7 There has already been a switch of emphasis away from sheltered housing for the elderly to other groups in special need , and what money has been available has been targetted to those areas which have not been well served in the past ( peripheral housing estates , remote areas and less attractive small towns ) , or to developments offering very special facilities ( eg sheltered housing for the elderly deaf ) .
8 The Electricity Boards were generally reluctant to go further and show large surpluses in their accounts , for fear of criticism both from consumers and from workers in the industry , though some Boards went further than others in this direction .
9 I realised there were periods of time when this pool is hardly used , so I approached the management and asked if I could bring parties of residents here from Conway House .
10 But it was Barth himself who really carried this programme through , insisting that even the doctrines of creation and sin must be grounded in christology , that there is no predestination of God apart from Jesus Christ , that on the cross Jesus himself is the one rejected and abandoned by God , and that both judgement and mercy , reprobation and election , must be seen as worked through in him , All these lines must , so to speak , be carried into the centre where they meet in Jesus Christ himself , and be seen as opening out from him rather than as constituting a distinct frame of reference into which he can be subsequently fitted .
11 He was never allowed to hold the colobus , though , and sat eating his piece of meat apart from the others .
12 Alice 's room was tiny , with a single bed , one other piece of furniture apart from the wall cupboard , a small chair , and a narrow window that would not open .
13 I am out here alone , unprotected , only a thin piece of plastic-canvas away from lions , buffalo , leopards and hyena .
14 From 1946 to 1952 he was first lecturer and then senior lecturer in the department of philosophy and psychology at the University of Canterbury , Christchurch , New Zealand , and was professor of philosophy there from 1952 to 1958 .
15 ‘ You look tired , ’ he said , raising a hand to brush a lock of hair away from her brow .
16 US trade associations have claimed that this represents a diversion of 1.93 billion lbs of aluminium away from the solid waste stream .
17 At Stage I VUPP had only 1.5 quotas but with the aid of transfers mainly from Armstrong ( Un ) and Maginnis ( UPNI ) as well as non-transfers from Republican Clubs the two VUPP candidates were elected .
18 The Faculty has the advantage of being located in the centre of the Scottish legal system with its own distinctive legal traditions , one of which is an historic openness to influences both from the civilian systems of Europe and the Anglo-American common law .
19 In the spring of 1992 ten days cost from £395 to £475 inclusive from UK .
20 There has been no opportunity to find books or pictures on that sort of thing , and in fact we do n't have any books on China apart from the Nagel 's guide which we brought with us , and please tell when you see him how useful it is .
21 No neon lights , no jukebox , no slot machines , so what sets the Black Horse at Checkenden apart from other pubs ?
22 If , on the other hand , it is continuously generated in a flowing system — gas or liquid travelling at a uniform rate down a tube — its subsequent decay establishes steady-state concentrations at points down-stream from the region of generation .
23 Action at Bewdley mainly from deeper , slow swims for chub and roach .
24 The reorganisation of DTI away from sectors has proved to be successful .
25 Clearly , in modern times a volunteer army is likely to be more isolated than a conscript army , and any process of ‘ professionalization ’ is likely to remove the norms and values of soldiers further from their civilian origins .
26 It was possible , of course , that their man had taken his taxi to a part of London far from the place he was staying in .
27 At regular intervals each year thousands of worshippers flock to Naples Cathedral to witness the ‘ miracle ’ of the liquefaction of a small phial of blood purportedly from Saint Januarius , martyred by the Romans in 305 .
28 Cut strips of peel away from the top downwards with a very sharp knife so that the orange is completely free from the white membranes of the peel .
29 A change of scene both from lakeside and historic town is to be had by leaving Schwyz on the road which ascends southward into the valley of the Muota ( the river which enters the lake just west of Brunnen ) .
30 The British attitude was that American troops should remain pending the completion of the UN task in supervising elections ; the change of policy away from the Moscow agreement , which Britain had so far supported , would be justified in the UN debate on the grounds that the assumptions on future developments at Moscow had proved erroneous and the only course of action now was to appoint a UN temporary commission .
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