Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Here , black has come up from the streets and into the drawing room ; overleaf , neutral tones assert themselves . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Once a call has come through from the police the team initiates a ‘ cascade call ’ system where say , one person is responsible for telephoning six other team members . |
| 6 | Margery 's conversation with her husband when she has come home from the Exhibition |
| 7 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We do not sufficiently realise that we are no longer discussing a treaty that , like a tree , has grown only from the trunk of the European Commission , the European Parliament and the treaty of Rome . |
| 10 | Second , heroin use has grown rapidly from a small baseline , and , whilst we shall have to describe the prevalence of heroin use ‘ hidden ’ from agencies , particularly in middle-class areas , it is not a long-standing activity suddenly discovered by labellers which is redefined as a problem . |
| 11 | He has seen right from the start that the majority of Germans wanted unification and that the pace of events was dictating a much more rapid move towards unification than most people , either inside , and certainly on the outside , had realised , and he put all his authority into the campaign , campaigned extremely effectively and has had a ringing endorsement . |
| 12 | The great Dust Bowl which Maggie has seen only from the air , was once the long flank , the turning of the armpit of a dragon greater than Fenna , the great dragon laid out across the world its tail cooled by the oceans of the Antarctic and its breath , no longer fire , turned to ice around its head in the most northerly places of the globe . |
| 13 | His job is rated Grade B on the Civil Service Scale , so he is on £31,747 a year — a figure that has risen dramatically from the £21,000 he started on in February 1989 . |
| 14 | It certainly was a disgusting display from a man who has bowed out from the game very publicly . |
| 15 | Hence Britain has suffered increasingly from an international demonstration effect since the Second World War . |
| 16 | MALHAM village is one of the " honeypots " of the Dales and , to some extent because of this , it has suffered badly from the effects of visitor pressure . |
| 17 | In fact the Colosseum has suffered less from the depredations of the barbarians and the weathering of time than from its use in the Middle Ages as a fortress and later as a quarry by Renaissance builders ( 91 and 121 ) . |
| 18 | BEHIND THE IRISH TROUBLES The image of Northern Ireland has suffered greatly from the continual strife there , but the Industrial Development Board is successfully wooing overseas employers . |
| 19 | Recently , however , there have been many new initiatives ; the school has moved away from a ‘ basic skills ’ approach and now provides a much more relevant and purposeful curriculum . |
| 20 | It should be noted that owing to the increase in size and complexity of modern business , the development of computer systems and the requirement that an auditor should review transactions over a period to report on the profit and loss account , the modern practice of auditing has moved away from a detailed checking of a mass of individual items towards a review of the systems in operation . |
| 21 | Under the present director , Geoffrey Morgan , a soft-spoken Welshman whose main outside interest is silkworms , the list of names has moved away from the Reform Club and further out into Middle England , although it is still a very long way short of representing a cross-section of the population . |
| 22 | It has been said that ‘ … during the last forty years the United Kingdom has moved away from the nationality citizenship model ’ . |
| 23 | However , suffering from badly-burned fingers , the venture capital industry has moved away from the riskier entrepreneurial start-ups to investing more in developing companies and MBOs . |
| 24 | As the fashion for hair has moved away from the hard , artificial post-punk era towards more natural styles , the emphasis has been on hair care products that promote softness and shine . |
| 25 | An interesting trend in recent years is that the balance of support for the DMS has moved away from the private sector of industry and business towards the public sector , especially among the large nationalized companies . |
| 26 | At the West end of the Church a beam has moved away from the wall by nine inches . |
| 27 | Murray Johnstone , on the other hand , has moved away from the up-front commission structure , believing that it is more efficient for advisers to charge fees for their services . |
| 28 | ‘ The cannabis field has moved away from the drug abuse side of things . |
| 29 | Fashion has moved away from the big , glitzy authors because all that conspicuous consumption is just not admirable or enviable any more , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Mrs Brown , 35 , has since made a full recovery but was unable to attend the ceremony because she has moved away from the area . |