Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] from the " in BNC.

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1 For light travelling radially in a region described by the Schwarzschild metric , eqn ( 4.10 ) , with , becomes Then if a star shrinks to a radius less than r the time taken for light to emerge from the spherical surface at r becomes infinite , which confirms Michell 's conjecture .
2 The former enshrines the major cavity properties : E1 is the incident field amplitude ( normally zero in a laser ) ; t is the time for light to propagate from the cell output around to the input , equal to ( " : - — L ) /c ; 8 is the cavity mistuning , whose physical significance is best examined for the empty cavity , in steady state , whence and thus The cavity field thus has resonances spaced at intervals of in 8 , which are very sharp if R is close to unity ( high-finesse resonator ) .
3 This time is small compared with the time for a signal at the speed of light to travel from the detectors at one side of the experiment to those , 6 metres away , at the other side .
4 Two distinctive features of the cormorant are a patch of white feathers where the legs meet the body , and another area of white extending from the rear of one eye under the head to the rear of the other eye .
5 The sound of high-pitched wailing from the woods indicated that the village women were being held there , out of sight but close enough to hear what was going on .
6 Consequently , in accordance with equation ( 11.38 ) , which agrees with the expression for current obtained from the earlier equation ( 4.47 ) .
7 Unlike Simon , however , ( who withdrew to France ) Peter accepted the king 's recovery of power in 1261 , and next year served the king and Edward as custodian of Abergavenny , which he tried in vain to protect from the attacks of Llywelyn ab Gruffydd [ q.v . ] .
8 Something in Sabine recoiled from the idea .
9 Here soil conservation does not stand alone in this , and rural development in general suffers from the same problems which have generated a large literature in the improvement of planning and administrative systems .
10 ’ … thus to take a case like that in question of a purchase from a retailer the reliance will be in general inferred from the fact that a buyer goes to the shop in confidence that the tradesman has selected his stock with skill and judgment . ’
11 Within the ranks of the nobility , the king 's youngest sons in particular benefited from the fall of the courtiers : Edmund Langley was appointed Constable of Dover Castle , an office previously held by Latimer , while Woodstock was granted the office of Constable of England , which was hereditary in the Bohun family but had been delegated when necessary to other lords after the death of the last Earl of Hereford , Woodstock 's father-in-law .
12 The primary and secondary pair of rails are parallel to each other , gradually deviating to equal extends from the normal plane of the incline , but displaced a distance equal to the distance between the leading and trailing wheels .
13 The information will be compared with the picture of attitudes of the population at large gained from the annual British Social Attitudes survey ( supported by the Economic and Social Research Council ) and other sources .
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