Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ABOUT 30 people may have been massacred in Kinshasa , Zaire , on Monday , after a bar-room brawl over a woman led vengeance-seeking Zairian troops to fire indiscriminately on two funeral processions , killing the wrong targets , human rights and business sources reported by telephone yesterday from Abidjan , on the Ivory Coast . |
| 2 | However , it 's surprising that in on representative government utilitarianism barely surfaces and that almost no mention at all is made of utility apart from in a very general way . |
| 3 | I started keeping any post connected with finance away from him , and myself dealt with the usual household accounts such as the telephone and electricity , because even they sent him into a frenzy of checking and referring back to previous demands , an attitude completely alien to his normal temperament . |
| 4 | The six-storey warehouses were designed by Telford to stand by the water 's edge so that goods could be moved by crane straight from ship to warehouse without the double handling usual in docks of the time . |
| 5 | However , the panel left intact Canada 's right to set conservation and fishing quotas and suggested that the landing requirements would be legitimate if at least some of the fish was sold for export directly from fishing boats . |
| 6 | For over four hundred metres there was nothing separating the new driveage from the caved in section apart from some wooden props . |
| 7 | AN experimental Dambusters ‘ bouncing bomb ’ will be raised by helicopter tomorrow from waters where it was tested nearly 50 years ago . |
| 8 | True , there is a general drift through time towards more complex plants , more perfectly adapted to life away from water , but primitive species have persisted alongside the innovations . |
| 9 | Although it is not accompanied by laughter either from the speaker or other participants , there is evidence that the other participants do treat the Creole material as the salient content of the turn by responding to that rather than some other part of it . |
| 10 | Men are seen as the enemy and are fought through re-education away from the colonialist ideas that women should be quiet and biddable . |
| 11 | Joan Waters , too , was left in peace apart from the following two minor incidents which may have been attempts to impress upon her that she had not moved beyond the reach of the long arm of the undercover services . |
| 12 | Lou had stood in darkness apart from a single spotlight . |
| 13 | Once this has happened , it is advisable to remove some of the plant material covered in spawn away from the preying adults ( who will promptly eat most of it if there is only sparse plant cover in the pool ) . |
| 14 | Remember that if the glider is drifting towards an obstruction this can only be stopped by banking away from it and not by just applying the rudder . |
| 15 | The political anger created by economic fears was diverted by nationalism away from the only course that stood even a small chance of success . |
| 16 | In individual cases catching criminals depended on the usually less than willing readiness of the village constables to act ; since they were chosen by vote annually from middling tradesmen and farmers they had little hope of dealing with many common incidents unless the rest of the community felt sufficiently outraged to support them . |