Example sentences of "was [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such features are not consistent with the idea that the peninsula was built by longshore drift from the east , unless such drift was active only for short periods while during the intervening time the drift was predominantly from the west . |
| 2 | The squeeze was on from the start , Mark Bowen clearing off the line in the fourth minute and again in the 84th from Terry Hurlock 's drive as Norwich maintained a startling statistic of having yet to concede an away goal . |
| 3 | And it was n't even from my constituency it was widely from the Leicestershire and coming back to our , our friend there Doctor er , I do n't know what was the name there when he mentioned about what 's the name ? |
| 4 | Production in 1974 was down from the immediately post-war total of 600 000 tons to just over one sixth that figure . |
| 5 | She realized she was down from the morph-plus , and that her senses were sharper than they had ever been before . |
| 6 | The 1989 growth in GDP of 9.2 per cent was down from the 11 per cent of the previous year but unemployment during the year was at a record low of 2.2 per cent . |
| 7 | Of the seats , 5% deviated from the electoral quota by 20% ( though this was down from the 39% of seats that had deviated by that much on the 1982 register . ) |
| 8 | It was only from the 1880s that the larger Canadian cities sprouted stations that would match their rapidly growing civic pride . |
| 9 | Both he and Eadmer had written their Histories down to 1120 without mentioning these texts , and it was only from the Canterbury monks that William of Malmesbury now learnt that these were the texts quoted by Lanfranc fifty years earlier . |
| 10 | He prided himself , with high justification , on being a great House of Commons man , but it was only from the Treasury bench that he could lead with ease and pleasure . |
| 11 | I went to Hemel Hempstead er a school called in Hemel Hempstead that was only from the August till December when I left school and then the erm then the Headmistress , cos we had a Headmistress there cos it was a mixed school , and she recommended me for this here errand boy 's job , his name was . |
| 12 | Coal-carrying was thus from the first , and has remained both in Britain and on the Continent , one of the basic economic functions of the railway . |
| 13 | There was thus from the 1850s a sharp growth of European consular representation in the outside world , particularly in Asia . |
| 14 | My friend Simon Jones was over from the States and I 'd promised him seats that night , and then forgotten all about it . |
| 15 | So we were doing this music which was away from the pop stuff that was around . |
| 16 | It was away from the heat of Paris , yet close enough to enable the ministers to travel there without difficulty for the twice weekly Council meetings . |
| 17 | Of the six men banned , Chapman was probably least involved , as he was away from the club when the malpractices allegedly took place . |
| 18 | When their mother died in 1778 she was sent away to Halifax , to stay with her mother 's cousin , Miss Elizabeth Threlkeld , for nine years ; she then lived at Penrith with her grand-parents , seeing William for only a short time , and from 1789 to 1794 was away from the Lake District again , in the care of her uncle and aunt at Forncett in Norfolk . |
| 19 | On the one hand what the gay movement had done was to involve me in a very intense one-to-one relationship , a couple relationship , and at the same time the ideology that the movement was instilling in me was away from the idea of couple relationships and away from the idea that sex should be conventionally tied to relationships or a single relationship . |
| 20 | The bill was prepaid , so that he was away from the hotel before the front desk was manned , and the car had started first turn . |
| 21 | When she belatedly realised that she must be pregnant she could not tell the Englishman , because he was away from the camp leading an action against an important German supply dump . |
| 22 | About a week or so ago , when I was away from the morning show for a week doing a bit of gardening , decorating , and all those things that we all love to take time off . |
| 23 | Yet it was abundantly clear that only when she was away from the influence of the house was she able to return to some semblance of normality . |
| 24 | They were at it in the house , then in Felstead 's car on the way to the Club , all the time he was away from the bar . |
| 25 | But again I was told that he was away from the office , and a girl who said she was his secretary could give no clear indication of when he was expected back . |
| 26 | Left was away from the place the Mobile had last seen him , away from Neptune Court . |
| 27 | Might have brought some of the stuff up while he was away from the table . |
| 28 | We cooked and served the meal that Sir Thomas had recently eaten ; it is true he could have taken the poison afterwards , however , or when he was away from the table during the entremets . |
| 29 | But if he was away from the Institute the day she disappeared … . |
| 30 | Once the process is posted to defendant 's address , if it is not returned by the Post Office , it is deemed to have been delivered , ( see s 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 ) ; thus applications by defendants will generally seek to show , by affidavit , that the defendant was away from the a ddress , for example , abroad or on a prolonged holiday ; it has been held that he is not entitled to have the judgment set aside ex debito justitiae . |