Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a friend 's studio she posed , head on one side and delicate long fingers hanging languidly from the enveloping sleeves of her home-made gown . |
| 2 | As Russians penetrated southwards from the forested zone ( taiga ) to the wooded steppe , and then the open grasslands , they built new fortresses . |
| 3 | We see the new concern as arising in an era of restraint , but see that the case for value for money stands apart from the political stance taken — whether it is for or against cuts in local government expenditure . |
| 4 | These constraints lead decision-makers to deviate considerably from the comprehensive rationality model , but in six ways which add up to a positive theory of decision-making . |
| 5 | A figure moved across from the dark corner in which he had been having an earnest conversation with a black boy , and sat down next to her . |
| 6 | As the car moved away from the Elizabethan pile Marler glanced in his wing mirror . |
| 7 | Down by the river the boys fish with rods cut straight from the surrounding forest and grill their catches on an open fire . |
| 8 | But the vast increase in the Nazi vote came primarily from the impoverished middle classes who had seen their savings and living standards smashed in the wake of the Versailles Treaty and the Depression . |
| 9 | That light came originally from the same source as Fenna 's fire , from the heart of the golden star , from the sun itself — but it was light crashing around space at speeds which defy relativity , rolling like waves , bouncing like particles , rebounding off the dead desert of the cold moon and hurled thence , down through nearly a quarter of a million miles , forced through the steadily slowly moving liquid molecules of solid glass which made the windows . |
| 10 | Edward turned away from the assembled prelates and nobles of his council and addressed Philip V as follows : |
| 11 | One of the planes , an enemy one she thought , suddenly blazed with a great yellow and red light from somewhere just behind its wings , and almost immediately , tiny bright fragments hurtled outwards from the burning plane , and it was gone . |
| 12 | Levi withdrew entirely from the Israeli delegation . |
| 13 | Outboard interplane struts slanted outward from the lower wingtips , but a system of sturdy inverted V-struts and single struts supported the three 485hp Bristol Jupiter IX radial engines mounted on the upper wing . |
| 14 | The huge tail-fin of a B-52 bomber protrudes eerily from the misty water ; a burnt-out helicopter rests in a tree . |
| 15 | The Central Council of the PLO , convened in Tunis on Oct. 15-17 , formally approved continuing Palestinian participation at the Middle East peace talks , but analysts believed that the margin of victory for the mainstream " pro-negotiation " factions was narrow , opposition coming principally from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) . |
| 16 | Once fierce rivals of York came unstuck again in their desperate bid to climb away from the bottom reaches of Yorkshire Division One , going down 15–10 Leodiensians . |
| 17 | The interest which the RUC has as a police force derives entirely from the social context in which it operates , but this context is both a spur and a hindrance to research on the RUC . |
| 18 | Comparison of their chemistry with that of magmas erupted on oceanic islands demonstrates the plumes differ chemically from the upper mantle . |
| 19 | A group of four parties — the People 's Party , the Socialist Party , Social Democracy and the Democratic Party of Slovakia — issued a statement on May 18 calling on the CPCz to withdraw voluntarily from the general election in June as an admission of the party 's responsibility for the country 's condition after 41 years of communist rule and of the party 's continued totalitarian tendencies . |
| 20 | The grey eyes behind the spectacles wavered perplexedly from the denuded twigs to the caterpillar and hence to my face : ‘ But what can I do about it ? |
| 21 | Perhaps the most well-known experiment in work organisation is the Volvo car assembly plant at Kalmar in Sweden where the company has made some attempt to break away from the traditional mass-production assembly line . |
| 22 | Analysts had been bullish on the indicator ahead of the announcement , but in the event , the US Semiconductor Industry Association 's book-to-bill ratio for February fell to a still very healthy 1.18 , from 1.20 in January , the latter figure revised upwards from the 1.19 reported at the time . |
| 23 | My mind wandered away from the disembowelled calves . |
| 24 | This signal , we believe , is a diffusing chemical , a morphogen , which is released by the polarizing region , so the concentration is highest at the posterior margin and the concentration decreases away from the polarizing region , being lowest at the anterior margin . |
| 25 | Overall , the reforms ( particularly the CSFs ) represented a further attempt to move away from the passive form of EC regional aid , whereby EC expenditure was simply added to nationally determined projects , and regional policy was therefore little more than a system of budgetary transfers . |
| 26 | Reflected light shimmered upwards from the rapid water , and rippled along the stone of the ramparts . |
| 27 | He came out of the library when he saw it was me , shook my hand and said ‘ Terrible thing , terrible thing ’ a few times , while Beethoven sounded loudly from the opened library door and his wife tutted and tried to smooth his errant hair . |
| 28 | And cutting down through the rising rock , the Indus carries away from the Himalayan region five million tonnes of earthen debris every day . |
| 29 | From the start , ITV programme scheduling was almost entirely determined , apart from the IBA 's requirements , by the need to get advertising revenue ( in its early years , one-quarter of ITV 's money came simply from the great washing-powder war ) . |
| 30 | In contrast , the expression level observed with the Short construct mice deviates markedly from the expected ratio and position effects are present above five copies/genome . |