Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] from a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The February index shows the increase in total earnings at management level down from an annual rate of 8.3 p.c. in December to 7 p.c. , from 7 p.c. to 5.6 p.c. at clerical level and from 7.4 p.c. to 6.8 p.c. among operatives . |
| 2 | From collections of legal formulae we know something about the local archives of a city , in which wills and other actions were registered , and we find various officials , the defensor , curator , magister militum and other members of the local curia being called upon to open the archives for the registration of new grants , but we have Formularies only from a small number of civitates , and their contents are not often datable , except to the period before the ninth century , when most of them were written down . |
| 3 | If he wanted to keep his horse away from a certain mare he had only to rub some of the liquid on the stallion 's bridle or on the mare to ensure that the horse would not go near her . |
| 4 | Blinded in one eye and losing blood rapidly from a punctured artery in her neck , she dropped back unnoticed by the others . |
| 5 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 6 | For those people who can sever their own feet and lurch away , they got it round the neck later from a special breed of Tightness that lives in the baskets of flowers up lamp posts . |
| 7 | Roland drew his breath in minor shock : Maud said , ‘ Oh , the dolls ’ — and Sir George brought his light back from a blank mirror entwined with gilded roses and focused it on the three rigid figures , semi-recumbent under a dusty counterpane , in a substantial if miniature four-poster bed . |
| 8 | In general , if is basic in a subsidiary tableau and its row has no positive entries apart from a positive entry in the resource column , then there is no feasible solution with . |
| 9 | That which sets a limited partnership apart from an ordinary partnership is the fact that provided certain requirements are met ‘ limited partners ’ may escape full liability for partnership debts ; thus their liability is limited to the extent of their investment in the partnership . |
| 10 | The Cannon Coalridge 's new Power Flue option allows installation up to 4m away from an outside wall , and will also take in up to four right angled bends |
| 11 | The Polish replica moved the breaking of Enigma on from a theoretical exercise to a practical one and Knox always gave the Poles credit for the part they played . |
| 12 | Ravi Shankar 's score , drawing elements in from a wide range of sources , is both seductively lyrical and at times rhythmically complex . |
| 13 | Classical dancers ' body-and-mind-sets are geared to a specific set of rules , one which stretches the body in long , clean lines away from an erect spine . |
| 14 | You may be receiving help soon from an unexpected source . ’ |
| 15 | One scene among many that captures the ironic mix of commonplace and macabre has two kids battling over a football , just a few feet away from a dead body . |
| 16 | He had sought and received asylum in the Senegalese embassy in Conakry only a month after his return home from a long period of exile [ see p. 38181 ] . |
| 17 | The British squad members may not be fully rested after their return yesterday from a 2½-week training trip to the United States , but their presence will serve as a psychological boost to their teams . |
| 18 | You need a certain kind of front to breeze in from an alternative reality in the back of a time-travelling Volvo and sit in a Presley City bar , with a two-headed nipper on your lap , complaining to a private dick from the twenty-fifth century that you do n't have time for nonsense . |
| 19 | If we are to see evolutionary processes in action in plant communities and the proximal events determining their character we must focus our attention away from an anthropomorphic scale of acres or square metres and onto a scale appropriate to the organisms with which we are concerned . |
| 20 | Some people find a change of soap powder can help , especially a move away from a biological powder . |
| 21 | Nabb made its first move away from a manual system about eight years ago when the UK office installed a single-user version of Omicron PowerSystems . |
| 22 | So , all in all , Uzzell said he felt quite reassured by the results — ‘ with the shift away from a hardware-oriented industry towards an emphasis on software , services and global networking , integrators who understand business issues have a vital role to play in the industry ’ . |
| 23 | It seems likely , however , that there was some relative shift away from a traditional leisure preference over the eighteenth century . |
| 24 | On 15 March Party officials took gold objects from the main church , despite protests outside from a large crowd including factory workers . |
| 25 | This is , of course , symptomatic of the rapid move over the past few years away from a consensus-based approach to education policy making towards one based on central autonomy . |
| 26 | Cranston 's wife Maude rejoined him , still behaving as if Athelstan had brought her husband home from a heroic field of battle rather than half drunk , his doublet stained with vomit . |
| 27 | It garnered unequivocal critical praise , the vocal admiration of many American politicians and a thumbs up from a Californian judge , who recently sent a young black offender to see the film ( in lieu of a custodial sentence ) . |
| 28 | I have discovered two new rooms in the tower ; the lower , immediately above the fan ceiling , has bell ropes dangling and is obviously still in use , whilst the upper is bare , dusty boards apart from a giant treadmill in the centre which might once have been used for hauling up stone but is clearly redundant now . |
| 29 | Even so , there has already been one triumph : inflation fell to 6% in the year to the third quarter , the lowest rate for 18 years apart from a brief spell in 1984–85 . |
| 30 | What do herbs have to offer fish apart from a better flavour ? |