Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To create icon movies , you can pull icons in from the clip-art library , capture them off the desktop with the built-in capture program or create your own with the Frame Editor . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Australia 's defeats at Swansea and Llanelli , and only four tries in five matches in Wales , have given new hope to home players and fans only 12 months on from the 38–3 record home defeat at the hands of the Wallabies . |
| 4 | The kitchen is thus three steps down from the living-room floor level and is paved with the same material — York stone slabs approximately 60mm ( 2–1/2in ) thick , below which a low-pressure piped hot water central-heating system is installed . |
| 5 | ‘ Now when I know the boys are preparing for another game and I 'm not there , I will miss it ; the familiar routine , meeting at the Petersham Hotel in Richmond on a Wednesday night , the late meal , the exchange of views as people come in ; the Thursday morning training , dashing round to golf or wherever in the afternoon , the team meeting in the evening , the Friday session , probably going to the cinema at night , the leg pulling , the nervous jokes on the Saturday of the game itself , the closing in from the outside world . ’ |
| 6 | He flattered himself that he was in some small part responsible for such blissful bizarrities , given that over the years he 'd brought all manner of influences through from the Succulent Rock . |
| 7 | The doctors had told him he must take several months off from the exhausting business of running a supremely successful nightclub , for the sake of his health , and looking at him now she could see all too clearly the deeply etched lines on his face , the distinct greyness of his skin . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In sum : heads Fleet/Norstar wins , tails the taxpayer loses , on top of the $2.5 billion ( 10% up from the previous estimate ) that is already down the drain . |
| 10 | Liverpool may have been five goals up from the first leg , but this was never going to be an easy game in 70-degree heat and on a typically bumpy Mediterranean pitch . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Ravi Shankar 's score , drawing elements in from a wide range of sources , is both seductively lyrical and at times rhythmically complex . |
| 14 | A modern drainage system means that the village rarely floods these days , but the village green , known locally as ‘ The Pond ’ though it was filled in many years ago , shows signs of its former glory whenever there is a heavy rainstorm , and a decent fall of snow , combined with the winds so common to the Wolds , can still cut the village off from the outside world . |
| 15 | Picking the feet out from the same side can save valuable seconds . |
| 16 | First gas started flowing from the field early in November , just a few weeks on from the original target of October . |
| 17 | Three years on from the first album , Neneh admits that ‘ the till bells are ringing empty . |
| 18 | In an effort to reduce it , the government increased interest rates , which restricted growth to an estimated 6.5 per cent in 1990 , almost a full percentage point down from the 1989 figure . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It also has the effect of raising the back edge so as to hide the joints at the bottom and provide a start for the graceful curve down from the top edge . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | We built the festival up from the old village concerts , which are still always packed out ’ . |
| 23 | Tabitha sat up fast , jerking her hips back from the snarling Perk . |
| 24 | Draw battlefield nuclear weapons back from the front line . |
| 25 | The governor had moved his guests back from the illuminated pedestal to show the line and glazing of the Ming vase to its best advantage , and because he had turned his head in their direction to explain a point , he did n't see the gibbon streak across the marble floor on all fours . |
| 26 | Boyd took the ball in from the one yard line to reduce the Tornadoes lead to one point . |
| 27 | Do you need to give some free line because the chub are sucking the bait in from a considerable distance ? |
| 28 | Another man who was unknown to Carson put his head through from a connecting office . |
| 29 | A promotion-chasing football team has taken the day off from a hectic training schedule to record a pop song . |
| 30 | He certainly does tend to separate new techniques and technologies out from the total matrix of forces playing on production and reproduction , and to exaggerate their as it were naked power ; and he does underestimate the capacity of the capitalist media industries to channel the use made of them to suit their own interests , nullifying radical potential . |