Example sentences of "[noun] [am/are] [v-ing] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burned by their experience of the volatility of the capital markets , many leading banks such as Bank of America and Lloyds are pulling back from the periphery of their systems to defend their home bases . |
| 2 | The arrows in the drawing are moving back from the boundary of the information field to the centre . |
| 3 | They 've made him lie with his hands behind his head , which is a trick they probably picked from a Miami Vice afternoon repeat , except it looks stupid when the guy 's hairy legs are sticking out from the tail of his shirt . |
| 4 | The response certainly illustrates the transition to a less " intransitive " pedagogy and more " interpersonal style " : Questions are coming up from the students . |
| 5 | Tigridias are taking over from the lilies while geraniums , argyranthemums , lime-green nicotianias , eucomis and trailing blue convolvulus have filled out rapidly and blend well with the softer colours of the herbs |
| 6 | Well , as usual it 's all there in the papers that Mr has prepared for us if anybody cares to read them , and you will notice , the national non-domestic rate , the business rate as it 's known , the contribution that the government are passing on from the business rates paid in Wiltshire , back to the people of Wiltshire is dropping by seven point nine million pounds , it 's being cut from a hundred and eighteen point six to a hundred and nine point three million pounds , and again this is pound for pound . |
| 7 | And because pollarding has not been carried out , tall , heavy shoots are growing up from the ancient trunks , which are usually rotten and hollow inside , and these too often either split or simply collapse " . |
| 8 | There 's a poster beside one of the machines — ‘ DO N'T DISREGARD — REPLACE THE GUARD ’ , it says … you have to laugh — there are no guards , they were taken off the machines to up the production , they only put them on when the big bosses are coming over from the States to inspect the place — the place really gets cleaned up then . |