Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] from a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take a trip around the island by day and discover small restaurants tucked away in amongst the hills and valleys ; follow the bumpy sandy tracks to tiny secluded beaches , almost empty apart from a small bar or café serving ice cold sangria and the snacks the Spanish call ‘ tapas ’ . |
| 2 | But she does not , she says , shy away from a wider public . |
| 3 | Pilot Stephen Grey was unhurt apart from a minor neck injury which hospitalised him for a short period . |
| 4 | Farquhar , unhurt apart from a huge lump on his head , bandaged Lachlan 's wounds quickly before joining him at the oars . |
| 5 | The engine is standard apart from an unleaded head conversion some 5,000 miles ago : i.e. valve seats cut in , new valves , oil seals , guides etc . |
| 6 | A brief aside from a senior Minister can tell you more about the real thinking of the Cabinet than half a dozen statements in Parliament . |
| 7 | Then there will be a vector p , unique apart from a scalar factor , such that Xp = 0 . |
| 8 | Homosexuality , which was invented in 1869 also from a Greek root ( homo , meaning ‘ same ’ ) , was seen in the same light and its male variety was banned in 1885 . |
| 9 | All the surfaces were bare apart from a seventeenth-century bronze statue of Theseus abducting Antiope , the queen of the Amazons . |
| 10 | Some of its leading citizens acquired great wealth , especially from saffron and wine , and landed property , in the course of the twelfth century , and they displayed their newfound status by building the lofty towers which still make the skyline of the city so beautiful and so absurd — beautiful especially from a little distance , for the rolling Tuscan hills set off the imaginative colour and the dramatic skyline to remarkable effect . |
| 11 | MicroMuse believes that Sun NetManager is the best tool for the job ( although an SQL link for the software is currently available only from a third party ) . |
| 12 | I should say sugarbeet ai n't far off from a bloody parsnip . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , he failed to recognise that it was the same as red iron ore , an abundant and in expensive material , Instead , he thought it was scarce — and consequently expensive — being obtainable only from a particular treatment of iron itself . |
| 14 | Bangor went two up from a short corner with J Clark firing in an unstoppable shot . |