Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A shuttle bus operates to the hotel 's reserved section of beach at San Maria , which is accessed via 70 steps down from the road and has a beach bar . |
| 2 | He also wanted voters to have the right to cast their ballots anywhere in Namibia , rather than in towns and villages where voters can be recognised , and to keep the tallymen from Namibia 's political parties away from the polling stations and from places where votes would be counted . |
| 3 | By providing money for so-called buy-back operations , in which countries either bought their own commercial debts back from the banks at deeply discounted levels or , alternatively , simply used the money as collateral when negotiating low-interest bond deals , a number of countries had been able to reschedule their own external obligations on easier repayment terms than had been agreed at the time when they were made . |
| 4 | Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle . |
| 5 | And a remote controlled ‘ plane , shaped like a falcon , shooed lesser birds away from the runways of Vancouver International Airport . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps you ought to spend a few hours away from the house , ’ Julius suggested , before she had time to stalk off . |
| 7 | The exact words , er I ca n't recall but er I talked the man out of the bed , still with his hands up and he took a few steps away from the bed . |
| 8 | Situated directly on the promenade and only a few steps away from the boat departure point , this beautiful art-nouveau building has been lovingly restored to combine the old style will all the comforts of a modern hotel . |
| 9 | They may have gone down the medium wave dial from 10.17 to 8.55 , but their new premises in Ludlow is more than a few steps up from the barn . |
| 10 | The rear door of the car opened and my father was observed to be standing there , a few steps back from the vehicle , gazing steadily into the interior . |
| 11 | Many , of course , had brothers or older friends in the Rowdies group and had already had some experience of ‘ hanging around ’ with them in other social arenas away from the terraces . |
| 12 | His rider , Suzy , missed the piling and soared beyond Seth , landing forty-five feet away from the point of impact in a foetal position . |
| 13 | To Joseph 's delight the Resident Superior led his entourage to the very front of the audience chamber and the American boy found himself standing only a few feet away from the throne where the Emperor Khai Dinh , a slender , almost feminine figure , sat swathed in a golden robe of richly embroidered silk . |
| 14 | Susan found it , dented and with loose jewels , a few feet away from the corpse . |
| 15 | She was only a few feet away from the buffer when a rat darted in front of her , and although she jerked her head back sharply its wet tail brushed against her cheek as it disappeared into a gap between the two lengths of corroded track . |
| 16 | To demonstrate , he starts some 30 feet away from the actor , Ronald Nitschke , and moves in , hissing obscenities which rise in volume as he transfers to an invented , rasping , jabberwocky German . |
| 17 | Some boys were bringing battered wooden buckets up from the well and the occasional housewife emptied the slops from the night jars out into the middle of the street . |
| 18 | Hewlett-Packard Co has won a $125m contract with Europe 's largest telecommunications carrier , Deutsche Bundespost 's Telekom , Darmstadt , for 1,000 PA RISC Unix workstations , printers and plotters : the German giant will move some applications over from the IBM and Siemens Nixdorf mainframes it uses . |
| 19 | It was the capital of Greece , Athens , that first captivated his mind ; a very different place from the Decapolis of which he had written in ‘ The Song Of The Hellenist ’ , and light years away from the London from which he had fled . |
| 20 | Those late 1940s now seem light years away from the customs prevailing in present day society . |
| 21 | It 's set in an instrumental ambient world a few parallel light years away from The Orb , with titles like ‘ Xtai ’ , ‘ Ptolemy ’ , ‘ Heliosphan ’ and ‘ Hedphelyn ’ that demonstrate the art of Chill-out techno and loads of bits that sound like your phone ringing . |
| 22 | She followed the boy to a house set back in a palm-lined road , which was light years away from the urchin 's poverty-stricken background . |
| 23 | The cold neutral hydrogen , radiating energy at its characteristic wavelength of 21 centimetres , shows the cloud to be about 30 million light years away from the earth . |
| 24 | I 'll ask Daddy to give you a few days off from the office . |
| 25 | they permit the collation and review of evidence of student attainment from different sources eg. from the student , the supervisor or the tutor , thus contributing to the validity and reliability of assessment ; |
| 26 | This November should see some of the works in the new galleries , from the ‘ Primitives ’ to Poussin , transferred to a suite of twenty rooms on the second floor of the Richelieu wing , which will be reached by escalators and lifts bringing visitors to the galleries of French paintings directly from the Pyramid . |
| 27 | Mr Sale carefully provides the reader with this last piece of information 30 pages away from the news that Colon 's determination to find gold on the island was rewarded . |
| 28 | All different distances away from the sun and there 's Jennifer 's a hundred and fifty million millimetres . |
| 29 | Benjamin was standing a few yards away from the church , the ladder still in his hand . |
| 30 | Her car was parked a few yards away from the building . |