Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bhabha writes of how Fanon ‘ speaks most effectively from the uncertain interstices of historical change : from the area of ambivalence between race and sexuality , out of an unresolved contradiction between culture and class ; from deep within the struggle of psychic representation and social reality ’ ( foreword to Fanon , Black Skin , White Masks , p. ix ) . |
| 2 | Right down from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the 1960s one can indeed construct a counter-grandadology to Pearson 's ‘ history of respectable fears ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ This is what you call the laconicum ? ’ she asked , drawing back rather dubiously from the dank breath that distilled out of the earth . |
| 4 | Humans create niches for wildlife by providing extra pockets of nutrients — comparable to estuaries , where nutrients are brought in naturally from the surrounding seas and landscape . |
| 5 | But the myriad electronic images and printed words that pour in daily from the Balkan war zone can not convey the whole truth about what is going on there . |
| 6 | ‘ For Farr , ’ said Lustgarten , ‘ as he laughed and joked with his old friend in the front room of their Wimbledon home , was already planning exactly where his carving knife would skirt the edge of the poisoned breast meat , digging deeper and deeper away from the tainted flesh , so that neither he nor Templeton would suffer . |
| 7 | Armies so non-national and drawn so largely from the lowest strata of the social pyramid were prone to lose men by desertion . |
| 8 | By the 1790s these shock waves had triggered off another seismic event , sending North America ( where the struggle for national independence had already begun in 1774 ) not only away from the English Crown but on the road to a republican state . |
| 9 | Family run B/B close to the beach , shopping , entertainment and conference centres yet far enough away from the main road to avoid traffic noise . |
| 10 | We reckon this if far enough away from the main house to make sure that you get some real peace and quiet . ’ |
| 11 | The Popi is well situated for everything — it 's in the middle of the harbour area of Kos , only a kilometre or so away from the early nightlife and bars and very close to the late night discos . |
| 12 | The whole FI family would stay at the Sheraton in Buenos Aires and the Hilton in Sao Paulo while , between races , a majority of the drivers would take a week 's break at Guaruja on the Brazilian coast near Santos , an hour or so away from the smog-filled city of Sao Paulo . |
| 13 | She had tried to sound breezy , but her voice cracked , and she turned swiftly away from the sudden concern in Mandy 's big green eyes . |
| 14 | They did try to kill the piglet , but as they were quite frightened and obviously not from the right background , they were not very practical about it . |
| 15 | Sun struck across the room , bounced fiercely up from the shiny surfaces of containers littering the floor and tossed shadows from the drawers and furniture which had been hurled about . |
| 16 | Mixing paints is not so far from the pre-Mendelian vision of heredity , and even today popular culture frequently expresses heredity in terms of a mixing of ‘ bloods ’ . |
| 17 | I had thought where we were lodging , so far from the wealthy industrialists ' villas and mansions , to be humble enough , but these … |
| 18 | But , surely , we can not have advanced so far from the socialist follies and delusions of the 1960s and 1970s , which all the world now rejects , to embrace them again under the banners of Mr Kinnock and Miss Glenda Jackson , Nupe and the apostles of Political Correctness , Mr Roy Hattersley and the heroes of a hundred town halls from Lambeth to Liverpool ? |
| 19 | We wondered what it was doing so far from the coastal cliffs , but we learned later that they sometimes build their eyries on inland lava pinnacles . |
| 20 | Those of us who are not so far from the notable Sugar Loaf Summit on the Central Wales Line ( Heart of Wales ) will recall this example of a Staff Halt . |
| 21 | Such politicizations might take feminist psychologists so far from the conventional discipline that they would lose their influence within it . |
| 22 | Cadence Design Systems Inc warns that turnover for the first quarter will be down substantially from the same period last year and it will likely see a loss for the quarter . |
| 23 | Lost time incidents and the associated frequency index were down substantially from the previous year , maintaining a progressively improving trend . |
| 24 | Like the salt traffic , the cattle trade that developed so strongly from the sixteenth century onwards moved along existing green lanes and trackways . |
| 25 | While the sky above darkened to a deep purple , the Marines below looked about , made nervous by the steadily increasing pace and volume of drumming that floated down eerily from the surrounding countryside . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't think a horse has ever quickened for me so well from the final flight . ’ |
| 27 | The water came down so fast from the cold heights that it remained icy even in the thick heat of the valley . |
| 28 | My great fishing love , until then , had been Lady Tweed , but I soon discovered the South Tyne was every bit as good , if not better , than the Queen of Scottish rivers ; and the stretch below our house was far enough upstream and far enough downstream from the main population centres to make it almost completely private . |
| 29 | If we consider an ordinary tree , by the time it is a few years old it has usually acquired a number of little branches , coming out more or less horizontally from the main stem or trunk . |
| 30 | Ensis fluid , however , does the trick nicely apart from the unfortunate side effect of turning everything treated with it a rather rusty colour ! |