Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [noun] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lone parent families are more likely than two parent families to depend on social security benefits , and are less likely to have earnings from employment as their main source of income . |
| 2 | Once more , it is theologically impossible to separate East from West . |
| 3 | It will be argued that basically these sentences are semantically deviant ; however , it must also be recognised that it is not possible to disentangle semantics from grammar completely . |
| 4 | Those citizens unlucky enough to still be alive were swept into the Realm of Chaos , their living bodies melted into the walls of the city itself , so that it was no longer possible to tell man from stone . |
| 5 | Since we are generally concerned to detect deviations from average , it can be useful to show the row and column averages where these make sense . |
| 6 | THE BRITISH government 's claim that it is not necessary to remove lead from petrol received another body-blow last week . |
| 7 | The net result was a political atmosphere ‘ in which it became impossible for the police as a whole to avoid a distortion of priorities and for individual police officers it became more and more difficult to disentangle fact from prejudice in assessing those whom they were sent to police ’ ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:134–5 ) . |
| 8 | Some have a marked reluctance to break out new growth from the base , and are more ready to sprout shoots from growth high up . |
| 9 | They were also inclined to distinguish reason from imagination and to regard the latter as a sensual quality corresponding to the animal nature of man whereas intellect corresponded to his divine nature . |
| 10 | The eighteenth-century chemist and Unitarian minister Joseph Priestley ( 1733–1804 ) was as keen to remove spirits from Christianity as he was from chemistry . |
| 11 | Adding VAT to fuel and power is justified as a means of taxing pollution , but it would have been equally effective to remove VAT from insulation materials which , after all , reduce pollution . |