Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The receipts from his shows have long since moved from the realms of the fantastic into those of the ludicrous . |
| 2 | One was the common ostrich ; the other was the smaller ‘ petise ’ version that Darwin had only just snatched from the jaws of his shipmates . |
| 3 | Alternatively , it may be particularly insoluble and not effectively extracted from the cells . |
| 4 | The deserts of the world which comprise this empty quarter demonstrate a sensitivity to human impact but one which is not easily separated from the effects of fluctuations in climate , as studies of arroyo development have clearly shown ( Cooke and Reeves , 1976 ) . |
| 5 | Although forewarned by the bombardment , the Germans had not temporarily withdrawn from the heights ; so the troops in their trenches were bombarded for the best part of a week and could receive no food or relief from the devastating artillery fire . |
| 6 | So far , though , the Americans have not yet moved from the corridors to the negotiating table itself . |
| 7 | Even the city of Athens , not yet recovered from the devastations of the first century BC , had begun to flourish . |
| 8 | In Northern Nigeria , he succeeded in detaching the judicial system and the technical departments from the grip of the administrative service , whose claims to omnipotence and omnicompetence were thereby permanently reduced from the heights to which they had risen a decade before . |
| 9 | Were they , as has been asserted , in large measure recruited from chapmen who had made their pile — new men in the full sense of the phrase ; or were they , as some more recent historians have emphasized , more often recruited from the sons of local landed families who had taken to trade ? |
| 10 | In any case , during the eighteenth century the basic manufacturing sectors were dominated by noblemen , socially far removed from the merchants . |
| 11 | The mammals also existed at this time , starting a little later in the mid-Triassic , but in very insignificant numbers and they were tiny until after the death of the dinosaurs , after which they had more fully evolved from the pelycosaurs and therapsids . |
| 12 | The remaining subfamilies would appear to be more closely related from the characters of the oral and dental plates shown by Murakami ( 1963 ) . |
| 13 | The result of the battle seems rather far removed from the issues facing the world today . |
| 14 | Sexing : The females are fairly easily defined from the males . |
| 15 | We know something of the ways in which ‘ huskers ’ and amateur street performers were progressively controlled and eventually almost eliminated from the cities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 16 | Finally , it seems that despite the absence of formal systems of regulation , contract computer staff are potentially well protected from the vagaries of unscrupulous clients or agencies . |
| 17 | Well , fourteenth-century Turkey must be pretty safely removed from the things of this world . |
| 18 | She was too small , too weak , too long sheltered from the harshnesses of the world . |
| 19 | Centralized government , so the argument goes , has proved too large and too far removed from the problems with which it seeks to cope . |
| 20 | A voice whispered that the work was nonsense , too far removed from the interests of the age to be of value . |
| 21 | It draws on the form of words suggested by the Williams Committee for their scheme of prohibition , and the purpose is simply to redefine the essence of the deprave-and-corrupt approach for those for whom the old form of words seems too far removed from the values and habits of today : |
| 22 | It should be emphasised , however , that although in a sense Spinoza recommends the ethical precepts he endorses to each of us as what we will accept if we act with a view to our own best interest , these best interests are conceived in a way which is very far removed from the goals of what is commonly called egoism . |
| 23 | It was with such proclamations that the Cubists confirmed our lurch into the twentieth century and confronted us with the sometimes harsh realities that are alternative to the Renaissance view of mankind and certainly far removed from the elegances of Art Nouveau , Tiffany 's , the Moulin Rouge and the Paris Métro . |
| 24 | There were many traditional features in his films and his whole approach to a story was never far removed from the conventions of melodrama , but what Griffith was able to do was to shift the action of any of his films to whatever chapter of history or social setting that his plot or theme required . |
| 25 | Perhaps she had never quite recovered from the efforts to please she had made then . |