Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 That is especially so at this time , when we are effectively handing from Parliament to Ministers the right to decide , on private Bills , to lay orders .
2 Of the previous four presidents one , Johnson , had been effectively driven from office by the failure of his Vietnam policy ; one , Nixon , had resigned in disgrace and neither Ford nor Carter had been able to cope with the limits on presidential power .
3 Francis Latham put the point yet more clearly : ‘ women are physiologically disqualified from contention with men in the political arena , not by virtue of any tyrannical law of man 's devising , but by reason of fixed and irrevocable decrees of nature which may not be violated with impunity ’ .
4 When you ask him for leave to serve him on this mission he will welcome it as the solution to his anxieties , for even if you are only gone from Kinsai for a time , it will seem to him that you do not mean to impose upon his favour . ’
5 ‘ It is an achievement to play games at the moment , as we are literally living from hand to mouth .
6 People are already querying from time to time the de decision judges make .
7 Ride are just going from strength to strength — one of the bands that are really cutting through at the moment .
8 It 's a very difficult time , we 're just living from day to day .
9 Originally formed ‘ sort of as a joke ’ , Love Child sound like they 're still grinning from ear to ear .
10 The stitches are always transferred from back to front , not side to side , so I have never encountered any problem with bias knitting .
11 One becomes a member of a caste by being born into one of its lineages which are always transmitted from male to male .
12 Even if upward social mobility amongst non-political elites is possible , the absence of any alternation of political parties in power may also breed anti-system frustration amongst the leadership groups of minorities that are permanently excluded from access to governmental power .
13 Quite soon the loads on aircraft got too big for this method ( though shot-bags are still used from time to time for certain simple tests ) and nowadays the loads are applied by means of hydraulic jacks operating through very elaborate multiple lever or ‘ family tree ’ systems ; each of the hundreds of branches ends in a mechanical attachment to the wing surface .
14 They include substance P and neurokinin A that are both derived from processing of the precursor polypeptides encoded by the preprotachykinin A gene ( PPT ) ( 2 ) .
15 Staff whose employment is recognized as being temporary are also debarred from membership of any occupational pension schemes their employer operates , most of which are open only to workers who had satisfied a minimum service requirement — usually one year or more .
16 The massive stone structure has acquired a mature and acceptable appearance in these days of so much brick and concrete , and it is one of the ironies of the philosophy of conservation that the blessed bridge which Ruskin regarded as a monstrous intrusion into a beautiful natural scene should , a hundred years later , have been noisily protected from demolition by the very people who would presumably have sided with Ruskin in wishing to preserve the landscape .
17 But it infuriates him that , at the colleges , the best players are often exempted from participation in orchestral practice , then to gain prestigious jobs in the profession , without the musical ballast of learned repertoire and style .
18 It has been accidently transferred from animals to man and has been experimentally transmitted from man to calves and mice .
19 Any batteries that do not come out should be gently moved from side to side to allow them to unhook .
20 It 's author , John Godber , told me that working out how to stage the ski , the scenes on the slopes had been quite a headache for them , particularly as the set of course , has to be constantly moved from theatre from theatre as it tours round the country .
21 A desk with an adjustable sloping top is useful as it provides storage space too , but probably the most practical aid , especially as the pupil progresses into secondary school , is a light , portable reading stand that can be easily taken from room to room as required .
22 I ca n't afford to take you out properly or buy you a proper Christmas present , or be able to tell you not to worry — I 'm twenty-eight years old and I 'm still living from hand to mouth like a bloody tramp .
23 ‘ I 'm still tingling from head to toe . ’
24 ApoR2 can also be directly obtained from overproduction of the protein in bacteria under limited-iron conditions .
25 But a diminishing , though still powerful , minority ensured that the ‘ Hitler myth ’ was kept alive and could even be temporarily revitalized from time to time when there was a transient upturn in Germany 's fortunes or the promise of suitable retaliation for people 's miseries .
26 For example , facilities like swimming pools , water sports , chair lifts etc. require maintenance and sometimes have to be temporarily withdrawn from use for such work to be done .
27 My fear of a remote danger may be almost driven from mind by current emotions ; but to decide to take precautions I need no more than the faint tremor as I glimpse what the consequences of neglect would be like , I do not have to maintain the stimulus to action by living in constant terror until the danger has passed .
28 If Honecker is convicted , the majority of the population are implicitly absolved from responsibility for dutifully casting their single-party ballots every year in the GDR 's showcase elections .
29 It should be noted at this point that all broadcasting in the colonial territories was initiated and administered by the colonial governments : the private entrepreneur has been virtually excluded from broadcasting on the African continent .
30 What could have proved a disastrous appointment did , and Athletico were only saved from oblivion by the inspired choice of Reg Pybus as coach .
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