Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civil Service have conceded fewer goals than any other team in the division , and had Howell not taken the decision to stand down from the top flight , he could have been elevated to the Scottish senior international training squad this summer . |
| 2 | With this as the acquired recording , it was exceedingly difficult — or so it seemed at the time — to slip down from the stress-filled beta-waves of everyday living , to those desired alpha-waves of mental quiet and healing . |
| 3 | Another type of chart helps parents begin to stand back from the emotional reactions they have and see what is happening with their child . |
| 4 | Only by trying to stand back from the daily grind and reviewing one 's long term goals can such opposition be slowly undermined . |
| 5 | The latter allows both parties a chance to stand back from the daily routine and take a harder look at overall performance . |
| 6 | Even in daylight it had a sombre , suspicious air as if it wished to slink back from the adjoining houses . |
| 7 | The hope among many is that Lamont , or as looks increasingly unlikely , his successor , will be able to pull back from the second rise when he comes to the December 1994 Budget . |
| 8 | Also , the jets of material associated with them seem certainly to shoot out from the rotational poles and to keep travelling that way ; were new planets to engage in the game of cosmic billiards they would have to shoot out equatorially from their ‘ parents ’ . |
| 9 | In Britain you could not do better than to pick out from the varied products of the author John Wainwright , an ex-policeman , those of his books that are in the police procedural mode . |
| 10 | Everybody in the house loved to move in the warmth and luxury of it , to look out from the bright room at the rain spilling steadily down between the trees . |
| 11 | The blame fell on pollution ; not the clouds of smoke and occasional waves of sulphur dioxide which were known to drift up from the industrial valleys of the Ruhr and kill off the sensitive firs , but the more insidious long-term changes implied by acid rain . |
| 12 | We could get a limousine at the Beverley Hills hotel but you could n't get a taxi , so everyone learned how to call down from the front desk and order whatever they needed out of necessity . |
| 13 | It said : ‘ The Princess of Wales would like to single out from the recent wave of misleading reports about the Royal Family assertions in some newspapers this week directed specifically against the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 14 | It said : ‘ The Princess of Wales would like to single out from the recent wave of misleading reports about the Royal Family the assertions in some newspapers this week directed specifically against the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 15 | After your second or third mortgage , you may feel ready to branch out from the standard endowment or repayment mortgage . |
| 16 | Not until kings grew weary of perambulating in bad weather over rough countryside from one provincial centre to another were judges appointed to branch out from the royal court on circuits known as eyres , listening to pleas and sorting out local problems . |
| 17 | To turn around from the forward stance to face in the opposite direction , adopt the standard forward stance , and then move the right foot about half a shoulder 's width to the left , pivoting on the left foot and maintaining balance . |
| 18 | Faces turned as he came out and sleepy people started to get up from the low walls and boulders it the side of the road . |
| 19 | Has a lot to prove this term , after a poor season Has to move on from the promising youngster stage . |
| 20 | At least for representing ideas , it is necessary to move on from the classical models to the semantic models because the required emphasis is on capability , expressiveness and abstraction . |
| 21 | There are so many historical sights to take in from the ancient temples , the Valley of the Kings on the West Bank to the High Dam at Aswan . |
| 22 | The industry 's expansion is the result of the IDA 's efforts to create a new industry to take over from the ailing assembly , light manufacturing , and textile industries that started Ireland 's industrialisation in the early 1950s . |
| 23 | Bath 's No.8 is the favourite to take over from the British Lion after Leicester confirmed yesterday that Richards would miss the rest of the season . |
| 24 | The group around Harry Pollitt and Palme Dutt was able to take over from the older leaders , Inkpin , Bell , and MacManus and to commit the Party to the new tactic of the " United Front from Below " . |
| 25 | He added his own comments that Ashby 's tributes to voluntaryism present us with a very serious challenge — to the professional to be patient in service , to aid and abet but not to take over from the voluntary worker any of the tasks or decisions which he should do and make : to the voluntary worker to recognise that the only sure safeguard against injury to the mainstream of voluntaryism is that that mainstream , which is himself , shall never slacken . |
| 26 | Novell Inc is putting another element in place in its quest to move out from the local network into the enterprise-wide network . |
| 27 | Whether Hewlett-Packard will actually licence System V.4 or a subsequent implementation from Unix Labs remains to be seen , but its intent is to step up from the current Unix V.3.2 , System V Interface Definition 2-derived HP-UX version 9.03 operating system — which includes multithreading support from AT&T Unix — to a COSE-compliant , Unix Labs Unix-based system during the first half of next year is clear . |
| 28 | Whether HP will actually licence SVR4 or a subsequent implementation from USL remains to be seen , but its intent is to step up from the current Unix V.3.2 , SVID 2-derived HP-UX version 9.03 operating system — which includes multithreading support from AT&T Unix — to a COSE-compliant , USL Unix-based system during the first half of next year is clear . |
| 29 | They have a 12-point deficit to claw back from the first Gold Cup leg at Glasgow , and judging from Sunday 's encouraging performance against Edinburgh , they should be able to clinch the bonus point for an aggregate victory . |