Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er I always remember the lawyer who was acting on behalf of the union er said to these blacklegs , How would it be possible for you to see it though your window who was throwing the bricks seeing that the windows are so black and filthy you ca n't see the curtains that 's hanging up from the outside ? |
| 2 | The tax is claimed back from the Tax Office by either the college or the Association , or both . |
| 3 | Nearer , a blur of smoke and mist is simmering up from the snow , among all the spikiness of spire and steeple , chimney-stack and telegraph pole , the pinnacles of chapels and ventilators of schools . |
| 4 | But it has reached the stage where Group 4 have now ‘ lost ’ Sir Norman ’ — Labour 's Frank Dobson on the announcement that the Tory chairman is to stand down from the board of Group 4 . |
| 5 | The idea of a triangle is made up from the ideas of being a closed figure , and having three straight sides ; the idea of gold from those of yellowness , malleability , and fusibility . |
| 6 | He 's bashing down from the campus . |
| 7 | And er bit misty , but that 's looking out from the signal box , you can just , possibly just about make out there , and at the back erm the er er with the the erm station master 's house etcetera . |
| 8 | Water is pumped in from the River Nene , which is rich in farm nutrients , and sewage from Oakham , rich in phosphates from washing powders , goes direct into the reservior . |
| 9 | If he takes an ( optical ) photograph of the wall he will have a snap of featureless plaster , as the light is reflected back from the surface and not from inside the structure . |
| 10 | However , in another , crucial sense it is closed off from the world . |
| 11 | They were given no votes or erm opportunities and of course the same thing will happen if and when the Parcelforce is sold off from the Post Office er there 's twenty thousand people there . |
| 12 | but they have found that in a lot of cases that the bones starts growing so therefore , when you 're in your late teens , twenties , maturing your bottom jaw is growing out from the rest of your jaw bone . |
| 13 | This kind of thinking is leading on from the question of analysis to that of evaluation . |
| 14 | If , when the list of members is handed down from the St Andrew 's House — Scotland 's Whitehall — it contains a majority of business people , it will be a message from the government that Scotland is not ready for consensus . |
| 15 | For a classic fifties look short hair is combed back from the face . |
| 16 | ‘ It seems my nephew is so besotted with your sister that he 's treated his parents with arrant discourtesy , walking away from the opportunity of meeting his father 's cousin who is flying in from the States — a man who could be influential in his future career . |
| 17 | The only source of security , the sole refuge from this malevolent world , is in the kindred and the band , that tight little group of 100 or so other people with whom one 's life is bound up from the cradle to the grave . |
| 18 | It is set back from the road with a sweeping drive and an ornamental fish-pond in front , now stagnant . |
| 19 | The Tripodoro is set back from the road about 750 yards from the centre of quiet , easy-going Sportorno . |
| 20 | The property is set back from the road behind a neat foregarden with tarmacadam driveway providing car parking on site and leading to the front entrance . |
| 21 | The property is set back from the road behind a stoned wall and a lawned garden with driveway leading to the front entrance . |
| 22 | Other devices are less consistently adopted , but it will be noticed that in ( 2 ) , as often , the non-restrictive clause is set off from the rest of the sentence by commas . |
| 23 | Earlier , it was stated that the two circles cross each other in the shape of the ‘ Vesica Piscis ’ of sacred geometry , but that for this to be perfect , the radius of the second circle is marked out from the perimeter of the first circle at the same radius . |
| 24 | This rim is marked off from the rest of the cranium by a groove or postoccipital sulcus which ends at the posterior tentorial pit on either side and along which are inserted the dorsal prothoracic muscles moving the head . |
| 25 | as if guessing the trend of his sister 's thoughts , Aubrey said suddenly , ‘ One of my great friends , Harry Keynes , is coming over from the United States next week , Dunbar . |
| 26 | finally news is coming in from the ski-slopes of Europe that a strange bird has been spotted … an eagle … yes Eddie the Eagle is back in business |
| 27 | His favourite custom is to loom out from the wayside and startle travellers . |
| 28 | Seven-eighths of the water the town of Aegina consumes is shipped in from the mainland . |
| 29 | And you can see it 's running down from the bottom , the pressure in n it you see ? |
| 30 | ( Wendy is brought up from the hold and sees at a glance that the deck has n't been scrubbed for years . ) |