Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] from a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let your tack dry away from a direct source of heat ; do n't put it in front of a radiator or fire , or the leather will become brittle . |
| 2 | The strict parent or the sarcastic schoolteacher may act more from a suppressed need to hurt than from his or her desire for discipline or wish to be thought amusing . |
| 3 | Active support Joseph could expect only from a small number of officials . |
| 4 | It will do so from a common perspective : that is , how might each of them handle what have been seen as necessary imperatives of organizational action ? |
| 5 | It is at this point that a right heart attitude would benefit greatly from an intelligent technique . |
| 6 | Of such undertakings all that can be predicated is that some breaches will and others will not , give rise to an event which will deprive the party not in default of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should obtain from the contract ; and the legal consequences of a breach of such an undertaking , unless provided for expressly in the contract , depend upon the nature of the event to which the breach gives rise and do not follow automatically from a prior classification of the undertaking as a " condition " or a " warranty " . |
| 7 | Martin Postle splices detail and generalisation , so that he can move deftly from a meticulous account of Reynolds ' studio practice to the perceptive observation that ‘ it was not Reynolds ’ style but his lack of style which characterised his work at this time as sitters danced , flirted , embroidered , sacrificed to pagan deities , or merely meditated , in the manner of Guido Reni , Titian , Van Dyck or even Michelangelo ’ . |
| 8 | My personal hope is that we shall move away from a formalised dichotonomy of university and non-university institutions , and that there will be a less obvious division : two groups of educational organisations with parity of esteem in the public mind . |
| 9 | Henry had always assumed that this was due , on her part , to an entirely natural physical repugnance for him ; she moved away from him as one might move away from a bad smell or a dangerous horse . |
| 10 | He envisaged an idealized model of perfect gases and frictionless cylinders , in contrast to the engineers who had actually been making the improvements to real engines ; but his method allowed him to demonstrate that heat will not flow spontaneously from a cool body to a warm one , and that the efficiency of a heat engine depends on the difference of temperature between the ‘ source ’ and the ‘ sink ’ of heat . |
| 11 | He was surprised to find , for example , that men who make their living out of reporting news and gossip should go away from a private lunch with him and the Princess and talk about it . |
| 12 | Later that day , after many interviews with ladies who looked as if they 'd come straight from an enthralling hour knitting at the foot of the guillotine , we found our garret . |
| 13 | The conclusion may derive instead from a general scepticism about all our perceptual capabilities , internal and external , and also a certain amount of fast philosophy . |