Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit . |
| 2 | It differs greatly from the family-based structuring of human life with its stress on the long-term bond between mates . |
| 3 | In this process in which the psychiatrist ( or psychoanalyst ) looks outwards from the individual psyche into his patient 's social network , he inevitably moves into territory which the social anthropologist ( and in Europe the sociologist ) regards as his — hence , of course , the boundary disputes alluded to above . |
| 4 | It declines progressively from the high average of about 15 years in the middle of the century to about 12.5 today . |
| 5 | Mick Rooney is an artist who stands aside from the current vogue of somewhat conservative , civilised English painting as exemplified by Ken Howard and Bernard Dunstan . |
| 6 | Dick Hebdige stands back from the virtual war |
| 7 | An imposing large house stands back from the main road , known as Thorne Hall , dated 1881 . |
| 8 | Yucca elephantipes stands out from the common herd with care |
| 9 | In contrast , the expression level observed with the Short construct mice deviates markedly from the expected ratio and position effects are present above five copies/genome . |
| 10 | We see the new concern as arising in an era of restraint , but see that the case for value for money stands apart from the political stance taken — whether it is for or against cuts in local government expenditure . |
| 11 | If , in such a movement , the head meets a brighter light on one side than the other , the animal turns away from the brighter side . |
| 12 | According to this theory of disease , which is strongly held in many societies , virtue , as it were , drains away from the stricken victim and his powers and health fail accordingly . |
| 13 | The Christian theme occurs right from the first line with the word ‘ ministry ’ and the hidden word ‘ spirit ’ . |
| 14 | This results primarily from the greater longevity of women compared with men ; life expectancy at birth is 78 years for women and 72 years for men , while at 65 it is 17 years for women and 16 years for men . |
| 15 | The way in which the goals and targets were developed in Australia also differs noticeably from the English experience , where the whole process was controlled from within the Department of Health . |
| 16 | Stan Bate , his worship the Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent , drives off from the first tee to open officially the city 's new municipal golf course at Weston Coyney . |
| 17 | A tattooed arm reaches down from the high cab — lovely , real arm , wonderful words ! — and I scale the high steps to sit with my feet on a coil of rope . |
| 18 | Throughout either of the sequence of developments with increasing Rayleigh number described in Sections 22.5 and 22.6 , the temperature profile tends away from the linear form that occurs when the fluid is at rest and towards the form of Fig. 22.11 . |
| 19 | They occasional quack of ‘ Alright mate ? ’ floats up from the down gully . |
| 20 | Also included in this ‘ private ’ section of the building is a straight-flight staircase which leads up from the small hall containing the secondary entrance to serve the family 's first-floor sleeping accommodation . |
| 21 | It differs slightly from the average salary which is which is the best year out of the last three . |
| 22 | The fabliaux as a whole clearly imply a system of values that in many respects is quite conventional , and it is one of these values that directs that the lecherous priest should be the type that suffers most from the poetic justice of these texts . |
| 23 | This varies little from the main route . |
| 24 | If one broadens that range and spreads it more evenly , one gets away from the present situation in which those at the bottom end of the range are paying more than they need to pay because of the way the system has been constructed . |
| 25 | A dedication to career goals of autonomy or power or recognition ( or some combination of these ) takes over from the parental concern for comfort , structure and relationships . |
| 26 | Perhaps the first task facing Mr Chris Patten , or whoever takes over from the current Governor , Lord Wilson , will be to break the deadlock over whether the People 's Liberation Army of China should set up shop in the glossy commercial heart of Hong Kong island . |
| 27 | It is the day when Jean Fabre , the president-in-waiting , takes over from the long-serving incumbent Albert Ferrasse . |
| 28 | In his balletts he often breaks away from the Mantuan composer 's genuinely dancelike and predominantly note-against-note style , keeping only the ‘ fa-la ’ refrain which is the hallmark of the balletto — but extending even that with great contrapuntal and rhythmic ingenuity . |
| 29 | If Ashton 's Scènes de Ballet is compared with Balanchine 's Ballet Imperial , it will be seen that Balanchine rarely breaks away from the classical technique as practised in petipa 's day when Tchaikovsky wrote the music . |
| 30 | Rural social geographers take this view very seriously , as it stems directly from the political economy background outlined in chapter 1 . |