Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] 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 | Dick Hebdige stands back from the virtual war |
| 3 | An imposing large house stands back from the main road , known as Thorne Hall , dated 1881 . |
| 4 | Yucca elephantipes stands out from the common herd with care |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They occasional quack of ‘ Alright mate ? ’ floats up from the down gully . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is the day when Jean Fabre , the president-in-waiting , takes over from the long-serving incumbent Albert Ferrasse . |
| 12 | I mean it is a possibility , and if he 's going to be awkward perhaps we 'll have to just make sure that we do that , which is presumably fairly easy , if the post goes out from the same office . |
| 13 | ONCE Czechoslovakia settles down from the current euphoria of people 's power , its new leadership will have to take some hard decisions on how to overcome its economic difficulties . |
| 14 | The dusky pink body is heavily patterned with golden-yellow spotted scales , this spotting diminishes in prominence as it progresses down from the dorsal area to the belly of the fish . |
| 15 | While discretion filters out from the legal process all minor and inconsequential infringements of the law , what counts as minor can rest on the whims and prejudices of individual officers and lead to inconsistent and unequal practice . |
| 16 | Croatia 's acceptance follows on from the recent announcement that the Baltic states of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania has been reinstated to their former status as full members , a status that they enjoyed prior to the outbreak of the second world war . |
| 17 | Divison Three leaders Llanivaloes include spinner Michael Jones and Ian Jones , who steps up from the second team , for the home encounter with Cound . |
| 18 | The NatWest Hospital Income Plan covers you in the event of hospitalisation and pays out from the first day you 're admitted . |
| 19 | The imbalance thus spreads out from the initial focus or storm centre . |
| 20 | The ‘ edges ’ are an almost continuous series of jagged scarps or outcrops where the hard carboniferous sandstone juts out from the softer rock which has been worn away by the elements over millions of years . |
| 21 | NEXT Thursday ( 21 February ) , an Ariane rocket lifts off from the European Space Centre in French Guiana to put the second Astra satellite into orbit at 19° East . |
| 22 | If one works back from the sixteenth-century evidence , one is left with a strong impression that the years after 1450 saw the greatest pressure of enclosures . |