Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Two of the favourites were asleep away from the Village , in downtown Seoul . |
| 2 | All further investigations were negative apart from the finding of gall stones in three patients . |
| 3 | After five minutes they were well away from the school , chasing along the road , laughing and yelling as they pitched the ball back and forth between them . |
| 4 | In some extraordinary manner the children seemed better able to cope with their parents ' injuries when they were well away from the hospital . |
| 5 | If shape information were available accurately from the pattern recogniser it should enable more candidate words to be discarded due to incorrect shape . |
| 6 | Several noted that policy makers were far away from the frontier in their organisations and that this led to obvious difficulties in making effective policies for work with young people at risk . |
| 7 | The correlations were positive apart from the correlation with HDL/total cholesterol which was negative . |
| 8 | As we came round on Wigmore one more time , it was clear even from a distance that the situation had flared up drastically . |
| 9 | It was clear almost from the outset that the final instrument would have to be able to compute certain parameters of its measurement function , in order to cope with variations in environment . |
| 10 | The dining room was empty apart from a couple of staff members who were laying tables for breakfast . |
| 11 | ‘ When I told him that the van was standard apart from a roll cage he found it even more difficult to accept . |
| 12 | The small airstrip was well away from the house and even before they turned to land a car had left the property and was heading out to meet them . |
| 13 | Here , however , she was alone apart from a couple of men seated on stools next to the bar , and a yellow Labrador slumbering at their feet . |
| 14 | No other information was available apart from the price — £45 . |
| 15 | The point is that many an insect was saved by an exceedingly slight resemblance to a twig or a leaf or a fall of dung , on occasions when it was far away from a predator , or on occasions when the predator was looking at it at dusk , or looking at it through a fog , or looking at it while distracted by a receptive female . |
| 16 | He said he had helped the hijacker to pick Hanover Airport because its runway was far away from the control tower . |
| 17 | But all this was far away from the mind of Samuel Reichmann . |
| 18 | Clearly this was unacceptable both from an amenity point of view and for access by emergency services . |
| 19 | In the night when the hut was quiet apart from the coughing and the bed creaks and the whimpering of men in despair , he had gone to the stove and heated his shape until it was dried and firm . |
| 20 | But just around a bend in the road an opposition supporter who was frightened away from the station , Mr Ram Raj Upadhyaya , said : ‘ We are all terrified and afraid to go anywhere near the polling station . |