Example sentences of "[adv prt] from the [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of flood water had come down from the upper reaches of the Cherwell , and a body placed in the river , say , at Lonsdale Road … |
| 2 | With this as the acquired recording , it was exceedingly difficult — or so it seemed at the time — to slip down from the stress-filled beta-waves of everyday living , to those desired alpha-waves of mental quiet and healing . |
| 3 | This week , they play three nights at London 's Town & Country Club , which is n't bad , but it 's a high step down from the dizzy heights of packing out Wembley for several shows on the trot as they did five years ago when they were one of the biggest bands in Europe . |
| 4 | Above all , I look forward as the new Labour Party Treasurer to bringing the party membership fee down from the dizzy heights of eighteen pounds to the level which we in the trades unions know ordinary people can afford . |
| 5 | The capes are famous for a confused and ugly swell , and peculiar lumps of wind that crash down from the coastal peaks of the Taurus Mountains . |
| 6 | Could you repeat the bit about the insect-headed aliens gazing down from the spinning globules of light ? |
| 7 | Sculpture comes in from the far reaches of the Pavillon de Flore at the Louvre |
| 8 | Anyway , it has a spacious and homely feeling about it left over from the bad days of British Imperialism , and this is epitomised in my bathroom , which has an enormous ( though now cracked ) Shanks sink , made in Scotland ! |
| 9 | Although Simmel is quoted , there is none of the subtlety of his analysis of the necessary contradictions of industrial society , and the emphasis on goals of happy homes and cohesive families appears cut off from the wider realms of social action . |
| 10 | … while Men 's Heads are busied with the arts of money-jobbing between the Exchange and the Exchequer , they will be drawn off from the solid arts of honourable traffic ; which alone can prove nationally and permanently lucrative . |
| 11 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |
| 12 | In choosing a kasabat kadilik , then , a student was in effect shutting himself off from the high offices of state and , provided that he intended to stay within the learned profession , dooming himself to a lifetime of service in the kasabat kadiliks unless he could somehow get back into the medrese stream . |
| 13 | You can shoot the material in any order , the edited movie can be built up from the best parts of the recording , and the overall shape of the movie can be finally determined when the material to be retained is known . |
| 14 | These total plans are made up from the individual plans of every business activity of the corporation . |
| 15 | Once before , you rose up from the great forests of Ireland and came to the aid of our greatest King of all , Cormac of the Wolves . |
| 16 | The blame fell on pollution ; not the clouds of smoke and occasional waves of sulphur dioxide which were known to drift up from the industrial valleys of the Ruhr and kill off the sensitive firs , but the more insidious long-term changes implied by acid rain . |
| 17 | Analysis sheets ( Fig. 6.15 ) are written up from the duplicate copies of the bills . |
| 18 | Sun struck across the room , bounced fiercely up from the shiny surfaces of containers littering the floor and tossed shadows from the drawers and furniture which had been hurled about . |
| 19 | The Reef is built up from the hard skeletons of dead polyps , and forms a base for the living coral . |
| 20 | But at the time of the Tughluks , when the gridded lines of now-collapsed rubble were bustling streets and bazaars , armouries and elephant stables , all rising up from the glittering waters of the lake , then the sight must have been breathtaking . |
| 21 | In Britain you could not do better than to pick out from the varied products of the author John Wainwright , an ex-policeman , those of his books that are in the police procedural mode . |
| 22 | Confusion , despair , futility and hopelessness reached out from the darkest corners of Martin 's mind to engulf and possess him utterly . |
| 23 | He visualized it as being brought out from the deeper levels of the individual to the surface and finally dispersed altogether . |
| 24 | The one thing he could not have borne , the one thing he could not completely shut out from the fevered fringes of his mind , was the thought of the boy 's chill assessment of his father 's achievement and his friend 's . |
| 25 | The New City of Craigavon is taking many of these extra people , as well as some who are moving out from the older areas of Belfast which are being rebuilt . |
| 26 | She was called upon , day after day , to sustain Mrs Browning in her awful anxiety and she did it willingly , dragging out from the furthermost corners of her memory evidence of Miss Henrietta s strength and fortitude together with examples of women of whom she had heard who had survived this disease . |
| 27 | The tree was gleaming green with new foliage that had broken out from the charred branches of the first encounter between the English and the islanders . |
| 28 | Back from the great plains of Central Canada comes the brief response , as crisp and neutral as if from the other side of the airwell , ‘ Treacher . ’ |
| 29 | It had been the Nordic states which had drawn back from the full implications of the Oslo and Ouchy Conventions of the 1930s . |
| 30 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |