Example sentences of "[adv prt] from the [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thick golden bars of sunlight slanted down from the tall narrow windows . |
| 2 | They seem to have taken over from the large black dogs with glowing red eyes to be found in most local folklore collections . |
| 3 | Divested of their natural homes and hunting grounds , cut off from the renewable natural resources on which they depended , observing the continuing slaughter by visitors licensed to kill and construct , and disinherited from the financial or other benefits of these exercises , they became party to the most misguided and cynical game this century : the over-exploitation and destruction of the natural environment for the benefit of a few . |
| 4 | Those with warm indoor quarters sought out their warmest nooks , while others , like the eagles , did their best to find refuge in their open shelters looking out from the frozen draughty shadows on to a bitter world . |
| 5 | 5 Pick out from the following those things which are horizontal and those which are vertical : |
| 6 | What seemed to be happening was the spread of population growth out from the major urban centres where it had occurred in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries progressively to the more rural periphery , leaving a population loss in its wake . |
| 7 | As she walked across it , Cleo gazed at the blaze of lights shining out from the imposing architectural piles that dominated the hills ahead . |
| 8 | It also brought cheer to the giant Decca record company , which had set up Deram precisely to capture back from the new independent companies some of the money pumping into what there was of Britain 's counter culture . |
| 9 | Bigwig 's eyes were closed and his lips pulled back from the long front teeth in a fixed snarl . |
| 10 | The area below the stair then becomes part of the lounge , extending back from the glazed folding doors that separate it from the dining-room ( Fig 48 ) . |