Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool , dark attic , which the writer nervously visits from time to time ; and yes , oh dear , while he 's been hard at work downstairs , up in the attic there are puckering skins , warning spots , a sudden brown collapse and the sprouting of snowflakes . |
| 2 | For one thing he certainly over-states it when he says that pleasure always comes from satisfaction of an antecedent desire for something other than pleasure . |
| 3 | Architecture also differs from language in its strict observation of its own rules and conventions , and in its sense of detail . |
| 4 | The famous and high-born simply moved from room to room , inclining their heads or smiling as they acknowledged their friends and acquaintances . |
| 5 | The larger eddies , which do play a role in the generation of the Reynolds stress , must be more characteristic of the particular flow , since the Reynolds stress distribution necessarily varies from flow to flow . |
| 6 | The superintendent had fallen asleep during the journey , her head gently rolling from side to side against the car seat , her front teeth prominent in her open mouth as she breathed through her nose . |
| 7 | Its found some doctors walk up to eighteen miles every day just getting from patient to patient . |
| 8 | By the time I was in sight of Granpa 's pitch my grin already stretched from ear to ear . |
| 9 | For the Liberal Democrats , Mr David Steel said : ‘ The feelings of people at what happened last night really vary from unease to repugnance that a British government should stoop to use a device which we have consistently condemned in others — namely the knock on the door in the middle of the night . ’ |
| 10 | He pointed to ‘ Pergoles ’ and she lifted her head again to look from side to side . |
| 11 | The radioactive components in the pottery and the soil are uranium , thorium and potassium , which can be readily detected by analytical techniques such as neutron activation analysis ( see glossary ) , and their contributions to the dose rate then calculated from knowledge of how they decay radioactively . |
| 12 | 1984 ) was claiming that motor function invariably recovered from damage to the cerebral cortex . |
| 13 | Instantly familiar ( and , some would claim , too much soin opera these days ) is the white box set perched on a floor steeply raked from left to right , under which coffins are piled in increasing numbers as the work unfolds . |
| 14 | A Tory Councillor once resigned from office over one of his shows . |
| 15 | At end cross road , take signposted bridleway via gate opposite and turn left in field ; faint grassy path gradually diverges from hedge on left and where bank of trees immediately on right ends , track becomes very clear and zigzags downhill . |
| 16 | Coal also suffers from competition from gas , which is more environmentally friendly , and — as we have heard this evening — is becoming far more important in terms of baseload electricity generation in the near future . |
| 17 | The practical difficulties of laser-Doppler anemometry obviously vary from flow to flow ; sometimes it may be easy to mount a precision optical system around the flow , other times far from easy . |
| 18 | An example is the idea that multiplying a number always makes it bigger — an idea correctly acquired from experience with whole numbers , but commonly carried over into work with decimal or fractional numbers less than one , where it causes widespread error . |
| 19 | The actual number of Greater London boroughs controlled by each party naturally varies from election to election and is strongly affected by the national political climate . |
| 20 | Wealth used for production ( for example shares ) is of particular interest to Marxist sociologists as they believe that power largely derives from ownership of the means of production . |
| 21 | Much other statistical and record material also appears from time to time in major newspapers and economic commercial and industrial periodicals . |