Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Board has met the deficit entirely from its own resources and has had to budget , as I 've said , a continuing deficit into the current financial year . |
| 2 | The man hoping to become Britain 's first black Tory MP faces more opposition tonight from his own side . |
| 3 | Lorton dragged his mind away from his private misery . |
| 4 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , these schemes play a small role and they are particularly useful for people who need a short break away from their own families and for carers in need of respite ; they can also help someone moving towards a more independent life from a closely sheltered environment . |
| 6 | All of the doubts we will discuss spring either from my own experience or from the experience of many who have shared their doubts with me . |
| 7 | But while the gap between the filmmakers and the critical culture could seem an unbridgeable chasm , there were people with feet in both camps who were discussing how to wrest British cinema away from its dual dependence on the stage and American models . |
| 8 | The snarl on his face , twisted horribly with contempt , was terrifying to behold but worse was the way he wiped the saliva away from his slobbering mouth with his sleeve and seemed to cast it towards her . |
| 9 | The internal relations of the multiple ‘ voices ’ in Brooke-Rose 's parodies are considerably more complex than in the examples Bakhtin analyses ; though their ‘ orientations ’ are not always directly opposed , they nevertheless succeed in deflecting the text away from its nominal object and making the reader aware of the devices they use . |
| 10 | With gentle fingers he smoothed her damp hair away from her clear forehead . |
| 11 | I touched a hair away from his lower lip , kissed the place where it had been , then I left him . |
| 12 | He was dressed in the silver-grey trousers of the evening before , teamed with a cream shirt , and she wrenched her gaze away from his strong throat , revealed by the open neck , with an effort . |
| 13 | The terms and conditions also address such grey areas such as what happens if the buyer has possession of a work , but has not completely paid for it when it is stolen ( the liability is the buyer 's ) , and the duty of such a buyer who has partially paid for a work , to store the work separately from his own goods , not to export it , to retain the seller 's identifying marks , and to allow the seller or his agent access to the work . |
| 14 | In this instance ( and because it 's in the ‘ Flapper ’ series perhaps ) Pearl has adjusted the upper sound-range slightly from its usual practice . |
| 15 | Slow fill refuelling at overnight refuelling points is also used by many fleets , and there is now the possibility of filling your vehicle at home overnight from your domestic gas supply . |
| 16 | Catherine Howard [ q.v. ] , the queen farthest from his Protestant sympathies , was connected through her father with Lady Baynton 's family . |
| 17 | In the build-up to the ground offensive , preparations were made that were consistent with an amphibious assault on the Kuwait coast to draw the Iraqis ' attention away from their right flank , the direction from which the main Allied thrust was eventually to come . |
| 18 | If the British system of policing is a social construction geared to the maintenance of élitist power and is primarily concerned to keep control over a materially disadvantaged underclass , then these same ‘ dangerous classes ’ seem to have willingly entered into this game of power-relations with their masters ; and by doing so they have deflected attention away from their own lack of privilege and power . |
| 19 | However , his attempts to deflect attention away from his private life has rather backfired because on one occasion to distract a rather persistent journalist he assured him that he was ‘ heavily into drugs and loved having sex with Chihuahuas . ’ |
| 20 | Transfer attention away from your own anxiety : ‘ Turn your mirrors into windows . ’ |
| 21 | I told her I thought The Times would probably have a man on the spot and it was late , and I prised my Toshiba away from her grasping hands . |
| 22 | TWIN OAKS will make a rare appearance away from his beloved Haydock in tomorrow 's Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup at Newbury . |
| 23 | Paradoxically however the demand for better films saw the American film industry move away from its natural habitat and take up residence in a suburban section of what was essentially a southern Californian oasis . |
| 24 | However , in the interest of brevity , I will my remarks to points A and B. Since nineteen seventy nine there 's been a major shift away from our industrial base towards service industries . |
| 25 | And young Gareth Davies was a whisker away from his first goal . |
| 26 | However , it retreated from this position , partly because it feared strong adverse reaction particularly from its political Right , and also because it had seriously underestimated the number of Arabs in Gaza , at 100,000–150,000 when it was nearer 280,000 . |
| 27 | This legal bonanza was obviously too good to last and ultimately matters were brought to a head in a series of compromises , as a result of which the lease was forfeited but the plaintiffs abandoned all its money claims in the relevant action other than for arrears of rent , and — and for the present purposes this is the crucial matter — the plaintiff released the surety unconditionally from his personal guarantee contained in the licence of 3 December 1973 . |
| 28 | Aston Villa could be just a day away from their first trophy of a new season , they play Arsenal tonight at Wembley in the fourteen Maceeter tournament with the prospect of a final tomorrow against Samdoria or Rael Sociadad live on television . |
| 29 | Easing the damp khaki cotton of her culotte suit away from her perspiring skin , she drained the glass of juice and dragged herself away from the mesmerising sight of the turquoise water and army of waving coconut palms . |
| 30 | The only possible way in which a government might try to use its ability to affect aggregate demand , in order to influence the level of aggregate output , would be to introduce random movements in its policies and hence random movements in aggregate demand which , as we have shown above , would produce deviations of aggregate output away from its natural level . |