Example sentences of "[det] [adv] [adj] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its functioning , including leap years , is so familiar that it sometimes comes as a revelation to researchers into early English local history to learn that there were several calendars in use in the past , each somewhat different from the other , with quite distinct ways of referring to months and days , and with days whose hours varied in length according to the season of the year . |
| 2 | Wiping breath from the window , she peered out at the landmarks , all so distant from the place where she longed to be . |
| 3 | It was all so different from the Air Force — that was one of the attractions . |
| 4 | The Celtic fields ; Iron Age and Roman farms , all still detectable from the air ; the Dark Age village along the river bank with its ghostly , ghastly cemetery on the hill where a woman was buried alive and her skeletal fingers dug into the rough chalk sides of her grave ; nearby Winchester , the old Saxon capital ; the warpath at the top of my lane ; the mill I live in , founded in the days of Alfred 's great grandson , and reinforcements for the Conqueror 's victorious army trotting past the site of our bus shelter . |
| 5 | While there are some fabulous skating routines , beautifully choreographed by British Olympic gold medallist Robin Cousins , it all fairly predictable from the moment our two bolshie stars accidentally slam into each other behind the scenes at an Olympic event . |
| 6 | It 's all very different from the wildlife found on the Costa del Sol . |
| 7 | The androids stopped , staggered , tripped , were pushed by those still advancing from the rear . |
| 8 | The problem is standards : there are hundreds of varieties of Unix , each subtly different from the others . |