Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Fearfully , Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist .
2 They 've made him lie with his hands behind his head , which is a trick they probably picked from a Miami Vice afternoon repeat , except it looks stupid when the guy 's hairy legs are sticking out from the tail of his shirt .
3 This softly layered bob has been teased back from the face and dressed with wax
4 He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act .
5 The process leaves residues of unburnt coal and ash , which are separated out from the flue gas and put back into the furnace .
6 Major fisheries — those for cod of the North Sea , the anchoveta of the Eastern Pacific — occur in areas where , for various reasons , nutrients are stirred up from the bottom and the plankton can thrive .
7 Phonic In the phonic approach , words are built up from the sounds of the individual letters or groups of letters ( phonemes such as th , ph , and so on ) .
8 Following this permeability change , the sodium ions are pumped out from the fibre so restoring the original state .
9 But they are unable to process this and obviously that will be different for children at different stages of their development erm younger children being particularly susceptible to the sort of atmosphere around them , and if they are picking up from the adults around them , be that through the media or within the context of their everyday lives , that there is something dangerous and disturbing going on , then they are obviously going to reflect that unease in their behaviour .
10 Well , as usual it 's all there in the papers that Mr has prepared for us if anybody cares to read them , and you will notice , the national non-domestic rate , the business rate as it 's known , the contribution that the government are passing on from the business rates paid in Wiltshire , back to the people of Wiltshire is dropping by seven point nine million pounds , it 's being cut from a hundred and eighteen point six to a hundred and nine point three million pounds , and again this is pound for pound .
11 But erm the logistics costs are made up from the costs of procuring spares and support equipment largely and er for an aircraft such as this , the amount of equipment required to operate at first line is very low indeed .
12 It is arguable ( and the Revenue do accept this ) that if the income arising in the trust is taxable under s739 and payments are made out from the trust there is no double charge to tax ( under s739 and Case V as a new source ) , even though these may create a new Case V source .
13 We 're walking back from the shops — me and Marie — and we stop for a bit to look at the lights in the electric shop .
14 They 're cut off from the reality of what 's happening in the Cities .
15 Their fortunes will become more divided than before : some are waking up from the party with happier memories than others .
16 Burned by their experience of the volatility of the capital markets , many leading banks such as Bank of America and Lloyds are pulling back from the periphery of their systems to defend their home bases .
17 Command of the main army was entrusted for the moment to a veteran Huguenot general , Sir John [ later first Earl of ] Ligonier , aged 65 , who had also been called back from the Continent , though it was understood he would become subordinate to Cumberland as soon as the latter was ready to take over .
18 When less fluid lavas are involved , which do n't break up into droplets , large gobbets of the molten rock are flung up from the vent , spreading out into irregular plates which may break up in the air into smaller bits .
19 And we are swallowed up from the world , carried in this room to a glade of an enchanted forest , magnificent and unbounded , where stand groves of pine and walnut and chestnut .
20 The arrows in the drawing are moving back from the boundary of the information field to the centre .
21 It is the same as in the last exercise except that you are bent over from the waist .
22 The camps were spotted by pilots flying supplies to Nagorny Karabakh , which has been sealed off from the rest of Azerbaijan for several months .
23 The hut seemed to be as he had last seen it except that the settee had been pulled out from the wall to the centre of the room .
24 Ian had been travelling down from the States and through Mexico .
25 Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes .
26 The response certainly illustrates the transition to a less " intransitive " pedagogy and more " interpersonal style " : Questions are coming up from the students .
27 There 's a poster beside one of the machines — ‘ DO N'T DISREGARD — REPLACE THE GUARD ’ , it says … you have to laugh — there are no guards , they were taken off the machines to up the production , they only put them on when the big bosses are coming over from the States to inspect the place — the place really gets cleaned up then .
28 These access rights are set up from the server and can not be changed remotely .
29 There 's a slightly different list in the table one produced by Mr , as from the erm the criteria which are set out from the section in paragraph one three of this paper .
30 The studios are set back from the road and are shaded by the olive trees from which they derive their name .
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