Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yo , for your own information , as th , say health and safety group , in terms of people who ha , who undertake vision screening and then get referred on from a , for a full full eye tests it 's usually around |
| 2 | After all , the 26 tracks on the album have been whittled down from a huge figure . |
| 3 | Even quite senior figures in the system just went through the motions of working and fulfilling the crazy plan laid down from a great height without taking local conditions into account . |
| 4 | His pursuit of the same approach in his cantatas arose perhaps from a firm conviction of what would succeed in a genre so closely allied to opera , perhaps from innate conservatism . |
| 5 | The River Ure around Langthorpe was badly affected by mid-week floods and no one expected much from a venue still out of sorts for Bradford 's closing fixture . |
| 6 | Which megastar was about to beamed in from a Hollywood poolside to give a transatlantic Tory thumbs up ? |
| 7 | Cop the name of the man ( above ) who is stepping down from a top job . |
| 8 | If he returned home in the evening he would sometimes dine with John Hayward but , since Hayward was an inveterate diner-out , he would often eat alone from a tray on his knees . |
| 9 | The anthropologist 's social structure must be pieced together from a muddling mass of statements that Indians make about kinship connections , group names , ancestral derivations , linguistic affiliations , geographical sites , and so on … |
| 10 | Edmund 's Welsh alliance has to be pieced together from a twelfth-century poet , a contemporary German bishop , and two skaldic poems . |
| 11 | When invited to lecture at Cheltenham Art Gallery he merely read aloud from a printed copy of his talk , Speculations on the Contemporary Painter . |
| 12 | Martha , whose head was as strong as her sister 's , sometimes climbed up as well , and , clinging on about a foot lower down , read aloud from a horror comic . |
| 13 | Singing constantly from a prominent post or in flight , they show off their beautiful spring black , white , grey and buff spring plumage in the hope it will prove irresistible to the first passing female . |
| 14 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 15 | " Regulated business " is defined by the COB Rules to mean either of the following : ( 1 ) Investment business carried on from a UK office ( of the firm or of an appointed representative ) ; this is the case even if the customer is a non-UK client and even if an account officer goes overseas to meet him ; or ( 2 ) Investment business carried on from a non-UK office with or for customers in the UK , except where that business would not be treated as carried on in the UK ( and so would not require FSA authorisation ) if the non-UK office had been a separate person ; this exception , in effect , provides the " foreign business carve-out " from the COB Rules for business with UK customers ( see page 40 below ) ; certain marketing rules are , however , brought back in ( see page 42 below ) . |
| 16 | " Regulated business " is defined by the COB Rules to mean either of the following : ( 1 ) Investment business carried on from a UK office ( of the firm or of an appointed representative ) ; this is the case even if the customer is a non-UK client and even if an account officer goes overseas to meet him ; or ( 2 ) Investment business carried on from a non-UK office with or for customers in the UK , except where that business would not be treated as carried on in the UK ( and so would not require FSA authorisation ) if the non-UK office had been a separate person ; this exception , in effect , provides the " foreign business carve-out " from the COB Rules for business with UK customers ( see page 40 below ) ; certain marketing rules are , however , brought back in ( see page 42 below ) . |
| 17 | This includes all business carried on from a UK office , even with non-UK customers . |
| 18 | In addition , even if it does not have a UK office , a non-UK firm nonetheless needs to be authorised for investment business carried on from a non-UK office with customers or counterparties in the UK on a services basis unless the FSA 's overseas person exemption applies ; this indeed also applies to UK firms ( see page 43 below ) . |
| 19 | This is because investment business is not regulated business unless : ( 1 ) It is carried on from a UK office ; or ( 2 ) Where relevant , it is carried on with or for customers in the UK and is within the FSA 's territorial scope ( see page 39 above ) . |
| 20 | Spin out also occurs after landing badly from a jump . |
| 21 | something to be dropped on from a great height as frequently as possible er particularly if it 's the G L C. In the United States , however much the federal government is irritated by the state government , it can not attack its constitutional powers nor can it undermine its financial base so that 's a different relationship , it 's a relationship based , not on dominance , but on partnership and there has to be an understanding , a trade off between federal and er a and state government . |
| 22 | The Government has also backpedalled furiously from a threat made last week by the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , to scupper the bill if the vote on the social chapter was lost . |
| 23 | The heroes you have kind of linger on from a prior period when only a few records passed through your life , when you had the time to get fixated , spend weeks living inside a record . |
| 24 | The puppy was probably encouraged to jump up when he was small and everyone thought it was quite fun , but now he is large , and has probably just come in from a swim in the pool and Aunty is standing there in her Sunday best . |
| 25 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
| 26 | But one of them is a copy-editor , I think that is what he is called , and he told me that he thought the item had come in from a friend of Leila 's . ’ |
| 27 | Now , suddenly , a jay looks down from a hiding place in a lichened oak and slips away without breaking the silence : stealthy , cunning , typical of the inveterate egg thief . |
| 28 | His plan was audacious , and could have come only from a man combining cunning with iron determination . |
| 29 | One of her few friends in the movement , whom she used to meet at Lockharts in the Strand for a poached egg once a week , had come down from a mill town in Lancashire in 1916 with nothing but two brown paper parcels . |
| 30 | He needed to come down from a greater height than most . |