Example sentences of "[adv] from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Downes ' study of King Lear 's famous question to his daughters is a superb example of the level of depth and insight that stylistics can reach when it draws eclectically from a variety of areas within linguistics in order to relate the surface features of the text to the situational , historical and cultural contexts which are relevant to their effect and interpretation . |
| 2 | The essence of the association 's idea was to develop flats for sale and this would make it possible to bring in private institutional finance — eg from a building society which might then become involved in providing mortgages for the individual purchasers . |
| 3 | Show an increased awareness that a first draft is malleable , eg by changing the form in which the material is cast , eg from a story to a playscript , or by moving text around ( either on paper or on a computer screen ) , or by altering sentence structure or choice of vocabulary . |
| 4 | But even the Treasury was reluctant to blow a trumpet yesterday , because the upturn came entirely from a leap of 6.3 per cent in oil and gas output . |
| 5 | In drama schools , improvisation is about finding a way of expanding the imagination and liberating the senses , which can get too confined if students work entirely from a text all the time . |
| 6 | In fact , it was copied almost entirely from an apartment in the Dakota building , outside which John Lennon was shot some years later and where Yates himself would live . |
| 7 | She carried on for another year and then died suddenly from a heart attack . |
| 8 | The ordinary , everyday behaviour of army and settlers flows quite naturally from a government and a public which hold such views . |
| 9 | A clause excluding liability for " consequential loss " has been held not to exclude liability for losses which arise directly and naturally from a breach of contract , under the first head of Hadley v Baxendale ( 1859 ) 9 Ex 341 . |
| 10 | As he says of himself at that juncture in his career , his quitting in Monaco was ‘ the climax to a situation which had existed all year , stemming … basically from a lack of interest and enthusiasm ’ . |
| 11 | Although his support for Darwinism was unusual , his concept of successive waves of migration radiating outwards from a centre of progressive evolution seems to have struck a chord in the minds of his contemporaries . |
| 12 | In the second painting , every irregularity in her figure had been emphasised so that the girl stretching outwards from a balcony to pick a ripe , hanging fruit appeared as misshapen as a fairy-tale goblin . |
| 13 | The parents of toddlers and preschool children were encouraged to give several servings daily from a variety of fibre rich foods such as whole grain breads and cereals , fruits and vegetables , and legumes . |
| 14 | The three-course dinner is served daily from a table d'hôte menu and is cooked by Judy Fawcett . |
| 15 | The case of the large organisation versus the tenant farmer is summarised below from a file of 63 letters , plus documents . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Now and again , of course , you have to deal with the awkward moments , like someone reading aloud from a Sunday paper the ‘ sordid story of perverted vice ’ which has obviously been concocted over a few jars by a hack hounded by deadline . |
| 18 | As she felt the muscular ridges pulsing and throbbing she almost sobbed aloud from a mixture of fear , curiosity and excitement , but at least the thing was no longer between her legs . |
| 19 | In the opening shot I see Garfield at a lectern reading aloud from a Shakespeare first edition , bound in unborn calf . |
| 20 | Such rifts are said , therefore , to have a half-graben structure with the main boundary listric fault forming a footwall , and the opposing downwarped crust forming a hanging wall leading down from a roll-over zone ( Fig. 4.9(B) ) . |
| 21 | In any other season you could have looked down from a ridge just below the pastures where the sheep were grazing and seen the village in miniature , a doll 's farm set in a patchwork of agricultural land that spread across the valley floor . |
| 22 | Often a priority given to some activity in this police hierarchy of meaning has been laid down from a constable 's first days as a probationer and now lies beneath the immediate consciousness , so that any calls for a change in direction of police response may well be defeated by an unspoken semantic value which the institution gives to that activity . |
| 23 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
| 24 | But even when he was surrounded he continued to lay about him with his sword , and then with an axe when his sword broke , until he went down from a blow to the head . |
| 25 | I was tied into a sleeping bag and hung upside down from a tree overnight . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The A.832 now heads south up a wooded ravine , rising pleasantly to open country , the latter section of the climb being defaced by a huge water pipe coming down from a reservoir above : a black mark for the planners and water authorities . |
| 28 | A shot which misses the green left still gives your the chance of a chip and putt for par , rather than the extra pressure of having to get up and down from a bunker . |
| 29 | Hermes at the left end holds the winged horses of Athena 's chariot which she is mounting ; on the central slab another goddess , almost certainly Aphrodite , steps down from a chariot which faces the other way . |
| 30 | A man leaped down from a window five storeys high and drowned in the river . |