Example sentences of "[adv prt] from [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on the other hand , we were only working to rule , we were working by rules and regulations laid down from various Acts and negotiated er agreements . |
| 2 | All the information about an object is stored on the computer within what is called a hierarchical database , meaning simply that the information is broken down from broad categories such as ‘ geography ’ into more specific ones such as ‘ continent ’ , ‘ country ’ , ‘ region ’ and so on . |
| 3 | These books typically claimed to be the distillation of wisdom handed down from Arab sages through the centuries , and they all drew heavily on Artemidorus 's work . |
| 4 | As looking down from great heights brings the urge to fall and end the terror of falling , so his very watching put pressure on them to make a slip as they dried and stacked the plates and cups . |
| 5 | By concentrating on pebbles carried down from alpine sources in the beds of rivers and streams , full advantage could be taken of the erosive power of water in wearing away adhering rock and concentrating the sought after greenstone . |
| 6 | Evian water takes 15 years to filter down from Alpine snows to the town spring . |
| 7 | They follow roughly parallel courses down from high mountains to the coastal plain ; all have lochs serving as reservoirs ; all have roads , public or private , that extend far into the interior and there end ; none of them is accessible by road from the west and they can only be approached by wheeled traffic coming from the east . |
| 8 | They rushed at the table from all sides , scrambling over stools , jumping down from top bunks like pigeons clattering down for crumbs . |
| 9 | Or did they come straight down from antique gods ? |
| 10 | They 're sending a chap down from Public Relations Branch to handle the publicity . |
| 11 | Current levels of consignment are running below budget with analysts lowering fourth quarter aggregate estimates to $460 down from previous estimates of $500 million and down on last year 's figure of $493 million . |
| 12 | Some of the castings. like the head of a Queen Mother , show that the metal was poured in from separate crucibles . |
| 13 | Recent climatic changes have enhanced the cosmopolitan nature of this urban melting-pot with Bel Air and Beverley Hills , safe on their ground , losing their exclusivity as less privileged Angelenos have moved in from low-lying districts . |
| 14 | Zagreb television estimated in a commentary on July 31 that as many as 3,000,000 votes might be cast abroad , the counts being phoned in from Croatian embassies . |
| 15 | Old boys write in from various parts of the world and say what they 're up to . |
| 16 | Powerful fans were brought in from other mines and taken down into Bank mine to disperse the gases . |
| 17 | ‘ HMOs usually employ their own primary care physicians … and either run their own hospital services or buy in from other suppliers ’ ( Culyer and Brazier , 1988 ) . |
| 18 | More cunning still is the practice of launching a brand of E with good stuff , so that the manufacturer gets a healthy reputation , and then distributing more dubious material , often brought in from other areas . |
| 19 | That 's in the open ocean in enclosed basins , for example the Black Sea , many fjords and sea lochs , the deep waters are not renewed by water masses moving in from other areas in the way that they are in the open ocean and there anoxia can occur in the deep waters , that is the oxygen can be completely removed by biological activity particularly in degradation processes of organic matter , bacterial respiration so anoxic conditions can occur in isolated deep basins but low oxygen concentrations are actually very rare in the open ocean . |
| 20 | The reason it 's in this format , is this is now the national standard form of accounts for social services , and the thinking behind it is , whether you were an authority that provided all of its services directly at one extreme , or at the other extreme , you were in a party that provided no direct services , and bought them all in from other providers , you would still need to meet , to meet those costs . |
| 21 | One implication of this is that evaluation procedures are usually better developed in-house than bought in from other institutions . |
| 22 | Despite this problem , donations still pour in from other sources . |
| 23 | high or low — drop-outs — repeating — transfers in from other schools |
| 24 | The name was useful , though — to himself he did not deny it — and as information came in from other places , more reliable , more official , Parr began to be disturbed . |
| 25 | Inspector-Generals of Prisons drafted in from other fields with little knowledge of , or interest in , prisons , while ‘ high flying ’ young administrators see the prison department as one to be avoided ( Sharma 1985 ) ; |
| 26 | The upper make-up levels associated in the Report with the Baths could have been brought in from other parts of the town , and contain material contemporary with the construction , with coins of Pius , but very few of the coarse wares show developments later than the forum deposits , and there are still residual pieces : for example , the reeded rim carinated bowl is still there , two early flagon types and the mortaria of G ATTIVS MARINVS which probably date to c . |
| 27 | Thus in Greater London and the South East , where unemployment is relatively low , it is lower ( and , indeed , to man-up for some events several organisations find it necessary to bus people in from other parts of the country ) , whilst in certain northern conurbations , where unemployment is high , it rises correspondingly . |
| 28 | He had not eaten anything apart from the occasional so-called mash since the crops had died and he had only been allowed that because of a special emergency food supplies being sent in from other parts of the country . |
| 29 | By that date Moscow had provided a mere three and a half million roubles , and one million had come in from other gubernii . |
| 30 | It 's where prisoners come in from other jails . |