Example sentences of "[adv prt] from [adj] [noun] " 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 | That dropped me down from second place . ’ |
| 3 | The light flooded down from five roundels high up on the far long side , as though in a cathedral clerestory . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Completions in the Midlands and South of England were 3103 , 17 per cent down from 1991 figures , which reflected both reduced sales outlets as well as the more difficult market . |
| 6 | A. insectivore mandible ( ×20 ) ; B. broken tip of ascending ramus of insectivore mandible ( ×75 ) ; C. femur head with impact damage on edge of articular surface with a crack extending from it ( ×75 ) ; D. abraded edge of greater trochanter ( ×38 ) ; E. femur and pelvis ( ×11 ) ; F. broken end of femur shaft with little evidence of rounding ( ×75 ) ; G. broken end of pelvis with crack extending down from uneven break but little evidence of rounding ( ×75 ) ; H. two distal humerus fragments ( ×12 ) . |
| 7 | 25.1 percent of the adult population of New Zealand currently smokes , down from 26.7 percent last December . |
| 8 | He had n't reckoned on one of the Liaison team coming down from Central London just to shake his hand , talk baseball results , and drive him back . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Imported beer down from fifteen pounds a pack to under ten pounds in this South of England supermarket . |
| 11 | Indeed , threads dangled down from all life , psychic and non-psychic alike . |
| 12 | White our colour , the colour of limbo : white sands , white rocks , a white light pouring down from all sides . |
| 13 | Straight down from that window was a sheer drop |
| 14 | For 15 years he served as warehouse foreman before stepping down from that position to take responsibility of the new pre-mix plant . |
| 15 | ‘ For the sake of her memory I would n't have hesitated to bring you crashing down from that pedestal if I 'd discovered anything damning about you . ’ |
| 16 | They have used them already to build communal tents , to extrude life-lines guiding them over plants , or ropes to let themselves down from one twig to another . |
| 17 | It also implies work which has been previously accomplished , an inheritance handed down from one generation to another . ’ |
| 18 | Because this song was simply handed down from one generation of drill sergeants to another , the symbolism may have origins much earlier than a superficial analysis may indicate . |
| 19 | Much of what we do in daily life is done by habit , which may be passed down from one generation to another . |
| 20 | But eventually the servile condition of the peasants ( and the privileged status of nobles ) became hereditary , passed down from one generation to the next . |
| 21 | Herbal remedies therefore still remain very important and it is campesina women rather than men who know about the healing properties of local herbs and pass their knowledge down from one generation to the next . |
| 22 | Each generation of legionnaires was expected to carry forward the traditions and ethics of the Legion , handing them down from one man to the next . |
| 23 | I do n't know , Victorine said : it was all pulled down from one day to the next , and you know it happened during the war , everything was topsy-turvy then . |
| 24 | I mean if you ask what happens when electrons drop down from one orbit to another inside the atom , the emit light , which is the thing we are familiar with , but erm physicists tend to think of this as particles which they call photons . |
| 25 | Down from one corner of her mouth Wilson was alarmed to see a thin trickle of dark red blood . |
| 26 | She tossed the missile up and down from one hand to another , trying to look menacing . |
| 27 | Inflation 's fallen again to a new thirty year low , and now stands at one point two percent , down from one point three percent . |
| 28 | Those problems were one cause of the delay that the hon. Gentleman described , but I have been told that the wait for that preliminary investigation is now down from six months to three months — the average in Northern Ireland . |
| 29 | This deal with Channel Ten will ensure that Campese continues playing Test rugby despite his statements earlier this year that he would step down from international rugby and establish a permanent business base in Italy . |
| 30 | 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 . |