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 | The light flooded down from five roundels high up on the far long side , as though in a cathedral clerestory . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Imported beer down from fifteen pounds a pack to under ten pounds in this South of England supermarket . |
| 7 | White our colour , the colour of limbo : white sands , white rocks , a white light pouring down from all sides . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I followed him down from 2,000 feet — put carb heat on — I was descending as quickly as the helicopter ; we managed to keep him visual . |
| 11 | The ninth National Assembly was elected on July 19 from 601 candidates contesting 395 seats , down from 496 seats in the 1987 election . |
| 12 | There are mingled in it , as only the greatest of rivers could be mingled , the fertilising influences flowing down from many countries and from many ages in history . |
| 13 | Barratt sold 2,017 houses at an average price of £75,800 in the half year , down from 2,128 completions at an average of £81,200 the previous year . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Evian water takes 15 years to filter down from Alpine snows to the town spring . |
| 16 | At the time of interview , he had cut his habit down from 2 grams to 0.25 gram a day and was ‘ saving up ’ small amounts of methadone that he 'd bought in doses of 50ml at 5 a time : |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It 's only cheaper because it 's in a sale , it 's been reduced down from forty pounds , it was forty pounds before . |
| 19 | I pull in , down from seventy-seven miles per hour , through fifty-five , then to an obedient halt . |
| 20 | They rushed at the table from all sides , scrambling over stools , jumping down from top bunks like pigeons clattering down for crumbs . |
| 21 | Or did they come straight down from antique gods ? |
| 22 | The following day the whole fence can be raked down from both sides to make it shed rain better , and the rakings piled on top . |
| 23 | According to an International Wheat Council report in April 1989 , world wheat stocks at the end of the 1988-90 season were expected to be 103,000,000 tonnes — down from 135,000,000 tonnes at the end of the previous year — with the biggest decline being in US stocks [ see p. 36280 ] . |
| 24 | They 're sending a chap down from Public Relations Branch to handle the publicity . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Some of the castings. like the head of a Queen Mother , show that the metal was poured in from separate crucibles . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This may cut out a certain amount of light , but as there are two windows in one corner , the room has light coming in from two directions and is probably lighter than average anyway . |
| 29 | The raw copy which floods in from many sources is ‘ tasted ’ , selected , sub-edited and , in a remarkably short space of time , some of it appears on the printed page . |
| 30 | Overseas aid came in from many quarters ( including South Africa ) ; the landlocked Zambians brought in health officials from all their neighbours to try to limit the spread of the disease , which nevertheless struck Malawi . |