Example sentences of "[adv] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Briant ignored that and looked instead at a man waving his notebook eagerly from the back row .
2 He swung himself nimbly over the fence and was disconcerted to come face to face with Henry Yaxlee , walking purposefully from the direction of the school .
3 Secondly , a number of views of this procedure can be considered relevant , eg from the point of view of the individual who is concerned with the speedy settlement of claims , the administrative assistant who checks the claims for errors , and the boss who is concerned with the effect on his status if a large number of false claims were to be made , and discovered outside the section .
4 Transfers between degree courses are permitted in some circumstances , eg from the MPhil or MLitt to the PhD , or from the MSc or the Diploma to MPhil or PhD .
5 Although there was a break in the snowfall , the wind still blew fiercely from the north , moaning round the house and whipping up the fallen snow so that it skimmed across the fields like fine powder , piling up in deep drifts where its progress was interrupted by hedgerows .
6 But in practice he found himself able to control the Residents only by appointing men he deemed to be sufficiently compliant , an expedient to which he resorted when Temple retired prematurely from the service in 1917 .
7 In 1674 , the pressure exerted in parliament by Protestant MPs forced Charles to withdraw prematurely from the war against the Dutch .
8 In this respect the answering of an examination question differs somewhat from the giving of an opinion in legal practice , A practitioner will not argue legal points unnecessarily .
9 Reeling somewhat from the gin concoction , and making for the captain 's office , I console myself with the thought that if I need anything from an appendectomy to open heart surgery , there is no shortage of equipment or expertise to hand .
10 First , by emphasizing that preferences are displaced away somewhat from the familiar , it is possible to explain two facets of the data from humans that would otherwise have seemed incompatible .
11 The general structure of this unitary grant system was well designed to achieve these purposes , but the detailed arrangements incorporated a number of elements which either detracted somewhat from the equity of the system or added to its complexity .
12 Clone H1 42 contains the 700 bp upstream from the transcription start point , cloned into the plasmid Bluescript ( 15 ) .
13 Investigation by the writer revealed a likely site for this machine on the western bank of Muckle Gill , just above the ford ( shown on the O.S. map ) about 40 yds. upstream from the gill head , and by the side of the workings on what we now call Benson 's Lode .
14 The Colorado , named ‘ river coloured red ’ by the Spanish , now flows green ; the silts and muds that gave the river its distinctive colour are trapped behind Glen Canyon Dam , fifteen miles upstream from the beginning of the Grand Canyon .
15 The consensus polyadenylation signal AATAAA is present at position 2,524 , 20 nucleotides upstream from the poly(A) + tail .
16 County Pot is located among a ruck of boulders 80 yards upstream from the top of the Cow Dub waterfall its constricted entrance being identified by a manhole cover among many other holes hereabouts on the north bank .
17 The field was surrounded by trees and looked out towards the river upstream from the loch .
18 Proponents of the dam , including two local mayors , claim that the dam is necessary if the town of Montlucon , upstream from the site , is to have an adequate water supply .
19 A dam is now being constructed just upstream from the bridge .
20 Maxim touched George 's arm and they moved carefully down the slope and well upstream from the farm stepped into the stinging cold water .
21 His pictures were stubbornly not nice : he called for carpenters ' pencils of rough graphite rather than the refined Fabers , crayons of a denser black , and later squeezed his colour messily and thickly from the tube direct when he was in the mood .
22 Smoke was now pouring thickly from the doorway and it had just occurred to Rocky that no enemy personnel had as yet put in an appearance , when Larsen came stumbling out , eyes streaming , one arm hugging his daughter protectively , shotgun dangling from his free hand .
23 Julie saw blood pumping thickly from the wound .
24 Starts 2pm from the car park of the Red Lion pub at the east end of Compton in Berks .
25 The tours will begin each day at 2pm from the Tourist Information Office at Bishop Street .
26 Better from the back .
27 But Scarborough had been an urgent Fourth Division yard and a sturdy tackle better from the opening minutes of the second leg , when Dave Beasant had needed to stretch twice to low drives .
28 There were even advantages in that he might be able to ‘ manage ’ the affair better from the inside .
29 If Aschmann becomes unable to perform — as a result of your deliberately destructive influence — I would at once have to issue a statement making it plain that from now on I disassociate myself entirely from the Hochhauser Season . ’
30 In attempting to help users in searching automated catalogues , it is perhaps too easy to assume that the machine must do it all and that the burden must be removed entirely from the user .
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