Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a notice of appeal dated 6 September 1991 the solicitors appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) under section 6(2) of the Act of 1986 the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of section 3 of the Act to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell and ( b ) under section 61(1) of the Act the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of any rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell ; ( 2 ) the court had no jurisdiction under sections 6(2) and 61(1) to award claims for compensation for loss against persons knowingly concerned in such contraventions in contrast to sections 6(3) to ( 7 ) and sections 61(3) to ( 7 ) ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) the power of the court under section 6(2) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court might direct for restoring the parties to the transaction to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into and ( b ) the power of the court under section 61(1) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention of the rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to take such steps as the court might direct to remedy it included power to make a financial award against such person directing payment by that person to individual investors of sums equivalent to the amounts paid by such investors pursuant to the said transaction , neither subsection empowering the court to order restitution by the repayment of moneys outside the possession or control of the person concerned ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law ( a ) in his construction of sections 6(2) and 61(1) in failing to have regard to the principle ‘ generalibus specialia derogant , ’ in particular in holding that there could exist within each of sections 6 and 61 two parallel powers to order financial redress at the suit of the plaintiff , one derived from sections 6(3) and 6(4) and sections 61(3) and 61(4) respectively , which was subject to the limitations set out in those and subsequent subsections , and the other derived from section 6(2) and section 61(1) , which was subject to no such limitations ; ( b ) in rejecting the submission that sections 6 and 61 were essentially procedural and did not create new substantive legal rights and remedies ; and ( c ) in failing to have regard to the fact that the orders sought under paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim required payment to the plaintiff or alternatively into court of moneys recovered thereunder from the solicitors despite the absence of any provisions for such orders in the Act , his dismissal of the summons being inconsistent with his finding that there was no provision in sections 6(2) or 61(1) directing payment into court and that any order under the sections would have to direct repayment of the sum paid to each individual investor who had made the original payment . |
| 2 | Joseph rode slowly from the southern end of the camp , with five warriors walking beside him and leaning against his horse 's flanks . |
| 3 | It said ‘ do not go on the grass ’ , translated literally from the Norwegian — somehow the story does n't work so well in English . |
| 4 | It said that equal treatment applied only from the date when the European Court made its ruling . |
| 5 | The theme continues with four bars made entirely from the cell ( part of the reversal of the original cell ) , concluding with an exact repetition of Example 12 . |
| 6 | As it was , such girls as fancied themselves would leave their cubicle doors open , in the hope that tantalizing glimpses of leg and breast and buttock might be seen through the high and smoky glass , and once Clara , taking advantage of the convention that they were unobserved , walked the whole length of the changing room draped only from the waist down by a small towel , on the pretext of borrowing a safety pin . |
| 7 | They were awarded damages for this loss of ordinary business which arose naturally from the late delivery . |
| 8 | ‘ 'The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice , self-contempt , abasement , submissiveness , meekness — ’ she read aloud from the early works of Marx , which she had never returned to the library , property being theft , and knowledge free for everyone . |
| 9 | If a year is indicated this means it is a ‘ vintage ’ , made only from the grapes of that year . |
| 10 | At Carole 's insistence they had climbed the long metal ladder which led inside from the roof of the nave to the top of the tower : Henry went first , Amaranth second ; by some accident of fate , David followed on her heels , leaving an indignant Carole to bring up the rear . |
| 11 | Troops loyal to the breakaway faction , led militarily from the town of Nasir , on the Ethiopian border , by Cdr Riek Machar , are now on alert expecting an attack from the town of Malakal ‘ at any time ’ , Dr Akol said . |
| 12 | Yet in the matter of the primacy , which entailed the most extensive ecclesiastical power in western Europe apart from that of the papacy , he fought stubbornly from the beginning to the end of his archiepiscopate against every papal or local obstacle to the exercise of this power . |
| 13 | Kathleen moved slowly from the doorway and shook her head , without speaking . |
| 14 | It is fair to say that the disposals ranged widely from the good to the very poor . |
| 15 | The bundle she had disturbed eddied a few inches into the deeper water and as Wexford watched , a thin pale hand , lifeless as the agate-veined stones , rose slowly from the sodden cloth , its fingers hanging yet pointing towards him . |
| 16 | He rose slowly from the chair . |
| 17 | To the north , the land rose slowly from the marshes to Althorne ridge about a mile and a half inland ; to the south there seemed nothing at all , only a grey-green , indeterminate merging of water , land and sky , beginningless and endless . |
| 18 | Trentham rose slowly from the top of the pulpit and began to descend the stone steps with his hands held high above his head . |
| 19 | The black walls of an enormous sprawling house rose menacingly from the rank weeds and thorns and , as Cleo had noticed , a thin reed of smoke was seeping from one of the many narrow chimneys . |
| 20 | When the Rector gravely offered Alexandra his arm to take her in to dinner , Robert 's face fell so utterly that she took his arm as well , and moved lopsidedly from the room between her ill-assorted escorts to the unspeakable anguish of the baby . |
| 21 | They staggered together from the tunnel , whimpering with agony … |
| 22 | Slim , elegant pintails rose suddenly from the water and flew , a small flight of nine , the curving white line on slender necks and the long tail feathers clearly visible . |
| 23 | Its cohesion stemmed entirely from the almost feudal loyalty the troops accorded the Emperor . |
| 24 | The steep sided mountains with a dense covering of trees rose majestically from the valley floor . |
| 25 | The Kingsley Club overlooked the wild and rugged Bathsheba beach , where huge boulders rose majestically from the thundering Atlantic surf . |
| 26 | He frowned as the waiter hesitated , then gasped with shock as the man , his nerve gone , fled away from the room . |
| 27 | The Hercules banked , drew away from the pool of light , then back into the merciful , all concealing blackness . |
| 28 | The driver closed the door behind him and moments later the car drew away from the road-block , heading south . |
| 29 | At the sound of her mother 's voice , faint but even at this distance still accusing , away down there on the snow-covered lawn , Alexandra drew away from the window into the shadows of the room behind . |
| 30 | As it drew away from the Communists , the ILP leadership became more sympathetic to the Labour Party which was also criticizing the Popular Front for its inclusion of non-socialists . |