Example sentences of "[adv] removed from [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The liquid notes rose and flowed round the chandelier , already removed from its dust bag ready for the Season .
2 The report says that one in 10 customers were charged incorrectly by their bank or building society , one in five had wrangles over standing orders and one in seven had money incorrectly removed from their accounts .
3 One in seven had money incorrectly removed from their account .
4 One in seven had money incorrectly removed from their account .
5 This lays it open to Walter Benjamin 's critique even more than the classic realist novel , for it is still further removed from his concept of storytelling .
6 Consul Veitch was later removed from his post for addressing Napoleon as ‘ Your Majesty ’ instead of ‘ General ’ , as he had been instructed by London .
7 It was still soaking wet and now Wexford carefully removed from its leather partitions a photograph of Lilian Hatton , a driving licence and a darts club membership card and spread them in the sun to dry .
8 That was the morning when the police and social workers came to take their children away ; the morning when seven other children were also removed from their homes in what many people saw as ‘ revenge ’ on the part of the local authority .
9 At an awards ceremony at the Polytechnic of the South Bank in 1974 he castigated those people ‘ who would like to make polytechnics exactly like universities ’ , and who ignored the fact that the polytechnics had the distinctive feature of not only pursuing knowledge for its own sake , but also treating the acquisition of knowledge as ‘ never far removed from its application ’ — and constructing courses of study accordingly .
10 Although dualistic it was quite different from Platonism : cosmic time was not the moving image of eternity but ‘ at best a caricature of eternity , a defective imitation far removed from its model ’ .
11 The men are undertaking their grim task in blazing hot sun , but the weather is far removed from their mood .
12 Thus , ‘ academics , writers , painters and musicians of minimal renown inherit the right — even the duty — to participate in politics , to give opinions on subjects far removed from their areas of talent , to sit in judgement on the regime , even to denounce the system ’ ( Riding : 1986 , p. 427 ) .
13 The objective has been to indicate the value of appreciating the expressive order : the understandings people have of their own lives , their attempts to maintain self-esteem and the respect of others in the context of processes and decisions far removed from their understanding or influence .
14 Like tonight , faced with the ordeal of going to a grand dinner party with people who all knew each other and were far removed from her experience , she had acquitted herself proudly and well .
15 When my parents did eventually reply , their letter was full of the most ordinary details of life in England and seemed far removed from my experiences in the Legion .
16 The reality is far removed from his speech .
17 For example , for Article 4 of the proposed directive to be implemented , Britain would have to introduce legislation allowing for the searching of premises to hold and seize items which another country says there are ‘ reasonable grounds for believing ’ have ‘ been unlawfully removed from its territory ’ .
18 Buzz had read newspaper accounts of old people who had been forcibly removed from their homes and admitted to nursing homes ; such people had been robbed by the very guardians who were legally supposed to care for them .
19 Pinning a bright smile on her face , she carefully placed a sugar bowl on each table , beamed at them all impartially , scurried back for the pile of menus on the counter — only to have them forcibly removed from her hands by Feargal .
20 Gen. Arnaldo Velarde was unexpectedly removed from his post as Air Force Commander on Sept. 14 and replaced by Gen. José Nadal Payva .
21 She tried another and another , until finally the receiver was firmly removed from her grasp and replaced back on its cradle .
22 ‘ In my judgment the interests of the children are now to be taken into account and to be considered in relation to all the circumstances of the case including in relation to the general desirability that children wrongfully removed from their place of habitual residence should be returned .
23 ‘ In my judgment the interests of the children are now to be taken into account and to be considered in relation to all the circumstances of the case including in relation to the general desirability that children wrongfully removed from their place of habitual residence should be returned .
24 The end of the Dzhungar state lightened their load , but the Russian yoke was never removed from their necks .
25 A bad case of Millerus Liteis , as doctors would say : she was having the ever-present pitcher of beer surgically removed from her hand .
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