Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] from a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He comes from Dusseldorf , where he studied at the famous Academy with Gerhard Richter , and shows large landscape paintings in which the natural is disturbed by human interventions , all seen from a rather high vantage point . |
| 2 | The users of social services would greatly benefit from a much greater use of research — for decades this point has been made in reports , in meetings , and within research itself . |
| 3 | The March Revolution was a spontaneous uprising because no-one had planned it ; it merely escalated from a seemingly harmless bread riot into a complete constitutional over-throw . |
| 4 | There have in fact been achievements in the care of the mentally handicapped in our society , and one of the fundamental barriers still to be broken — that of public opinion — will only come from a more positive attitude among the media to the good things that are happening . |
| 5 | Seb started , as though his mind had suddenly returned from a very long distance . |
| 6 | Popular music has thus dissolved from a specifically youth-oriented product at the margins of society into a new type of industry which effectively draws areas that were previously considered private and ‘ hidden ’ in our society into the centre of consumption and governmental strategy . |
| 7 | Finally , the new limitation on the first-instance jurisdiction of the archons is not likely to have replaced the old system at a stroke ; a decree for Phaselis ( ML 31 — Fornara 68 ) in which an archon still has substantive powers could thus date from a little after 462 — but not much . |
| 8 | One very distinguishable talent of Dickens is the way how he can so easily move from a very serious solemn scene to an extremely comical one . |
| 9 | ‘ Or maybe she just learned from a more rational neighbour that the real Delia has been abroad for six months . |
| 10 | Apart from the sore cracks between most of his toes , the skin was heavily calloused and his heels were covered in blisters ( he had just returned from a particularly arduous walk ) . |
| 11 | The company 's overwhelmingly American board of directors and senior management still suffer from a not-invented-here arrogance . |
| 12 | The arguments in support of cheap nuclear power have always derived from a deceptively simple premise . |
| 13 | When the reactor was restarted a jet of steam promptly issued from a wrongly adjusted valve in the secondary cooling system , and in the ensuring emergency shutdown a gasket in the primary cooling system gave way to deposit 3500 litres of radioactive water in the reactor 's basement . |
| 14 | This in turn does n't help his voice , which rarely breaks from a rather lazy-sounding , aspirant Jack Nicholson-style Californian croak . |
| 15 | The R· Eco K ts-1 and R· Eco K ts-1 + endonucleases were similarly purified from a freshly transformed E.coli C3-6[pVM39] strain grown at 30° and 42°C respectively . |
| 16 | It comes from a text on the duties of a vizier and was probably copied from a much earlier document . |
| 17 | It also suffers from a purely ‘ mathematical ’ approach to its typography although this issue will be corrected from Version 2.0 , due to be released towards the end of this year . |
| 18 | The sword was later recovered from a long forgotten underground lair by a combined expedition of Dwarfs and Men . |
| 19 | The same is true of town and village rugs , and individual items that clearly originate from a broadly defined area or region , but can not be tied down to a specific village or town will be marketed under the name of the general location . |
| 20 | The blood level of this mineral also fell from a very good healthy level to the lower end of the normal range . |
| 21 | He 'd use it to identify and locate all the landmarks which he had stared up at during his exhausting explorations , now seen from a very different perspective ; he knew the names of all the streets where the distant , anonymous towers of the banks and finance companies were sited , having worn himself out many times by walking along them , fascinated by the scenes glimpsed behind their mirrored , darkened or tinted glass windows and walls . |
| 22 | Patrick told me that he was a little worried about the brightness in tone that would inevitably result from a totally maple body and so he suggested to Jim Sullivan that actives might well hold the answer . |
| 23 | So we 've now gone from a real slow one to a really definitely record-breaking |
| 24 | At the other end of the social scale Moschos , the son of Moschion , the Jewish slave , has now emerged from a most improbable place — from the temple of Amphiaraus in Boeotia . |
| 25 | In an incubator a brown-gold boy , naked and perfect except that both his legs had been broken during his birth , and were now suspended from a delicately constructed pulley and weight inside his perspex container . |
| 26 | Unlike a good many tough guys who made it big in movies , Marvin did n't come from a particularly tough background . |
| 27 | He did n't come from a particularly literary background , though his mother , Frances Trollope , supported them for a while on the proceeds of novels such as ‘ The Vicar of Wrexhill ’ . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , a blow that would add still further to Falkenhavn 's disillusion was about to fall from a totally different direction . |
| 29 | You can then choose from a very wide range indeed , from lengths of artists ' or sail canvas ( available quite cheaply from art supply stores or marine goods suppliers ) to upholstery fabrics and velvets . |
| 30 | In the alternative and contending intellectual traditions which have flowed from this range of answers , ‘ culture ’ itself then ranges from a significantly total to a confidently partial dimension of reference . |