Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [v-ing] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule of law upholds Parliamentary sovereignty because the ‘ rigidity of the law constantly hampers … the action of the executive , and … the government can escape only by obtaining from Parliament the discretionary authority which is denied to the Crown by the law of the land ’ |
| 2 | Will the Minister confirm that in the Prime Minister 's first year , far from escaping from short-termism , 45,000 businesses have gone under , 70,000 homes have been repossessed , 700,000 more people have lost their jobs and manufacturing investment has fallen by £2 billion this year and , according to the CBI , will fall by another £400 million even in 1992 ? |
| 3 | Often on coming from school tired , she takes consolation in the fact that her mother seems content and happy in her role — maybe there is a chance she will be too … parents often have few outside contacts … the mother especially tries to obtain most of her emotional satisfaction from her children . |
| 4 | I 'd come so far without looking from side to side , only seeing the next qualification up , that by the time I began to feel closed in it was too late . |
| 5 | It is well worth pausing from time to time to clarify what problem each person thinks he or she is solving . |
| 6 | New escape : A 22 year old prisoner was on the run today after escaping from Group 4 guards in Derby while being taken from court to jail . |
| 7 | Roy , who is fit and well after recovering from lung cancer , presented Yvonne with a trophy for best Employee Report of 1992 and Helen with a certificate of merit for design of the JS Journal 1992 . |
| 8 | It is important to note , however , that they are not trained as judges ( in marked contrast to most continental jurisdictions which adopt a professional career structure for judges who are recruited immediately on graduating from law school ) . |
| 9 | J. Milroy developed techniques for handling quantitatively data of this kind by assigning to each speaker a range score calculated simply by counting from left to right the number of columns through which the variants ranged , and subtracting 1 . |
| 10 | It can be seen that a long list of students ( or any other units ) could be used for a random sample by this means simply by numbering from beginning to end , and this could be done with an automatic increasing numbering stamp . |
| 11 | She fled there after splitting from celebrity chef Marco , 30 , just 15 weeks after their marriage . |
| 12 | Instead of working from home or at the DEA office , Coleman was given a desk at the Eurame Trading Company Ltd. , a DEA/CIA ‘ front ’ newly set up by the Cypriot Police Narcotics Squad in a luxury three-bedroomed penthouse apartment down the street from the US Embassy . |