Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hype surrounding Justin v John Fashanu did not materialise but Justin came on , only to miss from a few yards as Sanchez intervened , leading to his injury and the booking of the Wimbledon physio . |
| 2 | I guess it is mildly amusing to see Bolan 's head emerge ghostlike from Elton John 's piano as the guesting Reg hammers out ‘ Children Of The Revolution ’ , though probably not for the right reasons and certainly not enough to detract from the leaden weight of the music . |
| 3 | This leads to some repetition , but not enough to detract from the valuable information the book contains , not all of which will be familiar even to the keen naturalist , and some of the thoughts are challenging . |
| 4 | Each litre of brine contains between 0–6 and 6.5 grams of zinc , However no one knows if the brine is concentrated enough to tap from a small area . |
| 5 | The decline of McCarthyism , moreover , meant that they had less to fear from the American right . |
| 6 | Moreover , there is such a difference between one man and another that the man of 70 may still be at a higher level than the man of 20 at his peak : although the latter , starting so to speak from a lower level , will normally reach the later age at a much lower point than the former . |
| 7 | In many areas the Social Services departments have created the posts of interpreters to ‘ enhance service delivery , not to detract from the ongoing objective of attracting more staff with language skills . |
| 8 | Follow steps 2–7 above to indent from the left margin ; and steps 2–10 to indent from both margins |
| 9 | She screamed , a cry that seemed not to come from a human throat , a deathyell of mortal agony and longing . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes ! ’ he said , the word jerked out of him furiously , and twisted away to hide from the malicious smile he dreaded . |
| 11 | The experience underlined for Cuckney the importance of having clear goals in a crisis and being determined not to waver from the chosen course of action : |
| 12 | Our present structure of central government is far and away the most important feature of the constitution not to emerge from the revolutionary settlement of 1688–1701 . |
| 13 | Firstly , they tend not to originate from a real typographic font but are often variations on an original while , secondly , being bitmaps they can not be scaled . |
| 14 | Today 's newcomers are as likely as not to arrive from the opposite direction : businessmen seeking to escape the pollution , water shortages , high taxes and labour costs of southern California . |
| 15 | I think it boils down to the fact that it 's fairly economic to transport vast quantities of people but not to transport from the outer edges and the odd bits in the middle and there 's no way that they 're going to get a full and comprehensive service come what may . |
| 16 | Perhaps the Minister could clarify the impression given by the Hon. Member for Tayside , North ( Mr. Walker ) , who believes that it is all right to buy from the public purse something for £2 million and then to sell off a fraction of it for £4 1 million a fortnight later as long as the proceeds of the sale go to buses . |
| 17 | Depending on Austrian cooperation was unwise , however , for Austria had more to lose from the Ottoman Empire 's collapse than any of the Great Powers . |
| 18 | To show that we do live distinctive lives , and that we try sincerely , however imperfectly , but try sincerely to refrain from the seamier side of life , and to concentrate on everything that 's wholesome . |
| 19 | That is why today , some years on , at a Lloyd club near you , there is the opportunity not only to play tennis ( naturally ) squash , and racket ball , but also to benefit from the wider aspects of health and fitness via the clubs fitness facilities and aerobics classes . |
| 20 | Resumption of publication was reportedly due partly to aid from the Russian government as part of emergency funds given to the press . |
| 21 | In the second appeal , counsel thought it might have been relevant that the accused was shown not only to be the possessor of a deep , gruff voice , but also to hail from a working-class area of Dublin . |
| 22 | Moreover , we showed that indomethacin inhibited chemiluminescence elicited by stimulation of a suspension of neutrophils by FMLP , a system in which oxygen free radicals are not though to derive from the cyclo-oxygenase reaction . |
| 23 | But Smith admitted : ‘ We 've got three points out of four , and that 's what we set out to achieve from the first two games . |
| 24 | They assumed that wealth was automatically there , and that the task of politics was simply to take from the wrong people and give it to the right ones . |
| 25 | After modernising and its network , BT is about to benefit from a rapid fall-off in investment and staffing costs . |
| 26 | A long standing issue in accounting has been how to eliminate from the traditional measures of profit any element due to inflation . |
| 27 | The were about to select from the sweet trolley when , at a nod from his mother , the proprietor dimmed the houselights and a young waitress brought in a surprise birthday cake , the reflection from the candles throwing her face into warm relief . |
| 28 | It was as he was about to emerge from the far end of the wood that the figure on the ground brought him to a standstill . |
| 29 | There may be a second , or even a third rabbit about to emerge from the one hole and you must be ready to ensure that no opportunities are missed . |
| 30 | The abbeys and priories I passed slumbered gently in the lee of fresh green hills , unaware of the destruction about to crawl from the hellish pit of Henry 's lusts . |