Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv] from [art] " in BNC.

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1 ESC founders Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington director and star of the Shakespeare tragedy say they would rather stay away from the Civic , one of the strongest dates on their world tours , than face the same problem again .
2 These were a valuable indicator , as they would only show up from a distance if you were ‘ on the line ’ .
3 ‘ Then you 'd better keep away from the disco , ’ said Willis .
4 They consider that you can only move on from an unhappy experience if you have given it some meaning .
5 * Take notes , but do n't necessarily copy directly from the original when you do so ( see pp. 41 – 2 ) .
6 I was seeking a scrap of common ground on which we could mutually back away from the argument .
7 In the absence of extensive survey material on the attitudes of DUP voters , we can only reason backwards from the platform of the Party to the interests of the people who support it .
8 She was able to will her longing into an unexamined haze but she could not stay away from the post office on Monday .
9 I agree with Eric Hobsbawm 's assertion that nationhood need not arise exclusively from the past ( ‘ Whose fault-line is it anyway ? ’ , 24 April ) .
10 But I think that question does not arise here from the facts .
11 A crucial difference , of course , between the " real " model of reality and the " mock reality " of fiction is that the mock reality does not exist apart from the message by which it is conveyed : this is the case , at least , if we regard a fictional work in its entirety as constituting a single message .
12 I could see by the light of his torch that the cave was deep and spacious ; I could not make out from the beam of light its total dimensions , but clearly a man would have had no problem stretching out to sleep there .
13 There are two other necessary ingredients , which will normally arise automatically from the first ingredient , self-replication itself .
14 INSPIRATION may not spring readily from the prosaic-sounding north Midlands town of Southwell but it is the black stuff that dreams are made of in the eyes of Ron and Richard Muddle , the father and son team of racing entrepreneurs extraordinary .
15 Not only did they lack skills but they did not adapt readily from the rhythm of agricultural life with its long periods of inactivity and frequent holidays , to the demands of modern industry .
16 ( 3 ) A licensing board may consider any application made to it under paragraph ( b ) of subsection ( 2 ) above at any meeting of the board held not earlier than 14 days after the making of the application and shall affirm the provisional grant if the board is satisfied that the premises , if completed in accordance with the plan mentioned in that paragraph , will be and convenient for their purpose and that the said plan does not deviate materially from the site plan and description of the premises lodged under the said subsection ( 2 ) .
17 He used almost völkisch language , claiming that the Romanians ( unlike the Hungarian , German and other minorities ) were ‘ autochthonous ’ : ‘ They did not come from elsewhere , they did not fall down from the sky ; they were born and lived here , in this land , and they defended it with their blood . ’
18 Communications did not improve away from the grass roots .
19 Or does he just watch warily from the back of the box , or even ignore you ?
20 Of such undertakings all that can be predicated is that some breaches will and others will not , give rise to an event which will deprive the party not in default of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should obtain from the contract ; and the legal consequences of a breach of such an undertaking , unless provided for expressly in the contract , depend upon the nature of the event to which the breach gives rise and do not follow automatically from a prior classification of the undertaking as a " condition " or a " warranty " .
21 Her sister did not look up from the list of figures .
22 But I will not look up from the tray until I have it safely landed on the white plastic table .
23 Wycliffe did not look up from the statements and for some time Sara gave no sign that she had heard ; then she said : ‘ I 've been very stupid .
24 The children could not keep away from the railway , and they soon got to know the trains that passed by .
25 Carers who do not withdraw altogether from the labour market nevertheless often have to reduce or restrict the hours they can work .
26 This is what I mean by protection — we did not run away from the terrible topic : the use of projection allowed us to face cancer .
27 The system is using it for itself , but you can not run away from the fact that it has helped a lot of women to pursue careers rather than to sit down and nurse babies .
28 ‘ If you 'd just keep away from the dog fights , Pa , ’ Sarah had begged .
29 He envisaged an idealized model of perfect gases and frictionless cylinders , in contrast to the engineers who had actually been making the improvements to real engines ; but his method allowed him to demonstrate that heat will not flow spontaneously from a cool body to a warm one , and that the efficiency of a heat engine depends on the difference of temperature between the ‘ source ’ and the ‘ sink ’ of heat .
30 Heat can not flow spontaneously from a colder to a warmer body .
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