Example sentences of "[adv] from an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moustached man begins to read aloud from an old diary . |
| 2 | The car drew to a halt by a green sward of carefully tended lawn which ran down from an impressive-looking office building towards the river . |
| 3 | The February index shows the increase in total earnings at management level down from an annual rate of 8.3 p.c. in December to 7 p.c. , from 7 p.c. to 5.6 p.c. at clerical level and from 7.4 p.c. to 6.8 p.c. among operatives . |
| 4 | The site is deeply rolling land so the shot is frequently down from an elevated tee , or up to a pulpit green — or the reverse ! |
| 5 | The Pit derives its name from the steep galley down from an old tin mine , which the Badlands surfers must negotiate to reach the beach below . |
| 6 | He knew how to create extraordinary visual effects simply by changing the direction of his brush stroke , so that light streams down from an unseen sun , or a horizon line is conjured up out of three horizontal bands of subtly modulated shades of blue . |
| 7 | When you look down , when you are seeing it in on the television pictures , you look down from an aerial view . |
| 8 | Haw , haw ! ’ — would not have differed greatly from an average week in your average sit-com . |
| 9 | It is at this point that a right heart attitude would benefit greatly from an intelligent technique . |
| 10 | Bolton , unbeaten before Saturday 's match , fell behind in the opening minute when right-winger Ryan Hill drifted into the penalty area , met a cross from the left , and fired in from an acute angle . |
| 11 | Claire Samways blasted the ball off Alison Vance , the Portadown keeper , but it fell to Jeanette Turner loitering at the post and she spun on the ball firing it in from an acute angle . |
| 12 | You need a certain kind of front to breeze in from an alternative reality in the back of a time-travelling Volvo and sit in a Presley City bar , with a two-headed nipper on your lap , complaining to a private dick from the twenty-fifth century that you do n't have time for nonsense . |
| 13 | McLaren was then ushered in from an adjoining office . |
| 14 | Ed Morrison allowed John Jeffrey to come in from an offside position and ‘ collect ’ a passing movement between two Japanese players while Hayashi was tackled without the ball when a try seemed certain for Japan . |
| 15 | Horse manure , horse muck or just plain horse shit , depending on your susceptibilities , was a much needed and highly effective fertiliser for the allotments , and so from an early age a daily chore was to keep an eye open for droppings , grab your shovel and bucket and run out to scoop it up . |
| 16 | What is apparent to everyone , however , is the deteriorating state of the city itself , not only from an archaeological viewpoint but from an urban one , and specifically where traffic circulation is concerned . |
| 17 | But it is only from an aesthetic point of view that they merit , in consequence , much less attention ; in the novelist 's eyes they become , on the contrary , more revealing . |
| 18 | Belfast born sisters , Fionnuala ( violin ) and Una Hunt ( piano ) have been playing chamber music together from an early age . |
| 19 | Communication policies are changing rapidly , yet there is a need to assess them constantly from an ethical perspective . |
| 20 | The comparison between the canals and railways was most graphically drawn by Mr W.F. Martin of the Mountsorrel Granite Company , one of the companies that could conceivably have benefited much from an improved canal , when giving evidence to the Royal Commission of 1906 . |
| 21 | The main group of demonstrators had broken away from an authorized rally in a nearby square called by the Revolution Party ( Christian Democratic ) . |
| 22 | The conclusion that Nizan draws from this is the need to displace the focus of attention in the novel away from an outdated preoccupation with individual psychology and to direct the reader 's attention to the complex interaction between the public and the private spheres , to focus in short on the tragic destiny that links the individual to his social group and his social environment.66 Special attention , in other words , was to be paid to the political and social dimension of human existence . |
| 23 | But once the bleak regime of institutionalised care hits young people , the relief of being away from an unhappy family situation sours into feelings of failure and rejection . |
| 24 | I think erm there is a erm a size issue that enters into that particular consideration , erm clearly erm if you build a small new settlement very close to an existing large settlement , then the prospects for that being reasonably self contained are much reduced to that of a larger new settlement in the same location , and I would agree that the further in in general the further you move away from an existing centre then the likelihood is that that settlement will become more self contained . |
| 25 | Its presentation is as far away from an analogue style as it is possible to get , which is a surprise given Linn Products ' roots . |
| 26 | The turning to an anti-immigrant position by the French FN ( Front National ) in the late 1970s , the adoption of an anti-foreign-worker stance by the German NPD ( Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands ) after 1979 , the basis of the appeal of the Dutch NVU ( Nederlandse Volksunie ) from 1974 , even the turning from mere Flemish nationalism to anti-immigration propaganda by the Belgian VB ( Vlaams Blok ) in the early 1980s — all these are examples of movements that , sometimes explicitly and self-confessedly , followed the example of the NF in moving to anti-immigrant/anti-foreign worker appeals and away from an exclusive focus on anti-Semitism , anti-communism and the other traditional concerns of postwar European neo-fascism . |
| 27 | On Feb. 28 , 1990 , the Philippines signed an agreement with international banks under the new debt initiative launched in 1989 by Nicholas Brady , the US Treasury Secretary , which switched international debt strategy away from an exclusive focus on new lending towards a reduction in debt burdens [ see p. 37016 ] . |
| 28 | It must be a relief to get away from an awful mob like us . ’ |
| 29 | The Cannon Coalridge 's new Power Flue option allows installation up to 4m away from an outside wall , and will also take in up to four right angled bends |
| 30 | It 's paradoxical because often divorce law reforms thought of as favouring women and in circumspect that allows women to get away from an unreasonable husband and that kind of thing , it 's certainly true , but at the same time you have to notice that in terms of reproductive success it may benefit more er men more . |