Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From collections of legal formulae we know something about the local archives of a city , in which wills and other actions were registered , and we find various officials , the defensor , curator , magister militum and other members of the local curia being called upon to open the archives for the registration of new grants , but we have Formularies only from a small number of civitates , and their contents are not often datable , except to the period before the ninth century , when most of them were written down . |
| 2 | If he wanted to keep his horse away from a certain mare he had only to rub some of the liquid on the stallion 's bridle or on the mare to ensure that the horse would not go near her . |
| 3 | Surrounded by wooded gardens , the Hotel Antares is just a small flight of steps away from a private sandy beach . |
| 4 | Blinded in one eye and losing blood rapidly from a punctured artery in her neck , she dropped back unnoticed by the others . |
| 5 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 6 | For those people who can sever their own feet and lurch away , they got it round the neck later from a special breed of Tightness that lives in the baskets of flowers up lamp posts . |
| 7 | Roland drew his breath in minor shock : Maud said , ‘ Oh , the dolls ’ — and Sir George brought his light back from a blank mirror entwined with gilded roses and focused it on the three rigid figures , semi-recumbent under a dusty counterpane , in a substantial if miniature four-poster bed . |
| 8 | In general , if is basic in a subsidiary tableau and its row has no positive entries apart from a positive entry in the resource column , then there is no feasible solution with . |
| 9 | My Defence Manual , which contains things like maps of the island with the caches marked , likely attack routes , a summary of tactics , a list of weapons I have or might make , includes within this last category quite a few unpleasant things like trip-wires and snares set a body-length away from a concealed broken bottle sticking up in the grass , electrically detonated mines made from pipe-bombs and small nails , all buried in the sand , and a few interesting , if unlikely , secret weapons , like frisbees with razors embedded in the edge . |
| 10 | The Polish replica moved the breaking of Enigma on from a theoretical exercise to a practical one and Knox always gave the Poles credit for the part they played . |
| 11 | Ravi Shankar 's score , drawing elements in from a wide range of sources , is both seductively lyrical and at times rhythmically complex . |
| 12 | He could , of course , make the child a ward of court , but I doubted if any wardship would persuade the court to take a child away from a young and devoted mother . |
| 13 | One scene among many that captures the ironic mix of commonplace and macabre has two kids battling over a football , just a few feet away from a dead body . |
| 14 | He had sought and received asylum in the Senegalese embassy in Conakry only a month after his return home from a long period of exile [ see p. 38181 ] . |
| 15 | The British squad members may not be fully rested after their return yesterday from a 2½-week training trip to the United States , but their presence will serve as a psychological boost to their teams . |
| 16 | The day progressed and I had searched a reasonably large expanse of foreshore without much to show by way of finds apart from a few pennies and halfpennies . |
| 17 | Throughout the three month test I did n't have any trouble with my feet apart from a few blisters after first wearing them . |
| 18 | They saw it as a move away from a possible patronising stance of deliberate scruffdom . |
| 19 | Some people find a change of soap powder can help , especially a move away from a biological powder . |
| 20 | Nabb made its first move away from a manual system about eight years ago when the UK office installed a single-user version of Omicron PowerSystems . |
| 21 | So , all in all , Uzzell said he felt quite reassured by the results — ‘ with the shift away from a hardware-oriented industry towards an emphasis on software , services and global networking , integrators who understand business issues have a vital role to play in the industry ’ . |
| 22 | It seems likely , however , that there was some relative shift away from a traditional leisure preference over the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | Cooper , who has lopped six to nine inches off his action , made four birdies in his last six holes , with his four at the long 16th the proverbial whisker away from a three . |
| 24 | She worked the ragstore , she had worked there all her days , since she had left school — and a whisker away from a special one — what wits she had ; and wit let her steal the jacket , Mr McGregor 's broken arm . |
| 25 | On 15 March Party officials took gold objects from the main church , despite protests outside from a large crowd including factory workers . |
| 26 | This is , of course , symptomatic of the rapid move over the past few years away from a consensus-based approach to education policy making towards one based on central autonomy . |
| 27 | Cranston 's wife Maude rejoined him , still behaving as if Athelstan had brought her husband home from a heroic field of battle rather than half drunk , his doublet stained with vomit . |
| 28 | It garnered unequivocal critical praise , the vocal admiration of many American politicians and a thumbs up from a Californian judge , who recently sent a young black offender to see the film ( in lieu of a custodial sentence ) . |
| 29 | I have discovered two new rooms in the tower ; the lower , immediately above the fan ceiling , has bell ropes dangling and is obviously still in use , whilst the upper is bare , dusty boards apart from a giant treadmill in the centre which might once have been used for hauling up stone but is clearly redundant now . |
| 30 | Bare-chested , a handkerchief over his head and baggy black pants billowing , only the walkman marked Peter Maher apart from a latter-day Henry Morgan , so pirate-like was his appearance . |