Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] from [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Eighteen months on from that flotation , Olsen has ordered five one-milliontonne tankers from the Belfast yard , which provides a much needed baseload of work .
2 Cuts on action are those which carry an action over from one shot to the next , and they constitute an important element in film making .
3 Not to do so , said their opponents , was to cut pacifism off from any possibility of influencing practical politics .
4 In Troeltsch , the focusing of attention on ‘ religion ’ which had been so central for Schleiermacher and Liberal Theology is thus intensified to the point where its separation off from Christian theology becomes inevitable .
5 Music and art teaching were offered by other local people , and they all ferried the girl around from one tutor to another , so she would n't miss anything .
6 However , if it is necessary to follow the child around from one room to another , or if it is desirable to record a child with other children or with more than one adult present , then it is advisable to use a radio microphone which can be attached to the child 's clothing .
7 In normal times there is a steady movement of pilots up from small air taxi operations through turboprop commuter aircraft of the major airlines .
8 Following the announcement , the issue got the thumbs up from several City commentators .
9 It is clear also that there can be an iteration back from any stage in the process to any previous one as views get modified during the change process .
10 What holds organisations back from that commitment ?
11 In injury time Erith made absolutely certain of victory when Battram turned the ball in from close range as the Braintree defence was caught out .
12 Herbal remedies therefore still remain very important and it is campesina women rather than men who know about the healing properties of local herbs and pass their knowledge down from one generation to the next .
13 The authorities in Tripoli shift ed senior officers around from one post to another at relatively frequent intervals ; the officers themselves said that was not because the government was particularly concerned to create an impartial force ( such as a Gendarmerie or Guardia Civil ) , but because their loyalty was suspect : if they worked in their home areas , or stayed for a long spell of duty in one district , they might acquire a following of dissidents .
14 And in fact what marks the two genres off from each other is not so much the nature of the devices , but the nature of the opposition which constructs them as literature .
15 And as Mary Douglas ( 1973 : 15 ) had pointed out , ‘ if we can not bring the argument back from tribal ethnography to ourselves , then there is little point in starting it at all ’ .
16 ‘ It ca n't be denied that all this has taken a very long time to come about , but I think that , political wrangling aside , much of the delay has been due to genuine uncertainty about the tax implications of moving money around from one body to another .
17 At the Pitztal FIS downhill , which was held on a high glacier , we were up against none other than Peter Mueller , on the road back from last season 's devastating knee injury .
18 It has to sort these echoes out from each other .
19 Cos I 've sometimes caught bus up from other end , if I 've gone our Neil 's or summat .
20 The walk back from that moment had been silent but the closeness between them shocked and frightened them both .
21 You start moving men about from one job to another , and they start complaining , or demanding to be put on a higher grade .
22 And he walking round with these shorts on from last night , and his like , dirty T shirt and this big plaster with nancy boy written on it trying to get home .
23 Jim thought this was priceless and laughed so loud and so long that he brought the Duty Officer down from Flying Control to find out what he 'd missed .
24 His decision to take a year off from international rugby has left selectors with the difficult choice of going for a short-term replacement or of opting for long-term continuity .
25 On the way back from that holiday in Provence , the party stopped in Paris , which John was also seeing for the first time .
26 In the rickshaw on the way back from that morning 's tolly I asked Vimla whether she would like to be reborn as a hijra in her next life .
27 Limpar , on his way back from international duty with Sweden in Oslo , told me : ‘ Shearer is top class , a striker I rate very highly .
28 On the way back from this ritual , they came upon a crowd of anti-Falangist students .
29 this practical for Dave in from last term
30 Could I carry my miles over from one year to the next ?
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