Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the 40th session of the UNHCR Executive Committee in October 1989 the 43 member states adopted a general programme budget of $190,000,000 for the first six months of 1990 only ; after extensive debate at an extraordinary session in May 1990 and at the regular session in October , the Executive Committee finally adopted a general programme budget for 1990 amounting to $378,885,900 , including the $38,000,000 deficit carried over from the previous year . |
| 2 | As Russians penetrated southwards from the forested zone ( taiga ) to the wooded steppe , and then the open grasslands , they built new fortresses . |
| 3 | Nineteen Cubans and Spaniards were allowed to disembark , plus three passengers with authentic visas ; the remaining 900 or so Jews waited for news of the negotiations which involved , variously , the Cuban President , his director of immigration , the shipping line , the local relief committee , the ship 's captain and a lawyer flown in from the New York headquarters of the Joint Distribution Committee . |
| 4 | The visiting pilots had come to ferry back a score of U.S. fighter aircraft flown up from the States as part of the American lend-lease programme . |
| 5 | Then this pantomime carried on from the coast . |
| 6 | The boat moved away from the island and I waited until it was out at sea . |
| 7 | The engine of The Abbott sounded deafening in the silence , the loud spluttering replaced rapidly by a rumble as the boat moved away from the pier . |
| 8 | Her pale blue eyes turned away from the interviewer and towards the camera . |
| 9 | Sir Harold sat still , his eyes turned away from the window , his head full of old dreams . |
| 10 | For a moment his eyes turned away from the city to the sleeping form of Madra . |
| 11 | Oman had reportedly favoured the formation of a regional defence force drawn exclusively from the Gulf states [ see p. 38364 ] . |
| 12 | ‘ Thank you , ’ he answered , bewildered , and was even more surprised when Therese called down from the stage , ‘ Coming for coffee , Madge ? |
| 13 | Outboard interplane struts slanted outward from the lower wingtips , but a system of sturdy inverted V-struts and single struts supported the three 485hp Bristol Jupiter IX radial engines mounted on the upper wing . |
| 14 | In such transactions , trades negotiated away from the exchange 's central pricing system are turned into on-exchange trades . |
| 15 | Customers tend to use the product either as a report generator for existing , often highly complex databases brought down from the mainframe , or as a tool for the complete re-engineering of their applications , including prototyping . |
| 16 | She listened to the stories of small triumphs brought back from the dances . |
| 17 | Elsewhere there are Breughels ; walls covered with Delft tiles ; a medieval belfry with 366 steps from which you can gaze down on the town 's steep , red tiled roofs ; holy blood brought back from the crusades . |
| 18 | A moment later the big brown car pulled away from the kerb . |
| 19 | Sometimes the pastor found himself speaking to an empty church ; sometimes to a church filled with schoolchildren ; sometimes to a congregation supplemented by the relatives of islanders brought over from the mainland , and other tourists . |
| 20 | Giants went ahead at 69-67 through Johnson and as the momentum swung away from the Finns , overall victory suddenly seemed a possibility . |
| 21 | Work hours were long , 10–12 hours per day , 6½days a week , with a one week break taken away from the islands every four weeks . |
| 22 | The VPE , headed by Solange Fernex , also wants the funds left over from the Presidential campaign of Bruce Lalonde , one of the AT 's leading lights , to go into a common kitty , rather than being set aside for a future bid for power by Lalonde — perhaps in the European parliament elections in 1984 . |
| 23 | My mind wandered away from the disembowelled calves . |
| 24 | The paths would be made from bricks left over from the building of the house ; the little hedges , not more than twelve inches in height , would be box , and spaces large enough to accommodate blooms would be devoted to arum lilies ; the others to gravel . |
| 25 | For as to the last oracle , the Gospels had been left open , and there was a wind blew through from the south doorway and ruffled the pages over , turning back from John to Matthew . |
| 26 | The other side of the escarpment was a fractured plateau , a great , cracked slab of rock tilted away from the summit of the ridge . |
| 27 | Ice cracked away from the hatch at a pressure from inside . |
| 28 | Mirth being in decidedly short supply over the past few weeks amidst the myriad financial scandals and news of the ongoing long-gingering of the gay law reform bill , there was no doubt among the many disappointed punters turned away from the full house on opening night that they were still intent on partying on down at Cork 's new lesbian and gay centre , The Other Place . |
| 29 | His pen moved away from the cheque-book . |
| 30 | With newly appointed White House Chief of Staff James Baker firmly in charge of Bush 's re-election bid , the campaign shifted away from the religious right-wing agenda ( particularly the issues of " family values " and implacable opposition to abortion ) which had been so pronounced in past months , and which had been shown consistently to be out of alignment with the views of the mainstream of the electorate . |