Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a BCP politburo and secretariat member until mid-1988 , he had been widely regarded as the person most likely to lead political reform in Bulgaria , but he had been dismissed abruptly from the party leadership in July 1988 [ see p. 36304 ] . |
| 2 | French military reinforcements , 150 troops , had been flown in from the Central African Republic to evacuate foreign nationals in Kigali . |
| 3 | The journey , however , proves to be a descent into hell , for Comala turns out to be a ghost town which has been devastated by the oppression of his father , the tyrannical landowner Pedro Páramo , and whose few remaining inhabitants live in despair , convinced that they have been banished forever from the grace of God . |
| 4 | Fearfully , Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist . |
| 5 | Yet more paradoxically , in a book where the mystery has , so to speak , been given away from the start there still has to be " fair play " . |
| 6 | As fibre-rich waste products are broken down in the large bowel , a number of products are formed apart from the release of calories . |
| 7 | By mid December the main flow of the Tara had been diverted away from the base of the dam . |
| 8 | The prosecution could not prove that he had encashed the giros because they are destroyed by the DSS twelve months after they have been received back from the clearing banks . |
| 9 | Dead cells are shed constantly from the upper layer and replaced by cells from the lower layers . |
| 10 | Members of the group known as JADE , who come from the UK and Japan as well as Germany , have analysed the way in which momentum and energy are carried away from the collision by particles in the jets ( DESY preprint 82–086 ) . |
| 11 | It did not surprise Hugh to see that the stack had been scattered abroad from the original untidy pile dumped thus , and most of the seasoned timber removed , leaving the flattened bushes plain to be seen . |
| 12 | This softly layered bob has been teased back from the face and dressed with wax |
| 13 | The gap in the paper where it has been torn away from the seal is a desirable human touch rather than a blemish . |
| 14 | The single page has obviously been torn away from the Treasury tag that once attached it to its fellows and there is no sign of the promised annexes . |
| 15 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 16 | They would have preferred process control and development staff to have established the new processes , and would have preferred to recruit ‘ green labour ’ to the new machines so that ‘ bad habits ’ would not have been carried over from the old production process . |
| 17 | And not expecting everything to look as if it 's been lifted straight from the page of a glossy foodie magazine . ’ |
| 18 | Previously , investigations like this had been done mainly from the outsider 's point of view , and it was men like Evans-Pritchard ( 1902–73 ) , Radcliffe-Brown ( 1881–1955 ) , and , particularly , Malinowski ( 1884–1942 ) , who determined that the only really effective way of understanding the way of life of these peoples was to go and live among them for an extended period of time , learning their language , and becoming accepted as a member of their social groups . |
| 19 | In the summer Henry James used to work in the ‘ Garden Room ’ which had been built apart from the house as a banqueting room . |
| 20 | The station resembled the early Earth Pioneer space stations which had been built outwards from the home planet to the stars . |
| 21 | ( 8 ) For the purpose of this rule : ( a ) pleadings shall be deemed to be closed 14 days after the delivery of a defence in accordance with Ord 9 , r 2 , or , where a counterclaim is served with the defence , 28 days after the delivery of the defence ; but in an action which has been transferred down from the High Court , pleadings are deemed closed 14 days from transfer . |
| 22 | The process leaves residues of unburnt coal and ash , which are separated out from the flue gas and put back into the furnace . |
| 23 | Major fisheries — those for cod of the North Sea , the anchoveta of the Eastern Pacific — occur in areas where , for various reasons , nutrients are stirred up from the bottom and the plankton can thrive . |
| 24 | If the cold taps are fed directly from the mains , or if you have an instant water heater , seek further advice . |
| 25 | A very curly perm has been shaped away from the face |
| 26 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 27 | A provincial assembly of the clergy , to which proctors came in greater numbers than to parliament and which all abbots and priors were entitled to attend , was increasingly the body through which the clergy were taxed ; gradually the name of convocation , which had been applied haphazardly from the early twelfth century to a variety of ecclesiastical gatherings , was reserved for this assembly . |
| 28 | Analysis sheets ( Fig. 6.15 ) are written up from the duplicate copies of the bills . |
| 29 | Phonic In the phonic approach , words are built up from the sounds of the individual letters or groups of letters ( phonemes such as th , ph , and so on ) . |
| 30 | Dacourt estimated we had killed scores of our assailants but only three corpses were dragged in , all of them casualties of the ladder which had been pushed away from the outer wall . |