Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv prt] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noises of such intensity may seriously affect the ability of cetaceans to communicate and echolocate , especially in cold polar waters where ice cover reflects much underwater noise back from the surface . |
| 2 | and the salt-cracked slipway down from the jetty . |
| 3 | By providing money for so-called buy-back operations , in which countries either bought their own commercial debts back from the banks at deeply discounted levels or , alternatively , simply used the money as collateral when negotiating low-interest bond deals , a number of countries had been able to reschedule their own external obligations on easier repayment terms than had been agreed at the time when they were made . |
| 4 | Some boys were bringing battered wooden buckets up from the well and the occasional housewife emptied the slops from the night jars out into the middle of the street . |
| 5 | With a fireplace in the middle , but they 've now put dividing walls in , taken the old frame out from the back and this was originally built as an additional room on the back . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 'll look at the cricket scores and pretend I 'm some old member in from the shires with a striped blazer and a pink gin in his fist . |
| 9 | This week , they play three nights at London 's Town & Country Club , which is n't bad , but it 's a high step down from the dizzy heights of packing out Wembley for several shows on the trot as they did five years ago when they were one of the biggest bands in Europe . |
| 10 | Winterbotham , a future mastermind of the ‘ Ultra ’ miracle that decoded wartime German communications , naturally reporting his chilling discoveries back from the Reich to the minions of MacDonald , Baldwin and Chamberlain . |
| 11 | A New Brutalist Conservative government has brought the moral Right in from the cold of post-60s permissive liberalism and has given it its head . |
| 12 | There was a smell of hay and horse urine from the stables and a pair of serving maids , wrapped against the cold , were winding water up from the well . |
| 13 | The sport itself and the money , shelter them from the kind of rough-and-ready exchange that brings ordinary people back from the brink of conflict and leads them to see their adversaries as people . |
| 14 | It is an easy walk down from the church of Sauveterre to the riverside , where the stump of the old fortified bridge still stands , starting hopefully out from one bank but no longer reaching to the other — a disappointed bridge , to borrow James Joyce 's perfect description of a seaside pier . |
| 15 | Jones also made the try with a perfect chip through from a five metre scrum . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , we give notice that we mean to bring the individual actors back from the wings later , because we believe that states and systems do not account for everything important in international relations . |
| 17 | ‘ I had a warm tyre on from the beginning and was delighted to be in the lead at York Corner , Portstewart . |
| 18 | But , in the main , westerners fear a spell in the east will mean a kink in their careers , or that life will be too grey ( ‘ not even a decent pub ’ , groaned one civil servant back from an eastern town he decided not to work in ) . |
| 19 | If you watch your fish you may notice that rapid movements sometimes ‘ blowing the fine sand up from the bottom — likewise the filter may have this effect . |
| 20 | Bauen enjoys an unexpectedly mild climate thanks to a sunny situation and also to its openness to the Fohn wind which brings Mediterranean warmth down from the Gotthard in spring . |
| 21 | Unhappy with this design as well , which he felt looked ungainly and awkward , Cusick tried again with a wider based shape , this time moving the studded circles down from the midriff to the skirt section . |
| 22 | Then Armagh manager Jim McCorry whipped the 22-year-old student out from the wings , placed him on centre stage — and watched as he took the house down . |
| 23 | Never having seen Jack suture , she wondered if she ought to call the fascio-maxillary surgeon over from the Norfolk and Norwich , or if she could , indeed , trust Jack to do a decent job . |
| 24 | He walked carefully to his seat , picked his little cup up from the floor and went to the room 's single window . |
| 25 | Without it , the high concentration gradient between layers , compared with the temperature gradient , would give a higher salt transport than heat transport — the opposite way round from the relationship needed to sustain the convection . |
| 26 | As in some majestic paperchase , they have traced the amber carriers back from the Greek islands to the pine forests and sandy heaths of the Baltic littoral . |
| 27 | ‘ I climbed into the little turret down from the Bird . |
| 28 | They had returned on the late theatre train , and it had been most pleasant walking down from the railway station and along the seafront so late at night ; ah , to have a pretty girl by one 's side , and the touch of her lips on yours . |
| 29 | Attempts throughout the day to coax an escaped owl down from the roof of a house have so far failed . |
| 30 | They represent a viable spin off from the THORP project control and instrumentation activities . ’ |