Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they lay the foundations right from the very beginning of boys growing up to think of women as kind of household servants — this attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor mum has to do all the washing . |
| 2 | To create icon movies , you can pull icons in from the clip-art library , capture them off the desktop with the built-in capture program or create your own with the Frame Editor . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Australia 's defeats at Swansea and Llanelli , and only four tries in five matches in Wales , have given new hope to home players and fans only 12 months on from the 38–3 record home defeat at the hands of the Wallabies . |
| 5 | Small wonder that the company had earlier petitioned without success to be allowed to manufacture battery — plates , vessels etc. from the refined metal , for it appears that there was a ready sale and it was a more profitable manner of disposing of the metal . |
| 6 | The use of ‘ ye ’ and ‘ hath ’ is enough to indicate that to most English readers , familiar with those words only from the Authorised Version . |
| 7 | Lindsey caught and averted her eyes swiftly from the silent laughter of Miss Morton . |
| 8 | The kitchen is thus three steps down from the living-room floor level and is paved with the same material — York stone slabs approximately 60mm ( 2–1/2in ) thick , below which a low-pressure piped hot water central-heating system is installed . |
| 9 | Thus , for example , a teacher working with the important English distinction between /i/ and /i : / might wright two columns of words on the board , such as : and then , as recognition drill , pronounce words randomly from the two columns , asking members of the class to identify the column from which each word is taken . |
| 10 | In the simple type of quantification that we used , it is clear that we would need to quantify the long-vowel environments separately from the short-vowel ones , as the potential for variation is different in each case . |
| 11 | The most notable thing about the Rough Wooing is not that in the end the savagery of the English attack drove the Scots away from the new idea of friendship with England and back into the arms of their natural and ancient allies , the French . |
| 12 | The last few miles to Ealing were covered in a jerking crawl which took more than an hour , and daylight was breaking down into darkness as Alison gave directions through the maze of streets and parked cars away from the main shopping area . |
| 13 | First there is a vibrating belt , which bounces the lightweight shells away from the heavier nuts . |
| 14 | But the room was warm , brightly lit and by no means uncomfortable so long as you kept your eyes away from the map-like stains on the rancid blue walls or the cigarette ends and other scraps on the floor . |
| 15 | Resolutely she averted her eyes away from the sleeping figure . |
| 16 | Terror gripped him anew , and he tore his eyes away from the insane glare he met there . |
| 17 | He flattered himself that he was in some small part responsible for such blissful bizarrities , given that over the years he 'd brought all manner of influences through from the Succulent Rock . |
| 18 | Surrounded by wooded gardens , the Hotel Antares is just a small flight of steps away from a private sandy beach . |
| 19 | Guy took two steps away from the solar door and had to stop . |
| 20 | To complete the back of the chair it only remains to insert the three vertical splats , once again marking the shoulders off from the upper and lower back rail . |
| 21 | The doctors had told him he must take several months off from the exhausting business of running a supremely successful nightclub , for the sake of his health , and looking at him now she could see all too clearly the deeply etched lines on his face , the distinct greyness of his skin . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Faculty has the advantage of being located in the centre of the Scottish legal system with its own distinctive legal traditions , one of which is an historic openness to influences both from the civilian systems of Europe and the Anglo-American common law . |
| 24 | Liverpool may have been five goals up from the first leg , but this was never going to be an easy game in 70-degree heat and on a typically bumpy Mediterranean pitch . |
| 25 | ‘ Here we go again , ’ said Bodie , as he put the Capri in gear and slid smoothly out into the traffic flow , taking up a surveillance position four cars back from the battered , blue van . |
| 26 | Over three days , speakers repeatedly conjured up images of incompetent social engineers , bent on disarming honest citizens and leaving them helpless in the face of criminals ; ‘ anti-gun fetishists ’ in the media , with their expense-account life-styles and homes far from the front line ; lawyers who turn criminals out on to the streets to kill and rape again ; and , above all , the federal government , which is determined to subvert the constitution by establishing a monopoly of arms . |
| 27 | Standing up , she walked from one side of the window to the other , her movements stiff and her legs trembly from the accumulated tension in her muscles . |
| 28 | fwd[n] takes the navigation n steps forward from the current position . |
| 29 | Before turning to consider the statutory provisions imposing the duty to give effect to parental preference , it is necessary first to consider the character of voluntary aided schools and the general law affecting admissions to such schools apart from the statutory duty imposed by section 6(2) of the Act of 1980 . |
| 30 | 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 . |