Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] from a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This alternative view , a member of a small family of related although differing views , follows on naturally enough from a consideration of Hume 's . |
| 2 | Analyses such as the Montreal que study which concentrates on specifying syntactic constraints on variation ( cf. 7.4.2 ) will benefit greatly both from a parser and a concordance program — and in fact such a program was used to analyse the Montreal corpus . |
| 3 | But Sandra is probably at her best in her live shows , which she writes with her partner John Boskovich and performs alone apart from a band . |
| 4 | We could borrow one easily enough from a lifting vessel or salvage tug but the chances are high that he 'd know nothing about explosives . |
| 5 | Sometimes , when he thought he might die , as Eileen had died , some deep and insatiable curiosity about life and living in him , some craving to take with him a deeper knowledge of women and their essence made him long to lie in love with her , to taste the sweetness of her mystery , to see the world just once from a vantage point where the lost and lonely flesh that is man and woman comes together in a healing synthesis . |
| 6 | Late that afternoon she had a telephone call from Joe Martin , just back from a trip to New York . |
| 7 | Mr Cormack is just back from a conference of academics held at Turku , a Finnish port on the Baltic coast east of Helsinki , where he and his colleague , Robert Osborne , gave a paper on the pattern of higher education here . |
| 8 | She was thus neither from a printing family , nor from a middle-class background , and felt obliged to counter rumours about her financial status : " It has been rumoured that I am a suffragette and a paid official : as a matter of fact , I an neither . |
| 9 | Francesca 's much publicized affair with Senator Michael O'Brien was the reason that she had been sent home rather early from a tour of duty in the Embassy in Washington , over a year previously , just before he had met her in London . |
| 10 | So the net effect of your suggested criterion is to get us rather further from a decision than even the chairman and I thought we might be at ten o'clock this morning . |
| 11 | Bernard therefore turned to Pippin II , not because of residual devotion to Pippin 's father , still less from a sense of Aquitanian identity , but because he needed a Carolingian alternative to Charles . |
| 12 | ( wages for housework ) would take us further away from a society in which childcare was integrated with the rest of life , and in which women are not automatically banished from all decision making about how our lives are run … |
| 13 | The further away from a time-piece you were , the more it not only seemed to but did drag . |
| 14 | In addition , Ratho is considerably further away from a railway station than Kirknewton . |
| 15 | Can you pour water into the bottle more easily from a jug or a bowl ? |
| 16 | The journals remain cheap and popular , but demand is so great that they are bought mostly by subscription , hardly ever from a news stand . |
| 17 | If Rome pulled further and further back from a willingness to tolerate new theologies , it was due to a not-unfounded belief that by 1970 ‘ new theology ’ meant a very different thing from what it had meant before 1960 . |
| 18 | A rose is like a dog : you do not and can not get back more than you put in and , in the same way that a dog is more rewarding than most other animals , you get more back from a rose than other flowers . |
| 19 | The graphics look as if they 've been ported directly across from a Spectrum . |
| 20 | as you arrived home late from a concert , |
| 21 | One evening I came home late from a concert . |
| 22 | Richard Baines felt a complete turkey after being crowned when he came home late from a Christmas Eve celebration drink . |
| 23 | Ken had come home late from a gig he had not enjoyed . |
| 24 | A follower of Linnaeus ' system would describe a plant a little differently from a devotee of the more natural methods of Ray or Tournefort , for example . |
| 25 | Its nineteenth-century decline in mortality went straight down from a peak in the 1860s to oblivion in the mid-1950s , although notifications remain high to the present day . |
| 26 | ‘ I am sorry to bother you , and I 'm honestly not from a newspaper . ’ |
| 27 | Referral of the problems which concern him comes nearly always from a parent or outsider . |
| 28 | In many ways it was a sad ending for a tutor who had given some twenty years to the cause of workers ' education in the county and perhaps the most sincere and apposite appreciation of her many qualities came most appropriately from a member of the Kettering branch : |
| 29 | Certainly , if I were a script writer , and I had to think up the most inappropriate name for a girl dressed as a man , the above tendencies would lead me to choose a monosyllabic form , using a closed syllable , ending in a consonant as far away from a continuant as I can find — a plosive — and with a vowel as far away from /i/ as I can find , such as /a/ or /o/ . |
| 30 | From a distance , if the light is right , and far , far away from a football pitch . |