Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] from the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This price might initially appear uncompetitive , but may be justified in the market place by additions to the features associated with the product such that consumers perceive the product to be effectively differentiated from the alternatives available . |
| 2 | And the second stranger slowly approached from the shadows , his pale face looking frightened . |
| 3 | Harry walked on , his face like thunder , his fists still clenched , his self-esteem badly bruised from the catcalls and laughter of the village . |
| 4 | The press therefore has a field day , the Labour Party is diverted and distracted and all the politicians have joined a family squabble on an alleged matter of vital principle , but it is all to do with power within the Party , so we are entirely diverted from the questions we ought to face but can not face up to . |
| 5 | The industrial revolution of the eighteenth century brought England into the ranks of major European powers , and although the English were somewhat detached from the affairs of the continent , and more concerned with imperial expansion overseas , the events of the French Revolution and the wars with Napoleonic France forced them to play an ever increasing role in Europe . |
| 6 | She was too small , too weak , too long sheltered from the harshnesses of the world . |
| 7 | Dynjandi is almost frozen at its sides , the light brilliantly reflected from the rivulets of snow and ice . |
| 8 | And biological means of treating pollution are routinely used in modern sewage works , where billions of bacteria — admittedly cosseted in concrete tubs and so protected from the ravages of the natural environment — busily consume waste . |
| 9 | The wallpaper was long gone from the walls , and here and there in places were rust-coloured stains that looked like blood . |
| 10 | There are , indeed , impressive reasons for characterising it as such , but only the most committed proponent of this view would wish to deny that the defence effort and the scientific-technological base on which it rests can be entirely insulated from the problems we have surveyed here . |
| 11 | The first here were from an assart only cut from the woods a few years back , it was a godsend indeed to them . |
| 12 | His anarchic , renegade spirit attracted those working-class boys who , on arriving at Hamilton Terrace , found themselves suddenly liberated from the limitations and conformity of their background . |
| 13 | On May 3 the remains of Enver Hoxha and 12 other " former leaders of the Party of Labour " ( the PLA — the former ruling party , later renamed the Socialist Party of Albania — SPA ) were discreetly transferred from the Martyrs ' Cemetery in Tirana to a public cemetery in the suburbs of the city . |
| 14 | The receipts from his shows have long since moved from the realms of the fantastic into those of the ludicrous . |
| 15 | She sat or perched on an upright chair smiling like an angel just dropped from the skies . |
| 16 | Torturers die — in agony — hundreds , maybe thousands of times , before their ravaged souls are finally dropped from the jaws of a fearsome and vengeful God . |
| 17 | ‘ Thousands of businesses , large and small , have already suffered from the activities of unscrupulous photo-copier salesmen , and unclear contracts . |
| 18 | The deserts of the world which comprise this empty quarter demonstrate a sensitivity to human impact but one which is not easily separated from the effects of fluctuations in climate , as studies of arroyo development have clearly shown ( Cooke and Reeves , 1976 ) . |
| 19 | One difference between a vintage wine and any other is that it is generally made from the grapes of only one year , rather than a blend from several . |
| 20 | An umbrella stand conversation piece , largely fashioned from the remains of some unfortunate denizen of the rainforest in imperial Ilorin , but lately conquered somewhere north of Lagos , was dappled in a garish replica of its native twilight . |
| 21 | We need greater co-operation in Europe in these matters , because immigration and asylum flows are a major political concern , as we have just noted from the exchanges about Le Pen and the way in which people are feeding upon his visit . |
| 22 | Never mind that this idea destroys the fundamental premise of J. M. Barrie 's story , which ends with a vision of Wendy 's descendants continuing to visit the Neverland with an eternally youthful Peter ‘ so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless ’ ; nor yet that Captain James Hook has somehow escaped from the jaws of the ticking crocodile to dream of a return engagement with the leader of the Lost Boys . |
| 23 | Never mind that this idea destroys the fundamental premise of J. M. Barrie 's story , which ends with a vision of Wendy 's descendants continuing to visit the Neverland with an eternally youthful Peter ‘ so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless ’ ; nor yet that Captain James Hook has somehow escaped from the jaws of the ticking crocodile to dream of a return engagement with the leader of the Lost Boys . |
| 24 | There , one is largely protected from the extremities of nature . |
| 25 | I held up the intact bottle of rice wine I 'd finally recovered from the depths of my parka . |
| 26 | There the young Coleridge would read anything he could find , and at the age of six had already progressed from the tales of Tom Hickathrift and Jack the Giant-Killer to Robinson Crusoe and The Arabian Nights . |
| 27 | Sexing : The females are fairly easily defined from the males . |
| 28 | That 's because Tony has just emerged from the players ' tunnel . |
| 29 | Stendhal immortalized the city in La Chartreuse de Parme , describing the beautiful women who walked in the streets as Madonnas who had just emerged from the paintings of Correggio and Parmigianino . |
| 30 | The dominant factor , in relation to poor housing conditions , lack of proper sanitation , food shortages and growing unemployment , was the fact that the country had just emerged from the horrors of the First Great War . |