Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Beddington , mindful of the same appointment , was rather optimistically emerging from the shop with a bottle of Lockyers Sulphur Hair-restorer , and six tablets of Amiral soap ( ‘ Removes Burden of Corpulency ’ ) . |
| 2 | Women , it was generally claimed , were put to do " straight setting " , that is composing lines of type ( by hand for most of the period ) , and only rarely moved from the type-case to do the other tasks regarded as part of the trade ( making up , imposition , locking up chases , carrying formes , etc . ) . |
| 3 | The plant and the soil it grew in have long since spilled from the toppled pot and been washed away in the winter rains . |
| 4 | The receipts from his shows have long since moved from the realms of the fantastic into those of the ludicrous . |
| 5 | The manor house in Hampshire had long since passed from the family , the fortune was diminished ; but Sir Hugo 's long and melancholy face framed by a collar of exquisite lace still stared with arrogant condescension at the passing crowd , the definitive seventeenth-century Royalist gentleman . |
| 6 | Perhaps the Minister could clarify the impression given by the Hon. Member for Tayside , North ( Mr. Walker ) , who believes that it is all right to buy from the public purse something for £2 million and then to sell off a fraction of it for £4 1 million a fortnight later as long as the proceeds of the sale go to buses . |
| 7 | He had seemed to sniff at the opened envelope as though it carried some scent , but the letter inside only peeped from the teat and was not taken out . |
| 8 | But how could the Templars , operating in the early twelfth century , have acquired such familiarity with a cryptographic system dating from a thousand years before , whose practitioners had apparently long vanished from the stage of history ? |
| 9 | Sedgefield Labour MP Tony Blair : ‘ Our commitment to the NHS , and to the elderly and families by increasing pensions and child benefits will bring to Government a sense of community and the need to help others so obviously missing from the Conservative party 's agenda over the last 13 years . ’ |
| 10 | When one tries to analyse the real reasons for the respect which French cookery has so long exacted from the rest of the world , the French genius for presentation must be counted as a very relevant point , and its humble beginnings can be seen on the market stalls , i the small town charcutiers ' and pâtissiers ' shops , in the modest little restaurants where even if the cooking is not particularly distinguished , the most ordinary of little dishes will be brought to your table with respect , properly arranged on a serving dish , the vegetables separately served , the object of arousing your appetite will be achieved and the proprietors of the establishment will have made the most of their limited resources . |
| 11 | Sunrise , which filters a wonderful golden hue upon the shell of the architecture , is perhaps best shot from the far side of the harbour , from Farm Grove , almost at the end of Mrs. Macquaries Point . |
| 12 | Sunrise , which filters a wonderful golden hue upon the shell of the architecture , is perhaps best shot from the far side of the harbour , from Farm Cove , almost at the end of Mrs Macquaries Point . |
| 13 | In the Far East substantial territory had been more or less peacefully wrested from the embattled Chinese Empire . |
| 14 | And when their great Emperor Gia Long finally rose from the Mekong delta a century ago to unify all the peoples from Saigon to Hanoi , had n't he triumphantly renamed his new empire " Viet Nam " ? |
| 15 | One was the common ostrich ; the other was the smaller ‘ petise ’ version that Darwin had only just snatched from the jaws of his shipmates . |
| 16 | In fact , only just recovered from the ringworm , Nijinsky went to Doncaster chiefly to please his owner Charles Englehard who , not surprisingly , coveted the rare sporting distinction of a British Triple Crown . |
| 17 | Sir Ranulph 's weight had dropped from 14 to 10 stones and he and Dr Stroud , 37 , had only just recovered from the low blood sugar condition hypoglycaemia . |
| 18 | Though not so easily seen from the east , the tops of some caravans are visible from the road climbing from Amroth Castle to Marros . |
| 19 | How come you are so easily spared from the company which employs you ? ’ |
| 20 | It was the comment by a member of one kind of society on a quite different one , poorer , less directly governed from the centre , and therefore to be despised . |
| 21 | Or that there are Gospels other than those in the New Testament , which were more or less arbitrarily excluded from the canon by councils composed of eminently mortal , eminently fallible men . |
| 22 | Colours are plain and strong which , despite the underlying sketchiness , makes the picture less ephemeral than it seems in black and white and so further removed from the heavenly evocation of ‘ The Zone of Love ’ . |
| 23 | They also acted for the Trust which owns Canova 's ‘ Three Graces ’ , so nearly exported from the United Kingdom in 1989 , and for Lord Northampton in his acquisition of part of the Roman Sevso treasure , at present the subject of a legal dispute in the New York courts . |
| 24 | Most important , TNC is clearly concerned with curriculum and assessment , somewhat artificially separated from the life and work of the school as a whole . |
| 25 | With the pitiless unknowing complacency and contempt of the young , Nicandra resented their trivial employments of time , so far distanced from the terrible hazards of loving . |
| 26 | It should be noted that the largest threat to totalizing control of schools in Ireland has so far come from the integrated schooling movement . |
| 27 | Your implication that the high handed attitude of the LTA has contributed to the demise of junior tennis in this country is so far removed from the truth that I believe it bears some examination . |
| 28 | These may all be worthy aims , but they are so far removed from the reality of most house officers ' experiences as to be laughable . |
| 29 | The clinical teachers tended to be so far removed from the key issues in healthcare that unless students performed allocated nursing ‘ tasks ’ in the standard way , they were viewed as ‘ poor ’ material . |
| 30 | The detective story with an interesting background is not so far removed from the classical original . |