Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the 40th session of the UNHCR Executive Committee in October 1989 the 43 member states adopted a general programme budget of $190,000,000 for the first six months of 1990 only ; after extensive debate at an extraordinary session in May 1990 and at the regular session in October , the Executive Committee finally adopted a general programme budget for 1990 amounting to $378,885,900 , including the $38,000,000 deficit carried over from the previous year . |
| 2 | Nineteen Cubans and Spaniards were allowed to disembark , plus three passengers with authentic visas ; the remaining 900 or so Jews waited for news of the negotiations which involved , variously , the Cuban President , his director of immigration , the shipping line , the local relief committee , the ship 's captain and a lawyer flown in from the New York headquarters of the Joint Distribution Committee . |
| 3 | Then this pantomime carried on from the coast . |
| 4 | The boat moved away from the island and I waited until it was out at sea . |
| 5 | The engine of The Abbott sounded deafening in the silence , the loud spluttering replaced rapidly by a rumble as the boat moved away from the pier . |
| 6 | Oman had reportedly favoured the formation of a regional defence force drawn exclusively from the Gulf states [ see p. 38364 ] . |
| 7 | Elsewhere there are Breughels ; walls covered with Delft tiles ; a medieval belfry with 366 steps from which you can gaze down on the town 's steep , red tiled roofs ; holy blood brought back from the crusades . |
| 8 | A moment later the big brown car pulled away from the kerb . |
| 9 | Giants went ahead at 69-67 through Johnson and as the momentum swung away from the Finns , overall victory suddenly seemed a possibility . |
| 10 | Work hours were long , 10–12 hours per day , 6½days a week , with a one week break taken away from the islands every four weeks . |
| 11 | My mind wandered away from the disembowelled calves . |
| 12 | For as to the last oracle , the Gospels had been left open , and there was a wind blew through from the south doorway and ruffled the pages over , turning back from John to Matthew . |
| 13 | The other side of the escarpment was a fractured plateau , a great , cracked slab of rock tilted away from the summit of the ridge . |
| 14 | Ice cracked away from the hatch at a pressure from inside . |
| 15 | His pen moved away from the cheque-book . |
| 16 | With newly appointed White House Chief of Staff James Baker firmly in charge of Bush 's re-election bid , the campaign shifted away from the religious right-wing agenda ( particularly the issues of " family values " and implacable opposition to abortion ) which had been so pronounced in past months , and which had been shown consistently to be out of alignment with the views of the mainstream of the electorate . |
| 17 | ‘ Where are we ? ’ a child called sleepily from the back . |
| 18 | Attacked , promises General Powell , it will be — once its supply lines along the Euphrates valley have been severed and its men and equipment softened up from the air . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's not right for politicians to offer a sanitised campaign cut off from the people they 're asking to elect them , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Teams of officials from Britain , Hong Kong and China had spent five days haggling over the many points of disagreement left over from the visit of Douglas Hurd , the British foreign secretary , to China last month . |
| 21 | A built-up surround will have to be dismantled piece by piece , but with the other types , you can chop away the plaster just next to the surround until you find the brackets , after which the screws can be undone ( or the brackets sawn through ) and the fireplace surround levered away from the wall with a crowbar . |
| 22 | The judiciary and magistrates are of course drawn predominantly from the middle and upper classes ( see Box 1987 , p. 134–135 ) and as such can be expected to reflect the beliefs and prejudices of their class . |
| 23 | Firms clearly do share the intuition underlying the idea of collusion sustained by punishment threats ( recall the quotation given above from the White Salt report ) and it seems very obvious to them . |
| 24 | The cage moved away from the dome and towards the hole . |
| 25 | For instance , in 1940 a British author of fairly conventional detective stories , Henry Wade ( who was in private life Sir Aubrey Fletcher , a magistrate and son of a full-time Metropolitan magistrate , and thus not unacquainted with police work ) wrote a book called The Lonely Magdalen , telling the story of a murder investigation seen largely from the point of view of the police officers conducting it . |
| 26 | A team drawn mainly from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne , directed jointly by the late Dr Nezih Firatli and myself , excavated in Istanbul from 1964 to 1969 for Dumbarton Oaks ( Harvard University 's centre for Byzantine research ) and the |
| 27 | He says the security people had their attention drawn away from the closed circuit television system when they should be watching . |
| 28 | Mr Pigdon started , his attention drawn back from the threatening sky . |
| 29 | The ideal study to confirm the hypothesis of Kraemer et al would have included a control group drawn randomly from the population , and followed in the same intensive manner as the study group . |
| 30 | The big oak table was laid in the hall , and quantities of Portugal wine brought up from the souterrain . |