Example sentences of "[adv] from [v-ing] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In response to further letters in A Quarterly , the Society justified its stance by saying that while it accepted some correspondents ' views that certain butlers of excellent quality were to be found in the houses of businessmen , ‘ the assumption had to be that the houses of true ladies and gentlemen would not refrain long from acquiring the services of any such persons ’ . |
| 2 | Staff , learning of some intimate aspect of a prisoner 's life , perhaps from seeing a file or overhearing a chaplain or social worker discuss confidential information , would be expected to use it to put the prisoner down . |
| 3 | ‘ Lothian … has gained greatly from having a council and a local enterprise company with the same boundary . |
| 4 | There are incentives to engage in verification tests because a scientist obtains credit not only from establishing the truth of a new hypothesis but also from discrediting an existing one ; the latter , as much as the former , contributes to truth . |
| 5 | Transexual Derek Arnell , 28 , underwent hormone transplants and breast implants and was months away from completing the transformation when he went on a fateful girls ' night out . |
| 6 | Most governments , including that of Britain , have shied away from receiving the Dalai Lama as a political as well as spritual leader . |
| 7 | During the project there was a shift away from locating the issue as one of girls ' motivation towards attempts to change the nature of school science . |
| 8 | Moreover in Scale 2 he moves away from using the language of progressively numbered stages to formulate his thinking about the nature of contemplative experience . |
| 9 | GEOFF THOMAS was just 19 minutes away from joining the millionaires ' club — now he is left to reflect on a season bankrupt of good memories . |
| 10 | ‘ Um — you like animals too , ’ she stated , shying away from having the conversation on her . |
| 11 | The report makes a fair attempt to assess the future demand for medical staff within these constraints but shies away from estimating the number of doctors required to provide both an acceptable service to patients and acceptable working conditions for doctors themselves . |
| 12 | Two points away from winning the league flag , Christmas has come early to the Perth fans ; ensconced in a new all-seater stadium , they are visiting an Ayr team under Ally McLeod 's managerial direction . |
| 13 | Many rational people , who would walk under a ladder without blenching , back superstitiously away from making a will — Joanna Slaughter . |
| 14 | Throughout our Committee proceedings he ran away from protecting the pension rights of STG workers . |
| 15 | Two years ago he backed away from imposing a favourite , Mr Laurent Fabius , also an ex-prime minister , as first secretary . |
| 16 | It looks to my lay eye extremely impressive yet the eerie fact remains that it engages missiles when they are only 2 or 3 seconds away from hitting a ship . |
| 17 | In the heart of the city , Bob Scott is further still from closing a deal . |
| 18 | Could n't anyone tell she was crazy for him and further from acting a role than at any time in her entire life ? |
| 19 | Aside from addressing the genre 's habitual racism by showing an Indian fighter who kills red men because of his own savagery and self-hatred , this is one of cinema 's great stories of incomplete redemption and shows Wayne eaten up inside by emotional turmoil , in his best-ever role . |
| 20 | Aside from relieving the area officer of a very large task , members of the sub-committee piloting the system in Surrey and West Sussex are benefiting from the hitherto rare opportunity of coming together with other managers in their area . |
| 21 | Aside from having the industry 's longest serving chairman , BMW today is the one big car company in the world without any cross shareholdings or collaborative links with other companies , fiercely guarding its independence . |
| 22 | This Simone has come directly from playing the Dame of pantomime and maintains that character from her very first entrance when she shakes a tablecloth out of the window and then furiously throws every vegetable in sight at Colas because she finds him waiting for Lise . |
| 23 | Hence from using a dictionary one could determine that hot dog bears little relation to canines . |
| 24 | The presence of words that form a compound in consecutive positions other than by intention is improbable , hence from knowing the existence of a compound tennis courts one would give priority to these individual words over their alternative candidates . |
| 25 | He had come straight from receiving a shock like that to find another woman apparently destroying another marriage , probably because he was half expecting her to do so at that stage , viewing all women with newly disillusioned and suspicious eyes . |
| 26 | ‘ This was deleterious to fly life and seriously interfered with fly fishing in particular , apart altogether from defacing the beauty of the river in its progress through the delightful countryside . |
| 27 | Far from seeing a midweek game as a hindrance immediately before a big FA Cup tie , Kettle insisted : ‘ We are getting too far behind Morecambe , who have played six games more than us , and I thought it was important to play it . ’ |
| 28 | But , far from seeing the question in relation to the Soviet Union as being one of confrontation and only confrontation between the law of value and ‘ primitive socialist accumulation ’ he viewed the matter as being more complex than that . |
| 29 | Far from seeing the ascent of Labour in the immediate postwar period as a spontaneous response to frustrated hopes and deteriorating social conditions , it was rather a resolution or convergence of deeper currents at a specific historical conjuncture . |
| 30 | Far from seeing the loss of elderly social roles and status as ‘ a problem ’ , the theory presents it as a necessary social and psychological mechanism . |