Example sentences of "[adv] from their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) They are essentially personal , and although historians may try to be objective and impartial they can not free themselves entirely from their own ideas about people and the world , their personal likes and dislikes , and the assumptions and values of the age in which they live . |
| 2 | They do not usually break out suddenly from their traditional framework and veer off in a new direction . |
| 3 | In either case , the actual functioning of official institutions may differ greatly from their declared purposes . |
| 4 | In time , plants were domesticated and selected so that they differ greatly from their wild ancestors , some so much so that their ancestors can not now be recognized . |
| 5 | And I hated the anglers with their sharp hooks and their lack of understanding of what they were doing to the fish they plucked so gleefully from their wet world into our dry one . |
| 6 | Women 's claims to maintenance , however , are still derived less from their labour-market activities or the state and more from the men to whom they are married ( or with whom they cohabit ) . |
| 7 | By then some of them had diverged far enough from their original forms to become new species , and were no longer genetically capable of breeding with their mainland ancestors . |
| 8 | While grandmothers who brought cakes or made clothes for their grandchildren did so from their own choice , childcare stemmed principally from the request of mothers . |
| 9 | Ileana felt that women had won a new respect after this military operation , not only from their own organization but throughout the FMLN . |
| 10 | I am hypothesising that they do so not only from their conscious memories but also from their world of internal objects which are unconscious . |
| 11 | She found nothing to say about the yearlings and shrank quite sensibly from their forward advances , staying silent and watchful while Nicandra talked and lifted solemn grey eyes to Andrew 's , sure of his entire attention . |
| 12 | There is very little in the way of documentation in the public records about those early days of L Detachment and the story of their first three months has to be pieced together from their own memories . |
| 13 | It came without pause , as the two remaining dogs recovered swiftly from their missed strike and hurled themselves at him again . |
| 14 | True crocodilian did not appear until the mid-Triassic , although they probably did not differ much from their late Permian ancestors . |
| 15 | They have fallen much from their early splendour , and are today really just roving gypsies of the Eastern seas , though they ply their various trades in the only true " tall ships " still sailing for a living — for even the giant dhows of the Arabian Gulf are now powered by Perkins , Mitsubishi and Rolls-Royce engines . |
| 16 | The sessions described here have been based on the premise that students , as receivers of teaching provision , can contribute much from their accumulated knowledge and experience — which is also informed by their values and expectations — to the staff responsible for the management , delivery and content of their courses . |
| 17 | For financial institutions , which have suffered much from their heavy exposure to property ( through direct ownership and loans ) , this burst of activity is a godsend . |
| 18 | Roman Britain , for example , is part of the Department of Prehistoric and Romano-British Antiquities , an arrangement which emphasises the continuity of settlement in this country , but implies that British antiquities are exhibited separately from their European counterparts . |
| 19 | This system , if extended to those staff who regularly spend periods away from their normal workplace , would reduce the workload on the telephonist , Library staff and others , and improve response time in answering enquiries . |
| 20 | For a period of six months in British Airways all personnel and training staff were taken away from their normal duties and assigned to the task of helping with the process of change . |
| 21 | In the build-up to the ground offensive , preparations were made that were consistent with an amphibious assault on the Kuwait coast to draw the Iraqis ' attention away from their right flank , the direction from which the main Allied thrust was eventually to come . |
| 22 | In some areas of Britain local voluntary organizations , or perhaps one of the arms of the public sector services , have become so disheartened by the lack of commitment and enthusiasm on the part of local psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses for developing a new style of service away from their traditional hospital base that they have decided to go ahead and develop a new service without any support from the consultants and hospital staff . |
| 23 | Those capitalists , who were predominantly of Chinese and Indian extraction , gradually grew in size and economic importance , and in doing so moved increasingly away from their traditional roles in Western dominated export and import sectors , and towards manufacturing , banking and commercial expansion in their own right . |
| 24 | Time will be spent on recognising the importance of leisure and recreation pursuits in a balanced life-style and students will be encouraged to move away from their traditional view of leisure and recreation pursuits and explore less obvious activities . |
| 25 | The work force want to return to a contract and yet do not want to return to a situation which takes away from their individual freedom and negotiating rights . |
| 26 | Perhaps that was why she did n't want to lunch with him alone , away from their usual theatre crowd . |
| 27 | Down on the river front of Old Chiswick , the firm of Thornycroft 's continued to be busily occupied with their boat building , and one of their employees , Mr. R. T. Smith , made an approach to his engineer employer , John Donaldson , who was a good Scottish Presbyterian with strong Christian principles , for a loan of five pounds in order to enable him ( R. T. Smith ) to start a coffee stall in Church Street , in an endeavour to keep some of the other employees away from their regular visits to the Lamb Tap Inn . |
| 28 | Lips tight , fists clenched , eyes narrow , breath held , back straight , stomach in , chest out , shoulders back , Steven Grout stamped away from the depot he had just been fired from , away from their stupid job and those awful people . |
| 29 | THE Private Greens League are one win away from their first IBA Under 25 inter-association championship . |
| 30 | He is getting on and is a mile away from their first team . |