Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They drag on from generation to generation and emigration to Britain makes very little difference . |
| 2 | Angiosperms grow from ovules ( seeds ) protected in their own case , where gymnosperms grow only from seeds without the protective case . |
| 3 | The stately whooper swans fly in from Iceland in late September or October , the timing probably depending on how soon the first winter frosts set in up north . |
| 4 | He would have liked to stand on the roof of the train and leap along from car to car like one of the bad guys in that Western . |
| 5 | Continental Airlines ( 0800 776464 ) fly daily from Gatwick to Cancun via Houston , apex return £614 ( Nov ) . |
| 6 | Viva Air ( 071–830 0011 ) fly daily from Heathrow to Alicante , apex return £124 . |
| 7 | Unless one has followed the rug-making process through from clipping to completion , the only way to assess the quality of the wool is to rely on the " feel " of the item and the reputation of the individual weaving group . |
| 8 | I 'd take a bike and head out from Posidon across the Lake of Dreams . |
| 9 | But thy silk twist let down from heav'n to me |
| 10 | When she had a missive for delivery the rainbow was a bridge let down from heaven for her to travel upon . |
| 11 | Here is the quintessence of Rough Trade , personified by toothless Scottish ex-merchant seamen , clearly chosen not for their specialist knowledge of haute cuisine , but simply because of their sure-footedness on floors that list alternately from port to starboard . |
| 12 | Anchor ice accumulations , being less dense than sea water , break away from time to time and rise to the surface , carrying with them entrapped and frozen plants and animals , which gather in layers under the inshore floes . |
| 13 | Mrs Bennett ( formerly Miss Green ) told me of her Uncle Alf Monk who as a young apprentice working in London , would , on finishing work on Friday , walk home from London to his home in Essex Road . |
| 14 | Although for a time earning the salary of a parliamentary under-secretary and writing thrilling romances of fashionable life , Smith lived quietly in a Bloomsbury lodging-house , cut off from society through his deafness . |
| 15 | Two separate but converging stories are recounted in alternating chapters : the story of the White Russian Preobrajensky regiment under the command of Prince Ypsilanti , which for two years , cut off from contact with the outside world , marches through Siberia trying to reach the Tsar , and that of Tsar Nicholas II himself and his family in their last months , especially during their confinement at Ekaterinburg . |
| 16 | Tarvaras was a quarantine world , cut off from contact with the rest of the universe by orbiting weapons platforms which were programmed to destroy any craft which did not identify itself with the appropriate recognition codes , and it had seemed unlikely that the civilian survey crew would be tempted to break the stringent regulations which applied to the situation . |
| 17 | Cut off from links with the political practice of the masses , which only the communist party could provide , their writings would inevitably serve only to confuse and mislead the popular struggle , and to give aid and comfort to counter-revolutionary forces . |
| 18 | Such errors show up from time to time as inconsistencies in the records , but much worse are those that go undetected , and which could lead to the wrong conclusions being drawn when the records are analysed . |
| 19 | Your two crystals grow visibly : they break up from time to time and the pieces also grow . |
| 20 | do do walk back from town with , after all . |
| 21 | To a very large extent this is what Ashton does in A Month in the Country where the non-dancers speak out from time to time in explicit gestures . |
| 22 | You could , for instance , cut freely from close-up to closeup without the problems of jumps in the action which can spoil wider shots . |
| 23 | It complains that prices vary widely from country to country . |
| 24 | Plasma concentrations after oral dosage vary widely from individual to individual , and after a single 16 mg dose , recovery in the stool varies from 14 to 49% in volunteers ( Glaxo Group Research Ltd , unpublished data ) . |
| 25 | The first is that an advertisement is , at least in some sense , an artistic creation : people 's judgements of art are virtually always subjective , and vary widely from person to person . |
| 26 | The reported figures for failure of sclerotherapy vary widely from 5% to 60% , but this variation can be partly explained by the lack of a universal definition of ‘ failure of treatment ’ . |
| 27 | The levels of disturbance allowance given vary widely from organisation to organisation . |
| 28 | The methods used in determination of size vary widely from calipers on the coarsest fragments , through sieving and techniques dependent upon settling velocity , to those detecting changes in electrical resistance as particles are passed through small electrolyte-filled orifices . |
| 29 | Executive fashions vary little from year to year but the most popular fashion statement of the Eighties — huge shoulder pads — are definitely out . |
| 30 | The current ( 1980s ) rankings of the major brewers vary somewhat from product to product : |