Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heavy machinery : Machines can range widely from bandsaws to bottling plants . |
| 2 | Dana 's shrill voice made Claudia jump away from Roman as if she were guilty of something , but Roman had only been about to say he had asked Dana to model for him in order to get to know her better . |
| 3 | During this period the contribution of oil will fall significantly from 73% of demand in 1983 to 51% in the year 2000 . |
| 4 | ‘ With any luck he 'll stay away from Nogai for a while . |
| 5 | ‘ Could … do you think you could stay away from Taipei for a while , Luke ? ’ |
| 6 | So far , we have carefully avoided any suggestion of calculation , and we can still stay away from arithmetic by using tables for gore heights as they apply to a range of ‘ chute diameters . |
| 7 | When the children were older , Green took them out on longer walks , when he was painting or drawing in the hills , and occasionally took one of them on one of his excursions , when he would stay away from Ambleside for a week or more . |
| 8 | There are many individuals and community groups throughout the Highlands which would benefit highly from gatherings with this type of approach . |
| 9 | Indeed it is vital that they should do so from time to time . |
| 10 | The evidence that the continents have drifted , that South America did indeed break away from Africa for instance , is now literally overwhelming , but this is not a book about geology and I shall not spell it out . |
| 11 | The experience of other advanced economies would lead us to expect the increasing dominance of larger manufacturing firms who can benefit more from economies of scale as the level of output and capital investment increases . |
| 12 | Other sorts of dates do , however , crop up from time to time , namely the regnal year of a particular ruler , such as one of the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt . |
| 13 | However , business lunches may crop up from time to time — and also evening invitations which involve dining at restaurants . |
| 14 | The capacity of the gastric mucosa to protect itself from injury is determined by many factors , and aggravation of experimental injury as seen after sensory nerve ablation , may result either from impairment of mucosal defence or retardation of rapid repair or both . |
| 15 | Additionally the railway will run daily from May to September inclusive with a two-hourly service on weekdays . |
| 16 | I did say we 'd keep away from acid plus alkali gives |
| 17 | Included in the additional machines should be a small number of portable machines , to be booked out to staff who must unavoidably work away from base for periods . |
| 18 | Peter erm you 'll see around from time to time , he does all the design stuff erm and Christine erm looks after all the hangings and and stuff . |
| 19 | The paper did n't flutter about from side to side ; it just went straight down . |
| 20 | Vincent would move on from evangelist to artist , and the great Russian , determined to live a life modelled on Christ , was beginning to regard all art as frivolous . |
| 21 | An important property of such a clock is its stability ; that is , its timing does not alter much from day to day . |
| 22 | The ziggurat of Ur was originally built so that their god could step down from heaven into a room at the top of the structure , according to ancient mythology . |
| 23 | So , the runners are under starter 's orders.Between now and polling day attention will shift away from Westminster to the individual seats that the parties have targetted for victory . |
| 24 | The Church of England must urgently move away from maintenance into mission . |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose there might be a day when I would move away from Australia as my permanent base , ’ she said . |
| 26 | As well as physical obstacles it will move away from regions of heat or cold or irritating substances such as acids . |
| 27 | With such rapid production , it would be advantageous for a particular plant to do this as browsers would move away from branches near the wounded ones . |
| 28 | Camels can recover rapidly from dehydration by drinking sometimes vast quantities of water . |
| 29 | Some might set off from observations like these to construct a formal system which would provide different representations for the different types of non-linguistic referents ( beings or situations or things ) for which , logically , the various phrases could be used in our own or some other possible world . |
| 30 | Today he will set off from Paignton to Topsham , a 27.7-mile walk that will mean pounding the roads non-stop for more than eight hours . |