Example sentences of "[adv prt] from [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 2 | Below us sparkled the Garbh Uisge , bouncing noisily down from the melting snows over jumbled slabs . |
| 3 | One evening Sigarup brought the rams and he-goats down from the mountain pastures and Śa kar went to take his place , tending the ewes and lambs . |
| 4 | It is perfectly clear that long before the procession came into sight , long before the procession had formed , these people in the Markets in their desire to be offended had come down from the side streets and had taken great trouble to he offended , and not only were prepared to be offended but were prepared to throw missiles , stones and other weapons … |
| 5 | ‘ What 's she staring at ? ’ said Gazzer to Bella as they both looked down from the pier gardens . |
| 6 | When results began to come in from the field researchers , Highlander served as the collection , organisation and computation centre , and held workshops to allow participants to draw some very marked comparisons and contrasts from the raw data . |
| 7 | We ‘ flew ’ huge flags and posters one metre in from the side walls , reaching to some two metres above the ground . |
| 8 | Shrieks and whoops heralded two loinclothed South Africans who rushed in from the side cloisters with spears and animal skin tabards . |
| 9 | At Grassington the miners worked in small setts , or meers , and there were regular disputes over boundaries and underground trespass despite the presence of a Barmoot Court and Barmaster , and other customs anciently brought in from the lead districts of Derbyshire . |
| 10 | The revised scheme proposed that the water authorities , now with only the functions of water supply and sewage disposal , should be privatised , but that a new National Rivers Authority should be created ( in the public sector ) to take over from the water authorities the regulatory functions of pollution control , water conservation , land drainage and flood protection , conservation , recreation , fisheries and navigation . |
| 11 | In the summer , athletics , cricket and tennis take over from the winter sports . |
| 12 | Huge lakes of oil , some over a mile square and up to a metre deep , are persisting in the Kuwaiti desert , taking over from the oil fires as the most serious threat to the country 's environment . |
| 13 | Darkness has descended and the mosquitoes have taken over from the enemy mortars . |
| 14 | These are working copies of plans , run off from the DNA masters held in the cell 's precious archives . |
| 15 | It was thus able to draw on the large reservoir of latent discontent among Liberals and the intellectuals which had been only slightly touched by the problem of unemployment and which was completely cut off from the syndicalist traditions of working class militancy in the previous decade . |
| 16 | A thrilling squeal goes up from the mid-teen moshers who comprise a high proportion of the audience when they see Hetfield striding to the stage-front for the opening ‘ Enter Sandman ’ guitar in hand , after everyone had been resigned to the quaint prospect of their fave leonine frontman reduced to a vocals-only role due to his injured left hand . |
| 17 | Below 700m many of the soils are man-made — the soils on the terraces having been brought up from the river mouths or down from the bases of the escarpments . |
| 18 | An undisciplined cheer went up from the crew members who had been watching the fight . |
| 19 | Nominated care district judges can : ( a ) transfer cases up to the High Court following transfer from the family proceedings court ; ( b ) consider " appeals " against a justices ' clerk 's refusal to transfer a case ; ( c ) make emergency protection orders in proceedings issued in the county court or transferred up from the family proceedings court ; ( d ) give directions and make uncontested public law orders ; ( e ) make some public law orders in contested cases , eg education supervision orders . |
| 20 | The hon. Member for Gateshead , East looks doubtful , but in a debate in the other place yesterday , Baroness Hollis of Higham said : ’ Thirdly I suggest that a few functions would appropriately come up from the county councils . ’ |
| 21 | But Pauline Woolgrove , chief sterling trader , looked up from the dealing tickets for the several hundred million pound deals her desk had successfully completed during the night . |
| 22 | As in some wheats , triticale has long tufts ( awns ) sticking up from the seed spikes . |
| 23 | The method produces salt crystals from brine pumped up from the salt beds by a steam engine . |
| 24 | They had brought most of the pieces up from the harbour defences , not anticipating another seaborne assault meantime . |
| 25 | I could also see the spire of the Church of Scotland in Porteneil , and some smoke coming up from the town chimneys . |
| 26 | A great cry compounded of rage , sorrow , hatred and vituperation went up from the town walls as the colourful company under the Plantagenet Leopards turned and rode back towards the castle , leaving the slight jerking figure to its dance of death . |
| 27 | All this — and a lot more — Maxim learnt from a centennial booklet in the town library , just one floor up from the town offices . |
| 28 | The man with the ‘ Go Dawgs ’ hat saw our rebel flag at the spreaders and let out an approving yell that sent two gulls squawking up from the garbage cans behind McIllvanney 's office . |
| 29 | I I 'm definitely going to I picked this up from the information places . |
| 30 | Well , as usual it 's all there in the papers that Mr has prepared for us if anybody cares to read them , and you will notice , the national non-domestic rate , the business rate as it 's known , the contribution that the government are passing on from the business rates paid in Wiltshire , back to the people of Wiltshire is dropping by seven point nine million pounds , it 's being cut from a hundred and eighteen point six to a hundred and nine point three million pounds , and again this is pound for pound . |