Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are no statutory controls or codes of practice governing the description of products apart from the British Standard on terms used in disinfection which is widely ignored . |
| 2 | She 's stan really sa of stands out from the the background . |
| 3 | The immediate increase in those deposits will come from transfers from banks but the ultimate origin will be a diversion of funds away from the destinations to which they had been channelled by unit trust managements . |
| 4 | And er take a couple of steps away from the corner you could n't see your a thing , so we were more or less stuck where we where . |
| 5 | Yes , er he took a couple of steps away from the bed , er then I told him to lower himself down onto his knees and then eventually lower himself down onto his chest , down onto his front . |
| 6 | He flattered himself that he was in some small part responsible for such blissful bizarrities , given that over the years he 'd brought all manner of influences through from the Succulent Rock . |
| 7 | He lifted a couple of mugs down from the shelf . |
| 8 | Billie had been roughly bundled by a group of storm-troopers away from the burning car and into the Dresden Heide . |
| 9 | In February 1985 , the Lord Chancellor ( Lord Hailsham ) set up a Review Body on Civil Justice consisting of a small team of officials mostly from the Lord Chancellor 's Department and an advisory committee . |
| 10 | I 've been a sportsman all my life and after a couple of years away from the game on a daily basis , I 'm happy to be coming back . |
| 11 | There was one door : set into one of the metal walls , it had an electronic lock that , while not as sophisticated as the transmat , was certainly hundreds of years away from the medieval technology of Arcadia . |
| 12 | Perhaps he is referring to some figures that were leaked a couple of weeks ago from the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland — a reference to 44 inward investment jobs . |
| 13 | Unlike smaller birds which , though more numerous , go to cover to eat , this bird is ‘ fearless ’ and defends the tree against other frugivores and may thus , on two counts , be rather inefficient at promoting dispersal of seeds away from the mother tree . |
| 14 | The move of bushi away from the land into the ‘ castle town ’ of each domain meant substantial concentrations of population . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , the promotion of industrialisation by protectionist measures tended to encourage inefficiency , waste and a diversion of resources away from the competitive export market . |
| 16 | It is , in fact , a diversion of resources away from the priorities which existed at the end of 1988 which were to develop the management accounting skills of the NHS : particularly to promote the better use of resources through the RMI . |
| 17 | To determine to which technical level an element belongs , one needs only to count the number of nodes downwards from the origin ( each element constitutes a node ) : the unique first element constitutes level 1 , all elements one node removed from the origin constitute level 2 , all elements two nodes removed constitute level 3 , and so on ( in a non-branching hierarchy , there is only one element at each level ) : |
| 18 | They were alone in the middle of acres of oak , hundreds of yards away from the nearest path . |
| 19 | If , for example , the shot is of an expanse of countryside , the camera may be many hundreds of yards away from the main feature , say a group of trees . |
| 20 | A close parallel to the view that it is wrong to record speakers without their knowledge may be found in the controversy which has surrounded the use of telephoto lenses in photography ; these ‘ spy ’ lenses are capable of taking photographs hundreds of yards away from the subject ( Greenhill , Murray and Spence 1977 : 18 ) . |
| 21 | The first of these has involved the so-called ‘ rape suites ’ , a set of rooms away from the main police station , often including shower , examination room , waiting-room and kitchen . |
| 22 | In '77 , the New Musical Express helped briefly to divert a lot of punks away from the nihilism of the Sex Pistols towards Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League . |
| 23 | In the USA and to a limited extent in Britain , the availability of subsidies for nursing home care has encouraged a transfer of patients away from the long-stay institutions , and thus the more advanced pace of rundown in those two countries . |
| 24 | Finance Act 1981 ( now TA 1988 , s740 ) has not changed that fundamental point although charges can arise in respect of payments out from the trust to beneficiaries . |
| 25 | Dupont was assigned the task of conquering Andalusia with a corps composed mainly of conscripts straight from the depots : half-starved by the rupture of its supply lines , this nondescript force was utterly defeated by the numerically superior levies of the Seville Junta under Castaños , and by what Napoleon termed Dupont 's ‘ horrible generalship ’ . |
| 26 | Certain objects admit of both verbs however and the contrast in meaning is highly revealing , as the pair of examples below from the Brown University Corpus shows : ( 136 ) … such comments as the following which was made by one of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects … |
| 27 | It 's been a problem , mainly because of injuries right from the start . ’ |
| 28 | It is quite clear , however , that marked deformation does in fact occur within some continental regions which are thousands of kilometres away from the nearest plate boundary . |
| 29 | This is to allow the nearer ones to write by In-filling — over the previously drawn further ones , or by the construction of silhouettes that restrict the construction of ones further from the drawn front facets . |
| 30 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |