Example sentences of "from it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We always called it the posh part , because although our street carried on from it over the main road , it was like being in a different village altogether . |
| 2 | The People 's Party should also be benefiting from the little-noticed collapse of the Democratic and Social Centre ( CDS ) , a party that took votes away from it at the general election in 1989 . |
| 3 | The Precision in a way is too middly , but the thing about the Jazz is that you can get more top and bottom from it at the same time , and that 's the sound I like . |
| 4 | ‘ Still , could n't you get away from it for the next week or so — till she 's gone back ? ’ |
| 5 | Unlike its Scottish namesake , Leven is not by the sea but six miles from it on the main Beverley to Bridlington road , 14 miles from Bridlington and six miles from Hornsea . |
| 6 | The river was in flood and tradition maintains that Coilus was able to cross only by leaping onto a large rock in mid-stream and from it to the farther bank . |
| 7 | I measure sixty paces along the wall and then walk away from it to the nearest tree . |
| 8 | The sides of the crater were made as secure as possible and the hole leading from it to the underground workings was fully exposed and kept clear . |
| 9 | A typical example is of the large , London-based public company with a warehouse in South Wales where obsolete stock was not properly stored one Friday evening and radioactive material drained from it into the local river . |
| 10 | The army would also reopen its ranks to Hutus , who were purged from it after the ethnic warfare of 1972 . |
| 11 | Here and there logs surfaced from it like the inclined hulls of sinking ships . |
| 12 | In whatever fashion the contrast is formulated ( we might say , for example , that the two revolutions — political and industrial — which had inspired the new political science began to move in different directions , towards greater equality in one case , away from it in the other ) it embodies a large part of the substance of political enquiry and of political doctrines from the nineteenth century to the present time . |
| 13 | As is well known , Tolkien 's grand design , or desire , was to give back to his own country the legends that had been taken from it in the Dark Ages after the Conquest , when elves and woodwoses and sigelhearwan too had all been forced into oblivion . |
| 14 | Shop till you drop among the world 's most madding crowd , or stay far from it in the fragrant forests of The Land Between |
| 15 | This passage haunted Eliot who was to quote from it in the original title of Poems , 1920 , as well as in Ash-Wednesday . |
| 16 | A. borealis is similar to A. fragilis but may be distinguished from it by the following characters : the shape of the modified arm spines which are flattened often with an axe shaped tip in borealis , while those of fragilis have a serrated edge ; the number of arm spines ; borealis has 3–4 , fragilis has 5–7 arm spines ; the distal oral papillae , which in borealis are small and low , often two on each side of the jaw , in fragilis they are slightly larger and more spine-like , with usually only one on each side of the jaw . |
| 17 | So much of its beauty had been stripped from it by the whipping winds . |