Example sentences of "[adv prt] from the main [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 2 | Before Chas could reply , Ace burst in from the main access corridor . |
| 3 | Everyone gathered together in the room next to our barrack room for meals , which were brought over from the main kitchens somewhere else in the citadel . |
| 4 | These branch off from the main artery , called the aorta , and then divide into lots of smaller branches which are all over the surface of the heart . |
| 5 | It came from a tributary passage that lead off from the main corridor at a curious angle . |
| 6 | ‘ After the quarantine period 's over , ’ he went on , with an air of simplifying an impossibly complex process , ‘ the containers are transferred into the decanning cave through a series of sub-ponds leading off from the main storage pond . |
| 7 | In an alcove , which could be shut off from the main room , near a window , was a small writing table which the Empress used for writing her personal letters . |
| 8 | now she has an iris mountain , with Sir Cedric 's and the many more she grew from seed brought back from America , fenced off from the main garden in her ‘ Stalag 13 look ’ . |
| 9 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 10 | Only 130 of the original population of 1,000 Arara Indians survive , according to Fiona Watson of Survival International , and 40 of these , contacted for the first time in 1988 , are cut off from the main community by the Bannach road . |
| 11 | Yet Lankester often ignored this warning in his own work , and suggested that all forms of life can be ranked into grades defined by the point at which they branched off from the main line of progress towards humankind . |
| 12 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |
| 13 | Walking up from the main road we passed the camel drivers squatting round their early morning fires . |
| 14 | Learn to see what follows on from the main ideas as a kind of proof . |
| 15 | However , over the years this has been augmented by dwellings branching out from the main road . |
| 16 | The hall was packed with people ; music spilled out from the main hall beyond ; pipes and fiddles , tabors and accordions , guitars and a piano , several of them playing the same tune . |
| 17 | Fenella remembered the houses on Renascia and how they had nearly always had sculleries and washing houses jutting out from the main rooms . |
| 18 | Also included are 2-metre-wide walkways on either side of the canal cantilevered out from the main trough . |
| 19 | The place that Fenella thought might be a fuelhouse was a small , added-on section , jutting out from the main body of the Workshops . |
| 20 | The hotel has wonderful gardens full of olive trees and is set back from the main lakeside road , about 700 yards from Brenzone . |
| 21 | Mr. Oswald Stoll — who was subsequently knighted — began to erect , in 1911 , one of his ‘ Empires ’ , a theatre of entertainment , in Chiswick High Road , situated between the ‘ Old Packhorse ’ on the corner of Acton Lane , and the family butchers , ‘ Caughts ’ which had its own slaughter house , as well as a shop set well back from the main road , just west of Essex Place Square . |
| 22 | The four separate units which make up the Loutrouvia apartments are set back from the main road in pleasant surroundings . |
| 23 | They 're exclusive to Club 18–30 and are set back from the main road in t more peaceful location , although the busy centre of Benitses with all its bars , discos and tavernas is within easy walking distance . |
| 24 | Set back from the main road , the Lagant enjoys a centrally situated location , with all the village amenities within easy reach . |
| 25 | This large , impressive hotel is set back from the main road in its own grounds , and clients can walk into Going or Ellmau in around 10–15 minutes . |
| 26 | Behind the church , which is set back from the main road and screened by trees , a sequestered lane soon passes the large hole of Hurtle Pot . |
| 27 | An imposing large house stands back from the main road , known as Thorne Hall , dated 1881 . |
| 28 | This colonial-style bungalow stands in an elevated position , set back from the main road , with fine views of the small Somerset town of Crewkerne and the surrounding hills . |
| 29 | The house is set back from the main road and has wonderful views of the surrounding farmland . |
| 30 | Set back from the main road , the Hotel Royal is located in a shady avenue about five minutes walk from a private sandy beach . |