Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] from the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Greg returned with the snowball , Margaret Seymour-Strachey had shifted her position so as to be better shielded from the rest of the Saloon Bar , and it was clear that she had not managed to get control over herself , for she was now sobbing away quietly . |
| 2 | It is exactly as the explorer 's biographer predicted it would be : 1,800 feet high , half-covered with jungle , a little way off the trans-Isthmian Indian tracks and somewhat detached from the rest of the Sierra — an outlier , distinct and somewhat aloof . |
| 3 | When one tries to analyse the real reasons for the respect which French cookery has so long exacted from the rest of the world , the French genius for presentation must be counted as a very relevant point , and its humble beginnings can be seen on the market stalls , i the small town charcutiers ' and pâtissiers ' shops , in the modest little restaurants where even if the cooking is not particularly distinguished , the most ordinary of little dishes will be brought to your table with respect , properly arranged on a serving dish , the vegetables separately served , the object of arousing your appetite will be achieved and the proprietors of the establishment will have made the most of their limited resources . |
| 4 | By necessity and by choice the Jews were a race apart , the only group entirely segregated from the rest of the community . |
| 5 | The hierarchy was headed by the imperial family and court nobility , but these comprised a numerically small and socially insignificant group , largely detached from the rest of society . |
| 6 | For the first few centuries of the Christian era , Ireland was largely isolated from the rest of Europe . |
| 7 | Where a country is largely isolated from the rest of the world , the state-centred approach does seem more plausible than where it is located within an identifiable system of global relationships . |
| 8 | If homo sapiens is unequivocally demarcated from the rest of the animal kingdom by the language barrier then it would seem reasonable to accord something like honorary status to those existing in its image , as it were , but otherwise enfeebled through age or retardation . |
| 9 | Obviously caused by a simple technical fault , this spiriting away of his death gave him a singular nobility totally lacking from the rest of the film . |
| 10 | It is , it 's sort of like it 's sort of like extradited from the rest of the er the rest of the whole university , you know , nobody really cares about what goes on at Handsworth . |
| 11 | Space-time in the vicinity of a star whose radius shrinks to a value less than becomes so warped that the region inside radius rO is effectively isolated from the rest of the Universe . |
| 12 | Electromagnetic radiation originating within the horizon can never escape , so that space–time inside the horizon is effectively isolated from the rest of the Universe . |
| 13 | It 's effectively isolated from the rest of the country and it 's often forgotten in conversation when people say well I was at Bristol , in your part of the world er at the weekend . |
| 14 | The relation with the recent oil impact measure table IV has obvious relevance here and also to why all the Thurso cases are in the west of the town , with none in the east : west Thurso is largely composed of nuclear workers not native to the area ( locally known as ‘ atomics ’ ) , making it until about 10 years ago rather separate from the rest of the town . |
| 15 | The argument that there is no long-term viability for a country which is economically isolated from the rest of the world is not new . |
| 16 | His life is remote and rather isolated from the rest of Britain . |
| 17 | To one side , a kitchen had been improvised , and was partly shielded from the rest of the room with an embroidered curtain , perhaps as a gesture towards the more gentlemanly side of Victor 's life . |
| 18 | Convalescents can be accompanied by their spouse who can also benefit from the rest and relaxation provided . |
| 19 | Convalescents can be accompanied by their spouse , who can also benefit from the rest and relaxation provided . |
| 20 | Alpha Herculis , or Rasalgethi , lies close to Alpha Ophiuchi , rather divorced from the rest of the constellation . |
| 21 | ‘ But if you know that person , you can generally disentangle what 's really happening from the rest . |
| 22 | A period of rather dull winter training in Cyrenaica ensued , but by the spring his battery , now detached from the rest of the regiment ( which was in the rear , and which was later withdrawn to Egypt ) , was again in action . |
| 23 | These parish gentry were conscious of their elevated status but they were not sharply separated from the rest of the community , for it was quite common in the Tudor and Stuart era for such a family to contain men and women of various occupations and lower social standing . |
| 24 | Representatives from West Berlin were allowed to attend as ‘ observers ’ but Berlin was to remain under four-power occupation , legally separate from the rest of Germany . |
| 25 | The Temple of Vespasian ( A.D. 94 ) stands near the Temple of Concord and both are now divided from the rest of the Forum by a modern main road . |
| 26 | Marks ( ) which indicate a parenthesis and show that an item is grammatically separated from the rest of the sentence . |
| 27 | If McIan of Glencoe and that tribe can be well separated from the rest , it will be a proper vindication of the public justice to exterminate that sept of thieves … . |
| 28 | The MDC was initially given control over a limited area of 865 acres of derelict and fragmented dockland which was geographically isolated from the rest of the city with little indigenous population or economic activity . |
| 29 | Even the races which lacked talons — whom Alexei considered human in origin — baulked at contact with mutated species , and as a result mutants tended to live in deserted or out-of-the-way parts of the country , effectively quarantined from the rest of civilisation . |
| 30 | In particular , Ulrich Gorlich 's outdoor photographic piece of a head and foot on the side of a local shed seems curiously detached from the rest of the show and , frankly , commands little attention . |