Example sentences of "[pron] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | To protect ourselves from physical rather than social attack , we must extend that private area and , in times of danger , exclude from it anyone who is not a known friend . |
| 32 | And what we have found that is the county , Harrogate certainly and ourselves from direct experience this last two years , is that one of the features , we have an attractive county to such inward investors , its its environment , its people , its setting , its air and everything else is good , but one of the features that we have so far been unable to offer is a planning framework which means that the marketing authority can deliver , guarantee delivery of the planning consent that would make it happen . |
| 33 | Do you know that page of yours from upper and lower cases on display in the Design Museum , that looks very well there — apart from the fact that you can read it from across the room . |
| 34 | Have you obtained and studied copies of HMI reports on neighbouring schools and on similar schools to yours from other parts of the country ? |
| 35 | Where d' you get em from those things . |
| 36 | on nine , facing Tufnell , digs out a full-length ball and guides it down on the off side , poor old David Lawrence has to give another painful chase their from backward point , but er , he lumbers after it and sends it an energetic return on the er , he 's swivelling round as he threw it . |
| 37 | The tragedy is that life has now become complex and involved , and they wonder if they can ever break themself from all those things that are now hindrances . |
| 38 | Break themself from all those things that hold them and that captivate them and hold their interest . |
| 39 | In the next year , one in which bad harvests had pushed up the price of wheat to 119s. 6d. a quarter , the overseers not only paid 1s. per week to Mary , but also found a further 2s. per week for Thomas himself from 26 May until 30 June on account of him having ‘ No work ’ . |
| 40 | It is interesting to note that this example shows that what underlies Hobbes 's rejection of formal causes is , perhaps , no more than an impatience with what the Aristotelians said about them , and a desire to disassociate himself from that tradition . |
| 41 | When one of the fattest hailed him when he was out shopping he decided he must disassociate himself from that crowd . |
| 42 | Will he dissociate himself from that comment and will he take action today to see that the hon. Gentleman concerned is ’ liberated ’ from his ministerial duties ? |
| 43 | Not necessarily that of mother and son ; Steve had detached himself from that hook and would never be hung on it again . |
| 44 | In fact , we may both be surprised that Peirce held that the scientific inquirer distanced himself from all scientific results , and suspect that Quine would grant that this attitude is appropriate for a range of them . |
| 45 | The earl had sat well back from between the bristling champions , absolving himself from all responsibility here except to keep the peace and harmony of his hall . |
| 46 | By paying her 30s. a week and taking this promise from her that she will maintain herself and will not pledge his credit , he has an added safeguard to protect himself from all this worry , trouble and expense . |
| 47 | The publisher has formed a limited liability company to protect himself from such contingencies but nevertheless has tried to pass this liability to the private individual . |
| 48 | ’ He made a face , exonerating himself from such indelicacy . |
| 49 | Cherry tried to free himself from 20-stone Flashman , who tumbled to the ground , taking with him a handful of material from Cherry 's ripped coat . |
| 50 | Webb 's finest hour came in 1984 when , with Derby just days away from going out of business with debts of £1.5 million , he promoted himself from managing director to chairman . |
| 51 | But it has to be said that he tried more consistently and more self-consciously than most political leaders to insulate himself from external pressures and to personalize decision-making . |
| 52 | That is absolutely incorrect , and I take it that the hon. Gentleman is dissociating himself from Labour Front Bench policy on the Maastricht settlement . |
| 53 | He was an expert at extracting himself from emotional entanglements … the bitter voices were mocking her … |
| 54 | He excused himself from diplomatic assignments on the grounds of ( often genuine ) ill health and the poverty of his bishopric , and spent much time improving episcopal residences , especially at Halling and Trottiscliffe . |
| 55 | In any case , he was eager to start work upon another play and was trying to extricate himself from various official duties in order to give himself room for composition : he resigned from the board of the Christian News Letter , for example , on the grounds of lack of time . |
| 56 | In the first place Braque had detached himself from visual appearances to a much greater extent than Cézanne , who while he was obviously very much aware ( if only instinctively ) of the purely formal or abstract side of painting , relied nevertheless , in his still lifes and landscapes , on an exhaustive study of the ‘ motif ’ as his point of departure , although it is worth mentioning that in his articles Emile Bernard had suggested that Cézanne 's vision ‘ was much more in his brain than in his eye ’ . |
| 57 | When the Allies protested , Franco distanced himself from personal involvement and promised that something would be done . |
| 58 | In 1928–29 he was an ideal supplier of chances for Len Griffiths and Harry Havelock , while also providing 10 League goals himself from 16 appearances ( including a hat-trick at Brighton just before Christmas ) and helping the Palace to their best run in the FA Cup for years . |
| 59 | We went out to breakfast with Mr Robinson , a pleasant but prosy old gentleman who told us a complicated tale of a bust of Wieland , retrieved by himself from unworthy oblivion , to the great delight of Goethe and other literary eminences . |
| 60 | Mr Tebbit was keen yesterday to distance himself from any comparison with Mr Powell . |