Example sentences of "[v-ing] us from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , the medical establishment , in both Britain and America , is of the opinion that dietary fibre is of value in protecting us from the diseases of modern Western civilization . |
| 2 | More recently we have learnt that the functioning of the immune system , that exquisitely coordinated mechanism protecting us from disease , is intimately tied in to levels of stress . |
| 3 | On the whole , this is to the great benefit of government , especially conservative governments which thrive on secrecy , paranoia , a paternalistic control of information and protecting us from outside harm . |
| 4 | And this particular public regulation is all about and protecting us from ourselves , and although we do need protection from of the world , we do n't need protection from ourselves . |
| 5 | This may also mean protecting us from the seamier side of Chinese life . |
| 6 | This is one of the main reasons why it is now considered to be such an important protective factor in saving us from diseases of the bowel , like cancer . |
| 7 | It 's the usual imaginative , expensive production , in this case whisking us from London to New York to New Orleans . |
| 8 | Part lecture , part slide show , part comedy act , it is Miller 's take on Noakes ' life , whisking us from John 's fledgling years in Halifax , through to startling revelations about Valerie Singleton , Joy Division and Shep 's death , and finally to Majorca , where he comes face to face with his hero . |
| 9 | Twenty minutes later a Russian patrol boat , identified by the large numbers on its topsides , sped by , inspecting us from a distance . |
| 10 | For the rest , the older generation and the perennially mathematically innocent , it will be best to start by thinking of a vector as something like an arrow directing us from one point to another . |
| 11 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 12 | Its original function , according to Seth , was to make us feel bad , by briefly separating us from our sense of love and connectedness , so that we would not repeat a harmful act . |
| 13 | Well that 's thursday behind us and there 's now only one day separating us from the weekend . |
| 14 | They called out our names and we had to follow where we think they were calling us from . |
| 15 | He added : ‘ I think it is marvellous he kept on supporting us from inside prison . ’ |
| 16 | Having said that er we would prefer a quota system for er Stansted because without it , we could have a large number of noisey flights into Stansted and , and also that er in terms of er both this and further consultations we would expect to see full information providing us from er , a to enable us to make a sensible conclusion . |
| 17 | Joining us from one of them is Mike Rowbottom . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've had a trickle of players joining us from Squashtec , ’ says Durham 's general manager Nick Clifford . |
| 19 | Tony , you 're joining us from Freeland , and your views . |
| 20 | Well John is on the line , joining us from Witney . |
| 21 | Joining us from there with the story of today 's action is Tim Russell . |
| 22 | I felt that hidden eyes must be observing us from behind bushes and tree-trunks . |
| 23 | A shy doe stood stock-still , observing us from no more than a few feet away . |
| 24 | We in the West try to keep the spiritual and the material together and our minds are confused and jumbled ; the mundane distracting us from the spiritual , and the spiritual distracting us from the mundane . |
| 25 | We in the West try to keep the spiritual and the material together and our minds are confused and jumbled ; the mundane distracting us from the spiritual , and the spiritual distracting us from the mundane . |
| 26 | What with the cacophony of sounds assailing us from all sides and the crowd of shoppers jostling and pressing between and around us , this reply may not give him a very clear indication of where I am standing . |
| 27 | ‘ Nahum , dear , ’ said Elizabeth Bradford , ‘ we 're all used to your fondness for parting us from our wealth , but may we ask what prompted you to choose the Foundling Hospital this year ? ’ |
| 28 | This , then , is the first stage of reacting to loss : denial — shock that something bad has happened — is our psyche 's way of defending us from experiencing too great a sense of harm too quickly . |
| 29 | The Earth spins on its axis , exposing us to , and hiding us from , the light of the Sun . |
| 30 | Sand-coloured bastion walls rose around the pool , hiding us from the desert world outside . |