Example sentences of "it from [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all hard and cold , but Marie laughs and turns me round so she can see it from all sides . |
| 2 | It has , of course , many other characteristics , of which companionship and mutual support is an important one , but the characteristics which distinguish it from all other relationships can only be met by two persons of the opposite sex . |
| 3 | I have climbed it from all sides , every time making new discoveries , finding new surprises and delights and , let me confess , secret places from which I have recoiled in horror . |
| 4 | The pool was large for a private one , lying at the bottom of a vast expanse of immaculate lawn and surrounded by a high yew hedge which effectively hid it from all directions ( unless you were on a horse or a double-decker bus ) . |
| 5 | Some Slovenian bankers pointed out that it would have made better sense to have carried out a ‘ consolidation ’ , which would have preserved more of the assets of the firm than the policy of attacking it from all sides ( Politika , 1 October 1987 ) . |
| 6 | At night she leaves her bed , lights a lamp , and gazes at it from all points of view . |
| 7 | The incredible red head distinguishes it from all of them except ‘ C. ’ fenestratum , and these too , are easily differentiated as fenestratum has horizontal bars on the head , a longitudinal band , and a series of vertical bars on the body . |
| 8 | It is made from heavy-duty plastic , which should protect it from all but the psychotically over-enthusiastic synthesist . |
| 9 | One answer is to cut out a gull in white paper and sketch it from all angles ; at other times you can catch these interesting shapes with a camera . |
| 10 | My first step was really to get to know London by walking and drawing it from all angles . |
| 11 | Always lay the rug on a flat and even surface , and after smoothing it out , carefully view it from all sides to see if there are any ridges or troughs . |
| 12 | Automatically dissecting the problem into the code of coloured balls and prismatic chains that was the symbology of her interface , Chesarynth looked at it from all angles . |
| 13 | The runway , running east to west , had individual taxiways leading off it from all sides , taxiways to the circular parking bays where Russian helicopters had once parked . |
| 14 | Feathered legs separate it from all other same-sized birds of prey , except smaller eagles . |
| 15 | Like a small Moorhen ( p. 117 ) with a long red bill , which also distinguishes it from all the smaller crakes ; most often seen in rear view , as it dashes back into cover , when barred flanks and greyer under tail coverts distinguish from Moorhen . |
| 16 | One of the two largest owls of the region , an enormous , almost eagle-sized bird , the prominent ear-tufts and facial disc distinguishing it from all diurnal birds of prey . |
| 17 | For clearly one of the principal characteristics of sculpture in the round is that the spectator is able , and is indeed often encouraged or compelled , to walk around it and study it from all angles . |
| 18 | For in the same way in which the number or title of a painting in an exhibition catalogue gives it an identity as a material object different from all others of the same type , so the letters and numbers on a Cubist painting serve to individualize it , to isolate it from all other paintings . |
| 19 | Bettacare 's Head Hugger — a softly quilted , specially shaped cushion which rests around the baby 's head , supporting it from all sides , provides the answer . |
| 20 | What most visitors who admire it do n't know is that its original home was the middle of Oxford town centre — just below Carfax tower — with traffic flowing around it from all directions . |
| 21 | Actually , this one 's called an Official Match Day Magazine , presumably to differentiate it from all the unofficial ones . |
| 22 | Sometimes the pitfalls in not looking at it from all these angles become painfully clear . |
| 23 | but I 've kept it from all the years . |
| 24 | Through remarks like these the police were normalizing the behaviour to distinguish it from that which cam be expected from gougers . |
| 25 | The General Strike in no way deflected it from that course and it is difficult to see that event as an historical watershed in the evolution of trade union policies and attitudes . |
| 26 | I could n't stand by and take it from that arrogant old blimp without putting a word in . ’ |
| 27 | I can see they 'll get it from that quarter and before very long . |
| 28 | Secondly , the relationship with the credit firm means that , if the customer wants credit , then he is likely to get it from that particular firm . |
| 29 | She heard it from that dry old stick , Simpson . |
| 30 | I dragged it out and did it from that . |