Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] from [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colloids are distinguished from suspensions by the size of the dispersed particles . |
| 2 | The seeds of these two sorts were sent from Peru by Mr. Joseph de Jussieu to the Royal garden at Paris , part of which was sent me by his brother Bernard de Jussieu of the Royal Academy of Science ’ |
| 3 | Ten giant squirrels were imported from Indonesia by a British zoo , the animals were stuffed into narrow plastic tubes no bigger than their bodies and stacked in a wooden crate . |
| 4 | The very term ‘ lunatic ’ , which was widely used in this discourse , implies a lay psychological theory : the term denotes people whose thinking is disrupted from logicality by personality or stupidity . |
| 5 | Lava is formed from magma by cooling and the loss of gas . |
| 6 | Elections for the republican assemblies held there during April-May 1990 [ see pp. 37381-82 ] resulted in the communists being ousted from power by opposition parties , although a direct presidential election in Slovenia was won by the candidate of the Party of Democratic Renewal ( LCS — the renamed Slovene League of Communists — see p. 37381 ) . |
| 7 | And some of the people who had motives were excluded from suspicion by lack of opportunity . |
| 8 | Notice that this is an example of the first method I mentioned of concentrating substances on one side of a membrane : oxygen is withdrawn from solution by being bound to a haemoglobin molecule which is far too large to pass out across the lung membrane . |
| 9 | My young friend Ed Douglas is wrong in assuming that Victor Saunders is excluded from hero-candidacy by virtue of his Gordonstoun education , but right in suggesting its irrelevance ( April issue ) . |
| 10 | In descent rock features may look quite different , distances are hard to judge and much of the terrain is hidden from view by intervening convexities . |
| 11 | After the leak of the Interfor Report , counsel for the victims , families attempted to take a deposition from Aviv but Shaughnessy moved to quash the subpoena on the grounds that Aviv 's work was protected from discovery by the so-called attorney work-product doctrine . |
| 12 | Haig was saved from dismissal by defenders on the Unionist side , but Robertson 's removal caused a small stir , and Unionists voted in force to save Lloyd George 's face in the Maurice debate . |
| 13 | Conservative and radical scientific ideas were disseminated from Paris by naturalists and anatomists returning home inspired by what they had heard . |
| 14 | Gary Player insisted that Ballesteros was suffering from paralysis by analysis , that he was no longer sure of his fundamentals . |
| 15 | Professions are distinguished from trades by the length of training , the depth of special knowledge and by codes of behaviour . |
| 16 | Scotland 's affairs are conducted from Westminster by way of a secretary of state for Scotland and a separate Scottish Office , which is split into several departments . |
| 17 | These general principles are derived from experience by induction . |
| 18 | The long shells of the hulls were wiped from view by the heave of the sea , so that the prow platforms and tents of the poop could no longer be seen , and only the pennanted masts told where they were , until they rode into view once more , in a steam of spume from the bite of the oars . |
| 19 | Cyclic nucleotides were extracted from homogenates by boiling and sonicating , as previously described , and their values measured by radioassay ( cyclic AMP assay kit , code TRK 432 ; cyclic GMP RIA kit , code TRK 500 , Amersham , Buckinghamshire ) in freeze dried 3500 g supernatants ( 20 minutes at 4°C ) , reconstituted in water . |
| 20 | The ad hoc collection of topics is saved from nonentity by the stature of the contributors ; especially Daniel C. Dennett , who both contributes the interesting paper ‘ Making sense of ourselves ’ and whose important ideas on intentionality are well described and discussed by Stephen Stich , and by Paul and Patricia Churchland and Colin McGinn . |
| 21 | BRIDE Sarah Mustoe 's big day was saved from disaster by something borrowed and something blue — a police car with a flashing light . |
| 22 | Named after the lion , Singapore was plucked from obscurity by the British , who were keen to develop the city-state as a trading port . |
| 23 | The inside was hidden from view by shutters and curtains . |
| 24 | He explained that there was a difference between a statement such as : ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by embodying the spirit of cathood , as opposed to that of doghood ’ , and a statement such as ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by a combination of characteristics ( such as the possession of retractable claws , … and the inability to swim … ) which , in the aggregate , describe the genus Felis as opposed to the genus Canis ’ . |
| 25 | He explained that there was a difference between a statement such as : ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by embodying the spirit of cathood , as opposed to that of doghood ’ , and a statement such as ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by a combination of characteristics ( such as the possession of retractable claws , … and the inability to swim … ) which , in the aggregate , describe the genus Felis as opposed to the genus Canis ’ . |
| 26 | However , apposition is distinguished from co-ordination by criterion B , since the conjunction of co-referential elements is unacceptable . |
| 27 | In both agencies pollution control is administered from headquarters by an independent department . |
| 28 | It was the first occasion on which the country had voted since Gen. Manuel Noriega was removed from power by US forces in December 1989 and replaced by President Guillermo Endara Gallimany [ see pp. 37112-13 ] . |
| 29 | It had long been recognized that many species are protected from predators by colouring that provides camouflage . |
| 30 | Many lone mothers are excluded from employment by lack of jobs , lack of child care , and negative attitudes towards working mothers , and few lone mothers receive regular maintenance . |