Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [pron] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They now spontaneously assemble into rods which press against the membrane of the red blood cell deforming it from a rounded into a sickle shape . |
| 2 | Perhaps he walks on the right side , with just the metal grid fence separating him from the rolling fields of graves — in no hurry , since there is no class for him to make . |
| 3 | Of the Enlightenment as Kant or Voltaire saw it ( see pp. 411ff below ) , as the human mind liberating itself from the self-imposed tutelage of centuries , a new birth of intellectual adventure , they had no inkling . |
| 4 | Within months , some clients had in excess of 25 dealers contacting them from the same firm ; many were also being contacted from other licensed dealers . |
| 5 | If anything the gulf separating them from an outside world which uprooted families and whole villages for labour on distant farms , or worse still in factories and mines , which extracted taxes , recruits and grain , which subjected them to constant brutality and humiliation grew steadily wider . |
| 6 | After a roof-top walkabout on the terraces we viewed ‘ Towards 2000 ’ a promotional video describing the dramatic changes that are taking place at the £500m investment site of Terminal 2 , part of a complex that employs over 10,000 people ( 30,000 projected for the year 2005 ) and is set to expand with a second runway taking it from a regional role into the top 20 of world airports . |
| 7 | The present appearance of the bridge owes much to the Counter-Reformation , its famous gallery of sculpture transforming it from an ordinary thoroughfare into a via sacra ( see p. 55 ) . |
| 8 | The track ran along the lip of the natural amphitheatre , no trees guarding it from the eighty-foot drop to the small lake , so Trent could look out from his ambush across the track to the meadow below . |
| 9 | But with an ocean buffering him from the worst of the raging debate about his future , he is showing no signs of cracking . |
| 10 | But with an ocean buffering him from the worst of the raging debate about his future , he is showing no signs of cracking . |
| 11 | Jenna looked up from her gloomy contemplation of her appearance to find a young man watching her from a racy-looking open-topped car . |
| 12 | Only an alarming collapse by four of the clubs above Quakers can save them from an instant return to the Fourth Division , with nine points separating them from the fifth bottom club . |
| 13 | A cry escaped her as her face became scratched by the sharp ends of broken fern fronds , and the next instant she felt Silas lifting her from the damp ground . |
| 14 | So much so that even her ‘ father ’ would have had difficulty telling her from the real thing . |
| 15 | Only a mass revolt by AFBD members — which is unlikely - or legal action by particularly aggrieved firms , for example the Commodity Trad ers ' Group , can prevent the great majority of those firms which wish to continue doing business with Americans from signing the commission 's order exempting them from the full rigour of its rules . |
| 16 | For his part , Mr Gaunt claims that 38 of the 50 members who have signed the exemption order saving them from the full rigour of the CFTC 's rules say they do not like the agreement . |
| 17 | Nor did Hincmar say more about a king 's daughters : in Charlemagne 's later years , the political influence of his womenfolk ( mistresses as well as daughters ) at court had been notorious , but his successors had either used their daughters in marriage-alliances , or , more often , placed them in convents , either way removing them from the political centre . |
| 18 | The Foreign Office design was for a three-storey building around three sides of a court , which had on its fourth side as arched entrance screen separating it from the new street . |
| 19 | She was just about to go inside again when over to her right , by the high stone wall that marked the boundary of the Roscarrock estate , she heard a single , high-pitched whistle , and looking round she saw a face observing her from the other side . |
| 20 | The first I knew about it was a massive gaoler dragging me from the Common side up to the turnkey 's lodge . |
| 21 | I have the impression that the novels of Phyllis Bottome are now little read , though I remember my mother borrowing them from the local library in Barnsley in the 1930s , and speaking of them with respect . |