Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun sg] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chemists encouraged people to have fun in the sun while protecting their skin from the harsh rays which can prove dangerous . |
| 2 | Whether they want to go or not , they take their turn and the employer had to pay a percentage into the pool what those men earned , so when those men had n't work at all they drew their money from the National Dock Labour Board . |
| 3 | And while Black Dwarf staff might have protested their separateness from the two underground papers , readers in London , and students and hippies elsewhere , would not . |
| 4 | Situated in a conservation area in the historical town of Lewes , Millers derives its name from the millers who in the 19th century sold their produce from the front parlour ( now the dining room ) . |
| 5 | The administrators-of the Modular Course , particularly Watson , realized early that sustainable course quality depends crucially upon relevant feedback and that course development strategies based upon relevant evidence receive readier acceptance from staff than strategies deriving their credibility from the perceived wisdom of management . |
| 6 | Entrants had to pick one of the four sections and develop their design from the abstract ideas that they found there . |
| 7 | King Priam 's widow Hecuba and other women await their fate from the victorious Greeks . |
| 8 | The Santos coffees are the best , gleaning their flavour from the iron-rich soil in which they are grown . |
| 9 | Yugoslavia slid into a state of virtual civil war after Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence from the Yugoslav federation on June 25 . |
| 10 | On 23 November , Pollitt and Campbell withdrew their support from the initial statement and were readmitted to their positions . |
| 11 | Whether the Halls , who remain the major shareholders with 42pc , will withdraw their support from the Second Division club remains to be seen . |
| 12 | If the profit margins of manufacturers are too drastically reduced they may move their capital from the industrial to the financial sector ; if the political power of the unions is legislated against they may make their power felt at the economic level by going on strike , or at the political level by withdrawing from established parliamentary parties and so on . |
| 13 | Erm in the American system of government the state governments draw their authority from the same source as the federal government , that is the constitution of the United States . |
| 14 | As ‘ social dirt ’ they become an affront to purity and possess the danger of the contagious and impure ( Douglas 1966 ) , requiring their removal from the public vision . |
| 15 | Even so they are still honestly doing their thing from the only angle they understand . ’ |
| 16 | But the arrival of punk and the flood of self-produced records led to the setting up of new distribution networks which enabled the new labels to keep their distance from the bigger companies . |
| 17 | Between 1824 and 1830 , the Nez Perce switched their allegiance from the British to the growing bands of free-spirited American mountain men , who traded generously and treated the Indians as equals . |
| 18 | These were founded either by the late Saxon kings from Alfred onwards to protect their kingdom from the Scandinavian invaders or by the Scandinavians themselves , partly for defence , and partly tor the encouragement of trade . |
| 19 | In 1202 the Venetians persuaded the armies of Christendom to divert their attention from the Fourth Crusade to assist in the subjugation of Zadar , whose citizens had risen against Venice . |
| 20 | He 'd never ceased to find fascination within its pages , for it was Maybellome 's intention to make an encyclopaedia listing all the flora , fauna , languages , sciences , ideas , moral perspectives — in short , anything that occurred to her — that had found their way from the Fifth Dominion , the Place of the Succulent Rock , through to the other worlds . |
| 21 | While there are a few things in digital technology which have no possible representation in analogue form — infinite impulse response filters are a good example — most digital blocks derive their shape from the original analogue function . |
| 22 | The government and President Mubarak derive their legitimacy from the overwhelming support of the Egyptian people . |
| 23 | Assigns acquire their meaning through association with other signs or words and so are more complicated than signs , which derive their meaning from the direct experience of the individual ( Rivers 1964 ) . |
| 24 | First , because the defendants being an emanation of the Crown , which is the source and fountain of justice , are in my opinion bound to maintain the highest standards of probity and fair dealing , comparable to those which the courts , which derive their authority from the same source and fountain , impose on the officers under their control : see In re Tyler [ 1907 ] 1 K.B . |
| 25 | All moral rules it seems , derive their strength from the original incest taboo and lose their reliability if this taboo is weakened . |
| 26 | SA , dismissed for 130 in the first innings , reached their target from the fourth ball of the final over , when Peter Sleep , in his testimonial season , inside-edged the winning single towards wicketkeeper Ian Healy off Queensland captain Carl Rackemann . |
| 27 | Twenty years ago Civil Rights Marches in the Six Counties took their inspiration from the Black Civil Rights Movement in the US . |
| 28 | Newry Town are to withdraw their team from the Irish Youth League . |
| 29 | The boldness of Gandhi 's political tactics obscured to a large extent the modesty of his political aspirations , which were very much in line with what moderates , taking their cue from the British , had long set their sights upon : self-government within the empire . |
| 30 | They were the voices of lost souls , all taking their lead from the one voice that had spoken Cardiff 's name . |