Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’ |
| 2 | But it is still too early to be certain , and the jury must remain out until there is sufficient evidence of a true change of heart to distinguish it from the earnest gestures of political expediency . |
| 3 | Such an astigmatic view of course excludes them from the main focus of research . |
| 4 | I endeavoured to paint a picture of this scene , but again and again legions of midges drove me from the spot : I got a phial of essence supposed to keep them away , but alas ! in vain . |
| 5 | In 1911 , aged twenty-nine , the Crown Prince was sent off to Danzig to command a Hussar Regiment ( it was a fairly transparent form of exile to preserve him from the temptations of political and amorous indiscretion in Berlin ) , but he showed himself singularly adept at escaping from the tedium of regimental duties . |
| 6 | A shower of jeers greeted him from the queue and , as he passed the last boy , who was just out of sight of Mr Gillis , a foot shot out , caught him on the ankle and down he went , sprawling on the wooden floor . |
| 7 | As a symbol of his undying affinity to Barnet , Fry promised to watch this Saturday 's match at Halifax from the terraces — despite Flashman banning him from the club . |
| 8 | Fry promised to watch this Saturday 's match at Halifax from the terraces — despite Flashman banning him from the club . |
| 9 | We go into a state of shock to protect us from the knowledge . |
| 10 | Every day the brave and clever assistant takes over from the master , whose slackness and lack of seriousness demotes him from the rank which seemed to be permanently his . ’ |
| 11 | This is not surprising when one considers the ways in which the attitudes and structures of society condition us from the early years of life . |
| 12 | Apart from the fact that they have an arrest rate lower than that of some of the older generation , there seems nothing of substance to distinguish them from the founders of the DUP party . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman conceded that it was an idea worth considering , whereas the Secretary of State mocked it from the outset . |
| 14 | She was heart-stoppingly aware of Niall watching her from the doorway , a glimmer of something she could n't fathom in his blue eyes . |
| 15 | Now only another thirty yards of lawn separated them from the side wall of the house . |
| 16 | Now it was a pillar of darkness covering him from the eyes of the watch as he stepped out from the trees and walked steadily across the open space of grass . |
| 17 | Goody points out that the written form of language releases us from the linear experiential mode : ‘ the fact that it takes a visual form means that one can escape from the problem of the succession of events in time , by backtracking , skipping , looking to see who-done-it before we know what it is they did . |
| 18 | The Kamchatkans , a people of eastern Siberia , used to employ the intestines of bears as face-masks to protect them from the glare of the sun ; and they used the sharpened shoulder-blade for cutting grass . |
| 19 | They had been draped with canvas to protect them from the rain , and a watchman in wet buckram saluted civilly , then stepped back in haste to avoid the splashes thrown up by the hooves of the passing st'lyan . |
| 20 | To give you some idea of the scope of the problem and how multi-faceted it is ; Kermit Weeks , his staff and volunteers are finding and sorting the aircraft pieces , drying out books , covering aircraft and items of every other sort with plastic to protect them from the weather and they are also spraying the collection of spare aircraft parts which filled a 50,000sq ft building . |
| 21 | Despite this , the new president of the CSIC , José Mato , decided in November to exclude me from the examination and to cancel the competition . |
| 22 | If I wish to buy a manufactured object from a shopkeeper , the shopkeeper must first obtain it from a wholesaler , the wholesaler must then in turn obtain it from the manufacturer , who must in turn obtain components and raw materials from other suppliers further down the line . |
| 23 | They wore white uniforms in summer to distinguish them from the crowds that might throng their stations . |
| 24 | In the hypothetical case of his son and daughter Gandhi would consider that he was acting out of moral considerations in taking his son 's life in order to save him from unnecessary suffering , and his daughter 's life in order to save her from the threat of violation . |
| 25 | The virtue of the Prince must be ‘ secured , like Ulysses , to the mast of the law , in order to save it from the seductive voices of flattery and vanity ’ . |
| 26 | On the other hand , many fringe bodies are located on the fringe exactly in order to distance them from the core of government so as to give them a degree of independence from public control . |
| 27 | The wheels were placed inside in order to protect them from the elements as well as from the deliberate damage that sometimes occurred during water disputes . |
| 28 | Thus the goodness which is associated with the good breast may be preserved and protected by being introjected , to appear as an attribute of self ; but if the infant 's anxiety is aroused by its own feelings of frustration and hatred , the same good object may be projected outwards in order to protect it from the overwhelming badness which the infant feels to be within itself . |
| 29 | The kind of norms we are concerned with here are sometimes called community norms in order to distinguish them from the superordinate norms that I have mentioned , and I shall suggest below that a major difference between superordinate and community norms is that , whereas ‘ standard ’ norms are uniform , community norms are sometimes more aptly described as variable norms . |
| 30 | This very frequently discussed feature of Hebrew poetry needs to be mentioned here primarily in order to distinguish it from the subject of this paper . |