Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.

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1 The survey looked at which cities cater for cyclists and covered everything from parking facilities to potholes .
2 Ask your Ski Club Representative or Party Leader for vouchers or get them from the Clubhouse .
3 It is only the natural caution of paleontologists that prevents them from jumping to startling conclusions .
4 Just to give you an idea of the order of magnitude we are talking about , the number of generations that separate us from our earliest ancestors is certainly measured in the thousands of millions .
5 Indeed the only reason that modern living things are able to survive in the presence of oxygen , is that they contain a variety of compounds that prevent it from reacting with materials such as fats : compounds that include vitamins C and E , and uric acid .
6 I usually make her coffee , and if she runs out of fags or needs summat from the shops , I go for her .
7 Each department takes a different number of outlooks and takes them from different sources .
8 He argues that standards may be rendered more precise by ‘ criteria ’ , facts that are to be taken into accounts but that ‘ the feature of standards that distinguishes them from rules is their flexibility and susceptibility to change over time ’ .
9 It was the wickedness of men that removed her from our care .
10 Starting early , I traverse the long ridge of hills that separates me from Isafjördur , arriving late in the afternoon .
11 He enclosed a number of copies of testimonials and requested one from his illustrious patron .
12 In addition to destroying the animal 's ability to groom , climb , defend itself against rivals and protect itself from enemies , the operation of de-clawing also eliminates the cat 's ability to hunt .
13 There was so much that we used to cut it into strips and string it from the eaves to dry in the wind and sun .
14 The Temperance Society meeting on the village green in the hope of turning the local ungodly into Christians and freeing them from the ‘ demon drink ’ .
15 It is in the field of assessment that the new arrangements are likely to pose the most difficulties for teachers and distract them from their first task of finding their way into ‘ the very queer and tortuous passages of children 's minds ’ .
16 DPP ( 1987 ) the Australian High Court denounced the doctrine of excessive force as too complicated for juries and removed it from Australian law .
17 The building sits on bearings that isolate it from the ground .
18 Overall there are some 80 plus codes that control everything from the font required , the justification format , the numbers of columns , kerning , tracking , leading and a host more .
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