Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offence could be used against counter-demonstrators who set out to ‘ smash ’ their opponents or to stop them from expressing the point of view that they set out to express . |
| 2 | On the whole socialist feminists were suspicious of allowances on the grounds that they would undermine male wage-bargaining and preferred to argue , like Ada Nield Chew , for services in kind to support mothers in the ‘ drudgery ’ of child care ; Fabian women preferred direct payment to mothers in order to maintain their economic independence from their husbands and free them from the need to take on paid work which would distract them from their primary task of mothering ( Alexander , 1979 ) . |
| 3 | The principal methodological difficulty of the attempt to specify the developmental effects of TNCs in the global system is to isolate their effects and differentiate them from the general effects of the processes of ‘ modernization ’ ( a concept abandoned by most researchers but which lives on regardless ) . |
| 4 | Conscious that it was operating in an extremely competitive market which faced the possible de-regulation of traditional milk marketing boards , this East-Kilbride-based family company opted in 1988 for a radical marketing strategy to change its fortunes and take it from a West of Scotland dairy company to a major force . |
| 5 | She frequently attacked her attendants and discharged herself from institutions where she had been sent for treatment . |
| 6 | In areas where armed secessionist groups are active , women face rape and torture to extract information about their relatives and to deter them from giving shelter to members of armed opposition groups . |
| 7 | She closed her eyes and rethought them , blanking their memories and recreating them from the emptiness up . |
| 8 | Many of them wear long ragged cloaks , hooded coats , and dangling caps which cover their bodies and protect them from the sunlight . |
| 9 | It called for all parties to stabilize the ceasefire by separating their forces and withdrawing them from areas of conflict , and to set talks in motion involving all parties in the conflict by Aug. 15 . |
| 10 | Ruth nodded and before she could ask him if he was too he clasped her hands and hauled her from the water into his arms . |
| 11 | This position is complicated by the fact that society has no established customs surrounding either the step-parent role or , perhaps even more acutely , the role of the divorced parent no longer living with his or her children but visiting them from time to time . |
| 12 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 13 | Instinctively he waved it from his face before getting to his feet and brushing it from the lapels of his overcoat . |
| 14 | He seized her shoulders , but her hands came up to hold his wrists and prevent him from pulling her close . |
| 15 | But he had inherited his father 's ability , and he was just getting things straight again when he was badly hit by a prolonged series of dock strikes that tied up his ships and prevented them from earning anything . |
| 16 | He swore softly , colourfully , his face like granite as he swept a gaze round the room before lifting her into his arms and carrying her from the house . |
| 17 | She grabbed his hands and removed them from her bottom . |
| 18 | He says in 1 John 1:9 , ‘ If we confess our sins , he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness . ‘ |
| 19 | 1 John 1:9 tells us , ‘ If we confess our sins , he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness . ’ |
| 20 | If we confess our sins he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness . |
| 21 | Alternatively , hold a heavy medicine ball in both hands , bend your elbows and thrust it from you . |
| 22 | To maintain any form of quality and security in our environment and lives we would have to scrap most of our notions and tackle everything from different ends . |