Example sentences of "[pron] from [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By night he kept himself from the usual evenings with Henry and Betty , thinking to leave them some space for a time , and he would often take a sleeping pill at eight , before dinner , because sleep had grown difficult . |
| 2 | But in the short and euphoric interval , even Mr Mann has softened his approach , indicating that he was now prepared to accept the constitution of India , and distancing himself from the latest demands by the ultra-belligerent Sikh student movement for an alternative government . |
| 3 | But in the short and euphoric interval , even Mr Mann has softened his approach , indicating that he was now prepared to accept the constitution of India , and distancing himself from the latest demands by the ultra-belligerent Sikh student movement for an alternative government . |
| 4 | The Sahara was theirs from the southern outskirts of Ajdabiya to the Egyptian border , to Wainat and Sudan , and then to the French conquests in Chad . |
| 5 | Moreover , there were strong elements of continuity , especially with regard to the central organising significance of Christianity which from the early days of Christendom to the present has structured basic beliefs and formed the framework within which law and custom ( if not always behaviour ) have operated . |
| 6 | BAe was keen to diversify , in order to protect itself from the cyclical swings of both civil and military aerospace manufacturing . |
| 7 | During the election , for the first time , he enunciated this as a national vision : in memorable , simple , evocative terms ; as graspable in its clarity as Mrs Thatcher 's , but sufficiently orientated towards ‘ safety nets ’ , ‘ decency ’ , the ‘ citizen 's charter ’ and ‘ effective delivery ’ themes to distance itself from the harsher extremes of Thatcherite social gospel . |
| 8 | It is clear that , on the most fundamental level , the ability to substitute a thought conveyed in linguistic terms for an action or a thing is an absolutely basic ingredient of the ego 's functioning : it is the key to the ego 's ability to distance itself from the immediate demands of the id and its drives and to evolve higher , more abstract thought-processes than those available to an animal , no matter how intelligent , which lacks the power of speech . |
| 9 | The dark hair inherited from her father was streaked with grey now , and when she wept , it would loosen itself from the neat coils in which she pinned it over pads called ‘ rats ’ every morning , as if in sympathy , and strands would creep down over her hands and cheeks . |
| 10 | He 's the chairman of the slump-hit Pearson Group , which owns everything from the Financial Times to Madame Tussauds waxworks . |
| 11 | Ashworth 's analysis uses interesting concepts drawn from sociology and psychology but his data cover everything from the official histories of the war , including divisional and battalion histories , right across to the diaries of ordinary soldiers , some of which were based on notes taken during the war but written up years later . |
| 12 | This fat includes everything from the obvious fats like butter and oil to those hidden in cakes , biscuits and fried foods . |
| 13 | Everything from the vertiginous slopes to the twin spires of the château which gracefully echoed the greater majesty of the peaks was breathtaking , awesome . |
| 14 | Chips with everything from the leathery slices of roast meat , through the squidgy fish cooked in cardboard batter to the limp arrangements of greenery that passed for salads . |
| 15 | It is now possible to get on CD-ROM everything from the Yellow Pages to a civil engineering database . |
| 16 | Several parliamentary sessions under Henry VIII passed without any direct taxes being asked or given ; and Mary , at the start of her reign , even remitted the outstanding part of the last subsidy granted under Edward VI , asking nothing from the two parliaments of 1554 . |
| 17 | However — although these contortions saved me from the worse excesses of daily racism , my face kept giving me away . |
| 18 | He reported success with Yellow-root ( i.e. Hydrastis canadensis ) as it had ‘ flowered and ripened seeds in our garden , two years past , from some roots which were sent me from the inland parts of your country . |
| 19 | The generally accepted reason was that the French coffers were nearly empty and he wanted to replenish them from the vast treasures of the Knights Templars . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | If it is forthcoming , he will protect them from the terrible plagues with which he afflicted the Egyptians before their escape . |
| 22 | Nothing , other than ownership and the secret garden , appears to distinguish them from the other tenants around them . |
| 23 | Positive and negative pressures applied to straight edged polygons and polyhedra convert them from the crystalline forms of rocks and earths to the positive and negative , male and female , expressions of life . |
| 24 | Are we to protect them from the social effects of spreading industry about the countryside ? |
| 25 | Earth Dwellers have now begun to grasp that they are tattering the ozone layer , which protects them from the harmful rays of their sun ( star 4135 in our heavens ) . |
| 26 | As has already been mentioned , young children are particularly at risk , and they are dependent on adults to protect them from the potential dangers in their home environment . |
| 27 | What separates them from the dwindling ranks of mediocre C86-type bands are their songs : sparkling things that are packed full of love-drenched sentiments , mood-lifting hooklines and wonderful tunes . |
| 28 | Nurturing confidence is one thing , but cosseting them from the harsh realities of top provincial competition could prove totally counter-productive come the two games the count against the New Zealand XV , who themselves will not include any of the All Black tourists in Australia for the Bledisloe Cup series . |
| 29 | The decision in 1990 by Britain to join the ERM was , indeed , not the first time this century that she has tried to defend herself from the possible consequences of wrong decisions by her own politicians by linking herself to those made by politicians in another country , through the mechanism of a fixed or managed exchange rate . |
| 30 | The sheer beauty of their surroundings helped her to distance herself from the unsettling vibrations between them . |