Example sentences of "it [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | China 's abstention also won it freedom from ‘ US concern ’ over its dismal human rights record and any criticism of its ongoing prosecution of prominent pro-democracy activists . |
| 2 | The idea that the acquisition of truth brings with it freedom from dependency on naive perceptions , falsehoods and ignorance is a key ingredient in the liberal conception of education . |
| 3 | Was it guidance from your Higher Self ? |
| 4 | The many functions that have been proposed for it range from sound transmission to drilling holes in ice ; but it is really used in aggressive fighting among males . |
| 5 | With experience , the flyer soon learns how to steer by allowing the kite to determine its direction as it terns from the vertical , then , with a combination of ground movements and line pull , it is controlled with precision . |
| 6 | Poor old Westland has plunged into loss , leaving it second from the bottom below the likes of Storehouse and Amstrad . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , they say , Windows NT will be fundamental in Microsoft 's strategy to move it business from desktop personal computers — MS-DOS already runs on about 90% of the 140m machines worldwide — to mid-range and high-end systems . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , they say , Windows NT will be fundamental in Microsoft 's strategy to move it business from desktop personal computers — MS-DOS already runs on about 90% of the 140 million PC machines worldwide — to mid-range and high-end systems . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Themes and Variations , the decorative art gallery in Westbourne Grove which takes it name from Fornasetti 's celebrated dinner plate collection , is holding a month-long show , beginning October 10 . |
| 10 | The book takes it name from the fact that it was the Levitical priests ( Aaron and his sons and descendants , helped in the practical work of the tabernacle by the rest of the Levites ) who administered the laws . |
| 11 | The Great Sancy takes it name from a French ambassador to Turkey who acquired it in Constantinople and on his return to France in 1593 lent it to Henry IV as a pledge for money to pay his troops . |
| 12 | ‘ Here I Am ’ is rooted in the teaching and tradition of the Catholic Church and explicitly draws it inspiration from the four major documents of the Second Vatican Council . |
| 13 | I 'm afraid of dogs , but a rage the like of which I 'd never known before — and rarely since — took hold of me and I wanted to kill it , rip it limb from limb and tear at its throat with my teeth . |
| 14 | Many contemporary and subsequent critics have emphasized the extent to which The Big Parade ( 1925 ) is essentially a piece of romantic escapism but it was the film 's thoroughly sensible and balanced attitude towards war that earned it respect from discriminating critics in the 1920s . |
| 15 | Opposition critics claimed that since the practice of making people " disappear " was mostly carried out by the military , the new law effectively granted it immunity from future prosecution and the power to abduct anyone with impunity . |
| 16 | This area is the Coulin Forest , bounded by roads that give it detachment from other high ground , its mountains forming a compact group but individually having distinction of character and outline , some being of arresting appearance . |
| 17 | I would like to add another Oscar , but I 'm worried that she will tear it fin from fin . |
| 18 | When the hundred came up it weas from a very different Hick and Worcestershhire to what we 'd seen this morning . |
| 19 | The High Altar and those flanking it date from the 1690s and are decorated in polychrome with good quality sculpted figures , again by Jäckel . |
| 20 | Unisys will also make note of the fact that its anticipated PCI-based multiprocessing Unix Server Design Center , due in the fourth quarter , will house Pentiums and later P6s and that the high-end U6000/75 and U6000/85 that it OEMs from Sequent Computer Systems Inc will be field upgradeable to Pentium in the fourth quarter . |
| 21 | The even grander Cape to Cairo dream came nearer to realization , but only when victorious British arms took the railway to Khartoum in 1899 , and the copper of Northern Rhodesia ( Zambia ) and the Belgian Congo ( Zaire ) lured it north from the Zambezi in the early years of this century . |
| 22 | Coming from the ditches , it could have in it material from an earlier phase of occupation . |