Example sentences of "from do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always during this period the same paper was used , although a rumour that it would change at the next sitting was constantly promulgated by dealers who had once cheated , to discourage others from doing likewise . |
| 2 | Even within a GP practice , it is likely that doctors will wish to use different hospitals and consultants , but may now be constrained from doing so . |
| 3 | The obvious course of action — to dilute the imported spirit in a similar way with other spirits — was not an option , since importers were banned by law from doing so . |
| 4 | In the last resort the only satisfactory answer to the question , ‘ Why do you devote yourself to the attempt to understand ? ’ is , ‘ Because I derive so strong a satisfaction from doing so . ’ |
| 5 | Aszal says that he tried to call a doctor or an ambulance from the public telephone but was prevented from doing so by the guards . |
| 6 | To his credit , he wanted to give the markets a new nominal rule , on the exchange rate , but was prevented from doing so by Mrs Margaret Thatcher 's visceral dislike of the European Monetary System . |
| 7 | The potential benefits from doing so lay behind some ( but not all ) of the takeovers and LBOs of the 1980s . |
| 8 | It is therefore possible to have a battery without an assault ( e.g. where D strikes V from behind ) , as well as an assault without a battery ( e.g. where D threatens to strike V but is prevented from doing so ) , but most cases involve both . |
| 9 | Mr Crosby wanted to take them back on the pitch but was prevented from doing so by police , who had acted quickly to prevent a pitch invasion when Byrne headed Sunderland into a 35th-minute lead . |
| 10 | For example , we can prevent factories that are obviously discharging their waste into rivers , from doing so ; and there is virtually no kind of effluent nowadays that can not be safely treated and disposed of , if we are prepared to spend the money . |
| 11 | Year after year the crisis never climaxed , perhaps prevented from doing so by the Committee 's success in improving the course and keeping the existing members together . |
| 12 | It must be said on James 's behalf that he refrained from doing so . |
| 13 | every citizen in whose presence a breach of the peace is being , or reasonably appears to be about to be , committed has the right to take reasonable steps to make the person who is breaking or threatening to break the peace refrain from doing so … |
| 14 | One woman from Ollerton was imprisoned in Risley Remand Centre after joining a picket line in breach of a bail condition prohibiting her from doing so . |
| 15 | She passed about forty-eight kilometres north of Krakatoa on the evening of the twenty-sixth , spent the night of the twenty-sixth to seventh anchored in Telok Betong , tried to sail again for Anjer in the morning , but was prevented from doing so by the violence of the eruption . |
| 16 | Employers should be free to recruit the most suitable workers and not be restricted from doing so by legislation or regulation . ’ |
| 17 | Officers who wanted to stay on were discouraged from doing so . |
| 18 | For many years I have wished to ask my aunt to visit our beautiful town , ’ she wrote , ‘ but have been deterred from doing so by the knowledge that she would have to pass this stark , staring figure . |
| 19 | The protestors had intended to enter Épernay , but were prevented from doing so by a squadron of cavalry which had barricaded the road . |
| 20 | Accession should take such a form that although the United Kingdom did not forfeit the sovereignty of its Parliament , and could thus theoretically always assert it , it should , for the future , refrain from doing so . |
| 21 | His repugnance , for example , does not take him to the point of seeking to prevent those who wished to take part in war from doing so . |
| 22 | British civil servants would like to reverse this policy , but are prevented from doing so by the EC . |
| 23 | We can note , too , that the tippe-top differs markedly from the gyroscope : a tippe-top turns over spontaneously — indeed , it is hard to stop it from doing so — whereas a considerable amount of effort is required to flip over a gyroscope . |
| 24 | He rebuked those who refused to read the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue and discouraged others from doing so , as well as those who by inordinate reading , indiscreet speaking , contentious disputing and slander hindered the Word of God . |
| 25 | There are at least two contrasting ways of opposing force : one is with greater force , and the other is with reasons which might influence those who use or are liable to use force to refrain or desist from doing so . |
| 26 | I have come to suspect that the underlying motive to help younger people grow up to be confident , competent adults , and to derive pleasure from doing so , is something that a person can bury , ignore or conceal , but not amputate . |
| 27 | Unfortunately people who could benefit from some counselling are often prevented from doing so by their own injunctions . |
| 28 | Indeed , the EEC , in anticipation of its enlargement , had also begun to consider how it might accommodate the remaining EFTA states , all of whom for varying reasons could not consider joining the EEC , or were precluded from doing so . |
| 29 | it is difficult to measure precisely the influence of factors by isolating them in experiments and , even if we could , there may be ethical problems which prevent us from doing so |
| 30 | NCR Corp , Sequent Computer Systems Inc and Unisys Corp are all planning to see that May 17 — ‘ Pentium Day ’ — is not totally dominated by the personal computer end of the business : like just about every other Intel Corp customer , these companies are bursting to talk about their high-end Pentium systems , but have been forcibly gagged by Intel from doing so : NCR was luckier than most in that it got a ten minute portion of the huge Intel presentation at Cebit in Hannover last month devoted to its eight-processor Pentium monster , but with the model number carefully removed . |