Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] from [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were the people who used that experience to free themselves from intellectual slavery to any party , but who did not lose the innocence of faith in the human capacity to change the world for the better . |
| 2 | In a bid to protect them from possible attack by Oswald and Eadbald , acting in collusion , Aethelburh sent the Deiran princes for greater protection to the Frankish king , Dagobert I , for fear specifically of Oswald and Eadbald ( HE 11 , 20 ) . |
| 3 | It is perhaps not coincidental that the same Islanders , whilst wishing to keep their traditional forms of adoption , are also seeking legal security to protect them from undue interference from the natural family . |
| 4 | West Belfast should be treated as a special case and a uniform grant at the Premium 3 level given for all trainees ; alternative solutions must be found where it is simply not possible to find employers to take second year trainees ; cover should be given to management committees to protect them from personal liability in the event of insolvency . |
| 5 | Conran also disputes the suggestion that it must be difficult for a man so wrapped up in design to divorce himself from detailed involvement in the creative process in order to tackle the numerous other tasks that befall a captain of industry . |
| 6 | But in the Lawrence passage , there is no such intermediary to deflect us from direct participation in the fictional world . |
| 7 | So it was something in my subconscious trying to push me from infantile dependency to maturation that brought it about that , in the dream , I could not find the inn again . |
| 8 | In 798 those who had plotted against King Aethelred now came together again , probably with the intention of restoring Osbald , for Alcuin wrote to Osbald evidently seeking to deter him from renewed intervention in Northumbrian affairs . |
| 9 | Suppose , however , that we resisted Wittgenstein 's attempt to push us from weak-kneed scepticism to solipsism ; we find the relevant argument ( see 5.4 ) unconvincing , perhaps . |
| 10 | So now in America his two friends had to rescue him from certain death by yanking him back , as he meditated and was about to walk in front of a fast street-car . |
| 11 | On Dec. 30 , after finding Collor guilty of corruption and official misconduct , it voted by 76 votes to three to ban him from public office for eight years , a penalty identical to that for impeachment . |