Example sentences of "[to-vb] it from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fit a suitable damp-proof membrane around the frame to isolate it from the surrounding masonry , then fit the frame in the opening . |
| 2 | situation I 'd suspect will be addressed within that other part , I did mention in my presentation that there are a number of inter-related problems here , I can trace about four or five , all of which have a chain reaction one upon the other , unfortunately Brandon is up front so we 've got to tackle it from the other direction . |
| 3 | In 1557 the Tiber changed its course and Ostia Antica ( as it is termed to differentiate it from the modern Lido town ) is now a few kilometres inland and not on the riverside any more . |
| 4 | To differentiate it from the Carolingian revisions the Merovingian text has come to be called the Pactus Legis Salicae . |
| 5 | In the absence of other voices making the same moral argument sufficiently loudly , we should perhaps be grateful to hear it from the very heart of the establishment . |
| 6 | It 's faster to read data from the cache than to load it from the hard disk . |
| 7 | If that is the underlying proposition , it is important to dissociate it from the unacceptable idea that a person 's acts after loss of self-control should still be measured on an objective scale . |
| 8 | The intention is , or the hope , anyway , to detach it from the other explosives ? ’ |
| 9 | Matey had gone out , not to return until late at night , leaving Dr Neil 's tea in the larder on a plate carefully positioned under a fine gauze hood to protect it from the ubiquitous flies ; he had said not to leave him supper , for he might visit the local evening market where prepared food of all kinds was on sale , from oysters to whelks ; he was partial to shellfish , he said . |
| 10 | Thus the goodness which is associated with the good breast may be preserved and protected by being introjected , to appear as an attribute of self ; but if the infant 's anxiety is aroused by its own feelings of frustration and hatred , the same good object may be projected outwards in order to protect it from the overwhelming badness which the infant feels to be within itself . |
| 11 | This cultural change is the second major theme of this book , but it is not easy to separate it from the political story . |
| 12 | When it comes to the end of that subordinate clause , you need a comma to separate it from the main clause , which is then going to follow . |
| 13 | The virtue of the Prince must be ‘ secured , like Ulysses , to the mast of the law , in order to save it from the seductive voices of flattery and vanity ’ . |
| 14 | In an exchange of letters with lay critics of the Royal Society of Chemistry-s award of a fellowship to the ‘ world-ranking scientist and academician ’ , J. S. Gow , the Society 's Secretary-General , had tried to distance it from the Romanian laureate . |
| 15 | I was doing the Mujahadeen side for Life and one day I thought it would be a great story to be in Kabul when it fell , to see it from the Mujahadeen side . |
| 16 | It was like a fog to see it from the main road . |
| 17 | I can try to get it from the British embassy in Moscow . ’ |
| 18 | The early Earth had little atmosphere to shield it from the searing heat of the sun at mid-day , or the freezing cold of night . |
| 19 | To create a separate agency for a particular task helps to remove it from the political arena . |
| 20 | The subjective conviction of heightened awareness is so treacherous that to exempt it from the critical tests of reason is to put oneself at the mercy of chance . |
| 21 | The reason is that these colleges agreed to be pilots for a new form of subject assessment described as ‘ intensive ’ to distinguish it from the usual sampling method by which visits take place . |
| 22 | This is not to deny that it is an intelligent reaction , and that the sense of when to trust the analogy between present and former situations is in some individuals very intelligent indeed , but there is nothing in that to distinguish it from the other insights and hunches by which we instantaneously synthesize similarities and differences too fine and complex to be analysed before a change in the situation obliterates them . |
| 23 | I will call it the principle of comprehensive ( political ) neutrality to distinguish it from the second principle which will be called the principle of narrow ( political ) neutrality . |
| 24 | This call the lesser chamber because to distinguish it from the greater chamber . |
| 25 | The ratio is said to be a matter of ‘ commercial prudence ’ and is said to be ‘ non-mandatory ’ to distinguish it from the possible alternative , namely , that the ratio be written into banking law . |
| 26 | In WORDWISE + , if the user presses the f1 key and types in , at the beginning of the document LM10 ( this appears in green letters to distinguish it from the actual text ) |
| 27 | But it is still too early to be certain , and the jury must remain out until there is sufficient evidence of a true change of heart to distinguish it from the earnest gestures of political expediency . |
| 28 | The index set defined first is known as the prime index , to distinguish it from the alternate indexes . |
| 29 | The use of the New Style calendar ( to distinguish it from the Old Style , or Julian , calendar ) was ordered by Pope Gregory XIII on 24 February 1582 . |
| 30 | An animal 's pace of life is known as its rate of physiological time to distinguish it from the natural rhythms of time which all animals share . |