Example sentences of "[to-vb] it from the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To differentiate it from the Carolingian revisions the Merovingian text has come to be called the Pactus Legis Salicae . |
| 2 | The intention is , or the hope , anyway , to detach it from the other explosives ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The index set defined first is known as the prime index , to distinguish it from the alternate indexes . |
| 9 | 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 . |