Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This attribute separates them from the outside world and can be shared by no non-Japanese . |
| 2 | One problem with that is that the feminist movement in Europe distances itself from the mass movement . |
| 3 | Elstir 's paintings persuade Marcel of their truth , but it 's a truth which is different from the intellectual truth which he first brought to his initial contemplation of those paintings , and Marcel says that in this way , by his art , Elstir frees us from the cramping tyranny of the intellect , by painting , and again I quote , ‘ by painting some unusual picture of a familiar object . |
| 4 | Commodore 's CDTV also benefits from an association with CD-A but approaches it from the other direction . |
| 5 | Product stability is the stability of the product stored in an inert , impermeable container with which it does not interact and which fully protects it from the ambient atmosphere . |
| 6 | It immediately protects us from the impossible situation one meets in the literature with remarks such as : " The Aalenian of Mr X , which is the Bajocian of Mr Y , should in fact be regarded as part of the Toarcian " . |
| 7 | It takes us from the 19th century through to the 1930s and 1940s and the pioneering work of a number of embroiderers , in particular Constance Howard , who in 1951 was invited to make a large-scale work for the Festival of Britain . |
| 8 | If motherhood includes them in the community of women , poor parenthood also excludes them from the public culture of their own generation . |
| 9 | Such an astigmatic view of course excludes them from the main focus of research . |
| 10 | Instead of ‘ saving people from sinking ships ’ , when the Patna , carrying hundreds of Malayan pilgrims on the way to Mecca , strikes a hidden wreck and appears to be sinking , Jim at first dissociates himself from the deplorable trio of captain and officers , when they lower the only boat for their escape ; and then , on an impulse he can never explain , jumps overboard to join them , leaving the passengers , as he believes , to certain death . |
| 11 | Enquiry will focus on the social processes by which such a community , whose original members will have selected themselves , carves itself from the mainstream society , establishing demographic stability and a cultural identity . |
| 12 | The placenta detaches itself from the uterine wall and , with other material , is forced out after the baby . |
| 13 | It also increasingly removes one from the contemporary marketplace , and makes it even more difficult to foresee the future . |
| 14 | It is the overdetermined character of the materialist dialectic that distinguishes it from the Hegelian dialectic . |
| 15 | The fact that it aims to provide a systematic account of time use is what distinguishes it from the literary diary . |
| 16 | For example , yellow-orange CL of calcite generally distinguishes it from the darker red-crimson of dolomite , and feldspars are very bright blues , reds or greens compared with subdued violets and browns for quartz grains . |
| 17 | It is the ability of love to transform in this way that , in Tillich 's view , distinguishes it from the Buddhist concept of compassion . |
| 18 | She squeezes again , and this time a great glob of Teint Naturel extrudes itself from the narrow aperture on to her middle finger . |
| 19 | A real state consists of a naive state and a sequence of naive operations which produces it from the naive start state . |
| 20 | A chasm separates us from the other side and now we are looking round for the bridge . ’ |
| 21 | In the latter case there is the additional difficulty when children hear words pronounced in a way that disconnects them from the written form . |
| 22 | If he resembles anyone from the less-than-hallowed history of TV light entertainment , it 's Dick Emery , with his gaggle of thumb-nail stereotypes and music hall turns . |
| 23 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 24 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |