Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [to-vb] [pron] from [art] " in BNC.
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1 | They saw the fascist stewards as the Nazi storm troopers trampling upon liberty and were quick to dissociate themselves from the image which the BUF had gained . |
2 | Thank you for the silk , glad you were able to wrest it from the Governor before he set off to Lepcis Magna with it . |
3 | They were able to rescue him from the slurry within 15 minutes . |
4 | As to whether change is necessary or not one can not help pay some regard of that phenomenon of the post war world , Japan : If time travel was a fact and it was possible to transport someone from the middle of the social scale of Victorian Britain to the present time , he would think a revolution had taken place ; but the basic ground rules of social life and commerce would shortly become comprehensible to him . |
5 | Fortunately for the young refugees , there was much to divert them from the risk they were taking . |
6 | This seems to be true in spite of the fact that Spinoza was very much of a generation which was concerned to dissociate itself from the Greek inheritance , and indeed he represents something of a fresh injection of Jewish moral feeling into the main Christian current of Western thought . |
7 | She was the one sister who was sympathetic to him ; that is , when he was able to detach her from the others . |
8 | He argued that rational people drawing up a just social contract would only be willing to grant governments the power to punish to the extent that was necessary to protect themselves from the crimes of others . |
9 | It seemed that Jason was keen to distance himself from the increasing danger of being known as the future Mr Minogue . |