Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [pron] from the " in BNC.

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1 In November 1989 Bishop Ioan of Zhitomir proclaimed himself head of a revived Ukrainian Autocephalous Church ( abolished in 1929 ) and was summarily excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church ; the Constantinople Patriarchate also dissociated itself from the revival .
2 Then a fiercer gust of wind almost blew her from the path and she hung on to bag and box like grim death .
3 Design 's effective denial of a social formative or linguistic-representational function further isolates itself from the academies traditionally orientated towards understanding and valuing these .
4 By embracing rather than plundering elements of jazz , soul and funk , Jamiroquai 's debut single on Acid Jazz , ‘ When You Gon na Learn ’ , served as the perfect foretaste to his future work and in the process instantly distanced him from the retro-funk-by-numbers style of his less talented peers .
5 If motherhood includes them in the community of women , poor parenthood also excludes them from the public culture of their own generation .
6 Our clothes , living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world .
7 This was not common practice but it reached its apotheosis in the 1945 general election when the Observer completely detached itself from the political parties and carried articles by representatives of each of the main parties .
8 ‘ She had spirit enough to fling herself from the tower to be free of you .
9 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 .
10 The driver gracefully unwound himself from the low-slung vehicle and stood up , stretching his back , unaware that he was being watched .
11 Consider , for instance , the ability of the male praying mantis to continue copulating whilst the female steadily devours him from the head end downwards , or for the head end of a wasp to continue eating even when severed from the abdomen .
12 If until 1832 the working class seen in a Marxist perspective as a proletariat was emergent and potential , if it had yet fully to identify itself , the Reform Bill of that year finally distinguished it from the rest of society .
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