Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] from [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Apart from injuries manager Jack Charlton insists he wo n't leave key players out of the side to safeguard them from possible suspension .
2 This movement is usually made more apparent because the head sinks into the shoulders and the hands come close to the body to protect it from some blow , curse or frightening event , e.g. Juliet 's movement after her father has demanded why she is not conforming to his wishes .
3 Through remarks like these the police were normalizing the behaviour to distinguish it from that which cam be expected from gougers .
4 Then return to the material to analyse it from other points of view .
5 Athelstan pulled Benedicta closer into the side of the house to protect her from any snow falling from the small canopied hood of the doorway .
6 In a bid to protect them from possible attack by Oswald and Eadbald , acting in collusion , Aethelburh sent the Deiran princes for greater protection to the Frankish king , Dagobert I , for fear specifically of Oswald and Eadbald ( HE 11 , 20 ) .
7 One of the problems , he said , was that staff were resisting a plan to relocate them from local offices , where they were in touch with industry , to remote district offices .
8 Meanwhile , several governments which had participated in the US-led coalition against Iraq now sought to assure Iran that there was no plan to exclude it from post-war regional security arrangements .
9 It was a tool to help me from one point of safety to another ; it carried not only the tent , camping equipment , and food , but the weightiest item of all , water .
10 It was a full minute before she realised that she was looking at a reflection of herself in the polished metal shield that Simon had propped against a tree to protect her from any stray arrows .
11 Is it not an attack upon the integrity of a man to alienate him from those actions which spring from his deep convictions in order that he might fit in with utilitarian calculations ?
12 The origin of the slang term ‘ Beak ’ for Magistrate is also associated with the belief that they had herbs in a horn to protect them from any disease that might be contracted from evil smelling criminals .
13 When financial devolution was first mooted there was a tendency to divorce it from other considerations , but as suggested in Chapter 1 , the change in title from LFM ( Local Financial Management ) to LMS ( Local Management of Schools ) reflects a significant change in thinking .
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