Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has already reversed many measures taken by previous governments , which used martial law over economic matters and to detain political opponents or ban them from work or travel . |
| 2 | Quote : ‘ Conservation of lichens oftens means site preservation , identification of old trees and saving them from felling ’ . |
| 3 | Although all this assured him a footnote in the history of British science , it was his intimate association with one of the most celebrated scientific forgeries that rescued him from relative obscurity . |
| 4 | Most flesh-eating reptiles have simple spikes that prevent them from chewing their prey ; they have to gulp it down whole and then remain in a torpor for days or weeks to digest the meal . |
| 5 | Floating mulches of spun fibre both encourage early crops and shield them from pests . |
| 6 | Filled with windswept harmonies , stripped , emotional guitar playing and the kind of plaintive , country-tinged songs that niggle you from here to the grave , the latest offering from Nebraska-born songwriter Matthew Sweet will win the favour of anyone whose tastes lie somewhere north of Gram Parsons , south of The Beatles , east of CSN&Y and west of the Pixies . |
| 7 | Yet once children were taken into care , and especially if this was by a compulsory route , parents frequently felt ignored and excluded , and there was evidence that they were often left to cope alone with the practical and psychological barriers that divided them from their children . |
| 8 | Backed by the incessant thud of a drum machine , it 's only these electric rhythms that prevent them from tumbling into disorder . |
| 9 | The area below the stair then becomes part of the lounge , extending back from the glazed folding doors that separate it from the dining-room ( Fig 48 ) . |
| 10 | With a sari Psepha unfolded his great wings and launched himself from his tree . |
| 11 | Nobody knows who you are on Remembering Night because you wear black clothes that cover you from head to foot , and there is no name of your name-animal . |
| 12 | The difficulty encountered by the expertise theory in trying to demonstrate the legitimacy of corporate managerial power by showing that there are restraints on the discretion of the managers stems from its attempt to combine a deference to the judgments of business managers with an insistence that corporate managers are subject to fiduciary duties that prevent them from exercising their power for their own purposes or for other non-corporate ends . |
| 13 | His fingers became fat maggots and detached themselves from his doughnut hands . |
| 14 | He rushed forward to the battery box , loosened the terminal caps and moved them from side to side . |
| 15 | She was a little overweight , her hands a touch too pudgy when she reached for various books and took them from the shelves . |
| 16 | There are eight behaviours that are typical of successful negotiators and distinguish them from the less successful . |
| 17 | But active adventurers who are content merely to locate the various holes and inspect them from secure stances on the surface will reap an experience they will long remember . |
| 18 | The dietary regime began with a three-day wash-out period on freshly prepared fruit and vegetable juices , aimed at mobilizing toxic accumulations and eliminating them from the body . |
| 19 | But what are the organisational and personal defensive routines that prevented them from talking to customers in the first place ? |
| 20 | The miners in the colliery retreated before the flood of dark brown slurry which was advancing through the underground roads and filling them from floor to roof . |
| 21 | The relentless lobbying and visits from Church emissaries had highlighted the plight of Malawian activists and saved them from summary execution . |
| 22 | Employers are also obliged to assess the risks to pregnant women and protect them from those risks and adjust working conditions and hours of work to protect their health and safety . |
| 23 | Prisoners may be left locked in their cells for longer , because there is not the staff to supervise out-of-cell activities or to escort them from place to place . |
| 24 | The Hook Halberd is a long halberd which includes a hook to catch passing riders and pull them from their mounts . |
| 25 | This radiation cuts through the dust in space that blocks off the light from distant objects and hides them from the gaze of optical telescopes . |
| 26 | But what this meant in reality was recruiting a thin stratum of educated and loyal workers and removing them from the factory floor . |
| 27 | Erm , everything else we 've looked at , there are either statutory problems or other problems that prevent us from charging . |
| 28 | Alcohol certainly affects most organs , but only the liver can convert it to other substances and clear it from the body . |
| 29 | There are plenty of other ways than throwing yourself from a walkway . ’ |
| 30 | Interest was such in the traditional , let estate that agent Lane Fox called for best and final offers and received them from close to 10 different parties . |