Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] from the " in BNC.

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1 As long as the Soviet Union subscribed to this anti-fascist ethic , Nizan was willing to avert his gaze from the internal contradictions of the Soviet state itself .
2 While your child is splashing about in the sunshine , be very careful to protect her skin from the sun 's rays , which can still burn her even in the water .
3 But the hysteric purchased her escape from the effects of frequent sexual demands on her life only at the cost of pain , disability and an intensification of women 's traditional dependence .
4 When Pierce abandons his band to pluck at his acoustic and wail a Son House/Charlie Patton song like ‘ Pony Blues ’ or Robert Wilkins ' ‘ Alabama Blues ’ , it is hard to tell his performance from the original .
5 He finds it much more effective to keep his distance from the in-tray .
6 It was another stunningly hot , windless day , the sky an unclouded eggshell-blue , the temperature in the high seventies , so it was good to hang my head from the open window of Edward 's car and let the air come pelting at my face .
7 ‘ Even during the days when he was critically ill , he was unable to distract his mind from the on-going reforms and economic development , ’ the obituary , issued through Xinhua news agency , said .
8 In her flat with Anne , and in the taxi , she had been able to conceal her pain from the older woman .
9 While the force inside the stockade could batter the attackers from behind its stout fence , another detachment of men could steal out and close in on the attackers ' flank on the landward side ; the Rebecca 's guns covered the beach below the settlement , so they would not be able to make their approach from the beach , unless they discounted major losses of life .
10 While Brown 's victory did not immediate transform his candidacy from the status of quixotic eccentric to serious contender , it did establish him in third place behind Clinton and Tsongas , and ensured the continuance of federal matching funds .
11 It is not impossible that S 985 is simply a forgery concocted by Eadui to protect his church from the demands of royal officials .
12 Because the advisory service was so deeply enmeshed in PNP , it is difficult to divorce its contribution from the many aspects and contexts of the programme which are discussed elsewhere in this report .
13 He writes in Our Lady : ‘ We are , after all , familiar enough with the tragedy of a certain feeling which is obliged to borrow its expression from the opposite feeling so as to escape from the myrmidons of the law .
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