Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [noun] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , they may have difficulty in obtaining the permission of their employers or colleagues to absent themselves from work while on council business . |
| 2 | But too often the system 's outdated working methods and attitudes prevent them from giving their best . |
| 3 | Positive and negative pressures applied to straight edged polygons and polyhedra convert them from the crystalline forms of rocks and earths to the positive and negative , male and female , expressions of life . |
| 4 | Cricket , The game of the British amateur par excellence , is now sponsored by tobacco firms and insurance companies whilst footballers advertise everything from double-glazing to Guinness on their shirts . |
| 5 | Any windsurfers ( except novices ) will need summer wet suits and shoes to protect them from wind chill . |
| 6 | I do n't just knit sweaters , but experiment with new patterns , colours and textures making anything from hats to curtain . |
| 7 | Service managers are waking up to the value of experienced nurses whose understandable reservations about being out of date with current ideas and technologies prevent them from taking up their careers again . |
| 8 | Their structures and attitudes alienated me from participating more fully . |
| 9 | Theirs is an America of hardcore unemployment of gangs , of drugs and guns and struggle to make it from day to day . |
| 10 | Often only the absence of sabres and bullets differentiated it from full-scale war . |
| 11 | She has endured house arrest , detentions without trial , continual harassment by the police and orders banning her from political activity , while , all the time , never shrinking from her duties of leadership in the thankless battle against apartheid . |
| 12 | We owe it to our children and grandchildren to spare them from the epidemic of smoking-related disease , disability and death from smoking that has marked the middle and later years of the 20th century . |
| 13 | Cora-Beth had told him the night before that there were letters and cards awaiting him from England , all of which had ‘ Not To Be Opened Until 5 Jan. ’ on the envelopes , so she had extracted a promise from him to leave them on his bedside table until this morning . |
| 14 | The single median fins down the mid-line of their backs or undersides prevented them from spinning in the water and gave them a degree of stability , but none had paired lateral fins . |
| 15 | Merchants could buy safe-conducts and licences exempting them from the right of wreck from the Duke of Brittany . |
| 16 | It would proceed perfectly well for a while and then suddenly lose all power , forcing Robyn to jerk and stutter along in first gear , while huge juggernauts and tractors hounded her from behind and threw her into a panic . |