Example sentences of "be [vb pp] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do US president Bill Clinton and British prime minister John Major have more in common than would have been guessed from their brief meeting earlier this month ? |
| 2 | Men are taught from their earliest days to value autonomy , the right to do what they want to do , when they want to do it . |
| 3 | This is sometimes described in terms of social engineering , and the resources that law brings as machinery are distinguished from its social goals . |
| 4 | We therefore envisage a ‘ Stage 2 ’ when the Social Charter will be widened and deepened : widened to include groups — particularly pensioners — who are omitted from its present provisions ; deepened in terms of the protection which it offers those included . |
| 5 | One hundred and thirteen had been born at term and the others at a median gestational age of 32 weeks ( range 24–36 ) ; none of the latter had been discharged from their neonatal unit on additional inspired oxygen . |
| 6 | The River Naver is one of the finest salmon streams in Scotland and each year hundreds of salmon are caught from its peat-stained waters . |
| 7 | The consequence is that we can not just suppose that the text has been wrenched from its interdictal context and left unchanged , except for the addition of per omnia . |
| 8 | An association between the ACE/ID polymorphism and blood pressure might have been expected from its anticipated effect on vascular tone and architecture . |
| 9 | ‘ In my translation of the ‘ Nightingale ’ fairy tale , the word ‘ Chinaman ’ has been deleted from my original text , which read : ‘ I suppose you know that in China the emperor 's a Chinaman … |
| 10 | An elderly woman has been rescued from her burning house by decorators working nearby . |
| 11 | Technologies are separated from their underlying class ; for example , Chemistry 540 but Chemical technology 660 . |
| 12 | It was a very sound brick structure and had been built about 1868 but it had the notorious reputation of being called ‘ Lover 's Leap ’ , no doubt due to the fact that several suicide attempts had been made from its high parapet , most of them fatal . |
| 13 | The Meskhetians , another of the ‘ punished peoples ’ , had been moved from their traditional homelands near the Turkish-Soviet border in 1944 , ostensibly in order to protect them against the possibility of a German advance . |
| 14 | Even the spring reverb unit has been moved from its traditional combo location , at the bottom of the cabinet , to a new site underneath the main chassis . |
| 15 | Further evidence comes from a milestone found in 1785 in the ditch near the northwest gate , though it had probably been moved from its original location . |
| 16 | The medieval section has been moved from its original site . |
| 17 | The Italian Classic , due to have been played next month , has been moved from its original slot and is in danger of not been played at all . |
| 18 | Where products are transferred from their original containers to more convenient packs those packs should be marked with the contents and be readily identifiable as cleaning material containers . |
| 19 | A man of ever-changing whims , and now I see you 're freed from your fearful collar , Midnight , you 'd do better to sign on . |
| 20 | As though the skin had been peeled from her aching nerve-ends , leaving them raw and unbearably sensitive . |
| 21 | Quite differently from the shepherd chasing nymphs convention of Marlowe 's poem , in ‘ The Garden ’ the colours of ‘ red ’ and ‘ white ’ are toppled from their usual pedestal by the green of plants and nature ’ . |
| 22 | In an isolation experiment , animals are isolated from their normal environment at birth ; they have no opportunity of normal learning . |
| 23 | It naturally shares much with its literary cousin , Hebrew poetry , on which Leonard had been raised from his earliest days . |
| 24 | The remarks which follow are extracted from our subsequent conversation : |
| 25 | This is perhaps more evident in the case of longer courses where teachers are displaced from their pedagogic habitat for considerable periods of time , but it exists also in shorter courses . |
| 26 | The elephants have been driven from their normal habitat by the construction of a dam and some have taken to plundering farmers ' maize crops . |
| 27 | At ground level we are protected from their full force by the intervening umbrella of air but , nonetheless , some of these particles manage to penetrate . |
| 28 | Many of the costs are hidden in the time of teachers who are distracted from their primary task by the managerial and administrative requirements of examinations . |
| 29 | Moreover , people in personal crisis are not very effective at making their needs felt in socially acceptable ways ; they do not organize themselves into consumer pressure groups to demand a better deal , not at least until they are recovered from their own crisis . |
| 30 | The panels , in three sizes , are moulded from our special plasterboard , and can be enhanced by almost any type of painted finish . |