Example sentences of "be [vb pp] from it [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 So much of its beauty had been stripped from it by the whipping winds .
2 Because she had been detached from it at the most traumatic moments , she had not been caused any distress but was well able to see how the combination of Daniel 's various experiences could have led to her phobia about water .
3 A. borealis is similar to A. fragilis but may be distinguished from it by the following characters : the shape of the modified arm spines which are flattened often with an axe shaped tip in borealis , while those of fragilis have a serrated edge ; the number of arm spines ; borealis has 3–4 , fragilis has 5–7 arm spines ; the distal oral papillae , which in borealis are small and low , often two on each side of the jaw , in fragilis they are slightly larger and more spine-like , with usually only one on each side of the jaw .
4 Homogeneous catalysts are compounds of metals that dissolve in the reaction mixture and which must be separated from it at the end .
5 As a matter of practice , moneys paid into the account would be transferred from it to the account in Scotland if not immediately , then certainly within a matter of days , for amalgamation with the general fund .
6 As is well known , Tolkien 's grand design , or desire , was to give back to his own country the legends that had been taken from it in the Dark Ages after the Conquest , when elves and woodwoses and sigelhearwan too had all been forced into oblivion .
7 The army would also reopen its ranks to Hutus , who were purged from it after the ethnic warfare of 1972 .
8 Set back from the road it faces the south wall of the magnificent St Magnus Cathedral , and is separated from it by the road , and by a peaceful park area and an avenue of trees .
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