Example sentences of "of [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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1 | This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’ |
2 | But it is still too early to be certain , and the jury must remain out until there is sufficient evidence of a true change of heart to distinguish it from the earnest gestures of political expediency . |
3 | In 1911 , aged twenty-nine , the Crown Prince was sent off to Danzig to command a Hussar Regiment ( it was a fairly transparent form of exile to preserve him from the temptations of political and amorous indiscretion in Berlin ) , but he showed himself singularly adept at escaping from the tedium of regimental duties . |
4 | We go into a state of shock to protect us from the knowledge . |
5 | Apart from the fact that they have an arrest rate lower than that of some of the older generation , there seems nothing of substance to distinguish them from the founders of the DUP party . |