Example sentences of "to exclude [noun] from the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The only certain method of prevention is to exclude light from the water , and the employment of a light aluminium roof on a tank is becoming common practice .
2 It became obvious as soon as Annunziata handed round the soup tureen that Comfort was deliberately trying to exclude David from the conversation and show him how de trop he was .
3 The implication of this is that context does not function to exclude candidates from the cohort .
4 The British government — and a substantial number of British citizens — effectively opted to exclude Blacks from the United Kingdom and deny them their rights to live as equals with other British subjects .
5 Edward began by attempting to exclude Stratford from the assembly , but failed in the face of support for the archbishop from the Earl of Arundel , Earl Warenne , and other lay magnates who shared their suspicion of those round the king .
6 By the time of Catherine 's Legislative Commission ( 1766–68 ) , the predominant concern among the nobility was to exclude commoners from the Table of Ranks .
7 The Calvinist vision of an earthly city in which pastor and politician work in harmony to exclude evil from the lives of all those within the city walls remains a religious outlook for a significant number of protestant loyalists .
8 Typically these are pure public goods which can jointly benefit many people and where it is difficult to exclude people from the benefits .
9 After a brief , appalled glance at Lydia , Mrs Molesworth ( Lil ) sat down on a corner of the sofa and asked the doctor a question about the imminent agricultural show designed to exclude Lydia from the conversation , to reveal her close knowledge of this event and therefore to illustrate her important position in the local community .
10 More importantly , he was not tonsured : Lothar , perhaps moved by the obligations of a godfather , could not bring himself thus to exclude Charles from the ranks of the throneworthy .
11 The distinction between public and private spheres of existence has been used for centuries to exclude women from the activities through which larger social processes are effected ; it has made of them goods to be protected , the stakes for which wars are fought by men .
12 The strategy of continuing to exclude women from the union did not prevent their recruitment in ever greater numbers by the employers .
13 An indication of progress on the subject of SLCMs was provided on July 14 , when the US National Security Adviser , Brent Scowcroft , commented that ( Soviet ) proposals to ban SLCMs altogether ( in the light of perceived verification problems associated with ascertaining their numbers ) were " one of the open areas in the strategic arms negotiations ' ( the USA had formerly wanted to exclude SLCMs from the talks ) .
14 ‘ Listen , my dear , ’ she said to Alexandra , summoned flushed and impatient from the orchard where she had been settling her new charges in and attempting , as tactfully as possible , to exclude Murphy from the process , ‘ Mrs Langley says George is heartened beyond anything by your visit .
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