Example sentences of "be [vb pp] from their [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men 's feelings were not so well defined and they were not to be diverted from their search for tea . |
| 2 | Still only insolvent ‘ traders ’ could be discharged from their liabilities by bankruptcy . |
| 3 | The factor structure was also similar , though , as might be expected from their exposure to different schemes ( mandatory and voluntary ) , not exactly so . |
| 4 | Shortly after his appointment as Minister of Housing in October 1964 , he telephoned me on a Sunday morning to say that he was having great trouble with his civil servants because he wished to promote an anti-eviction Bill , which would make it impossible for people to be evicted from their premises without special precautions . |
| 5 | Peter Harris , who has cancer , and his family were due to be evicted from their home in Sandford on Thames unless they could pay eight thousand pounds in arrears . |
| 6 | The chalets on the lower ground nearest the beach were liable to flood and more than once young children had to be lifted from their beds in the middle of the night . |
| 7 | The chips have to be separated from their sockets without bending any of the pins and once removed they must be stored in an anti-static environment . |
| 8 | They concerned the key issue of whether passengers should be separated from their cars on trains using the tunnel . |
| 9 | Just how weak were Rank 's budgetary controls can be seen from their dealings with Gabriel Pascal , the Hungarian producer whose brief career was built on his having persuaded George Bernard Shaw to trust him with the film rights to his plays . |
| 10 | If you like , the whole sequence could be shot from their point of view . |
| 11 | Other objections to traditional behaviourism can be transferred from their use with other related conceptions , to which we now turn . |
| 12 | He thought it a crime that folds should be moved from their place on his shoulder . |
| 13 | Death , with which they lived so intimately , could not be detached from their lives as an object of contemplation . |
| 14 | Only three ministers in the sample were puritan enough to be ejected from their livings after 1660 . |
| 15 | Metals can be extracted from their oxides by reduction ( see section 10.5 ) . |
| 16 | They can not be driven from their burrows by conventional means . |
| 17 | Christians need to reflect from time to time on their faith , knowing that it is easy to be distracted from their calling to be disciples . |
| 18 | Children will be followed from their primary to their new secondary schools and their progress will be charted in relation to such factors as school policy , curriculum , teaching approaches , diagnosis and placement , and the appropriateness and quality of their learning experiences . |
| 19 | Often as not fry have to be removed from their parents for any number of reasons and if a bare tank is used in which to grow them on , it is not always possible to have a suitable filter on hand to use in an emergency . |
| 20 | In 1889 the Prevention of Cruelty and Protection of Children Act for the first time outlawed proven cruelty to children and allowed children in certain circumstances to be removed from their families to a place of safety , usually a charitable institution such as Barnardo 's . |
| 21 | The first is security : the doors should have a key-operated lockable handle , ideally shooting bolts into the top and bottom of the door frame , and should incorporate anti-lift devices so the doors can not be removed from their tracks from the outside . |
| 22 | This view was evidently shared by other bodies involved in the case , and one particular representative of the RSSPCC , Raymond Starr , when asked if they were really sure of their ground and that the children had had to be removed from their homes in the devastating dawn raid , had replied : ‘ Oh yes . |
| 23 | The court disapproved of the reference to inconvenience and expense ( which the judge omitted in the present case ) as increasing the risk that jurors might be seduced from their duty by the attractions of finality ( a result , their Lordships would observe , which will usually favour the prosecution ) and further considered the direction in the context of majority verdicts . |
| 24 | In June 1991 , following the trauma in Orkney , the government announced categorically that no more children were to be taken from their homes by social workers in dawn raids . |
| 25 | The £26m advance will be deducted from their royalties over the next 12 years . |
| 26 | They have paid the bill , even though not all of it can be covered from their appeal through the seven Welsh Wildlife Trusts and other pledges of support . |
| 27 | As a starting point , study the rich picture and make a list of the main characters or groups of people that could have an interest ( particularly those who are influential in some way ) and then consider the systems that can be perceived from their points of view . |
| 28 | Some chairmen expressed their discontent with Citrine 's centralising tendencies , for example , by asking to be released from their turn at occupying one of the four Central Authority seats reserved for them , or by sending deputies to headquarters meetings . |
| 29 | They certainly receive more custodial sentences than would normally be predicted from their presence in the population . |