Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a body that simultaneously defines the continents and divides them from each other ; at the same time it knits together some of their distant and improbably linked civilizations , as well as their anthropologies and histories . |
| 2 | I watched in disbelief as the Con-Sec paid her , counting out the notes and thumbing them from a pile on to the table in front of her so that all could witness his honesty . |
| 3 | They covered a large tract of ground , quite deserted , but conveniently illuminated by the high powerful lights round the warehouses that separated it from the still-working mainline railway . |
| 4 | During the dramatic climatic fluctuations of the last ice age — warm to cold to warm repeated several times — the flowering plants acted as thermometers for the climate , sensitive recorders of the shifts that affected everything from beetles to man . |
| 5 | If children did visit they should be with an adult who could explain the pictures or stop them from seeing the more controversial ones . |
| 6 | Despite their unfaithfulness to him the people chosen by God continued to dream of deliverance , and their songs spoke of an anointed one who would champion his people in the lists and free them from oppression and enemy occupation . |
| 7 | Dr Neil stepped back so swiftly that she almost fell ; he seized her by the shoulders and held her from him . |
| 8 | In verse erm thirteen , I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them into their own land . |
| 9 | A fat hand shot out from the covers and snatched it from me . |
| 10 | These shells provide a home for the crabs and protect them from predators and the elements . |
| 11 | But it is thought , however , that these few people do n't have the antibodies that protect them from the toxin if it is produced . ’ |
| 12 | We will continue our efforts to break down the barriers that prevent them from competing freely throughout Europe and in the wider world . |
| 13 | The control over text and graphics it allows is immense , and some of the functions that differentiate it from the rest of the Windows word processor league are particularly appropriate for a word processor — sentence selection being a case in point . |
| 14 | Even if John 's own feelings were more idealistic than political , it was his feelings about South African treatment of the blacks that prevented him from going back . |
| 15 | It seemed undesirable to use force against the Yugoslavs at the moment , but incidents could occur or be provoked , and clear instructions should be issued soon as to whether Alexander should order Eighth Army to close the Austrian frontier to the Yugoslavs and eject them from Carinthia , which would of course mean by force . |
| 16 | Black & Decker suggest that the sheath should be filled with a mix of two parts paraffin to one part SAE 20 oil : this will both lubricate the blades and protect them from corrosion over the winter months . |
| 17 | The lures of sex , relaxation , all the things that distract you from your high heroic task , are in the form of nymphs with Latin names . |
| 18 | I am sure that one of the things that prevents us from accepting help is that we think other people wo n't do things the way we do them . |
| 19 | And I suppose developing the muscles that keep you from dropping over it 's pro ca n't be , ca n't be a bad thing . |
| 20 | A few careful people had private records of their own , having either remembered the names or recovered them from copies , and took pride in preserving the memory of their aristocratic origin . |
| 21 | Hotspur put up a hand to the furred collar of his cloak , and let it slide from his shoulders ; and like a silent and attentive valet the girl came gliding out of the shadows and took it from him . |
| 22 | By denying the existence of administrative law in the face of the structural pressures for the growth in administration , the influence which Dicey 's theory had on political and legal thought served to shield us from the realities and to prevent us from addressing the issues raised by these developments in a constructive fashion . |
| 23 | Volume one comprises eight chapters which introduce social insects and the factors that separate them from their less cooperative allies . |
| 24 | The whipmakers plaited their whips through the railings and hung them from the trees . |
| 25 | And Goldberg , in his pad : I have never said or written any of the sentiments attributed to me here , though I have heard them from the mouths and read them from the pens of others . |
| 26 | Because it is open to the sea , the lake becomes salty now and again , but the salt is flushed out by the rivers that feed it from the African mainland . |
| 27 | ‘ Midge , I want you to get back into the car , close the doors and lock them from the inside . ’ |