Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twelve interactive computer terminals allow visitors to take an ‘ electronic walk ’ through Pompeii 's forum , theatres , amphitheatre , villas and baths , seeing them from various perspectives . |
| 2 | When , however , they borrow them from other disciplines , they must expect either that the chronological fit is bad ( if they insist on matching the style ) or that the stylistic fit is bad ( if they match the chronology ) . |
| 3 | As a result the public interest is increasingly defined by expert professional administrators , and administrative decisions designed to promote the public interest are articulated in a language that screens them from effective parliamentary criticisms and public debate . |
| 4 | We can , as with dependent conditionals , distinguish them from other " if " statements , specify their logical properties-including contraposition and transitivity-and give their logical relations , notably their relations to dependent conditionals . |
| 5 | Salt ways present no special features that distinguish them from other roads and lanes on the map or on the ground . |
| 6 | It is envisaged that an analysis of such information will enable the identification of those financial , entrepreneurial , technical and regional factors which are most associated with the growth and performance of subcontracting small firms and which distinguish them from other more ‘ typical ’ small firms . |
| 7 | Their narrow perspective alienates them from broad-minded people who value the business in broader terms , who value certain immeasurable bit critical factors such as morale , expertise and goodwill . |
| 8 | Do I buy them from existing shareware libraries , or is there somewhere I could obtain a complete set of titles from in one go . |
| 9 | They are responsible for the complete replication of the extreme ends of chromosomal molecules and contribute to chromosome stability in protecting them from exonucleolytic degradation and end to end fusion events ( 2 ) . |
| 10 | He was dressed in close-fitting grey trousers that emphasised the length of his legs and a short-sleeved cotton-knit shirt , also in grey , a striped butcher 's apron protecting them from fat splashes . |
| 11 | In particular , one may need help to see that caretaking for other people , protecting them from damaging consequences and also doing everything one can to " help " , may be having the exact opposite of the desired effect . |
| 12 | The RCM held that , if the parents of refugee children had discouraged them from religious practices , their temporary guardians should not presume to treat them differently . |
| 13 | ‘ God preserve me from foolish and deceitful women , ’ he said , letting her hair go and falling back on the pillow , his arms raised angrily above his head . |
| 14 | Before banks or even locks and keys were invented , the usual way of protecting valuable objects and money was to hide them from other people . |
| 15 | The idea of getting everyone away is to isolate them from mundane worries so that they can concentrate wholeheartedly on the task in hand . |
| 16 | It was fortunate , Isabel decided , that the screen shielded her from curious eyes as she changed her shift . |
| 17 | No , I did n't know him from bloody Adam ! |
| 18 | Levering himself up to sit back on his heels and pulling her easily with him , he lifted her on to his lap , so that she found herself straddling him , her naked breasts pressed against the sensuous roughness of his chest , with only thin swimming costumes protecting her from ultimate intimacy . |
| 19 | Senior expects Delta 's haemoglobin to cost around 50 pence per gram , ten times less than the cost of purifying it from red blood cells , the main existing source . |
| 20 | The male three-spined stickleback stakes a territory out and defends it from other males . |
| 21 | This would ensure that the broadcasting institution was ultimately accountable to Parliament but at the same time would free it from direct government control in its day-to-day affairs . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , several governments which had participated in the US-led coalition against Iraq now sought to assure Iran that there was no plan to exclude it from post-war regional security arrangements . |
| 23 | We stayed for one night , there , in quite a luxurious hotel , so there was n't anything extraordinary to grumble about : the worst bit was trying to deal with our luggage — trying to retrieve it from piled-up trollies on the airfield in the heat of the day , etc . |
| 24 | As before , successful attention switching depends upon careful preparation , having the techniques and the subjects to which to attend at our fingertips ready to distract us from negative or irrational thought . |
| 25 | By the reign of Richard I the industry was so important to the nation that the ‘ Stannary ’ towns ( from the Latin stannum for tin ) received their own charter , awarding them their own courts and parliament and exempting them from ordinary taxes . |
| 26 | The public good defence for performances which were proved to be ‘ in the interests of drama , opera , ballet or any other art , or of literature or learning ’ omitted the words ‘ or other objects of general concern ’ , thereby rejecting the so-called ‘ therapeutic defence ’ according to which pornography was claimed to be ‘ psychologically beneficial ’ to some persons ‘ in that it relieves their sexual tensions and may divert them from anti-social activities ’ . |
| 27 | Model B , on the other hand would effectively ‘ nationalize ’ the 90 or so major institutions and thereby remove them from local control . |
| 28 | They ‘ trapline ’ , moving directly from one food site to the next , apparently remembering them from previous days , and are fast fliers , visiting plants producing ( few ) flowers over long periods . |
| 29 | Pieces of abstract art do not suddenly change colour because we have moved them from artificial light to daylight . |
| 30 | There were five boats moored to the shored-up bank , all with names beginning Duke , hung with bright blue fenders that had n't saved them from long scratches and stains . |