Example sentences of "[verb] it from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The male three-spined stickleback stakes a territory out and defends it from other males . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Dillons passed the cheque onto Childline after its parent Pentos received it from Legal & General Property as a token of thanks after it moved quickly to open branches of Claude Gill Bargain Bookshop and Athena in the Buttermarket Shopping Centre , Ipswich , in time for the centre 's first day of trading on 1st October . |
| 7 | But it was not only the international flavour of Penguin New Writing that distinguished it from other symposia of this kind ; Lehmann also had an active interest in the visual arts , and in particular promoted the neo-romantics . |
| 8 | Camberwell did not have a major industry that distinguished it from other London districts , but it offered sufficient variety of employment to engage a majority of the workforce ; other breadwinners did not have to go far to reach central London . |
| 9 | It had appeared for a while that Coronation Street 's rival EastEnders , boosted by a weekend omnibus , would oust it from top spot in the ratings . |
| 10 | The railway police and station staff were always telling them that but they had never had it from fellow buskers before . |
| 11 | Oh , we can see it from back room now ca n't we ? |
| 12 | Older children understand that a particular situation does not inevitably provoke a particular emotion : the emotion you display depends on how you view the situation , whether you try to change your emotional reaction to it , and whether you try to conceal it from other people . |
| 13 | To this end it announced that the electoral commission was to be reconstituted in order to free it from political influence and manipulation . |
| 14 | Got it from British Home Stores . |
| 15 | Got it from British Home Stores . |
| 16 | However Germany was short of helium and the major industrial producer — the USA , who was extracting it from natural gas — did n't want to supply it so soon after the war . |
| 17 | Others are more subtle , if not downright clever , like the frog-hopper or spittle-bug that , instead of spitting back the sap it does n't want — like greenfly — uses it to surround itself in a frothy mass that hides and protects it from predatory birds and also prevents the soft-skinned body from drying out . |
| 18 | These sceptical , cautious and cloistered arrangements constitute the distinctive institutions of science which separate it from other more worldly activities . |
| 19 | Despite adopting some of the paramilitary trappings of the old Carson Ulster Volunteers , the UPV made significant efforts to discipline the movement and separate it from illegal violence . |
| 20 | The term conversation is widely used , in a non-technical sense , and people seem capable of distinguishing it from other kinds of talk . |
| 21 | When financial devolution was first mooted there was a tendency to divorce it from other considerations , but as suggested in Chapter 1 , the change in title from LFM ( Local Financial Management ) to LMS ( Local Management of Schools ) reflects a significant change in thinking . |
| 22 | Later other improvements came along such as putting a cylinder of safety glass around the flame to improve the illumination , and covering the gauze by a metal bonnet to protect it from accidental damage . |
| 23 | It is time for the government to act to protect it from future ecstasy |
| 24 | The glycosides are even retained as the caterpillar changes into a butterfly and help to protect it from predatory birds . |
| 25 | It 's easy to obtain organic tomato seed of excellent quality by growing your own and ensuring you do not take it from diseased plants . |
| 26 | had given , in the course of his judgment , a summary of the law governing the procedure for requiring a specimen of blood or urine under what is now section 7(4) , as he derived it from previous decisions , in the following passage : |
| 27 | They have exempted it from public expenditure cuts because they see it as an investment for the future . |
| 28 | He has little knowledge of a shepherd 's life since he writes his idyllic poem from the town , as a wealthy poet , and can not possibly see the reality as one would have it from experienced eyes . |
| 29 | He largely reshaped this family business , rescuing it from near bankruptcy in the 1860s , extending it into tinplate in Monmouthshire , carrying through several amalgamations , and turning it into a public company in 1902 . |
| 30 | This is grievous news , grievous not only for this and other universities but for the nation ; for it is a grave national misfortune to be governed by those who do not know what a university is and what distinguishes it from other institutions of learning and study , not to mention training . |