Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the purpose of the march was to force the French to battle it failed ; Charles 's council debated whether to go on the offensive against Gaunt 's army , but in the event their belief in the military superiority of the English was still sufficiently strong to inhibit them from offering an open challenge , and they agreed to pursue the usual defensive tactics . |
| 2 | As a general approach , this presents a very attractive picture of human beings , but we must not , on the other hand , allow this to distract us from the pressing reality of society as an institutionalised , patterned , constraining system . |
| 3 | Greenfield herself provides some evidence that the test situation was not entirely culture-free although she does not allow this to restrict her from making large inferences from the results . |
| 4 | The shadow Leader of the House can not ask me to hear a point of order from the Front Bench when I am not prepared to hear them from those on the Back Benches . |
| 5 | The look she flicked him reminded him that this was one area where she would not appeal for his help ; she had been more than careful to protect him from any involvement with a drug-taking brother . |
| 6 | if Tracey can get them it might be more reliable to get them from Tracey . |
| 7 | Other noteworthy cathedrals in Apulia include that at Canosa ( now unfortunately somewhat derelict ) , the Old Cathedral at Molfetta ( so-called to distinguish it from the Baroque one ) and Bitonto Cathedral . |
| 8 | Children who know the meaning of more or of both more and less are careful to distinguish them from each other and from nonsense words introduced in the same setting . |
| 9 | While we have examined Oakeshott as a conservative thinker therefore we must be careful to distinguish him from the religious conservatism of Burke and from the mainstream forms of conservatism which Huntington identified in the aristocratic and situational theories as ideological defences of the ancien régime or of established institutions . |
| 10 | It may be accepted that Althusser is describing science by its theoretical practice , its ‘ labour of theoretical transformation ’ , but this is not adequate to distinguish it from ideology as a practice . |
| 11 | If he can not stand , the patient might be transferred to his bed before being cleaned , but if he is using a commode , it is usually possible to clean him from under the commode seat , once the pan of the commode has been taken out of the way . |
| 12 | It 's almost impossible to catch it from your dentist ! ’ |
| 13 | The man in the bushes by the gate still worried her but I found it easy to isolate him from our friendship , although she felt now that he was trying to gas her ; the fumes from someone 's central heating outlet , discernible on the otherwise pure air , had inspired and confirmed her in this idea . |
| 14 | ‘ It 'll probably be easy to eliminate them from the enquiry ; we are n't going to frame anybody or hassle anybody or pull anything heavy . ’ |
| 15 | One might perhaps have expected that it would have been impossible to discharge him from hospital , but the local authority , which shares parental responsibility for him , has been able to place him with devoted foster parents whose dedication and skill are of the highest possible order . |
| 16 | Fortunately for the young refugees , there was much to divert them from the risk they were taking . |
| 17 | That part of the package has to be right , but it 's impossible to separate it from the consultation that goes on between the customer and the supplier before the sale is clinched . |
| 18 | But it 's almost impossible to separate it from thinking of Alexander Pope the man . |
| 19 | This cultural change is the second major theme of this book , but it is not easy to separate it from the political story . |
| 20 | We can calculate their relative preference for the Conservatives on the unemployment issue as C/ ( C+L+A ) , that is , as the mark given to the Conservatives expressed as a proportion of the total mark given to all three parties ( or multiplied by 100 to transform it from a proportion into a percentage ) . |
| 21 | You like my mother and yet you will be content to dismiss her from your life ? ’ |
| 22 | Black beans would be burnt on the graves of those recently deceased to stop them from becoming lemures , for they were known to detest this smell . |
| 23 | Embarrassment curled hotly through her as she remembered what she 'd read and she snatched up the case and marched towards the door , but it was n't that easy to push it from her mind , not when she remembered Luke Calder 's mockery . |
| 24 | It was n't pleasant to hear it from her lips , but yes , he said , he was just another hireling . |
| 25 | In the absence of other voices making the same moral argument sufficiently loudly , we should perhaps be grateful to hear it from the very heart of the establishment . |
| 26 | With students and inexperienced pilots , it is usual to discourage them from making adjustments on the airbrakes during the hold off , apart from reducing the amount of airbrake if it is necessary to float to land further up the field . |
| 27 | If you subject your fish , which will already be disturbed by the journey from the dealer to your pond , to a further spell in ‘ solitary ’ you are more likely to lose it from stress than from specific infection or parasite infestation . |
| 28 | HMG 's total budget is P£4,000 per year , so maybe you should multiply all my figures by about three to see it from a minister 's perspective : the poor dears are trying to run the country on poverty-line wages . |
| 29 | I tried damned hard to hide it from myself , but I ca n't hide it any longer . ’ |
| 30 | Once more , such a situation is not necessarily incestuous but since love and sexual partnership are so often a matter of emotional dependence it is often hard to differentiate it from a quasi-marital partnership . |