Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] us from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hirsch 's formulation does not exclude the possibility of understanding literature in aesthetic terms , it merely prohibits us from claiming that this is how literature is , essentially , to be comprehended . |
| 2 | Spending our lives in jealousy and envy can only isolate us from other people and make us unhappy . |
| 3 | Our clothes , living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world . |
| 4 | Pride holds onto the past and so prevents us from moving forward and achieving more with our lives . |
| 5 | The meaning is embodied in the rules of the game : to understand trumping and revoking one needs to ask , ‘ How do you use a trump-card , what do you do with it ? ’ psychological terms — like ‘ the trumping-feeling ’ and ‘ the revoking-feeling ’ — merely distract us from the thing that really matters . |
| 6 | If you had only delivered us from Egypt : Dayenu ! … |
| 7 | While negotiations continued in Geneva , the Tories went to the polls declaring that ‘ collective security by collective action can alone save us from a return to the old system which resulted in the Great War . ’ |
| 8 | In that document , there is a very strong reference to the fact that that power should be either restrictive or removed and that there should be a right of appeal against it , which would effectively prevent us from using it . |
| 9 | By contrast the white hole originates in a space-time singularity and the horizon does not prevent us from viewing this strange event . |
| 10 | That , however , does not prevent us from drawing particular , limited conclusions from such ‘ isolation ’ experiments . |
| 11 | Secondly , although certainly important , the current preference by some writers to relate creativity to the affective forms of psychosis should not divert us from the fact that it is actually schizophrenia which has inspired most of the theorising — and generated a good deal of the empirical evidence — about how psychotic and creative traits might be related to each other . |
| 12 | Even so , these cautionary comments should not dislodge us from the main point . |
| 13 | So being a Christian then does not isolate us from sorrow or from grief . |
| 14 | The nineties have yet to prove themselves a kinder and gentler decade , but that should not stop us from looking forward again . |
| 15 | But that should not stop us from recognising that things are very much better in the '90s than they were in the '70s . |
| 16 | stories because they are encouraging it does make us feel that even though we are a small denomination that does not stop us from preventing new ideas which we can share and in which we can learn from each other . |
| 17 | Some of these considerations are sometimes valid , and must be taken into account , but surely they should not excuse us from seeking out such evidence as does exist in relation to the period and style we are performing ? |
| 18 | He added defiantly : ‘ This bomb will not deter us from putting Portadown back on the North . ’ |
| 19 | But he vowed : ‘ This bomb will not deter us from putting Portadown back on the map as the hub of the north . ’ |
| 20 | The constitution should not constrain us from articulating these political ideas , therefore we will request the Sri Lankan government to bring about an annulment of the amendment . ’ |
| 21 | But this kind of charm must not deflect us from what de Man is saying . |
| 22 | ‘ As a matter of policy , NatWest chose to shed market share in property lending in the late-1980s , but that did not protect us from bad debts . |
| 23 | Although at the time some of these vehicles seemed , and have since proved , to be new forms of dinosaur , that did not exempt us from our obligation as educators to prepare our students for the world of work some ten , twenty , thirty years ahead when they would be the key executives in the publishing industry . |
| 24 | If we do not face up to our fears , we might project them onto the outside world , perhaps in the form of violent crime , epidemics , disasters or a vengeful God , or ( closer to home ) in the form of a partner , family or friends who ‘ block ’ our growth , and thus protect us from facing our fears . |
| 25 | ( This should not discourage us from advertising . |
| 26 | Virtually the whole process has been controlled by Personnel staff thus freeing us from many of the conventional DP constraints . |
| 27 | In the autumn of 1861 the Slavophile Ivan Aksakov tried to dissuade students from engaging in disturbances by urging them to return to their books and to " study Russia and the Russian nationality ( narodnost ) , in order to fill the gulf which still separates us from the people " . |
| 28 | I think they might … they still owe us from the famous Wembley farce in the 70's . |
| 29 | Well , the work of the Spirit in the believer is supremely to transform us from one degree of glory to another : that is to say , to make us more and more like Christ . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ I think it is marvellous he kept on supporting us from inside prison . ’ |