Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | A company of porcupines crowded themselves together one cold winter 's day so as to profit from one another 's warmth and so save themselves from being frozen to death . |
| 2 | Many can forage above ground at night but they laboriously shield themselves from predators by constructing covered run-ways , and thin crusts of mud all over the vegetation they are plundering . |
| 3 | It seems the original X Consortium , scheduled to get a new director in January and slowly dissociate itself from MIT over the next year , is n't evolving fast enough into a fleet-footed marketing vehicle or even churning out saleable technology quickly enough to suit everybody . |
| 4 | And , granted that much , " We " then further discriminate ourselves from other men by elaborations of these same three distinctions : |
| 5 | As the constitutional authorities gradually detach themselves from wholehearted support for our system of democracy so they envisage the judges assuming a role of extended significance in defending liberty and in checking what they regard as the misuse of political power . |
| 6 | As we discuss shortly , Bourdieu 's work shows these processes of emulation to be combined with the extraordinarily subtle means by which social groups also distinguish themselves from each other . |
| 7 | They use delinquent criteria in order to distance themselves as far as possible from conventional ones , and hence insulate themselves from a sense of failure . |
| 8 | who wishes to " resign " his seat must apply for one of the above offices of profit and thereby disqualify himself from sitting . |
| 9 | It is ironic , as research into the feelings and behaviour of childless couples has shown , that the voluntarily childless often shield themselves from criticism by implying a fertility problem , whereas the involuntarily childless find it difficult to admit their infertility and leave others believing they have chosen to forgo the experience of parenthood . |
| 10 | The mercantilist , bureaucratic Peruvian government — and by extension , that of many Third World countries — has created a subtle system of economic apartheid , where the poor are legally kept from any upward social mobility while the rich legally protect themselves from anything that threatens their social standing . |
| 11 | Some seem to be able to cause their bodies to cure or to prevent certain diseases and even prevent themselves from acquiring genetically inherited ones . |
| 12 | He saw William looking at him curiously across the crowd and then detach himself from the group he was with and move towards them . |
| 13 | The X 's silently detach themselves from the numbers on either side and become multiplication signs . |
| 14 | If the most amusing anecdote you can find is one which is rather negative , tell it and then disassociate yourself from the views it expresses . |
| 15 | Thus by referring to such values as ‘ our country 's values ’ , business men appeal to a higher loyalty than obedience to the law and thereby free themselves from its moral constraint . |
| 16 | This in itself , however , will not guarantee success , because it is possible to live in an area and yet isolate oneself from the local inhabitants . |