Example sentences of "[adv] to refrain from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lydia did not castigate herself for so disliking a fellow-being , believing that it was sufficient merely to refrain from overt unkindness . |
| 2 | It is one-trial , because it requires only a single peck for the bird to learn ; it is avoidance because the result of the learning is for the bird to stop doing something it otherwise would ; and it is passive because the bird is not required actively to avoid , as it would if it had to escape from some unpleasant condition , but merely to refrain from pecking . |
| 3 | To show that we do live distinctive lives , and that we try sincerely , however imperfectly , but try sincerely to refrain from the seamier side of life , and to concentrate on everything that 's wholesome . |
| 4 | It is during this period that various decrees and opinions of church leaders advise women to abstain from the Eucharist and even to refrain from entering the church altogether when they are menstruating . |
| 5 | To be decent — an underrated public virtue of bad times — is simply to refrain from behaving badly when one has the incentive to be bad . |