Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] they from " in BNC.

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1 An injunction was granted against USI prohibiting them from publishing the phone numbers of British abortion clinics in student union handbooks .
2 Merchants could buy safe-conducts and licences exempting them from the right of wreck from the Duke of Brittany .
3 In an action for breach of an agreement embodied in a Tomlin order the plaintiff was granted an injunction against the defendants restraining them from ‘ selling disposing or otherwise dealing with seeking to sell dispose or deal with ’ property of which they owned the freehold .
4 Within months , some clients had in excess of 25 dealers contacting them from the same firm ; many were also being contacted from other licensed dealers .
5 The Brackley blooms are brought out early with a little help from 400 watt lamps sunning them from January onwards .
6 Securing himself in the newly built citadel on a hill overlooking the Fatimid city , Salah al-Din also launched his army once more against the Crusaders driving them from Jerusalem in 1178 .
7 To prevent this happening chemical agents known as sequestrants are used which bind up the residues preventing them from dropping out of solution .
8 The plans are aimed for pupils with learning difficulties , including disabilities hindering them from using standard school facilities .
9 City are thus able to check the Premier table to find they have eight teams below them with a gap of nine points separating them from the relegation zone .
10 Only an alarming collapse by four of the clubs above Quakers can save them from an instant return to the Fourth Division , with nine points separating them from the fifth bottom club .
11 The march was attended by 3,500 ( as compared with 100,000 at a similar march in January — see p. 38736 ) and passed peacefully except that afterwards members of a Trotskyist group , the Revolutionary Communist Youth , broke away and battled with the police preventing them from reaching a hall where Le Pen was speaking .
12 Squeezed between the conflicting pressures from their own nobles and from the Hungarians and Venetians , and with the ever present menace of the Turks threatening them from the south , they gradually sank into oblivion .
13 The plaintiff , acting under section 222 of the Local Government Act 1972 ‘ to promote or protect the interests of the inhabitants in its area , ’ brought an action for declarations that the dock company and its sublessees operating in the port had created a public nuisance and it sought injunctions restraining them from permitting heavy goods vehicles coming to and from the port between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m .
14 The commission upheld the claim brought by the Observer , the Guardian and the Sunday Times that the injunctions barring them from printing Wright 's allegations , obtained by the UK government in 1986 [ see p. 35539 ] , breached Article 10 of the Convention safeguarding freedom of expression .
15 Whenever she appeared on stage or at TV stations she insisted cameramen signed forms preventing them from selling their pictures to these ‘ pirate ’ merchandisers .
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