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 | 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 . |
| 10 | Virtually the whole process has been controlled by Personnel staff thus freeing us from many of the conventional DP constraints . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | I think they might … they still owe us from the famous Wembley farce in the 70's . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It can also free us from many mistaken myths about Darwin himself . |
| 15 | [ One of the other Assistant Solicitors in the department also joined us from private practice ; another came from the Bar . ] |
| 16 | But to insist that women somehow amputate their love and compassion is to ask them to destroy the very thing which in my view favourably distinguishes us from men . |
| 17 | So what could be done both to protect us from crime and to make us less fearful ? |
| 18 | I am delighted to see that he has also dissociated us from the objectionable features of article 104B regarding fiscal deficits . |
| 19 | I wish we were having a picnic , and that it was hot , and I do indeed wish that we were all together ; though even if I were to hold the whole world against my chest , it would probably save us from very little . |
| 20 | He 's probably watching us from behind one of these pillars , making his mind up . |
| 21 | Unfortunately we also use it strategically with regard to ourselves , often in an overprotective way , which also insulates us from having our needs met by those around us . |
| 22 | High winds now prevented us from visiting the Monach Isles , reputedly site of the world 's second largest seal colony . |
| 23 | It is easy to stop squabbles and arguments in the interests of peace and harmony , yet to do so often prevents us from observing significant behaviour which can give the counsellor invaluable insight into how older people think and feel about themselves , other people and their situation . |
| 24 | What today separates us from Marx are evident historical truths , for example , that in developed capitalist societies there is no identifiable class , no clearly circumscribed social group which could be singled out as the representative of a general interest that has been violated … . |
| 25 | It immediately protects us from the impossible situation one meets in the literature with remarks such as : " The Aalenian of Mr X , which is the Bajocian of Mr Y , should in fact be regarded as part of the Toarcian " . |
| 26 | Two young , fit squaddies desperately need the help of any females from 16 to 55 to save us from this dull and boring existence- Please , please keep us from talking to the penguins any longer — write now ! |
| 27 | A phase of global warming which began about 17,000 years ago took us from a glacial world , up to 5C colder on average than the present one , into the equable post-glacial world of the last 10,000 years . |
| 28 | This forces upon us a breadth of interest and concern which readily prevents us from becoming too absorbed in the affairs of our own small island . |
| 29 | Its original function , according to Seth , was to make us feel bad , by briefly separating us from our sense of love and connectedness , so that we would not repeat a harmful act . |
| 30 | To recognise the continuing validity of such questions can not however exempt us from attempting to construct and share in a growing body of expertise . |