Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traffic queue into London stretched back miles , for a sewer had collapsed in the centre of Wandsworth and gangs of workmen were tearing up the shattered road , apparently rebuilding it from scratch . |
| 2 | Instead of water lapping the romantic old stone walls of wharves and warehouses , palaces and towers , there is mud — a pallid dark grey mud , littered with the dunnage of long-dispersed cargoes , bits of broken packing cases , carried up with the tide and brought down again , the rusted frames of worn-out bicycles , the pathetic remnants of somebody 's pram , upside down , its upholstery all gone , motionless , futile wheels apparently beseeching something from the air . |
| 3 | I remove the fry just before this stage ; gently syphoning them from their leaf , and then treating them as for fry hatched artificially . |
| 4 | They ‘ trapline ’ , moving directly from one food site to the next , apparently remembering them from previous days , and are fast fliers , visiting plants producing ( few ) flowers over long periods . |
| 5 | Well I think , I think that the difference is that if you 're , they were obviously establishing themselves from seed and they picked the right spot and they got themselves anchored . |
| 6 | These commitments were constantly distracting him from what he called " my real , philosophical task , to which , if necessary , I must sacrifice my career " . |
| 7 | In effect , they are making two claims , one of which I want to call the minor and the major claim , which are not logically necessarily following one from the other . |
| 8 | this is a restriction on the debtor personally preventing him from disposing of or dealing in any property owned by him . |
| 9 | leather-covered armchair , the back of which is extended to form a hood over the occupant 's head , thus protecting him from draughts in the hallway of a mansion , where the chair would be situated . |
| 10 | The machineheads are in the older Kluson style , with incredibly convenient slotted string posts for tucking those unwieldy string ends into , thus protecting oneself from the horrors associated with hypodermic guitar string injury . |
| 11 | And while they recognise the threat of this killer disease they are still faced with the dilemma of physically protecting themselves from it . |
| 12 | She moved nearer , heedless of Raynor 's warning hand on her arm , not exactly pushing him from her , but summoning , without realising , the authority and the remoteness that had come down to her ; certainly assuming the unconscious imperiousness that she had never known shone from her , and that was shining from her now in the dim , moonlit cell . |
| 13 | In non-metropolitan England and Wales and in Scotland , housing is allocated to the districts , thus separating it from the personal social services . |
| 14 | The third characteristic envisaged for the polytechnics , namely that they should have an ‘ applied philosophy ’ , means that their courses should have a vocational orientation and be designed with specific career outlets in mind , thus distinguishing them from many university courses which are sometimes described as ‘ pure ’ . |
| 15 | Somehow hearing it from the Duke 's own lips bestows upon his chosen occupation a form of royal blessing . |
| 16 | John 's address stressed that the Council was to be pastoral rather than dogmatic , thus distancing himself from his advisers , and endorsing the view , condemned by Cardinal Ruffini , that the task of the Council was not to proclaim new dogmas but to find new ways of expressing the old ( see Abbott , p. 710–19 ) . |
| 17 | And , just at that instant , as his concentration wavered , a side-wind suddenly caught the sail , momentarily snatching it from his grasp . |
| 18 | Thus excluding it from greenbelt designation . |
| 19 | They might have been intended to catch the blade of an opponent , thus preventing it from sliding past the hilt , and injuring the holder . ’ |
| 20 | We are aware that serial killers and the like are merely expressing themselves , working out their various hang-ups and generally freeing themselves from those inhibitions which might , if suppressed , make them less complete human beings . |
| 21 | Virtually the whole process has been controlled by Personnel staff thus freeing us from many of the conventional DP constraints . |
| 22 | With regard to Pentos , the Portfolio was uninvested at the start of the period and stayed that way throughout , thereby preserving itself from what would have been a painful experience . |
| 23 | The team was able to win some very prestigious senior assignments during this time , deliberately dissociating itself from the wholesale movement of dealing and broking teams , an aspect of search of which GKR strongly disapprove . |
| 24 | Flares are n't news in Dublin they 're still wearing them from that first time round . |
| 25 | As we shall show in greater detail later , Descartes justified his principle of linear inertia by ostensibly deducing it from the immutability of God — a God who conserved the simplest kind of motion in the world . |
| 26 | The smallest of the three spotted woodpeckers that have a conspicuous white patch on each wing , a feature at once distinguishing it from the three on p. 197 , while its red crown separates it from adult Great Spotted and Syrian , as well as Three-toed and female Lesser Spotted . |
| 27 | Without totally excising them from your diet , it 's advisable to cut down . |
| 28 | He is once more distancing himself from the people of Scotland . |
| 29 | Leeds played good football , nearly always playing it from the back . |
| 30 | If we have a principled way of discerning the stable sub-assemblies , thereby distinguishing them from merely arbitrary collections of parts , then we can as it were see the evolutionary pedigree of a complex structure . |