Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These employ close to two-thirds of IBM 's 300,000 strong workforce : remember that Dell Computer Corp 's success has come from engineering the best , lowest-cost distribution strategy , not to a better product . |
| 2 | Much of the data on the health effects of radiation has come from studying the surviving victims of the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs , where the Japanese people 's exposure to radiation was of an extremely large dose in a matter of seconds . |
| 3 | Lawrence Eagleburger , the US Secretary of State , admitted in a speech to the assembly that past " errors " in US foreign policy had come from viewing the problems of the region through the " sometimes distorting prism of the Cold War " . |
| 4 | The All ‘ Grey ’ New Zealanders ( expressly forbidden from using the name and the All Black logo ) wore a classic grey outfit and called themselves ‘ Lyons Tea XV ’ . |
| 5 | The former part of their duties aroused a protest from Libya 's Colonel Qaddafi during the pilgrimage to Mecca that year : unbelievers were traditionally forbidden from overflying the Holy Places in Saudi Arabia 's Western Province , the Hedjaz . |
| 6 | The reaction of parents to this knowledge varied from throwing the user out of the family home to paying for their habit until a place at a treatment centre could be found ( see Dorn and South 1987 ) . |
| 7 | The balance has tipped from viewing the problem entirely in terms of liability and expense to acknowledging that it also offers an opportunity … |
| 8 | Investment in training will therefore be discouraged , and managers are similarly discouraged from causing the company to engage in research and development and other projects the return from which will only be reflected in managers ' rewards in the long term . |
| 9 | Now , the Family Health Services Authority has warned that unless it is given more money , prospective fundholders could be discouraged from joining the scheme . |
| 10 | Secondly the adviser is discouraged from closing the interview too quickly after an initial problem has been presented by the client . |
| 11 | Donald Hardie , the Scottish director of the IoD , feels the problem stems from the education system , with girls being discouraged from studying the subjects that would get them on to the business ladder . |
| 12 | In 1428 , however , it and some neighbouring villages were excused from paying the subsidy because it had less than ten households , and the excavation of one of the houses suggests that it had been deserted as early as the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 13 | Nevertheless they are constrained from deploying the usual wind-up techniques by their overriding concern to justify their actions and attitudes to someone who disapproved of them but whom they perceived to be in a position to influence their situation for better or worse . |
| 14 | The Anglian Water Authority , which said it had been constrained from discussing the problems because it might affect the price of shares during privatisation , refused last night to attend a meeting of local people worried about the problem . |
| 15 | A purchase notice is not intended to apply in a case in which an owner is simply prevented from realising the full potential value of his land . |
| 16 | Einstein was unable to observe relativity , and was prevented from seeing the effects of travelling at the speed of light by the irritatingly inconvenient circumstance of its impossibility . |
| 17 | Despite gaining a simple majority of votes a bidder may still be unable to gain control of the supervisory board with its entrenched powers and consequently be prevented from controlling the management of the company . |
| 18 | At present , patients are prevented from receiving the benefit for the first six months of a terminal illness . |
| 19 | On May 2nd this same year the ladies had the inconvenient request of asking that the men be prevented from using the ladies ' lavatory . |
| 20 | Thus where the discretionary fund management arm of a conglomerate receives confidential information from the corporate finance arm about Company X , the fund management arm may be prevented from using the information of disclosing it if it has actual knowledge of the breach of confidence or possibly where it ought to have known of the breach . |
| 21 | For example , if A tells B something in confidence and B ( without A 's permission ) passes the information on to C , who has not been told that it is confidential and the circumstances are such that an obligation of confidence can not be imputed to C , then C will be able to use the information freely although B himself can be prevented from using the information or divulging it further . |
| 22 | Handicapped drivers were also alarmed to hear they would be prevented from using the streets like all other drivers . |
| 23 | If information is to be prevented from reaching the press , then the yardstick that determines success or failure is whether that information reaches the press or not ! |
| 24 | Hundreds of television employees said they would strike if prevented from reporting the demonstration . |
| 25 | Hundreds of television employees said they would strike if prevented from reporting the demonstration . |
| 26 | In Oviedo an infuriated mob was only prevented from lynching the distinguished poet Meléndez Valdés by the appearance of priests with the exposed host . |
| 27 | They were only prevented from boarding the plane when the aircraft 's captain refused them permission . |
| 28 | The country now faces a bitter debate , with anti-abortionists seeking to overthrow the dilution of the constitutional ban , which was forced on the government by the Supreme Court after a 14-year-old rape victim was initially prevented from leaving the country for an abortion . |
| 29 | Under the clampdown all Palestinians , including 50,000 day workers employed in Israel , had been prevented from leaving the Strip for 14 days , the longest quarantine period since the 40-day closure of the Israeli-occupied territories during the Gulf war in early 1991 . |
| 30 | Several vessels are now being prevented from leaving the country while their crew members are questioned by police |