Example sentences of "[det] [verb] us from " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a general approach , this presents a very attractive picture of human beings , but we must not , on the other hand , allow this to distract us from the pressing reality of society as an institutionalised , patterned , constraining system . |
| 2 | This prevents us from supposing that the conditional in question , to speak in the ontologically extravagant way , comes to this : in the possible world where it is raining , but everything else is the same as in this world save that the balcony is wet , the balcony is indeed wet . |
| 3 | If we believe , as many difference theorists seem to , that the best way of understanding gender relations is to study children , this saves us from having to address some very difficult practical issues which affect us in the here-and-now . |
| 4 | This brings us from considering comic crime fiction to considering an even trickier form , farce crime . |
| 5 | Commerce , Voltaire declared , was the base on which the greatness of our nation was built ; now it 's all that keeps us from going bankrupt . |
| 6 | Se , we need someone first of all to save us from our sin . |
| 7 | That prevents us from being receptive to life and therefore also from receiving its benefits . |
| 8 | It also claims our allegiance because it offers to protect our lives , limbs , and property , although it does little to protect us from predatory corporations . |
| 9 | ‘ Despite the environmental carnage around the wreck , the sullying of the Shetland name and the ensuing loss of livelihood at the heart of our fragile economy the Government has done very little to protect us from another spill , ’ she said . |
| 10 | All this should have been enough to turn us from a nation of householders into a nation of shareholders . |
| 11 | ‘ That suits us from the point of view of pressure . |