Example sentences of "[v-ing] it from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senior expects Delta 's haemoglobin to cost around 50 pence per gram , ten times less than the cost of purifying it from red blood cells , the main existing source . |
| 2 | This is reflected in Mustill LJ 's approach in Rogers v Parish ( Scarborough ) Ltd [ 1987 ] 1 QB 933 where his Lordship maintained that the purpose of buying a car was : … not merely the purpose of driving it from one place to another but of doing so with the appropriate degree of comfort , ease of handling , reliability and … pride in the vehicle 's outward and interior appearance . |
| 3 | An animal acquires the behaviour pattern by imitating it from another . |
| 4 | However Germany was short of helium and the major industrial producer — the USA , who was extracting it from natural gas — did n't want to supply it so soon after the war . |
| 5 | The switchboard on the ground floor of the Questura was manned by a chubby youth who was holding a large roll , turning it from one side to the other and studying it closely like a wrestler looking for a hold . |
| 6 | He held the office until Safar 924/February 1518 when he was succeeded by two Damascene scholars in turn , who between them held the post until 927/1521 ; then by two Ottomans , in turn , until 930/1524 ; and then again by one of the Damascenes who had earlier held the post , this time holding it from 930/1524 to 936/1530 when he was removed , apparently for misconduct . |
| 7 | Bettacare 's Head Hugger — a softly quilted , specially shaped cushion which rests around the baby 's head , supporting it from all sides , provides the answer . |
| 8 | it 's getting it from one place to the next |
| 9 | The term conversation is widely used , in a non-technical sense , and people seem capable of distinguishing it from other kinds of talk . |
| 10 | One of the two largest owls of the region , an enormous , almost eagle-sized bird , the prominent ear-tufts and facial disc distinguishing it from all diurnal birds of prey . |
| 11 | When you do file extract , just er , saving part , it 's not removing it from this . |
| 12 | He largely reshaped this family business , rescuing it from near bankruptcy in the 1860s , extending it into tinplate in Monmouthshire , carrying through several amalgamations , and turning it into a public company in 1902 . |
| 13 | It is an idea that has taken root recently in Scotland where local government and private enterprise , approaching it from different starting points , have begun to put both the idea and supporting environmental ideals to the test . |
| 14 | But one can also think of style as manner irrespective of such external connections , by identifying distinctive patterns of language use in a text simply as a means of differentiating it from other texts , on the general assumption that such distinctive patterns must be a part of the text 's overall effect . |
| 15 | Then , fairly close to transmission , Verity Lambert decided to tighten the dramatic structure of ‘ Planet of Giants ’ by truncating it from four episodes to three . |
| 16 | This is a large pool , 6.5 ft by 39.5 ft , with a wide flight of steps entering it from one end . |
| 17 | Hodkinson , who has successfully defended the crown three times since taking it from another Mexican , Marcos Villasana , in November 1991 , added : ‘ That belt means so much to me . |
| 18 | ISO will follow an elliptical orbit taking it from 1000 to 39 000 km above the Earth 's surface and will complete one orbit every 12 hours . |
| 19 | She was seeing it from Sabine Jourdain 's point of view : a young foreigner pursuing her and intending to latch on to her . |
| 20 | My first step was really to get to know London by walking and drawing it from all angles . |
| 21 | Which is why I 'm tripling it from this moment . ’ |
| 22 | During these years she also held the British record for endurance swimming , extending it from 26 hrs. in January 1930 to 44 hrs. 30 min. by the end of the year , then to 45 hrs. in 1931 , and finally to 46 hrs. in 1932 . |
| 23 | One problem that a lot of knitters have , to start with , is that they find it difficult to free the weaving yarn from the sinker plate when changing it from one side of the sinker plate to the other . |
| 24 | It had been built on a piece of glebe land behind the church , with a narrow drive running up beside the churchyard wall , separating it from the lane , isolating it from other houses . |
| 25 | But yesterday it was seen in Chaura and in Chhuma , running through the outskirts of the villages : and the day before , a dog like that had chased a sheep in Pere , and clutched it by the neck , shaking it from one side to the other until it died of shock . |
| 26 | Knowing what was coming , recognising it from many such moments in the past , she turned to go . |
| 27 | He had just shut the door , locking it from ingrained habit , when the front-door bell rang . |
| 28 | So same same as before , we 'll be coordinating it from forty five Broadway and we 'll erm be open house for for volunteers and I 'll draw up a rota . |
| 29 | for delivering it from one part of his premises to another part of his premises , or for delivering it from his premises to the premises of , or between parts of premises of , another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles or removing it from the premises of another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles direct to his own premises ; |
| 30 | Some Slovenian bankers pointed out that it would have made better sense to have carried out a ‘ consolidation ’ , which would have preserved more of the assets of the firm than the policy of attacking it from all sides ( Politika , 1 October 1987 ) . |