Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By depreciating against the other currencies as needed , the scavenger currency would insulate them from this local depression . |
| 2 | Reaffirming the 1990 decision , which found Koons guilty of pirating the original photograph , the appeals court criticised Koons and Sonnabend for assuming that their position in the art business and the high price of the works would shield them from any legal action . |
| 3 | Only severe economic pressure will eliminate them from these applications . |
| 4 | Do I buy them from existing shareware libraries , or is there somewhere I could obtain a complete set of titles from in one go . |
| 5 | He would free himself from this enslavement , sweet as it was , as he had freed himself from Hilary . |
| 6 | They do not know one from another . |
| 7 | I would n't know one from another . |
| 8 | No , I did n't know him from bloody Adam ! |
| 9 | Describe the nature of qualitative factors and give three examples that may influence a decision to make a component rather than buy it from another firm . |
| 10 | ‘ But we did n't buy it from some grave-robber , you know . |
| 11 | This would ensure that the broadcasting institution was ultimately accountable to Parliament but at the same time would free it from direct government control in its day-to-day affairs . |
| 12 | Ludicrously over-equipped tourists might recognise themselves from this checklist : |
| 13 | But overall , it was by turning to their own bodies that women artists could free themselves from surrealist stereotypes . |
| 14 | The great agricultural countries between the Baltic and the Black Sea can free themselves from patriarchal-feudal barbarism only through an agrarian revolution which will transform the peasants from their condition of serfdom or of subjection to the corvée into the free owners of the land — a revolution which will be exactly the same as the French revolution of 1789 in the countryside . |
| 15 | It can also free us from many mistaken myths about Darwin himself . |
| 16 | Widening our concept of special educational provision to include the ‘ whole curriculum ’ approach will free us from such limitations . |
| 17 | This can include anything from racist jokes to actual physical violence . |
| 18 | The public good defence for performances which were proved to be ‘ in the interests of drama , opera , ballet or any other art , or of literature or learning ’ omitted the words ‘ or other objects of general concern ’ , thereby rejecting the so-called ‘ therapeutic defence ’ according to which pornography was claimed to be ‘ psychologically beneficial ’ to some persons ‘ in that it relieves their sexual tensions and may divert them from anti-social activities ’ . |
| 19 | The tragedy is that life has now become complex and involved , and they wonder if they can ever break themself from all those things that are now hindrances . |
| 20 | No one , at any level in a structure from chief executive downwards , can exclude himself from this commitment . |
| 21 | That way you will not burn off too many calories which might prevent you from increasing muscle size . |
| 22 | Transport , too , is free within EURO DISNEYLAND — it comes in all shapes and sizes and will carry you from one ‘ land ’ to another amidst a riot of colourful characters , street shows and parades . |
| 23 | She now felt so dangerously soporific that even the sneaking fear of Roman 's insidious effect on her could n't rouse her from this lovely torpor … |
| 24 | Tsetse flies find the breath of cows equally enticing and can smell it from many kilometres away . |
| 25 | they 'll date it from twenty fourth |
| 26 | We 'll do it from one of the rooms in the corridors to be safe . |
| 27 | It had appeared for a while that Coronation Street 's rival EastEnders , boosted by a weekend omnibus , would oust it from top spot in the ratings . |
| 28 | I would , I would have to be absolutely honest and that and er I would n't exclude myself from that particular er way of thinking because when they moved in , when you got a time for a job , erm for example there was one particular job that I was on erm and I thought that I was doing it reasonable accurately and rapidly , erm and they wanted to introduce a new fixture so that you know , I could do the whole series of faces on it . |
| 29 | Again , such subjects typically have to develop a more ‘ scholarly ’ , conceptual or abstract side in order to gain admittance to and status within the academic fold , although to some extent they can isolate themselves from other faculties and departments — art and design in the polytechnics and colleges often seem to be states within a state , enjoying an autonomy underpinned by their separate location on inherited art college sites . |
| 30 | Spending our lives in jealousy and envy can only isolate us from other people and make us unhappy . |