Example sentences of "[to-vb] it from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But instead of filtering food from huge quantities of water they have to extract it from a mass of indigestible vegetable matter . |
| 2 | Once more , such a situation is not necessarily incestuous but since love and sexual partnership are so often a matter of emotional dependence it is often hard to differentiate it from a quasi-marital partnership . |
| 3 | But you chose to switch on the news that day , or to hear it from a friend ; and you chose to have certain thoughts in response to that news . |
| 4 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 5 | Well I 'm going to do it from a black point of view . ’ |
| 6 | Is she the right person to do it from a Catholic school ? |
| 7 | Widgery acquiesced , aiming to do it from a position in keeping with the times , and from his revolutionary socialist stance . |
| 8 | But she had wanted to give it from a position of power , of strength . |
| 9 | The village hall is run by an energetic committee who have raised sufficient money over the past few years to convert it from a wooden building to a brick one , and to refurbish the interior . |
| 10 | AT FIRST listen there was little on The Black Crowes ' first LP ‘ Shake Your Money Maker ’ to separate it from a hundred other rock'n'roll records which were desperately trying to get their sound across after the Guns N'Roses media boom of the late '80s . |
| 11 | We can calculate their relative preference for the Conservatives on the unemployment issue as C/ ( C+L+A ) , that is , as the mark given to the Conservatives expressed as a proportion of the total mark given to all three parties ( or multiplied by 100 to transform it from a proportion into a percentage ) . |
| 12 | The intention was to seek lasting cultural changes in the service to transform it from a reactive bureaucracy to a more proactive business-like organisation . |
| 13 | HMG 's total budget is P£4,000 per year , so maybe you should multiply all my figures by about three to see it from a minister 's perspective : the poor dears are trying to run the country on poverty-line wages . |
| 14 | To some extent it is still a feature in the landscape , for Deronda takes Gwendolen to admire it from a special window , round which ‘ a sort of bower had been made … turning it into a recess ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ I LEFT the place having helped to transport it from a snotty-nosed , public-school-type club to a place where people from all levels of society came to enjoy cricket . ’ |
| 16 | And er it was er we had to develop it from a poorhouse into an old folks ' home . |
| 17 | You might be able to get it from a library . |
| 18 | Of course he has been over it a million times in his mind , but when the normal glide speed is 160kts , with the drop tanks you should have 175kts , add another 15 on top of that to flare it from a descent , and he really needed 200 kts to make a decent landing in those conditions . |
| 19 | Some published material is hand written and of such high quality that it is difficult to distinguish it from a typeset score . |
| 20 | An order for contact with a child in care is usually referred to as a s34 contact order to distinguish it from a contact order under s8 of the Act . |
| 21 | Yesterday , as the country 's Constitutional Court weighed the legality of his weekend move in declaring emergency rule , Mr Yeltsin asserted control over the Russian media to safeguard it from a hardline takeover . |