Example sentences of "[to-vb] it from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For in the same way in which the number or title of a painting in an exhibition catalogue gives it an identity as a material object different from all others of the same type , so the letters and numbers on a Cubist painting serve to individualize it , to isolate it from all other paintings . |
| 2 | Precisely because we are forced , in order to model these relations , into defining design activity as it takes place in its real context — that of the social — and do not attempt to abstract it , to isolate it from these relations , we find we build a model of designing that has surprising efficacy in application to questions of design method . |
| 3 | Now the first time they tried to change them in May they lost the vote , the women , to increase it from three to four . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , several governments which had participated in the US-led coalition against Iraq now sought to assure Iran that there was no plan to exclude it from post-war regional security arrangements . |
| 5 | We stayed for one night , there , in quite a luxurious hotel , so there was n't anything extraordinary to grumble about : the worst bit was trying to deal with our luggage — trying to retrieve it from piled-up trollies on the airfield in the heat of the day , etc . |
| 6 | A particular excavated level ( corresponding , for example , to a bronze Age occupation floor ) can be ‘ modelled ’ on a computer screen and the power of coordinate geometry embodied in a sophisticated computer program allows us to view it from any angle and at any elevation . |
| 7 | And , even in itself , prestige through sport is a valuable commodity for those unlikely to receive it from any other direction . |
| 8 | Older children understand that a particular situation does not inevitably provoke a particular emotion : the emotion you display depends on how you view the situation , whether you try to change your emotional reaction to it , and whether you try to conceal it from other people . |
| 9 | Actually , this one 's called an Official Match Day Magazine , presumably to differentiate it from all the unofficial ones . |
| 10 | Mr MacGregor , who supports strongly the principle of loans for students , is believed to be embarrassed by the controversy created by Mr Robert Jackson , the junior minister for higher education , who devised a top-up scheme which has angered backbench Tories and the banks that are supposed to administer it from next September . |
| 11 | To this end it announced that the electoral commission was to be reconstituted in order to free it from political influence and manipulation . |
| 12 | It is difficult to write down a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo and still harder to play it from such a notated version . |
| 13 | When financial devolution was first mooted there was a tendency to divorce it from other considerations , but as suggested in Chapter 1 , the change in title from LFM ( Local Financial Management ) to LMS ( Local Management of Schools ) reflects a significant change in thinking . |
| 14 | Later other improvements came along such as putting a cylinder of safety glass around the flame to improve the illumination , and covering the gauze by a metal bonnet to protect it from accidental damage . |
| 15 | It is time for the government to act to protect it from future ecstasy |
| 16 | This movement is usually made more apparent because the head sinks into the shoulders and the hands come close to the body to protect it from some blow , curse or frightening event , e.g. Juliet 's movement after her father has demanded why she is not conforming to his wishes . |
| 17 | The glycosides are even retained as the caterpillar changes into a butterfly and help to protect it from predatory birds . |
| 18 | Interior Ministry troops , who had come under fire from rooftop snipers , later succeeded in throwing a cordon around the CP headquarters to protect it from further attack , but Moscow radio reports said that by the evening of Feb. 13 the violence had spread from the city centre to numerous locations in the suburbs , and that automatic gunfire could be heard . |
| 19 | The budget slashed government spending — aiming to reduce it from 42.9 per cent of GDP in 1990/91 to 37 per cent in 1992/93 — and announced ambitious targets for debt reduction and for the cutting of the budget deficit from NZ$1,739 million in 1990/91 to NZ$528 million by 1993/94 ( US$1.00=NZ$1.7576 as at July 29 , 1991 ) . |
| 20 | At the same time it is in the modern democratic societies that this sharp antithesis between the state as a system of domination and the state as a welfare system becomes increasingly dubious , and it becomes necessary to consider it from these two aspects simultaneously . |
| 21 | Culture and religion also serve to integrate the immigrant community and to insulate it from wider society . |
| 22 | Then return to the material to analyse it from other points of view . |
| 23 | But to see it from this perspective is to distort it . |
| 24 | But to see it from this perspective is to distort it . |
| 25 | It is possible to transfer it from one person to another so that the recipient can exercise such rights against third parties as may arise ( see for example Keene , Re [ 1922 ] 2 Ch 475 ) . |
| 26 | Secondly , the relationship with the credit firm means that , if the customer wants credit , then he is likely to get it from that particular firm . |
| 27 | But the bigger point is that pursuing wrong priorities discredits greenery as a whole — just when it needs friends to defend it from hard-pressed businessmen and rabid deregulators . |
| 28 | The war in the Gulf was not fought to liberate Kuwait from a medieval fiefdom , it was fought to liberate it from Iraqi occupation . |
| 29 | then you probably have to take it from that and I think you 'll find there 's a weeks work on there . |
| 30 | You do n't have to , it does n't have to be mined , we do n't have to import it from any Arabs , it 's ours , we own it and it gives us that amount of energy but only if we develop the fast er reactors . |