Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one direction only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean , while in the other the valley goes back for miles and miles . |
| 2 | What separates them from the dwindling ranks of mediocre C86-type bands are their songs : sparkling things that are packed full of love-drenched sentiments , mood-lifting hooklines and wonderful tunes . |
| 3 | This attribute separates them from the outside world and can be shared by no non-Japanese . |
| 4 | As Wood and Wood comment , ‘ relating ideas to their social context ’ far from ‘ depriving them of their universal meaning ’ in fact ‘ rescues them from the emptiness of ethereal abstractions which have no human meaning at all ’ ( ibid. p. x ) . |
| 5 | There , she is befriended by Stoney , a sexy rock ‘ n ’ roller who rescues her from a world of LSD that she has dropped into . |
| 6 | This status exempts it from the need to obtain full FSA authorisation , but only while its FSA-regulated business is limited to " arranging deals in investments " . |
| 7 | It also rescues it from the criticisms of positivist psychologists and behaviourists . |
| 8 | There 's nothing worse than the straight man who shouts it from the rooftop . ’ |
| 9 | At Laruns the valley divides or , if that description is demeaning to the Gave d'Ossau , another , smaller valley joins it from the east . |
| 10 | On the whole Cepheus is rather a barren group , but the presence of Delta and Mu redeems it from the viewpoint of the binocular observer . |
| 11 | The dealer works out the car 's value in two years ' time ( the MGFV , or Minimum Guaranteed Future Value ) and subtracts it from the price , minus your deposit . |
| 12 | It frees him from the awkward contortions of hand and wrist that make violin lessons and practice all too necessary . |
| 13 | It is sometimes suggested that the absence of note-taking can be a help to the informant , in that it frees him from the inhibiting effects of a recorder and a notebook . |
| 14 | Water splashes from a faucet into a jerrican , and when it fills the boy sluggishly replaces it from a line of empty ones . |
| 15 | Contrary to what Tony Lumpkin believes , speaking for all those who have been subjected to the drudgery of learning it in school , grammar is not a constraining imposition but a liberating force : it frees us from a dependency on context and the limitations of a purely lexical categorization of reality . |
| 16 | Elstir 's paintings persuade Marcel of their truth , but it 's a truth which is different from the intellectual truth which he first brought to his initial contemplation of those paintings , and Marcel says that in this way , by his art , Elstir frees us from the cramping tyranny of the intellect , by painting , and again I quote , ‘ by painting some unusual picture of a familiar object . |
| 17 | Send back up the hierarchy any work which significantly diverts you from the agreed priorities . |
| 18 | Committees are a waste of time , so he deletes them from the diary . |
| 19 | Regular use of a good cream helps keep hands soft and smooth and protects them from the onslaught of cold weather . |
| 20 | As Packer ( 1968 ) has pointed out , the criminality of their enterprise acts as a kind of ‘ tariff ’ that protects them from the competition of ‘ legitimate ’ entrepreneurs unwilling to take the risks of illegal enterprise , and provides them with customers who have no legal redress against the most excessive forms of exploitation . |
| 21 | The act of the king touching them in this way protects them from the otherwise dangerous consequences of being in contact with the power of the king . |
| 22 | Earth Dwellers have now begun to grasp that they are tattering the ozone layer , which protects them from the harmful rays of their sun ( star 4135 in our heavens ) . |
| 23 | There are fewer elephants about up here erm and er the issue that obviously concerns me from the development point of view is the is the time scale , is the process rather , that that the planning policy would im would imply . |
| 24 | Women lawyers are challenging the chauvinism which bans them from the higher echelons , reports Fiona Sutherland Omitted from the useful introductions to clients , business lunches , meetings and golfing sessions , women solicitors fail to acquire the vital ‘ client base . ’ |
| 25 | After another moment or two , Crilly takes my arm and leads me from the pub . |
| 26 | Crilly takes my arm and leads me from the clinic , onto the green and into the car where Anita sits at the wheel . |
| 27 | That condemns you from the start . ’ |
| 28 | IF YOU drive through south Coventry the name Nellist assaults you from every angle — daubed in graffiti on walls and bridges and flagged on hundreds of homes . |
| 29 | Then comes ‘ Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home ’ and knocks you over ; she wrenches it from the grasp of Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette and makes it absolutely her own , Phil Ramone 's arrangement swelling dramatically to Sinead 's own end-piece , and with the last emphatic plea of ‘ Am I not your girl ? ’ both you and she fall down , emotionally exhausted . |
| 30 | Commodore 's CDTV also benefits from an association with CD-A but approaches it from the other direction . |