Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result the public interest is increasingly defined by expert professional administrators , and administrative decisions designed to promote the public interest are articulated in a language that screens them from effective parliamentary criticisms and public debate . |
| 2 | Their narrow perspective alienates them from broad-minded people who value the business in broader terms , who value certain immeasurable bit critical factors such as morale , expertise and goodwill . |
| 3 | The kit contains everything from antiseptic cream and scissors to a thermometer . |
| 4 | The UK boasts more than 50 machines from a dozen manufacturers in the class which covers everything from outright super sports machines to all rounders , custom bikes and dual purpose on/off road trail bikes . |
| 5 | The male three-spined stickleback stakes a territory out and defends it from other males . |
| 6 | In theory , the UN 's definition of human rights , as expressed in 1948 , embraces everything from arbitrary arrest to an adequate standard of living . |
| 7 | Milton 's adoption of the high style here distances him from popular dissenting expression , instead giving him a voice ( if not a message ) more likely to be equated with , and find favour among , a sophisticated court culture . |
| 8 | But this figure is an average and includes everyone from junior clerks to bosses who have earned as much as $22 million in the past . |
| 9 | erm And he describes them in these terms because of course this is how he sees them from different angles while rounding a series of bends on the road , so that in fact he describes the movement which his senses perceive , not the solid immobility to which his intellect testifies . |
| 10 | With a total population estimated at 15–30 million , crabeaters are almost certainly the world 's most numerous seals ( Laws , 1984 ) ; their wide dispersal on pack ice protects them from human depredations . |
| 11 | The general technique used for stationery decoration is to cover the flowers with a clear adhesive film , which not only protects them from damp or dirt , but also holds them in position . |
| 12 | We use the words in the sense of a psychic process by which the mind protects itself from undue or unbearable pain , anxiety or conflict . |
| 13 | This attitude protects you from negative suggestions and strengthens your defence mechanism in a socially acceptable way . |
| 14 | Others are more subtle , if not downright clever , like the frog-hopper or spittle-bug that , instead of spitting back the sap it does n't want — like greenfly — uses it to surround itself in a frothy mass that hides and protects it from predatory birds and also prevents the soft-skinned body from drying out . |
| 15 | In a relaxed atmosphere and elegant surroundings , you can take your pick from our extensive menu , which offers everything from delicious light snacks to substantial three-course meals . |
| 16 | We all have people in our churches who have this sunny disposition , who can chat unselfconsciously with the shy and defensive newcomer , and so relax them that quickly and imperceptibly he takes them from small talk on to more serious matters . |
| 17 | Each department takes a different number of outlooks and takes them from different sources . |
| 18 | On January 14th the unlikely figure of Bob Dole , the Senate Republican leader , took time off from the Gulf to call for a statutory commission to find out why women have not broken through the ‘ glass ceiling ’ that keeps them from top management jobs . |
| 19 | A cable car takes you from nearby Ehrwald to the Zugspitzkamm station at 9,203 feet which has been partly blasted out of the rock . |
| 20 | The beliefs are seen as influencing , at least in significant part , the behaviour in which the members of the group engage and which distinguishes them from other groups who hold different beliefs . |
| 21 | This , of course , stemmed from their general lack of interest in the significance of the criminal justice system — the final feature that distinguishes them from classical criminology . |
| 22 | Now Dorothy 's ‘ I wonder why you keep going to sea … ’ detaches itself from simple classification ; its very phrasing has emotional overtones . |
| 23 | Men of all parties recognise in his personality something which is admirable , something which distinguishes him from other men . |
| 24 | This is grievous news , grievous not only for this and other universities but for the nation ; for it is a grave national misfortune to be governed by those who do not know what a university is and what distinguishes it from other institutions of learning and study , not to mention training . |
| 25 | We have so far been considering the extent to which the intentional ingredient in natural language distinguishes it from other systems of animal communication . |
| 26 | Another way is just to try to define its scope by explaining what it is that distinguishes it from other kinds of policy . |
| 27 | Here it distinguishes it from factual enquiry , at least as that is conceived by those with a robust sense that there is a way things really are in the world . |
| 28 | Styling outside and inside distinguishes it from big brothers |
| 29 | Oxyhaemoglobin has a high affinity for NO and scavenges it from extracellular media ; methaemoglobin has no such action . |
| 30 | It is the capacity to feel , to reflect , to regret , to repent that distinguishes us from other creatures . |