Example sentences of "[vb -s] it from [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The male three-spined stickleback stakes a territory out and defends it from other males . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is finished in black leather , has an ABS breaking system and a 158 bhp engine that shifts it from 0–62 mph in 7.7 seconds , and from there to a top speed of 134 mph . |
| 4 | Yeah , well I say er I mean obviously Pauline remembers it from some when do n't she ? |
| 5 | One peculiar characteristic of the British Parliament that distinguishes it from many legislatures in other countries , and particularly from the United States Congress , is the slight use made of specialized committees . |
| 6 | The incredible red head distinguishes it from all of them except ‘ C. ’ fenestratum , and these too , are easily differentiated as fenestratum has horizontal bars on the head , a longitudinal band , and a series of vertical bars on the body . |
| 7 | Like a small Moorhen ( p. 117 ) with a long red bill , which also distinguishes it from all the smaller crakes ; most often seen in rear view , as it dashes back into cover , when barred flanks and greyer under tail coverts distinguish from Moorhen . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We have so far been considering the extent to which the intentional ingredient in natural language distinguishes it from other systems of animal communication . |
| 10 | Another way is just to try to define its scope by explaining what it is that distinguishes it from other kinds of policy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Styling outside and inside distinguishes it from big brothers |
| 13 | Oxyhaemoglobin has a high affinity for NO and scavenges it from extracellular media ; methaemoglobin has no such action . |
| 14 | The federal civil service is the only part of Canadian society which remotely approaches the bilingual and bicultural ideal : this isolates it from real life in Canada and gives it the tendency , like the Prussian army , to believe that it is the sole repository of national values . |
| 15 | The antiracism I am criticizing trivializes the struggle against racism and isolates it from other political antagonisms — from the contradiction between capital and labour , from the battle between men and women . |
| 16 | And although the er , the causal relationship is not completely established , it is a very helpful way of remembering that one of the principle distinguishing features of this organism which separates it from other members of the genus staphylococcus it pr it produces this enzyme to coagulate things on and the effects of this enzyme are illustrated here as against the control preparation , you see a clot form due to the action of this enzyme on clotting practice which has been put into this test tube serum . |
| 17 | The smallest of the three spotted woodpeckers that have a conspicuous white patch on each wing , a feature at once distinguishing it from the three on p. 197 , while its red crown separates it from adult Great Spotted and Syrian , as well as Three-toed and female Lesser Spotted . |
| 18 | On the north side of this Paddock a low wall separates it from some buildings occasionally used for canine patients , but chiefly as a Storage … |
| 19 | In fact , Laplace transformation of an entire equation that has been obtained by invoking one of Kirchhoff 's laws converts it from integro-differential form into algebraic form . |
| 20 | Put another way , SR is only valid locally in a frame in free fall , which neatly disconnects it from any gravitational effects . |