Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] it from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made it from old aluminium tent-poles , some of which I had found in the attic a long time previously and some I had got from the town dump . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 4 | These sceptical , cautious and cloistered arrangements constitute the distinctive institutions of science which separate it from other more worldly activities . |
| 5 | The uniforms were , the equipment was and yet it worked , it really worked , how efficient I suppose when you judge it from modern standards , I do n't know . |
| 6 | When you name a document of your own , you can add your own filename extension to help you distinguish it from other types of files . |
| 7 | ( You take it from old Shallot , the wicked have little difficulty in sleeping ! ) |
| 8 | Whether we inherit our temperament from one or other of our parents or whether we absorb it from prolonged contact is not certain . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | had given , in the course of his judgment , a summary of the law governing the procedure for requiring a specimen of blood or urine under what is now section 7(4) , as he derived it from previous decisions , in the following passage : |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | On Nov. 11 Hezbollah radio , the Voice of the Oppressed , had broadcast an attack on the government policy statement , which , it claimed , contained nothing to distinguish it from previous policy statements . |