Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] from [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ted was signed for the Palace by Manager Jack Tresadern from Preston in the summer of 1934 and had a magnificent first season , only prevented from making full appearances by an injury sustained in our Christmas Day fixture at Torquay . |
| 2 | I think my style basically came from copying other people 's stuff , but it was never that important to me to get it perfect . |
| 3 | After his baptism , however , he moves suddenly towards the centre of the stage , not shrinking from the limelight , not shrinking from addressing large crowds , not shrinking from becoming the focus of public interest . |
| 4 | Although the Master was not allowed any wages or salary for his teaching beyond the £10 specified in the bequest , he was not prevented from taking other paid duties to supplement his income , perhaps for example serving a local family in its chapel . |
| 5 | An advantage of the first point was that it allowed Galileo to say that the sacred scribes had intentionally refrained from imparting complex scientific knowledge , despite having it at their disposal . |
| 6 | Although the usual direction relating to expert evidence , where both sides will rely on such evidence at trial , is for mutual exchange ( Aston v Firth Brown [ 1984 ] CLY 1520 ) , the court is not precluded from ordering sequential disclosure where it is desirable to do so ( Kirkup v British Rail Engineering Ltd [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 190 ) . |
| 7 | It fits with a common experience of addiction , that of needing to do more and more of the drug just to keep from feeling bad . |
| 8 | Her rapid rise to the top is well deserved and she does not suffer from having political labels stuck on her . |
| 9 | RFL principals of an MNP are not prohibited from having separate legal practices as foreign lawyers , but they are obliged to institute certain safeguards so as to ensure that clients of the foreign legal practice do not believe they are receiving services through an MNP . |
| 10 | It is important that that service is not barred from applying direct to the further education funding council . |
| 11 | Caterham is still technically prevented from producing fully-built cars by national legislation although that could change by the end of the year . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Bournemouth were yesterday prevented from signing new players by the Football League because they owe Tottenham Pounds 11,250 . |
| 13 | I think that the C I A , er , would accelerate potential for chaos , I do n't think one needs necessarily to look at 1789 or 1917 too know how great will be the dangers of civil war , possibly starting from entering public boundaries dispute , or of militaristic counter coups which threatens neighbours and rather in a , possible in a way . |
| 14 | Poor Law Guardians were still prohibited from giving out-door relief to the unemployed except in return for ‘ test ’ labour . |
| 15 | Backing also came from leading local landowners . |
| 16 | Eleven Clay Cross councillors were surcharged for the money which would have been obtained had the Act been implemented and they were also disqualified from holding public office for a period . |
| 17 | A lecture audience looking at a slide projection , incidentally , may also suffer from seeing distorted colours , though art museums take some care to sell transparencies of a satisfactory quality . |
| 18 | Dogs , like men , can look very different but when it comes to sex they all know that they are members of one species and they are not culturally inhibited from taking appropriate action . |
| 19 | Cocoliche speakers , however , despite showing an independently established ability to handle the subjunctive ‘ simply refrain from using indirect discourse , and use direct discourse instead , i.e. quotations preceded by a form of the performative ‘ to say ’ ( digo , dice ) ’ ( Lavandera 1978a : 399 ) . |
| 20 | Inspiration , she says , initially came from seeing Pink Floyd in concert back in the early 70s . |
| 21 | But French premier , Pierre Mendès-France , won various concessions : the French army would not now be placed under federal European controls ( instead the European Army was abandoned ) ; German forces would voluntarily desist from using certain categories of weapons , including atomic , bacteriological and chemical devices ; Britain would maintain its current level of forces in Europe , and could therefore help France in controlling Germany in future . |
| 22 | when to use and when to refrain from using certain basic statistical techniques . |
| 23 | In academic terms he sensed the changes in the wind so well that he knew exactly when to stop dropping the name Marcuse and start dropping the name Goldmann , when to switch from expressing genuine enthusiasm for Black Studies to expressing genuine enthusiasm for women 's literature . |
| 24 | Thus , among South American hunters and gatherers , women are actively excluded from hunting large animals , an occasional but highly valued activity , but , on the other hand , they are expected to supply the basis of daily sustenance through gathering of vegetable products , an activity which men affect to despise , but which is far more time consuming , and infinitely more important for subsistence . |
| 25 | And on benefits , for example , in VAG 's policy , new employees are specifically excluded from receiving bridging finance . |
| 26 | In 1911 she married Oliver Strachey ( died 1960 ) , later cryptographer and intelligence officer , brother of G. Lytton Strachey [ q.v. ] , thirteen years her senior , divorced , and recently returned from administering Indian railways . |