Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] it from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter is an account of the process and is an attempt to see it from the family 's perspective . |
| 2 | The place of violence in English labour history has been reconsidered since the earlier historians , notably the Webbs and Hammonds , followed a Fabian predisposition to exclude it from the mainstream of labour action . |
| 3 | For the last six months the managers brought into the firm by Robert Maxwell have been trying to strike a deal to wrench it from the quagmire of his estate . |
| 4 | If this is an improvised one such as a pierced cake tin , without feet to raise it from the plate on which it drains , set it in the top of a basin , mixing bowl , saucepan , wide jar , or any vessel in which it will fit without actually resting on the bottom . |
| 5 | In addition to dealers , other objects of anger were farmers who were thought to be withholding grain from the market and thus creating an " artificial " scarcity ; merchants who attempted to buy up corn to move it from the district in which it had been grown at times when local markets were under-supplied ; and millers who were considered to be either bulk buying and hoarding corn or else charging the poor too much for grinding grain . |
| 6 | He took a few steps forward and tripped over a heavy iron grill set over one of the graves to protect it from the resurrectionists who had once supplied Dr Knox 's anatomy classes . |
| 7 | The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line . |
| 8 | So get the checkout staff to wrap your plant in a paper or plastic sleeve to protect it from the wind . |
| 9 | The village hall is run by an energetic committee who have raised sufficient money over the past few years to convert it from a wooden building to a brick one , and to refurbish the interior . |
| 10 | Doctors call this reaction chronic inflammation to distinguish it from the immediate , acute reaction or injury or allergy . |
| 11 | It 's an antibiotic stuff to clean it from the inside . |
| 12 | Is she the right person to do it from a Catholic school ? |
| 13 | When it comes to the end of that subordinate clause , you need a comma to separate it from the main clause , which is then going to follow . |
| 14 | The intention was to seek lasting cultural changes in the service to transform it from a reactive bureaucracy to a more proactive business-like organisation . |
| 15 | After 1870 industrialization and urbanization entered a new phase , which economic historians have designated the second industrial revolution to distinguish it from the coming of industry to Britain over a century earlier . |
| 16 | She accepted two more helpings of beef , asking Daniel to cut it from the edges , remarking that bloody meat had always turned her stomach , we all have our different tastes , do n't we ? |
| 17 | Ireland is presented as a place whose feminine nature makes the country require a more powerful masculine presence to keep it from the savagery of the giant who is unmistakably a Roman Catholic monster . |
| 18 | Fit a suitable damp-proof membrane around the frame to isolate it from the surrounding masonry , then fit the frame in the opening . |
| 19 | The same goes for diving in front of a seal pup to protect it from the sealers . |
| 20 | Booms stayed on standby at the mouth of the Hamble River to protect it from the slick . |
| 21 | Matey had gone out , not to return until late at night , leaving Dr Neil 's tea in the larder on a plate carefully positioned under a fine gauze hood to protect it from the ubiquitous flies ; he had said not to leave him supper , for he might visit the local evening market where prepared food of all kinds was on sale , from oysters to whelks ; he was partial to shellfish , he said . |
| 22 | Yesterday , as the country 's Constitutional Court weighed the legality of his weekend move in declaring emergency rule , Mr Yeltsin asserted control over the Russian media to safeguard it from a hardline takeover . |
| 23 | But it is extremely unreasonable to suppose that all ( perhaps any ) human beings act from that motivation , either , and if morality is to be a generally human phenomenon , it is simply a mistake to equate it from the beginning with such exigently Kantian formulations , and it is a mistake even from the point of view of the human sciences . |
| 24 | The usual way to overcome this problem is to cover the specimen with a liquid to protect it from the vacuum and then increase the power of the electron beam so that it can penetrate the protective fluid . |
| 25 | I will call it the principle of comprehensive ( political ) neutrality to distinguish it from the second principle which will be called the principle of narrow ( political ) neutrality . |
| 26 | The result was that the economy was in the grip of a crisis which could only be resolved by adopting measures to free it from the constraints of autarchy . |
| 27 | Beat well until the dough comes away from the sides of the bowl , then transfer to a lightly floured surface and knead well by stretching the dough away from you , using the heel of one hand to push it from the centre outwards . |
| 28 | A kind of exophoric reference which does not depend on the specific situation to distinguish it from the situationally specific type , for example The Cornish pasty is a well-known delicacy in south-west England ( non-specific ) contrasted with Wait ! |
| 29 | It was like a fog to see it from the main road . |
| 30 | An investigation of the Directorate published in Izvestiya of Oct. 22 , 1992 , revealed that the October 1991 order to form it from the troops of the Russian Interior Ministry was unknown to Supreme Soviet deputies ; that its personnel was armed and " in exceptional circumstances " could distribute its arms to people 's deputies ; that it guarded about 75 buildings in Moscow , " two-thirds of which have absolutely no relation to the parliament " ; and that it came under the jurisdiction only of the parliamentary Chairman . |