Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] from [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By depreciating against the other currencies as needed , the scavenger currency would insulate them from this local depression . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | No black on wings and no long trailing legs distinguish them from all other large white birds in flight . |
| 4 | Reaffirming the 1990 decision , which found Koons guilty of pirating the original photograph , the appeals court criticised Koons and Sonnabend for assuming that their position in the art business and the high price of the works would shield them from any legal action . |
| 5 | He made me feel as if he had rescued me from some intellectual gutter , some abyss of boredom . |
| 6 | That is absolutely incorrect , and I take it that the hon. Gentleman is dissociating himself from Labour Front Bench policy on the Maastricht settlement . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away . |
| 9 | I do not wish to exclude him from such private and individual arenas , for to do so would be to fly in the face of Christian tradition from the fathers to C. S. Lewis and Cardinal Suenens ( 1982 ) in our own time . |
| 10 | For in the same way in which the number or title of a painting in an exhibition catalogue gives it an identity as a material object different from all others of the same type , so the letters and numbers on a Cubist painting serve to individualize it , to isolate it from all other paintings . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , several governments which had participated in the US-led coalition against Iraq now sought to assure Iran that there was no plan to exclude it from post-war regional security arrangements . |
| 12 | Again , he tackles , in The Conquest of Happiness , the roots of human unhappiness , and sees them in an excessive introversion , in an excessive concern with the mechanisms of one 's own mind , and proposes various ways in which people can seek to extract themselves from this introverted obsession with their own mechanisms . |
| 13 | It can also free us from many mistaken myths about Darwin himself . |
| 14 | The letters themselves began with a private approach to Cecil by William Kirkcaldy of Grange ; then came one from five Scottish Protestants , Argyll , lord James and others , written on 19 July , and remarkable for its spelling , its rhetorical power , and its refusal to state positively what was wanted . |
| 15 | SULTRY , sinewy and sophisticated , computer workstations have been used to create everything from 3-D molecular models to the psychopathic cyborg in ‘ Terminator 2 ’ . |
| 16 | Many hon. Members believe that the Secretary of State should immediately instruct the Director General of Fair Trading to review the position urgently and in detail , so that we can discover whether there is still some possibility of saving something from this awful mess . |
| 17 | She now felt so dangerously soporific that even the sneaking fear of Roman 's insidious effect on her could n't rouse her from this lovely torpor … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And , even in itself , prestige through sport is a valuable commodity for those unlikely to receive it from any other direction . |
| 20 | These were the fifth and sixth centuries , when Byzantine designs were forming themselves from early Christian patterns , and the tenth to thirteenth centuries when more elaborate buildings were erected in a new wave of expansion . |
| 21 | I would , I would have to be absolutely honest and that and er I would n't exclude myself from that particular er way of thinking because when they moved in , when you got a time for a job , erm for example there was one particular job that I was on erm and I thought that I was doing it reasonable accurately and rapidly , erm and they wanted to introduce a new fixture so that you know , I could do the whole series of faces on it . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's as if the skin that separates you from those horrible things in the newspaper has been ripped away , ’ says Alexandra Campbell , who six years ago was the victim of an attack in her own home . |
| 23 | During the course of the nineteenth century , archaeology moved in a quite different direction , becoming , like the earlier diffusionary theories , increasingly obsessed with objects as such , and treating them as having an independent behaviour in a manner which separated them from any social context and which amounted to a genuine fetishism or the artefact . |
| 24 | Save me from this terrible place ! |
| 25 | The remarkable persistence of the wasp 's performance serves also to remind us that most other animals have contingency plans to extricate them from such behavioural culs-de-sac . |
| 26 | In any case , he was eager to start work upon another play and was trying to extricate himself from various official duties in order to give himself room for composition : he resigned from the board of the Christian News Letter , for example , on the grounds of lack of time . |
| 27 | The development of this part of the plot is swift , Lear 's impatient anger leading him from one self-imposed crisis to another . |
| 28 | She meant that , once she had talked him into releasing her from this crazy engagement , she would be free to take up her own life once more . |
| 29 | You can install the program on a hard disk if you have one , or you run it from two floppy disk drives . |
| 30 | Although one might not realize it from some modern accounts , Measure for Measure is a comedy , and Angelo can be dismissed at the end to marry his contracted wife , since his hypocrisy had no evil effects . |