Example sentences of "[verb] it from [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Senior expects Delta 's haemoglobin to cost around 50 pence per gram , ten times less than the cost of purifying it from red blood cells , the main existing source .
2 Describe the nature of qualitative factors and give three examples that may influence a decision to make a component rather than buy it from another firm .
3 ‘ But we did n't buy it from some grave-robber , you know .
4 This would ensure that the broadcasting institution was ultimately accountable to Parliament but at the same time would free it from direct government control in its day-to-day affairs .
5 It stood , open and scoured , to breathe the air that purified it from any hint of sour milk .
6 This is reflected in Mustill LJ 's approach in Rogers v Parish ( Scarborough ) Ltd [ 1987 ] 1 QB 933 where his Lordship maintained that the purpose of buying a car was : … not merely the purpose of driving it from one place to another but of doing so with the appropriate degree of comfort , ease of handling , reliability and … pride in the vehicle 's outward and interior appearance .
7 A particular excavated level ( corresponding , for example , to a bronze Age occupation floor ) can be ‘ modelled ’ on a computer screen and the power of coordinate geometry embodied in a sophisticated computer program allows us to view it from any angle and at any elevation .
8 the ones who are , who have seen it all before , and done it from last year , because they had to split a smaller section of them up into the first year .
9 When the ILP had been a founding organization of the Labour Representation Committee in 1900 , its opposition to the " Liberal-Labour " position separated it from many trade-union officials and earned their Suspicion .
10 But it was not only the international flavour of Penguin New Writing that distinguished it from other symposia of this kind ; Lehmann also had an active interest in the visual arts , and in particular promoted the neo-romantics .
11 It had appeared for a while that Coronation Street 's rival EastEnders , boosted by a weekend omnibus , would oust it from top spot in the ratings .
12 Save it from that coarsening .
13 Oh , we can see it from back room now ca n't we ?
14 To this end it announced that the electoral commission was to be reconstituted in order to free it from political influence and manipulation .
15 Got it from British Home Stores .
16 Got it from British Home Stores .
17 However Germany was short of helium and the major industrial producer — the USA , who was extracting it from natural gas — did n't want to supply it so soon after the war .
18 The switchboard on the ground floor of the Questura was manned by a chubby youth who was holding a large roll , turning it from one side to the other and studying it closely like a wrestler looking for a hold .
19 Despite adopting some of the paramilitary trappings of the old Carson Ulster Volunteers , the UPV made significant efforts to discipline the movement and separate it from illegal violence .
20 With his own modest roots he dismisses the attacks on a class-based judiciary : ‘ The youngsters believe that we come from a narrow background — it 's all nonsense — they get it from that man Griffith . ’
21 Some study how fe move it from one country to another
22 We all know that we exist in three dimensions — our bodies occupy a certain volume , and we can move it from one place to another .
23 it 's getting it from one place to the next
24 Later other improvements came along such as putting a cylinder of safety glass around the flame to improve the illumination , and covering the gauze by a metal bonnet to protect it from accidental damage .
25 It is time for the government to act to protect it from future ecstasy
26 This movement is usually made more apparent because the head sinks into the shoulders and the hands come close to the body to protect it from some blow , curse or frightening event , e.g. Juliet 's movement after her father has demanded why she is not conforming to his wishes .
27 Interior Ministry troops , who had come under fire from rooftop snipers , later succeeded in throwing a cordon around the CP headquarters to protect it from further attack , but Moscow radio reports said that by the evening of Feb. 13 the violence had spread from the city centre to numerous locations in the suburbs , and that automatic gunfire could be heard .
28 so we could take it from that stage even
29 or for any You ca n't just take it from any time ?
30 They have exempted it from public expenditure cuts because they see it as an investment for the future .
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