Example sentences of "[verb] it from [adj] [noun] " 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 | The male three-spined stickleback stakes a territory out and defends it from other males . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ But we did n't buy it from some grave-robber , you know . |
| 5 | Precisely because we are forced , in order to model these relations , into defining design activity as it takes place in its real context — that of the social — and do not attempt to abstract it , to isolate it from these relations , we find we build a model of designing that has surprising efficacy in application to questions of design method . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We stayed for one night , there , in quite a luxurious hotel , so there was n't anything extraordinary to grumble about : the worst bit was trying to deal with our luggage — trying to retrieve it from piled-up trollies on the airfield in the heat of the day , etc . |
| 8 | It stood , open and scoured , to breathe the air that purified it from any hint of sour milk . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Tsetse flies find the breath of cows equally enticing and can smell it from many kilometres away . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The essential characteristics of this primacy which distinguished it from such primacies as that of Hamburg or Lyons were , first , that it was centred in a monastic community , and second , that its roots and its authorization went back ( as Anselm was persuaded ) to its original constitution in the seventh century . |
| 15 | Camberwell did not have a major industry that distinguished it from other London districts , but it offered sufficient variety of employment to engage a majority of the workforce ; other breadwinners did not have to go far to reach central London . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Save it from that coarsening . |
| 19 | Always lay the rug on a flat and even surface , and after smoothing it out , carefully view it from all sides to see if there are any ridges or troughs . |
| 20 | A sample of forty is undoubtedly on the small side ; most sociological research studies using empirical data obtain it from larger samples than this . |
| 21 | The railway police and station staff were always telling them that but they had never had it from fellow buskers before . |
| 22 | It 's all hard and cold , but Marie laughs and turns me round so she can see it from all sides . |
| 23 | Oh , we can see it from back room now ca n't we ? |
| 24 | Older children understand that a particular situation does not inevitably provoke a particular emotion : the emotion you display depends on how you view the situation , whether you try to change your emotional reaction to it , and whether you try to conceal it from other people . |
| 25 | Mr MacGregor , who supports strongly the principle of loans for students , is believed to be embarrassed by the controversy created by Mr Robert Jackson , the junior minister for higher education , who devised a top-up scheme which has angered backbench Tories and the banks that are supposed to administer it from next September . |
| 26 | To this end it announced that the electoral commission was to be reconstituted in order to free it from political influence and manipulation . |
| 27 | Got it from British Home Stores . |
| 28 | Got it from British Home Stores . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Others are more subtle , if not downright clever , like the frog-hopper or spittle-bug that , instead of spitting back the sap it does n't want — like greenfly — uses it to surround itself in a frothy mass that hides and protects it from predatory birds and also prevents the soft-skinned body from drying out . |