Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can see the town airport from where I am , indeed I can touch its tarmac with a digit thrust through the chain-link fence — all that separates it from the Lofleiđ3ir — but to get from here to there is not so easy , and involves taking a bus into town and back out again or taking a taxi . |
| 2 | Despite this , an intrepid few made it from the continent , including examples from France , Holland , although the star of the event was from much further afield — half-way around the world . |
| 3 | As a general approach , this presents a very attractive picture of human beings , but we must not , on the other hand , allow this to distract us from the pressing reality of society as an institutionalised , patterned , constraining system . |
| 4 | They abandoned the ride and walked instead in the shade of the trees beside the track , but although this protected them from the sun 's rays the leaden heat was everywhere and there was no escaping it . |
| 5 | This distinguishes them from the state agencies that provide health , education or other services on the basis of bureaucratic criteria such as need and entitlement , rather than as commodities to be bought and sold in the market . |
| 6 | Pressing F9 evaluates what is on the entry line and this changes it from a changing value to one that is fixed . |
| 7 | ( ‘ lt is normal to feel self-conscious and conspicuous on your first few times in the field ; do not let this distract you from the Subject . ’ ) |
| 8 | Other noteworthy cathedrals in Apulia include that at Canosa ( now unfortunately somewhat derelict ) , the Old Cathedral at Molfetta ( so-called to distinguish it from the Baroque one ) and Bitonto Cathedral . |
| 9 | While we have examined Oakeshott as a conservative thinker therefore we must be careful to distinguish him from the religious conservatism of Burke and from the mainstream forms of conservatism which Huntington identified in the aristocratic and situational theories as ideological defences of the ancien régime or of established institutions . |
| 10 | ‘ It 'll probably be easy to eliminate them from the enquiry ; we are n't going to frame anybody or hassle anybody or pull anything heavy . ’ |
| 11 | Fortunately for the young refugees , there was much to divert them from the risk they were taking . |
| 12 | That part of the package has to be right , but it 's impossible to separate it from the consultation that goes on between the customer and the supplier before the sale is clinched . |
| 13 | This cultural change is the second major theme of this book , but it is not easy to separate it from the political story . |
| 14 | We can calculate their relative preference for the Conservatives on the unemployment issue as C/ ( C+L+A ) , that is , as the mark given to the Conservatives expressed as a proportion of the total mark given to all three parties ( or multiplied by 100 to transform it from a proportion into a percentage ) . |
| 15 | It had even been easy following them from the racecourse , as when I went out to where my driver had parked his car I had a clear view from a distance of Daffodil at the exit gate being spooned into a royal blue Rolls-Royce by Filmer and her chauffeur . |
| 16 | Would that remove her from the ordinary people ? |
| 17 | In the absence of other voices making the same moral argument sufficiently loudly , we should perhaps be grateful to hear it from the very heart of the establishment . |
| 18 | That condemns you from the start . ’ |
| 19 | HMG 's total budget is P£4,000 per year , so maybe you should multiply all my figures by about three to see it from a minister 's perspective : the poor dears are trying to run the country on poverty-line wages . |
| 20 | Once more , such a situation is not necessarily incestuous but since love and sexual partnership are so often a matter of emotional dependence it is often hard to differentiate it from a quasi-marital partnership . |
| 21 | The tight-lipped reply : ‘ We 're supposed to protect you from the IRA , not the voters . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ To be honest , I 'm a bit tired of being described just as a jazz singer or with words like ‘ abstract ’ , ’ she says , responding to reviews that have tried a little too hard to distance her from the rave scene she still feels so much a part of . |
| 23 | The passers by stopped to admire her from the large wrought iron gates at the bottom of the drive . |
| 24 | He did not enumerate them , but it is not hard to reconstruct them from the records of over half a century of Masai administration . |
| 25 | Then coming along Street you come to the picture frame people and then the Conservative Club , then there was the big house further on towards the top of Street and that was owned by somebody named Winnie , was my second wife 's she went to school with her they used but her father lived there , and on the other side of the road you got the toy shop and er the draper 's shop on the corner of er Road then there was the newsagents and one or two people kept that , but that takes you from the top of Street straight the way up to Caldmore . |
| 26 | That relieved me from the embarrassment of having to ask for it in front of the stoical poker-faced brigade of women who often assembled in the shop in their curlers and headsquares to pass the time of day . |
| 27 | The link between his emerging depression and his violent behaviour , the latter defending him from the former , made sense to him . |
| 28 | The arrest of the ‘ Gang of Four ’ in October 1976 eliminated them from the power struggle . |
| 29 | TV Times joined Woman , Womans Own , Farmers Weekly , Family Circle and Country Life when Reed International bought it from the ITV companies . |
| 30 | ‘ It is much more helpful to get it from an eyewitness , than from scribbled notes . ’ |