Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Fortunately for the young refugees , there was much to divert them from the risk they were taking . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This cultural change is the second major theme of this book , but it is not easy to separate it from the political story . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The tight-lipped reply : ‘ We 're supposed to protect you from the IRA , not the voters . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | The passers by stopped to admire her from the large wrought iron gates at the bottom of the drive . |
| 15 | He did not enumerate them , but it is not hard to reconstruct them from the records of over half a century of Masai administration . |
| 16 | ‘ It is much more helpful to get it from an eyewitness , than from scribbled notes . ’ |
| 17 | You 'll be able to borrow it from the office downstairs and view it in the library . |
| 18 | With the binoculars that they carried , they must have been able to see her from the moment that she set out . |
| 19 | Going along the road , er on the A Nineteen , from the north towards er the village er if one assumed that there were to be some development on site D forty , would you be able to see it from the road ? |
| 20 | Sometimes , when he thought about that day , as he did occasionally , it occurred to him that this was the first instance of railways being able to distract him from the pains of life . |
| 21 | well yes and therefore they wanted the appeal procedure , erm to make it fair I 'm not trying to put words in your mouth but that , term , to eradicate the possibility that someone could be able to exclude it from the market unjustifiably |
| 22 | But it is not right for a member of the teaching staff to so present that disciplinary framework that the student is unable to view it from the outside or is discouraged from officering an alternative perspective from another discipline . |
| 23 | there is an opportunity of being able to screen it from the Farnsfield direction . |
| 24 | If that is the underlying proposition , it is important to dissociate it from the unacceptable idea that a person 's acts after loss of self-control should still be measured on an objective scale . |
| 25 | Thank you for the silk , glad you were able to wrest it from the Governor before he set off to Lepcis Magna with it . |
| 26 | She was the one sister who was sympathetic to him ; that is , when he was able to detach her from the others . |
| 27 | He said I am sure I am sure that neither death nor life nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord . |
| 28 | ‘ Neither death nor life nor angels , nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come , nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God … ’ |
| 29 | ‘ If there is a god who is able to save us from the blazing furnace , it is our God whom we serve , and he will save us from your power , O king ; but if not , be it known to your majesty that we will neither serve your god nor worship the golden image that you have set up . ’ |
| 30 | A metre and a half of copper wire with wooden handgrips at each end went in his pocket plus a box of bullets for his Walther in case he should be able to reclaim it from the masthead . |