Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The birds are stocked at a rate of 5,000 per hectare in a fenced off pasture to protect them from foxes and other predators . |
| 2 | Surround crowns with straw during winter to protect them from frost — in colder areas you may need to earth up the stems first . |
| 3 | Its hard , tight-fitting husks act as armour to protect it from pests and diseases — a boon to farmers who do not want to use pesticides . |
| 4 | This reformulation shows why it was necessary for Foucault to free himself from what he later termed ‘ the repressive hypothesis ’ of liberation . |
| 5 | This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’ |
| 6 | But it is still too early to be certain , and the jury must remain out until there is sufficient evidence of a true change of heart to distinguish it from the earnest gestures of political expediency . |
| 7 | Carnelian , spying through the eye-screen from wherever , had immediately begun withdrawing the hydra into the warp of Chaos to save it from extinction . |
| 8 | Such an astigmatic view of course excludes them from the main focus of research . |
| 9 | I endeavoured to paint a picture of this scene , but again and again legions of midges drove me from the spot : I got a phial of essence supposed to keep them away , but alas ! in vain . |
| 10 | Give the customers plenty of opportunity to see you from all angles and let them feel the cloth if they want to . |
| 11 | Impatiently , Jezrael pushed the canopy back and an icy blast of wind snatched it from her grasp . |
| 12 | LMS , appraisal systems and governing body involvements compound the demands of heads to remove themselves from the classrooms , and to dictate instructions down the line . |
| 13 | THE ISLE OF Ely , transformed into a notorious offshore tax haven , nevertheless houses an unequalled variety of shops selling everything from local crafts to electronics and consumer goods , all duty free . |
| 14 | Mr Wickins was one of several company directors of the Wimbledon-based Games Ltd firm , which owns a small chain of shops selling everything from board games to computer games . |
| 15 | In 1911 , aged twenty-nine , the Crown Prince was sent off to Danzig to command a Hussar Regiment ( it was a fairly transparent form of exile to preserve him from the temptations of political and amorous indiscretion in Berlin ) , but he showed himself singularly adept at escaping from the tedium of regimental duties . |
| 16 | It reveals the desperation of kids to get something from rock . |
| 17 | Robyn gritted her teeth and refrained from answering — she needed all her powers of concentration to stop herself from slipping . |
| 18 | This is a large pool , 6.5 ft by 39.5 ft , with a wide flight of steps entering it from one end . |
| 19 | Midge 's total lack of emotion prevented him from sharing his own grief with her and he found that unbearable . |
| 20 | A shower of jeers greeted him from the queue and , as he passed the last boy , who was just out of sight of Mr Gillis , a foot shot out , caught him on the ankle and down he went , sprawling on the wooden floor . |
| 21 | As a symbol of his undying affinity to Barnet , Fry promised to watch this Saturday 's match at Halifax from the terraces — despite Flashman banning him from the club . |
| 22 | Fry promised to watch this Saturday 's match at Halifax from the terraces — despite Flashman banning him from the club . |
| 23 | The day begins at sunrise and an army of engineers check everything from the fuselage to the fuel valve . |
| 24 | A spasm of delight shook her from head to toe as he plundered her neck . |
| 25 | I need a different kind of exorcism to free me from what he did to me . |
| 26 | When someone who was a protégé of the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna , a close friend of Nikolai Miliutin , and the tutor to the heir to the throne decided to run the risk of going into print , conservatives realized that they were being subjected to a deliberate attempt on the part of reformers to prevent them from treating serfs harshly . |
| 27 | Instead of prayers to protect us from these sources of guilt , shame and terror Freud suggested that dreams took over , transforming the Gothic horrors into cryptic symbols only interpretable by psycho-analysts , the new priests of nineteenth century rationalism . |
| 28 | The review of directors ' managerial decisions can be viewed as being motivated by a similar desire to ensure that directors exercise their powers only in accordance with the will of their constituents ( the shareholders ) and that they are subjected to the controls often associated with the Rule of Law to prevent them from using their power arbitrarily . |
| 29 | Considerations of security prevented us from filming the machine which puts the layers into Vienetta … or the twirls into a tangle twister . |
| 30 | Some streak of reluctance stopped her from turning straight to Luke 's page in the book . |