Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | So methods have been developed to dissuade you from wandering off to somebody else 's cash register . |
| 2 | Caught off guard , in a mellow mood , away-from the pressures that the stance has been developed to shield them from , they too will admit to being disappointed and confused , not as hard-bitten as they make out , and as having found only a very inadequate solution to what seems to be an insoluble problem : how to do a good enough job . |
| 3 | It is a difficult process , since it has to be directed against one 's mental processes , which are designed to protect us from an alien world . |
| 4 | In their non-obstetric role , they are expected to handle anything from hysterectomies to period pains . |
| 5 | They are one of the first candidates for food irradiation , which will replace the chemicals that are used to protect them from pests during storage . |
| 6 | SULTRY , sinewy and sophisticated , computer workstations have been used to create everything from 3-D molecular models to the psychopathic cyborg in ‘ Terminator 2 ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ This situation has meant me not being able to get the sort of access to my daughter I want because the fact that the interdict is still in place has been used to prevent me from getting increased access . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Or are driven to hang themselves from fear and despair ? |
| 9 | No attempt has been made to establish criteria for distinguishing those cases where applicants might reasonably be expected to represent themselves from those where representation either by specialist lay adviser or by lawyer is appropriate . |
| 10 | The mains inlet cable must be secured to prevent it from pulling out , and a cable gland or ‘ P ’ clip can be used as normal . |
| 11 | The varied menu of attractions at the centre means quick changes have to be made to convert it from jazz venue to theatre to dance hall . |
| 12 | In Lobophytum species , the process is not particularly dramatic ; the polyps withdraw , the body of the animal will deflate , looking as though it has collapsed , and then when it takes in fresh water to stiffen up again , a thin , transparent layer of mucus can be seen detaching itself from the surface of the coral , to be swept away by water currents , the whole process usually taking a few hours . |
| 13 | Something must be done to free her from this grip . |
| 14 | Mainly , the first part provides examples of potential problems occurring in everyday living and what might be done to prevent them from becoming actual problems . |
| 15 | Where the defendant has innocently made a substantial investment on the basis of information innocently acquired it is most unlikely that an injunction would be granted to restrain him from making use of that information ( although the fact that an injunction might drive the defendant into liquidation is not relevant if the tests in American Cyanamid Co v Ethicon [ 1975 ] AC 396 have been satisfied ; per May LJ in Bullivant ( Roger ) Ltd v Ellis [ 1987 ] ICR 464 ) . |
| 16 | These ‘ needs ’ constitute sources of control because they provide for both incentives and disincentives : their satisfaction can be used to lure us into conformity , and the threat of their denial can be used to divert us from criminality . |
| 17 | It is based on army issue shovels and although very compact could be used to dig anything from a small surface hole to a trench ! |
| 18 | Reproductive structures should really be found to distinguish it from other , superficially fern-like plants . |
| 19 | Cut around the tile to be removed to separate it from its neighbours |
| 20 | The Tories would not be allowed to keep Jeffrey Archer and Labour could be forced to distance itself from Ben Elton , who is known to frighten off some middle-of-the-road autograph hunters . |
| 21 | The Olympic 100 metres champion has signed a new six-figure deal to head Lucozade 's TV campaigns and has been asked to do everything from race a greyhound to switch on the Oxford Street Christmas lights . |
| 22 | In 1829 a convicted prisoner petitioned that he should have been allowed to free himself from a charge of robbery by rendering compensation . |
| 23 | Menem , who had accepted Yoma 's resignation only a few days before , had been forced to suspend her from her post in March when a report by a Spanish investigative judge , hearing evidence in the Spanish capital , Madrid , accused her of being part of an international drug laundering ring . |
| 24 | According to Gregory the slanders against Fredegund were intended to drive her from the court , thus facilitating the elevation of her stepson , Clovis , to the throne . |
| 25 | The life-style , the communes , the language , the dress , the hair-styles and blue-tinted glasses of the men ( and women ) of the 1860s were designed to distance them from what they saw as the hypocrisy of conventional society . |
| 26 | Nurses were instructed to prevent them from seeing Earl Spencer as he lay helpless in his private room . |
| 27 | When bad news was finally announced , dealers were instructed to conceal it from their clients for as long as possible . |
| 28 | After her marriage attempts were made to unseat her from the London School Board because of the alleged illegality of her name . |
| 29 | One consequence of this has been that further additions to the existing radio and television services would become deeply contested as efforts were made to detach them from the duopoly . |
| 30 | Various accusations , including that of treason , were thereupon levelled against Stratford and attempts were made to exclude him from the parliament which met subsequently . |