Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prisoners may be left locked in their cells for longer , because there is not the staff to supervise out-of-cell activities or to escort them from place to place . |
| 2 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 3 | The offence could be used against counter-demonstrators who set out to ‘ smash ’ their opponents or to stop them from expressing the point of view that they set out to express . |
| 4 | He has already reversed many measures taken by previous governments , which used martial law over economic matters and to detain political opponents or ban them from work or travel . |
| 5 | If children did visit they should be with an adult who could explain the pictures or stop them from seeing the more controversial ones . |
| 6 | Filled with windswept harmonies , stripped , emotional guitar playing and the kind of plaintive , country-tinged songs that niggle you from here to the grave , the latest offering from Nebraska-born songwriter Matthew Sweet will win the favour of anyone whose tastes lie somewhere north of Gram Parsons , south of The Beatles , east of CSN&Y and west of the Pixies . |
| 7 | Indeed the only reason that modern living things are able to survive in the presence of oxygen , is that they contain a variety of compounds that prevent it from reacting with materials such as fats : compounds that include vitamins C and E , and uric acid . |
| 8 | Most flesh-eating reptiles have simple spikes that prevent them from chewing their prey ; they have to gulp it down whole and then remain in a torpor for days or weeks to digest the meal . |
| 9 | I turned to go into the house , made with great difficulty the three or four steps that separated me from my room , and felt my arms and legs burning , also my body . |
| 10 | A fat hand shot out from the covers and snatched it from me . |
| 11 | On the whole socialist feminists were suspicious of allowances on the grounds that they would undermine male wage-bargaining and preferred to argue , like Ada Nield Chew , for services in kind to support mothers in the ‘ drudgery ’ of child care ; Fabian women preferred direct payment to mothers in order to maintain their economic independence from their husbands and free them from the need to take on paid work which would distract them from their primary task of mothering ( Alexander , 1979 ) . |
| 12 | It is part of an attempt to deter potential recruits and to distract us from concluding that it is men who are the cause of women 's oppression , not anyone else . |
| 13 | These shells provide a home for the crabs and protect them from predators and the elements . |
| 14 | He rushed forward to the battery box , loosened the terminal caps and moved them from side to side . |
| 15 | If the scope of reason is confined to refining and systematising imperatives and deducing them from each other , how can it ever change their relation to the spontaneous ? |
| 16 | We got a bamboo-wallah to build them two cages and hung them from hooks on the veranda . |
| 17 | In verse erm thirteen , I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them into their own land . |
| 18 | Dr Neil stepped back so swiftly that she almost fell ; he seized her by the shoulders and held her from him . |
| 19 | Absolutely , ’ he said , hooking an arm around the man 's shoulders and leading him from the porch . |
| 20 | Judge William Hannah jailed him for 12 months and disqualified him from driving for six months . |
| 21 | He says in 1 John 1:9 , ‘ If we confess our sins , he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness . ‘ |
| 22 | 1 John 1:9 tells us , ‘ If we confess our sins , he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness . ’ |
| 23 | If we confess our sins he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness . |
| 24 | She was a little overweight , her hands a touch too pudgy when she reached for various books and took them from the shelves . |
| 25 | Despite their unfaithfulness to him the people chosen by God continued to dream of deliverance , and their songs spoke of an anointed one who would champion his people in the lists and free them from oppression and enemy occupation . |
| 26 | They covered a large tract of ground , quite deserted , but conveniently illuminated by the high powerful lights round the warehouses that separated it from the still-working mainline railway . |
| 27 | During the dramatic climatic fluctuations of the last ice age — warm to cold to warm repeated several times — the flowering plants acted as thermometers for the climate , sensitive recorders of the shifts that affected everything from beetles to man . |
| 28 | Just to give you an idea of the order of magnitude we are talking about , the number of generations that separate us from our earliest ancestors is certainly measured in the thousands of millions . |
| 29 | It is only the natural caution of paleontologists that prevents them from jumping to startling conclusions . |
| 30 | At a time when a good public image is essential for universities , English is unable to explain itself in ways immediately intelligible to the outsider , is notoriously riven with doubts and disagreements that prevent it from having a shared sense of purpose , and may at intervals erupt into crises that attract the wrong sort of publicity . |