Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernard Coard 's How the West Indian Child is made Educationally Sub-Normal in the British School System ( 1971 ) had already given concrete expression to many black parents ' justified fears that their children were being systematically mis-classified as educationally subnormal and relegated to a ‘ special ’ education which effectively excluded them from any possibility of acquiring decent qualifications . |
| 2 | Spending our lives in jealousy and envy can only isolate us from other people and make us unhappy . |
| 3 | They ‘ trapline ’ , moving directly from one food site to the next , apparently remembering them from previous days , and are fast fliers , visiting plants producing ( few ) flowers over long periods . |
| 4 | The general technique used for stationery decoration is to cover the flowers with a clear adhesive film , which not only protects them from damp or dirt , but also holds them in position . |
| 5 | Styling outside and inside distinguishes it from big brothers |
| 6 | Top performers jealously protected themselves from all types of misrepresentation , so it is hardly surprising that record companies did n't try it on . |
| 7 | ‘ Being informed by Lord Hastings of your situation and assured by him that my lord of Gloucester intends no harm to the king your son — but , on the contrary , desires only to protect him from those who would harm him — on learning of this an hour ago whilst in my bed at York House , I at once arose and came hither . ’ |
| 8 | The fact that the subject believes himself to be been falsely suspected will not necessarily protect him from criminal liability if he should over-react . |
| 9 | At a very early stage the apostle Paul was confronted by opposed parties , the one contending that the freedom of the Spirit so emancipated them from social convention that they could act as they pleased , especially in sexual indulgence , the other with more plausibility holding that the life of the Spirit required renunciation of marriage . |
| 10 | ‘ By saying that the documentary needed to face up to the frauds , if only to distinguish them from sincere practitioners . ’ |
| 11 | Model B , on the other hand would effectively ‘ nationalize ’ the 90 or so major institutions and thereby remove them from local control . |
| 12 | At a time when many middle-class voters would be looking for the party that would best defend them from Labour , this Conservative strength would be of vital importance . |
| 13 | As the phonemic contrasts in one 's own language are " built in " , it can be expected that it takes longer to detach oneself from these contrasts than it takes to master the actual pronunciation . |
| 14 | The third characteristic envisaged for the polytechnics , namely that they should have an ‘ applied philosophy ’ , means that their courses should have a vocational orientation and be designed with specific career outlets in mind , thus distinguishing them from many university courses which are sometimes described as ‘ pure ’ . |
| 15 | Having just painfully disentangled herself from one relationship , she had no intention of getting involved in another for a very long time . |
| 16 | President , Congress , Conference I know we will all welcome all the pressure that we can be brought to this government and its pursuit of policies if that 's the right world , policies that do n't have a direction would just have them from one crisis to another . |
| 17 | or for any You ca n't just take it from any time ? |
| 18 | The Iranians , who soon freed themselves from Hellenistic control and always escaped that of Rome , were also the only nation which the Greeks had known and appraised before Alexander . |
| 19 | Because when my government does see the pattern — you 're quite right they do n't want to see it right now and my D-G is n't helping them — but when these people do the next thing , and it 'll have to be something big — they 're up against a deadline on Berlin they 've already escalated it from forged documents to drugging people to shooting them God knows what comes next well when something new happens the lone psychopath theory will be dead , dead , dead . |
| 20 | I scarcely see him from one working day to the next . ’ |
| 21 | We are aware that serial killers and the like are merely expressing themselves , working out their various hang-ups and generally freeing themselves from those inhibitions which might , if suppressed , make them less complete human beings . |
| 22 | Virtually the whole process has been controlled by Personnel staff thus freeing us from many of the conventional DP constraints . |
| 23 | Actually , this one 's called an Official Match Day Magazine , presumably to differentiate it from all the unofficial ones . |
| 24 | The pool was large for a private one , lying at the bottom of a vast expanse of immaculate lawn and surrounded by a high yew hedge which effectively hid it from all directions ( unless you were on a horse or a double-decker bus ) . |
| 25 | When his solicitor had phoned to make the appointment , refusing to say why his client wished to see her , she had secretly prayed that fate might intervene and mercifully save her from this meeting . |
| 26 | And , granted that much , " We " then further discriminate ourselves from other men by elaborations of these same three distinctions : |
| 27 | Town says that , of Britain 's 100 most prescribed drugs , he can buy 67 abroad , sell them for 20 per cent less than the NHS price , and still make anything from 3 to 300 per cent profit . |
| 28 | The tragedy is that life has now become complex and involved , and they wonder if they can ever break themself from all those things that are now hindrances . |
| 29 | Political , economic , and scientific functions had gradually freed themselves from religious control . |
| 30 | Flares are n't news in Dublin they 're still wearing them from that first time round . |