Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 3 | Scientists face a constant struggle to segregate themselves from the inducements offered by governments , pressure groups and publishers , all of which may provide alternative sources of funding and prestige to those of their colleagues . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This chapter is an account of the process and is an attempt to see it from the family 's perspective . |
| 6 | The fashion for opera , its current potency to promote anything from a fast car to a pension scheme , does not venture beyond Puccini . |
| 7 | The place of violence in English labour history has been reconsidered since the earlier historians , notably the Webbs and Hammonds , followed a Fabian predisposition to exclude it from the mainstream of labour action . |
| 8 | The hotel to stay in is the Victoria , a handsome pile run by the genial Platzer family ; they send a minibus to fetch you from the little airport at Berne — one hour 's drive away — and Herr Platzer then shows you where to hire ski equipment ( roughly £24 a week ) and organise lessons . |
| 9 | Delineating his theory of retreat into illness as a means of obtaining power , he wrote , ‘ Every neurosis must be understood as an attempt to free oneself from a feeling of inferiority in order to gain a feeling of superiority . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't know , ’ Sarella said dully in a last-ditch attempt to salvage something from the wreckage of her self-esteem . |
| 11 | In some places you can find dozens of enrolled trilobites together ; these are the remains of the animals themselves , not the moults , which presumably perished together after a fruitless attempt to protect themselves from a miniature catastrophe such as a sudden influx of sediment . |
| 12 | In Jennings , above , the accused had a sheathknife to protect himself from a person with whom he had been quarrelling . |
| 13 | So the next two days were spent in readying and arming a mixed squadron of available craft , merchanters all , but every one necessarily accustomed to using defensive artillery to protect themselves from the English pirates who infested the Norse Sea . |
| 14 | He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ They 'd get done in if they did it 'ere , ’ said Nancy , using her healthy roundness to expel herself from the jammed-up doorway . |
| 16 | Codemasters ' director David Darling said : ‘ The fact that Sega has chosen to wait to sue until just before our commercial launch shows this is a blatant attempt to keep us from the market they control . ’ |
| 17 | In spite of his ritual attempt to distance himself from the young man who had written that poem , he knew very well that even his contemporary reputation in large part rested on it : that , and the last three of the Four Quartets , he told Ezra Pound , had been worth writing . |
| 18 | Their statement was interpreted as an attempt to distance themselves from the so-called ‘ Central Belt activists ’ who withdrew their strongly worded motion at the executive and voted with the six on the statement drawn up by Councillor Rob Gibson which regretted the MPs ' actions . |
| 19 | " Combining mystery with history " : this was a phrase I invented ( or perhaps inadvertently cribbed ) for the blurb of the first novel I wrote under the pseudonym of Evelyn Hervey , The Governess , a story in which Miss Harriet Unwin in her first post as a governess in 1870s London finds herself accused of murder and has to pinpoint the real killer to save herself from the Old Bailey . |
| 20 | In the following year they passed the Septennial Act , which extended the life of Parliament ( including the present one elected under the terms of the Triennial Act ) to seven years , a deliberate attempt to shield themselves from the electorate . |
| 21 | But even though it did in a campaign where he was one of Tottenham 's top performers , Venables has been unable to keep his word because of chairman Alan Sugar 's attempt to oust him from the club . |
| 22 | Instead of ribs , the machine has a canvas roof to shield us from the weather , and although one can peer out through slits here and there , the effect is of travelling in a closed world , like an outsize gypsy wagon . |
| 23 | For the last six months the managers brought into the firm by Robert Maxwell have been trying to strike a deal to wrench it from the quagmire of his estate . |
| 24 | DINAMO Tbilisi , as expected , have lodged their appeal against UEFA 's decision to disqualify them from the European Cup ( writes Lyle Jackson ) . |
| 25 | Mr Slovo , who learnt about the plan to kill him from the Johannesburg Star , not from the police , attributed the plot to the right 's desperation . |
| 26 | The gypsies themselves are puzzled by the apparant determination of the council to evict them from a site well away from public view . |
| 27 | The three ministers belonging to the CDU ( which had been under pressure from its West German counterpart to dissociate itself from the regime ) also withdrew from the coalition on Jan. 25 " to make way for negotiations " but would continue in a caretaker capacity . |
| 28 | The artefact 's capacity to separate itself from the immediacy of a relationship embodied in the concept of utility is most evident in the manner in which it is used for precisely the opposite function , that is , to separate the individual from productive activity . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ It 's lonely being a long way ahead so you have to get youself into a cocoon to protect yourself from the thoughts that can trouble your mind . ’ |
| 30 | This church , Santa Ephygenia was where the African slaves came to worship , to pray to the saint to protect them from the dreadful accidents they faced in the mines . |