Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] it from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter is an account of the process and is an attempt to see it from the family 's perspective . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In addition to dealers , other objects of anger were farmers who were thought to be withholding grain from the market and thus creating an " artificial " scarcity ; merchants who attempted to buy up corn to move it from the district in which it had been grown at times when local markets were under-supplied ; and millers who were considered to be either bulk buying and hoarding corn or else charging the poor too much for grinding grain . |
| 5 | So get the checkout staff to wrap your plant in a paper or plastic sleeve to protect it from the wind . |
| 6 | Doctors call this reaction chronic inflammation to distinguish it from the immediate , acute reaction or injury or allergy . |
| 7 | It 's an antibiotic stuff to clean it from the inside . |
| 8 | When it comes to the end of that subordinate clause , you need a comma to separate it from the main clause , which is then going to follow . |
| 9 | After 1870 industrialization and urbanization entered a new phase , which economic historians have designated the second industrial revolution to distinguish it from the coming of industry to Britain over a century earlier . |
| 10 | Ireland is presented as a place whose feminine nature makes the country require a more powerful masculine presence to keep it from the savagery of the giant who is unmistakably a Roman Catholic monster . |
| 11 | Fit a suitable damp-proof membrane around the frame to isolate it from the surrounding masonry , then fit the frame in the opening . |
| 12 | The same goes for diving in front of a seal pup to protect it from the sealers . |
| 13 | Matey had gone out , not to return until late at night , leaving Dr Neil 's tea in the larder on a plate carefully positioned under a fine gauze hood to protect it from the ubiquitous flies ; he had said not to leave him supper , for he might visit the local evening market where prepared food of all kinds was on sale , from oysters to whelks ; he was partial to shellfish , he said . |
| 14 | But it is extremely unreasonable to suppose that all ( perhaps any ) human beings act from that motivation , either , and if morality is to be a generally human phenomenon , it is simply a mistake to equate it from the beginning with such exigently Kantian formulations , and it is a mistake even from the point of view of the human sciences . |
| 15 | The usual way to overcome this problem is to cover the specimen with a liquid to protect it from the vacuum and then increase the power of the electron beam so that it can penetrate the protective fluid . |
| 16 | I will call it the principle of comprehensive ( political ) neutrality to distinguish it from the second principle which will be called the principle of narrow ( political ) neutrality . |
| 17 | Beat well until the dough comes away from the sides of the bowl , then transfer to a lightly floured surface and knead well by stretching the dough away from you , using the heel of one hand to push it from the centre outwards . |
| 18 | A kind of exophoric reference which does not depend on the specific situation to distinguish it from the situationally specific type , for example The Cornish pasty is a well-known delicacy in south-west England ( non-specific ) contrasted with Wait ! |
| 19 | It was like a fog to see it from the main road . |
| 20 | An investigation of the Directorate published in Izvestiya of Oct. 22 , 1992 , revealed that the October 1991 order to form it from the troops of the Russian Interior Ministry was unknown to Supreme Soviet deputies ; that its personnel was armed and " in exceptional circumstances " could distribute its arms to people 's deputies ; that it guarded about 75 buildings in Moscow , " two-thirds of which have absolutely no relation to the parliament " ; and that it came under the jurisdiction only of the parliamentary Chairman . |
| 21 | The first of the three lamps is referred to as the backlight , and its function is to provide a rim of light from behind the subject in order to separate it from the background . |
| 22 | Thus the goodness which is associated with the good breast may be preserved and protected by being introjected , to appear as an attribute of self ; but if the infant 's anxiety is aroused by its own feelings of frustration and hatred , the same good object may be projected outwards in order to protect it from the overwhelming badness which the infant feels to be within itself . |
| 23 | After extensive work in the Edinburgh studio , it was transported back to Tain and encased in a glass enclosure to protect it from the elements . |
| 24 | The virtue of the Prince must be ‘ secured , like Ulysses , to the mast of the law , in order to save it from the seductive voices of flattery and vanity ’ . |
| 25 | This very frequently discussed feature of Hebrew poetry needs to be mentioned here primarily in order to distinguish it from the subject of this paper . |
| 26 | In particular , he reversed his previous position that Greece would recognize Macedonia if it adopted a prefix to distinguish it from the northern Greek province of Macedonia . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The early Earth had little atmosphere to shield it from the searing heat of the sun at mid-day , or the freezing cold of night . |
| 29 | An animal 's pace of life is known as its rate of physiological time to distinguish it from the natural rhythms of time which all animals share . |