Example sentences of "[v-ing] it from the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That principle would justify paying compensation from the corporate treasury , and thus from the account of shareholders , rather than , for example , deducting it from the wages of employees who actually played a causal part in the unfortunate story .
2 In 1985–6 , the government transferred a quarter of the overall funding for work-related FE courses in further education colleges from local authorities ' budgets ( by deducting it from the rate support grant , the predecessor of the revenue support grant ; see Chapter 8 ) to the MSC .
3 The bronze weather-vane can be removed by simply unscrewing it from the metal assemblage holding it , which takes 2 rounds .
4 Instinctively he waved it from his face before getting to his feet and brushing it from the lapels of his overcoat .
5 Its owners move themselves about by protruding it from the shell and rippling its undersurface .
6 Particularly as we , we 've had a major issue in our budget proposals to do specifically on this , this , but I think if we have good practice in Shropshire , we should be sort of er , shouting it from the rooftops really , as this is very good practice .
7 Oh , I was writing it from the board actually .
8 The problem of living in the big stone-built Manor House on the edge of the village , with the trees shielding it from the road , and the drive .
9 They have passed through the flasks electric sparks simulating lightning , and ultraviolet light , which would have been much stronger before the Earth had an ozone layer shielding it from the sun 's rays .
10 It had a large nave with massive columns separating it from the aisles ( 92 and 93 ) .
11 To find the benefits of religion , we have to find some way of separating it from the institutions which claim to represent it .
12 It had been built on a piece of glebe land behind the church , with a narrow drive running up beside the churchyard wall , separating it from the lane , isolating it from other houses .
13 But the aim now is not necessarily to liberate sexuality ( the sexual drive ) , but to eroticize the social while at the same time releasing it from the grip of sexuality especially as manifested in the ideology of sexual difference .
14 part of the documentation I received , so I presume you 're extracting it from the H and T report of the second of July nineteen ninety two .
15 But , as in most places , shortages were eased by ingenious home-made car parts and machinery , by pooling transport where possible and , for instance , easing the salt shortage by extracting it from the sea .
16 The car plunged into the ocean in the Bahamas and was seen emerging off Corsica — with an ordinary sweeping brush covering up the tell tale tracks in the sand left by the cable pulling it from the sea .
17 Take good hold of the rabbit , pulling it from the hole , preferably by its back legs .
18 Firing the shutter can be equally basic , by mounting a lever on the card camera box and even pulling it from the ground by separate line .
19 Pulling it from the table and scattering pins across the floor , Constance held up the half-finished garment .
20 For a long moment he held her tightly against him as if he was afraid she might try to elude him , then when he seemed sure of her his hands encircled her waist , moulded her hips and moved upwards , unbuttoning her shirt , pulling it from the waistband of her jeans , then slipping it from her shoulders until it fell to the floor .
21 His public speeches were all aimed at converting the party to a positive belief in coalition , leading it from the front — and in a direction where many Unionists did not wish to follow .
22 Then in 1650 Vane was voted out of the position and Hutchinson succeeded him , holding it from the beginning of 1651 until the Restoration .
23 We are therefore exploring opportunities for divesting it from the group and have already successfully negotiated a number of disposals , including the sale of its processed meats division .
24 As we shall show in greater detail later , Descartes justified his principle of linear inertia by ostensibly deducing it from the immutability of God — a God who conserved the simplest kind of motion in the world .
25 By the way , the ‘ box ’ had a had a hole in it ; disconnecting it from the air intake manifold and replacing it with a blank plug seems to have solved our original problem with no immediately apparent side-effects .
26 He reported after the Sixth Comintern Congress that ’ As a rule , when we tell our Latin American comrades , on meeting them for the first time , that the situation of their country is that of a semi-colony and consequently we must consider the problems concerning it from the viewpoint of our colonial or semi-colonial tactics , they are indignant at this notion and assert that their country is independent , that it is represented in the League of Nations , has its own diplomats , consulates , etc . ’
27 Would you mind getting it from the car ? ’
28 Moving it from the training camp ground to the hospital ward was the most commercial and seemingly the most obvious — course to be taken .
29 By February he was at least considering a retirement condition , though still sceptical about its effect on unemployment , and commissioned a paper on the feasibility of enforcing it from the Ministry of Labour 's representative on the Committee , P.Y. Blundun .
30 Elite collaboration is the rule in liberal corporatism , distinguishing it from the elite competition of democratic elitism or the single dominant elite of totalitarian regimes ( see Figure 4.1 ) .
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