Example sentences of "[v-ing] from their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together , these mean that piglets need protecting from their own mothers as well as from other sows . |
| 2 | The parchment was illuminated : an Englishman stood waist-deep in an ocean of scalloped rills , drawing a galleon of far greater tonnage than any ship Kit had ever sailed in as if it were a child 's toy boat ; he was pulling it towards a pair of islands , like pease puddings , smoking from their rounded summits on the pretty dish of the sea , garnished with sea creatures : one had a spiralling tusk and frilly fins , another a crocodile 's saw-toothed snout . |
| 3 | They were failing to recognize or were positively discounting the rights of those dissenting from their particular views of public order , and subjecting that dissent to the full coercion of the state . |
| 4 | We need to analyse the interaction between electors , whose attitudes have already been influenced by a variety of considerations ( ranging from their own sense of both national and local political issues , down to whatever perception they might have concerning their need to accommodate themselves to their social superiors ) , and the party electioneers , who were determined to influence the electorate in whatever way they thought fit ( which invariably meant a combination of political propaganda and various forms of manipulation , bribery and intimidation ) . |
| 5 | Beaked whales generally have only a single pair of teeth protruding from their lower jaw , and instead of teeth they use a ribbed palate to get a firm grasp on their prey . |
| 6 | The germanium layer confines the charges just under the skin , preventing them from bumping into the surface and scattering from their designated path through the transistor . |
| 7 | The principal moment I 'm left with is a shot of two smoky essences in bottles , the sound of dry autumn leaves rustling through a chill night wind , and the voices of Cecil Kellaway and Veronica Lake , father and daughter , conversing from their adjacent bottles . |
| 8 | Considerable amounts of beer were consumed on the factories in these pre 1914 days , and boys were employed as beer runners operating from their chosen pubs . |
| 9 | She swivelled her eyes to the potatoes Léonie was fetching from their earthy resting-place on the larder floor . |
| 10 | But Liverpool were congratulated for their efforts to minimise touting from their 26,000 allocation . |
| 11 | The kernel of the arms-race idea is that both sides in the arms race are improving from their own point of view , while simultaneously making life more difficult for the other side in the arms race . |
| 12 | The cows were approaching in a long , strung-out line , plodding purposefully along beneath clouds of steam rising from their muddy flanks . |
| 13 | It has , however , been made more visible in recent years by the lower national birth rate and by the strong natural increase of immigrant groups , resulting from their youthful age structure and relatively high fertility . |
| 14 | Conservative Western military analysts have expressed scepticism about Soviet statements that they are removing from their armed forces both the capability and the doctrine of a large-scale attack on western Europe . |
| 15 | THE British Trust for Conservation Volunteers in Darlington need a new environment they are moving from their present offices and urgently need an alternative . |
| 16 | Moreover , benefiting from their interior railway network , the French were able to move troops from this area to the now crucial sector of the campaign : the threatening German swing through Belgium and northeast France . |
| 17 | The baleen whales ( Mysticetes ) are huge creatures who sieve from the sea small crustaceans and fish through a curtain of fibrous baleen material hanging from their upper jaw . |
| 18 | Men with a low body mass index in later life were relatively protected against the susceptibility to glucose intolerance stemming from their low birth weights , while 17% of those of low birth weight but with a high body mass index later in life were frankly diabetic . |
| 19 | it should be remembered that though these students often have no recent formal education , their motivation and potential learning power is very strong , stemming from their constant exposure to a bilingual environment , and the realisation that a certificated functional bilingual environment will raise the chances of their and others ' access to education , employment and public services . |
| 20 | The Dutch biotechnology company , Gist Brocades , is working on a scheme by which pigs could be fed with a product deriving from their own waste . |
| 21 | He seeks stimulus and perspective from the best management writers , profiting from their profit-making experiences . |
| 22 | These latter results exclude data from 34 patients with index ulcers less than 5 mm in diameter who had cumulative two , four , and eight week healing rates of 41.2% , 73.5% , and 97.1% respectively and 54 patients suffering from their first ulcer for whom the equivalent healing rates were 50% , 74.1% , and 94.4% . |
| 23 | They must cross the gender divide to join their fathers , both to help them cope with the pain of parting from their first love and also to match social expectations of the male sex . |
| 24 | They will also switch spending from their day-to-day Budgets to rail , road , communications and other prestige projects . |
| 25 | Cockroaches and dragonflies appeared in the Upper Carboniferous ( 300 m years ago ) , at the same time as the giant clubmosses , ferns and seed ferns ; beetles are known from the Permian , and flies and wasps from the end of the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous when the angiosperms were diverging from their seed-fern ancestors . |
| 26 | Well perhaps because they were more idealist and that now they 're becoming more realist but they 're still erm I mean they 're learning from their past mistakes and they 've seen that right so we have to have a moderate policy which is gon na take us a little bit further towards socialism . |
| 27 | Learning from their heavy losses , the Soviets abandoned offensives using convoys of tanks , which had been easy targets , and adopted more flexible methods , relying particularly on helicopter raids . |
| 28 | They followed , deep now among the containers , every muscle paining from their constant alertness . |
| 29 | The Odes might thus be called ( without detracting from their literary value ) an experimental workshop of metres . |
| 30 | A most respectable party had taken the dining room but the landlord was either too flustered or too gauche to respect the privacy which , judging from their first expressions on seeing Hope , they felt they had ordered and even paid for . |