Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [noun sg] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mar was a 40-year-old former Secretary of State for Scotland who , dropped from office by George I , had turned Jacobite , making his house in London a centre of the anti-Hanoverian conspiracy before , in August 1715 , sailing from London on a collier to Newcastle and thence to Elie in Fife . |
| 2 | His first , 11 weeks after the crash took place on December 20 when he was gently transferred from hospital by ambulance , strapped to a stretcher . |
| 3 | Haig was saved from dismissal by defenders on the Unionist side , but Robertson 's removal caused a small stir , and Unionists voted in force to save Lloyd George 's face in the Maurice debate . |
| 4 | Most are malnourished , only saved from starvation by water and food provided en route by the Red Cross . |
| 5 | St George 's Market ( 1896 ) handsome redbrick buildings — may now be saved from ruin by proposals for restoration |
| 6 | It took them five overs to score their first run and they were only saved from disaster by captain Allan Lamb . |
| 7 | The plot has an almost geometric neatness , but is saved from aridity by Yorke 's sense of humour and excellent use of detail . |
| 8 | And she was right there , too , but Clara was beyond the rights and wrongs of the case , blissfully carried away into the angry , amoral world of combat , wonderfully disconnected from truth and falsehood , freed from gratitude by meanness , released from effort by knowledge of fruitless impossibility . |
| 9 | This project first develops a methodology to enable the annually-published data on levels of expenditure and provision to be used , freed from distortion by inflation and changed definitions . |
| 10 | The very term ‘ lunatic ’ , which was widely used in this discourse , implies a lay psychological theory : the term denotes people whose thinking is disrupted from logicality by personality or stupidity . |
| 11 | France has introduced regulations on the protection of water supplied from pollution by nitrates from agricultural use . |
| 12 | Elections for the republican assemblies held there during April-May 1990 [ see pp. 37381-82 ] resulted in the communists being ousted from power by opposition parties , although a direct presidential election in Slovenia was won by the candidate of the Party of Democratic Renewal ( LCS — the renamed Slovene League of Communists — see p. 37381 ) . |
| 13 | Whilst Williams and his coterie were planning their strategy , there were also some political developments of note in Jamaica , where in January the Jamaican Labour Party was ousted from power by Norman Manley 's People 's National Party , a success firmly rooted in mass popular support for a charismatic leader . |
| 14 | However , apposition is distinguished from co-ordination by criterion B , since the conjunction of co-referential elements is unacceptable . |
| 15 | The new Health Secretary is married to fellow MP Peter Bottomley , who was sacked from office by Mrs Thatcher . |
| 16 | Plucked from obscurity by US intelligence and groomed into a CIA asset over three decades , the general took no chances . |
| 17 | Uncured pork from a firm at Wisbech , Cambs , has been withdrawn from sale by supermarkets and shops . |
| 18 | The inside was hidden from view by shutters and curtains . |
| 19 | We also found that cadherin epitopes on LC ( and KC ) were degraded by trypsin in 1mM EDTA ( TE cells ) and protected from trypsin by 1mM calcium ( TC cells ) , as previously reported for E- and P-cadherins ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 20 | This picture also highlights that the mutations that directly affect CytR binding to deoP2 are positioned adjacent to and partially overlapping the regions protected from attack by hydroxyl radicals by CytR . |
| 21 | In practice , firms may be protected from entry by regulation , and therefore have no need to take steps to deter potential competitors . |
| 22 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 23 | The floor was entirely covered with sheet lead , which was protected from wear by oak slats , and the sides , to a height of 3ft were sheathed with stout zinc sheets . |
| 24 | The point is not whether some places , or even some regions and countries should be , or could still be , protected from disruption by change , but whether this is what modern political xenophobia is actually trying to do . |
| 25 | Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow : Our Minamata Disease by Michiko Ishimure , translated from Japanese by Livia Monnet Yamaguchi Publishing House , pp 365 , 5000 yen/$35 |
| 26 | Clearly these ideas relate to Eliot 's plays and to ‘ Burnt Norton ’ where dangers of being ‘ Distracted from distraction by distraction ’ seem connected with the spectre of a metropolis seen as the antithesis of religious values . |
| 27 | Restored from description by Vitruvius , Rome University |
| 28 | The arrival of Joanna , brought from hospital by Ian , distracted her from sorrowful thoughts , for which she was thankful . |
| 29 | These general principles are derived from experience by induction . |
| 30 | The extreme demand that all knowledge should be derived from experience by induction rules out the principle of induction basic to the inductivist position . |