Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [noun sg] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Most are malnourished , only saved from starvation by water and food provided en route by the Red Cross . |
| 3 | It took them five overs to score their first run and they were only saved from disaster by captain Allan Lamb . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | However , apposition is distinguished from co-ordination by criterion B , since the conjunction of co-referential elements is unacceptable . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In practice , firms may be protected from entry by regulation , and therefore have no need to take steps to deter potential competitors . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | These general principles are derived from experience by induction . |
| 16 | The extreme demand that all knowledge should be derived from experience by induction rules out the principle of induction basic to the inductivist position . |
| 17 | A government and a church should be complementary in the management of human affairs , the government as elected within a nation , and the church based on a world-wide acceptance of a defined ‘ god ’ — , and removed from control by government except in so far as its necessary commercial structure , and its adherents , must obey the laws of the prevailing administration . |
| 18 | The early OS maps record them and they can often be retrieved from obscurity by fieldwork in examining the bottoms of hedges and the sides of ditches . |
| 19 | And some of the people who had motives were excluded from suspicion by lack of opportunity . |
| 20 | Many lone mothers are excluded from employment by lack of jobs , lack of child care , and negative attitudes towards working mothers , and few lone mothers receive regular maintenance . |
| 21 | My young friend Ed Douglas is wrong in assuming that Victor Saunders is excluded from hero-candidacy by virtue of his Gordonstoun education , but right in suggesting its irrelevance ( April issue ) . |
| 22 | However , FAST noted that a possible future biotechnological development might be to use chemoautotrophic micro-organisms able to utilise mixtures of carbon dioxide and hydrogen ( which could be obtained from coal by reaction with steam ) to provide a wide range of organic compounds . |
| 23 | Kinship was no longer the sole idiom for legitimate relations ; voluntary contractual connections began to appear and gained ascendancy over those determined from birth by kinship . |
| 24 | Given that the laws of optics are true ( and for the naive inductivist , this can be established from observation by induction ) , and given that the initial conditions are accurately described , then the explanation of the rainbow necessarily follows . |
| 25 | For the most part , the damage is done by soluble aluminium released from soil by acid water . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Angel Alcalde , who became a deputy for United People ( Herri Batasuna — HB ) , the political wing of ETA , following the assassination on Nov. 20 , 1989 , of Josu Muguruza , an HB deputy in the Cortes [ see p. 37050 ] , was released from prison by order of the courts on Dec. 1 in order to take up his seat . |
| 28 | This is evident not only from the fact that the jurisdiction of the Legal Services Ombudsman under sections 21 to 26 of the Act stops at the moment when a complaint enters into the jurisdiction of a disciplinary tribunal : section 22(7) , but also from the fact that in section 27(3) Parliament refers to the process by which a barrister may be disbarred or temporarily suspended from practice by order of an Inn of Court without any hint that it disapproves or wishes to alter in any way the manner in which for centuries the Inns have made orders for disbarment subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 29 | Much could be learnt from day by day contacts . |