Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adv] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turns them away from looser , unstructured organizations . |
| 2 | And he signs himself off from systematic criticism . |
| 3 | And now — ’ she made a typical high-jumpers ' gesture , that which marks them out from all other athletes , raising her arms and stretching her torso , as if taking off to challenge that dappled crossbar . |
| 4 | He immediately cuts himself off from those ambitious city men who try ‘ to win the palm , the oak , or bays , ’ emblematic of the rewards given for artistic , political and military achievement . |
| 5 | The idea of service is extended to include the work that the manager does when he leaves his office , and it is this devotion to duty which marks him off from all the others . |
| 6 | None the less , the striking point here is that they have this central feature in common : not just that they both see the life of reason as important , but also that there is a distinctiveness about the quality , character and significance of reason when it is taken up seriously , which marks it out from conventional human experience . |
| 7 | Perhaps more important is that the demonstration role of the centre , which was launched by Prince Charles three years ago , marks it off from most traditional ‘ botanic gardens ’ . |
| 8 | Well what I think what Clare forgets , I know Clare comes from a a republican background , in South Armagh , and she s probably sees it only from that point of view . |
| 9 | It is easily cropped by animals ; if it dries out it dies ; and the very success of the asexual generation with their arching fronds cuts it off from life-giving light . |
| 10 | Bearing in mind it 's a team focus course so I 'm not giving you loads of work which takes you apart from one another , what we do is you talk together , and spend time together . |
| 11 | A council statement endorsed by Mr Pignatelli , Mr McGrath and Neil McIntosh , Strathclyde 's chief executive , said : ‘ The council dissociates itself totally from any view which links genetic theory and race in such a way . |
| 12 | Again , like Marx and the elite theorists he conceives the state largely , if not wholly , in terms of domination ; and this ‘ realist ’ view distinguishes him sharply from those social scientists who , while differing about what the role of the state should be ( how interventionist or laissez-faire ) , agree fundamentally in regarding it as an autonomous and neutral body , which arbitrates among competing claims and expresses the real consensus in society that underlies particular conflicts of interest . |
| 13 | The Reich chapter , by contrast , draws us away from individual heroic figures towards collective creativity . |
| 14 | This one now , er again hits him Mahammama on the pad , trickles out on the off side and Goch picks it up from extra cover . |
| 15 | This interchange of visual ideas permeates every facet of the weaver 's art , and is one of the prime reasons why all oriental rugs , regardless of their compositional differences , possess an underlying character that sets them apart from hand-made rugs produced in other areas of the world . |
| 16 | Although the range of handicap , both mental and physical , is considerable , the Down 's population has a common physical appearance which sets them apart from other people . |
| 17 | The very label they have given themselves — ‘ development community ’ — sets them apart from those whose life conditions they purport to ‘ develop ’ . |
| 18 | Now it is how Dorothy Heathcote sees the relationship between the two that sets her apart from most drama teachers . |
| 19 | Slater is still in high school ( well at his age , so he should be ) and the issue is still suicide , but ‘ Pump Up The Volume ’ has a rare head-on directness that sets it apart from other Hollywood teen fare . |
| 20 | What is it about PolaGraph that sets it apart from all the other black and white films ? |
| 21 | The density of the energy varies in inverse proportions to the distance , which sets it apart from electro-magnetic or gravitational laws , but for which a theory of potentials is applicable , |
| 22 | A cup of Assam tea from the north east of India , has a strength of character and verve that sets it apart from ordinary teas . |
| 23 | Whilst it rightly steers us away from naive and simplistic causal theories of deviance , it can hardly provide an approach which is substantially more fruitful . |
| 24 | The new Group C car , the C291 , carries nothing over from last year 's dominant C11 and packs an all-new 3.5-litre flat 12 to comply with new regulations governing the renamed World Sportscar Championship . |
| 25 | You will see from the lists above that modem education brings us up from early childhood to use our left brains in preference to our right brains . |