Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] from [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's about a woman who liberates herself from her overpowering and dominant husband . |
| 2 | It is still one of the great passions of the Old Delhi-wallahs , and one of the many habits which distinguishes them from their Punjabi neighbours in the New City . |
| 3 | Some , including soff , tief , cruff are identifiable as of Creole origin by virtue of their pronunciation , ( and in the case of tief also by its use as a verb rather than a noun ) which distinguishes them from their Standard counterparts soft , thief , scruff(y) , which have no special meaning within youth culture . |
| 4 | Specials share almost all the usual police responsibilities and just a small insignia on the epaulette distinguishes them from their regular colleagues . |
| 5 | Specials share almost all the usual police responsibilities and just a small insignia on the epaulette distinguishes them from their regular colleagues . |
| 6 | Since intra-plate volcanicity is linked to effectively stationary sub-lithospheric thermal anomalies , there is only a limited amount of time available for a volcano to develop before plate motion removes it from its underlying region of crustal melting and source of magma generation ( Fig. 5.3 ) . |
| 7 | Just as the concentration on individual managers isolates them from their proper context and makes them almost personally responsible for local policy variations , so the concentration on the processes of local politics isolated these from other sets of socio-economic processes . |
| 8 | … The want of ideas of their real essences sends us from our own thoughts , to the things themselves . |
| 9 | There is a breath of punk in what they aspire to : the Do Anything You Wan na Do line of thought that infiltrates everything from their offstage character through to their dealings with the record company . |
| 10 | Mr Fallon by contrast runs his from his front room . |