Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] from [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted to watch him and then say something to find out how hard it would be to retrieve him from such self-preservation . |
| 2 | A particular excavated level ( corresponding , for example , to a bronze Age occupation floor ) can be ‘ modelled ’ on a computer screen and the power of coordinate geometry embodied in a sophisticated computer program allows us to view it from any angle and at any elevation . |
| 3 | To insist on an overtly Polish identity was to exclude oneself from polite and educated Danzig society and to disqualify oneself from any job that promised social and economic advancement . |
| 4 | The name Tourmalet means literally ‘ bad way round ’ , but that was a billing which the col earned in more demanding times than the present , when there was no proper road over the pass but when you could hire porters to carry you from one valley to the next by chair . |
| 5 | It was a tool to help me from one point of safety to another ; it carried not only the tent , camping equipment , and food , but the weightiest item of all , water . |
| 6 | I can do no better than to draw the attention of the House to this statement in Labour 's charter for sport : ’ We will review the composition and powers of the Sports Council to free them from political bias ’ . |
| 7 | For the centre of the metropolis the aim was to define the function of the various component parts and , while making them more efficient and dignified , to free them from damaging intrusion . |
| 8 | It is interesting to note that this example shows that what underlies Hobbes 's rejection of formal causes is , perhaps , no more than an impatience with what the Aristotelians said about them , and a desire to disassociate himself from that tradition . |
| 9 | It is not known when Napoleon managed to extricate himself from this chaos . |
| 10 | He needed all his skill and tact if he was going to extricate himself from this situation and spend the night sleeping in his hotel bed , alone . |
| 11 | Mr Eduardo Angeloz , the Radical candidate to succeed Mr Alfonsin in the election on May 14th , wanted to dissociate himself from this disaster ; he found it cOnvenient to blame Mr Sourrouille . |
| 12 | ‘ Yet you must have help to free you from this condition and , frankly , I have found myself at a loss . |
| 13 | I ca n't wait for you any longer , especially when I consider how long it might take to extricate you from another relationship if I give you time and you use it to involve yourself with Jones or whoever else you might have in mind … |
| 14 | X , who did not have one in stock , contracted to buy one from Four Point Garage . |
| 15 | Something must be done to free her from this grip . |
| 16 | To this end it announced that the electoral commission was to be reconstituted in order to free it from political influence and manipulation . |
| 17 | I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is as amazed as I am that Labour Front-Bench spokesmen refuse to dissociate themselves from that position , and therefore stand to reject ’ alien investment ’ . |
| 18 | It must not be supposed , therefore , that the desire of Protestants to dissociate themselves from Catholic Christianity automatically created a disposition in favor of free thought . |
| 19 | While revenue contributions inevitably increased burdens upon ratepayers , and asset sales produced a ‘ once only ’ financial benefit ( as well as being politically unpalatable to many , notably Labour-controlled , authorities ) this was the perhaps inevitable response of local authorities seeking to free themselves from centrally-imposed borrowing restrictions ( as well as the high cost of borrowing after the mid-1970s ) . |
| 20 | For it was the people of the three original founding cantons , Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden , who took the first steps to free themselves from external domination and start what was to become an independent confederation of communities , unified in a unique fashion , which in their early years were mostly called simply the Confederates but later became known as Schweizer after the name of one of the original component areas , Schwyz . |
| 21 | These were the people who used that experience to free themselves from intellectual slavery to any party , but who did not lose the innocence of faith in the human capacity to change the world for the better . |
| 22 | Right , if you 've got ta do three essays now from six you have to do one from each section , then you 're gon na do either two of developmental , o it 's unclear exactly what the breakdown will be on that .. |
| 23 | ‘ This meeting , having taken into consideration the proceedings of former meetings , and being informed that many respectable persons delay giving their names as subscribers while the proceedings of the committee are subject to be reported to the Odiham Society , and are under the controul [ sic ] thereof , find it expedient to detach themselves from that Society , the work on which they are engaged being of so considerable importance , the reformation and improvement of Farriery , requiring that it should be confined to that purpose and use alone , and be under the sole management and control of its own members . |
| 24 | Talk of magic in the Western World as a spent force : self-congratulatory accounts of cults that had been infiltrated , and discovered to be groups of pseudo-scientists exchanging arcane theories in a language no two of them agreed upon , or sexual obsessives using the excuse of workings to demand favours they could n't seduce from their partners or , most often , crazies in search of some mythology , however ludicrous , to keep them from complete psychosis . |
| 25 | But even being able to articulate my needs was not sufficient to protect me from further abuse . |
| 26 | Corals , which must remain close to the surface of the water because they contain symbiotic algae which photosynthesize , also tend to contain specific pigments to protect them from ultraviolet light . |
| 27 | Goering and Ribbentrop keep bodyguards to protect them from each other . |
| 28 | In a bid to protect them from possible attack by Oswald and Eadbald , acting in collusion , Aethelburh sent the Deiran princes for greater protection to the Frankish king , Dagobert I , for fear specifically of Oswald and Eadbald ( HE 11 , 20 ) . |
| 29 | It is perhaps not coincidental that the same Islanders , whilst wishing to keep their traditional forms of adoption , are also seeking legal security to protect them from undue interference from the natural family . |
| 30 | West Belfast should be treated as a special case and a uniform grant at the Premium 3 level given for all trainees ; alternative solutions must be found where it is simply not possible to find employers to take second year trainees ; cover should be given to management committees to protect them from personal liability in the event of insolvency . |