Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before banks or even locks and keys were invented , the usual way of protecting valuable objects and money was to hide them from other people . |
| 2 | The idea of getting everyone away is to isolate them from mundane worries so that they can concentrate wholeheartedly on the task in hand . |
| 3 | We stayed for one night , there , in quite a luxurious hotel , so there was n't anything extraordinary to grumble about : the worst bit was trying to deal with our luggage — trying to retrieve it from piled-up trollies on the airfield in the heat of the day , etc . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Cherry tried to free himself from 20-stone Flashman , who tumbled to the ground , taking with him a handful of material from Cherry 's ripped coat . |
| 7 | As Margaret Anne Doody puts it : ‘ Leapor plays with the fascination of female ugliness in such a manner as to free herself from conventional claims of feminine proprieties . |
| 8 | Lalu falls in love with mule skinner Jim ( a rather lacklustre Dennis Dun ) , who lopes off to raise the readies to buy her from slimy Hong King ( Michael Paul Chan ) leaving her in the care of his friend Charlie Bemis ( Chris Cooper ) , a compassionate but cowardly Yankee with a booze problem . |
| 9 | Older children understand that a particular situation does not inevitably provoke a particular emotion : the emotion you display depends on how you view the situation , whether you try to change your emotional reaction to it , and whether you try to conceal it from other people . |
| 10 | To this end it announced that the electoral commission was to be reconstituted in order to free it from political influence and manipulation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was decided to generate the samples from referrals to the psychogeriatric service in each borough , partly because it was easier to do that than to draw them from general practitioners ' lists or social services department referrals , but mainly in order to provide the service for people whose illness was likely to be at a relatively advanced stage and who were likely to need extra care if they were to continue to live at home . |
| 16 | And it was the conceptual element of Cubism that enabled the painters at various times to detach themselves from visual appearances without losing touch with the material world around them . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ It got so bad FBI agents had to stay at my house to protect me from religious extremists whipped up by their campaign . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Imperial Airways built a fort for passengers and planes in Persia to protect them from unwelcome visits by local tribesmen . |
| 24 | During the entire voyage the large portions of the aircraft will be cover with Polymax film to protect them from damaging sunlight and moisture , ensuring that they arrive at their new home in pristine condition . |
| 25 | If Scotland were to have a Parliament with tax-raising powers , it could of course raise taxes that it wanted to raise , but the people of Scotland should be aware that there would then be no capping and no one to protect them from excessive expenditure decided by Strathclyde or Lothian . |
| 26 | He published Directions for Bringing over Seeds and Plants from the East Indies and other Distant Countries in a State of Vegetation ( 1770 ) and one method he favoured was to coat seeds in wax to protect them from extreme temperatures . |
| 27 | To stop splatter from spilling into the conversations of people using analogue phones , the digital frequencies require buffer zones of precious spectrum to separate them from analogue channels . |
| 28 | The object of classification is to group related subjects and , at the same time , to separate them from other subjects in other groups . |
| 29 | Conran also disputes the suggestion that it must be difficult for a man so wrapped up in design to divorce himself from detailed involvement in the creative process in order to tackle the numerous other tasks that befall a captain of industry . |
| 30 | But it has to be said that he tried more consistently and more self-consciously than most political leaders to insulate himself from external pressures and to personalize decision-making . |