Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] from [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus if you are Jewish and working class , your Jewishness is used to disqualify you from membership of labour organizations ; but equally if you are Jewish and poor , your poverty is made to signify the essentially parasitic nature of your ‘ race ’ on the host community . |
| 2 | They seemed to sell everything from bolts of brightly coloured , imported cloth for making sarongs or Mother Hubbards — the island dress that hangs in a straight line from shoulder to ankle — to penknives and a large assortment of tools ranging from chisels to axes , from fishing lines and hooks to pots and pans . |
| 3 | Water voles have fairly specialized habitat needs : rivers or streams with steep banks and thick vegetation to protect them from birds of prey . |
| 4 | I 'm not saying I condone it , ’ he interpreted her look , ‘ but at the moment maybe it 's all she has to protect her from feelings of inadequacy . ’ |
| 5 | But it 's almost impossible to separate it from thinking of Alexander Pope the man . |
| 6 | Most of us have a major problem when faced by a very unpleasant character who is screaming like an animal or explaining how he is going to separate us from parts of our body . |
| 7 | His own contribution was to suggest ways in which the legal process exerted a powerful influence over delinquents : it provided them with a vocabulary which enabled them to justify their delinquent actions ‘ in the circumstances ’ ( ‘ techniques of neutralisation ’ ) and with a sense of injustice which helped to release them from feelings of obligation to conform . |
| 8 | Linguists therefore choose to distance themselves from questions of politics and ideology . |
| 9 | Many other writers working with similar concerns about the analysis of culture would wish to distance themselves from aspects of Montrose 's and Greenblatt 's orientation , though all would likely wish to acknowledge the influence of their work . |
| 10 | In the weeks of intense political feuding before the poll the hard-liners had accused the government and sections of the religious establishment , including the country 's spiritual leader , Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , of attempting to purge them from positions of influence . |
| 11 | At his trial at the end of January 1990 , Postelnicu blubbed out his guilt in connection with the shootings in Timişoara and the incineration of the forty victims there , but he was anxious to defend himself from charges of cupidity . |
| 12 | I do n't know what you think , I just wondered did we ought to order anything from Friends of the Earth catalogue like those sort of things to sell . |
| 13 | Broughton Street was a collection of grey boxes on the map with nothing to distinguish it from loads of other small Kentish villages . |