Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] from [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tying pillows to their heads with towels to protect themselves from the larger falling lumps , they set off . |
| 2 | Irony in Estella 's true background after Pip has tried so hard to distance himself from the lower classes and she turns out to have come from them . |
| 3 | During the election , for the first time , he enunciated this as a national vision : in memorable , simple , evocative terms ; as graspable in its clarity as Mrs Thatcher 's , but sufficiently orientated towards ‘ safety nets ’ , ‘ decency ’ , the ‘ citizen 's charter ’ and ‘ effective delivery ’ themes to distance itself from the harsher extremes of Thatcherite social gospel . |
| 4 | Led by , but not restricted to , the Japanese , these were what Michalet ( 1976 ) labelled ‘ workshop ’ affiliates , to distinguish them from the earlier ‘ relay ’ affiliates that ‘ cloned ’ the business in the foreign country . |
| 5 | This call the lesser chamber because to distinguish it from the greater chamber . |