Example sentences of "[to-vb] they from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deputations of pit brow lasses visited Parliament in the 1880s and in 1911 during campaigns by the miners and some coal owners to exclude them from the collieries . |
| 2 | The stresses and tensions in those early days got to me , even though I managed to obscure them from the viewers . |
| 3 | The old woman settled back in her chair and shook her shoulders as if to free them from the burdens of the present . |
| 4 | You should make these regular and wide , however , to differentiate them from the steps , otherwise they could become dangerous to anyone rushing up them who mistakes a landing for a step . |
| 5 | Barriers had to be put around their pictures when they exhibited at the Royal Academy to protect them from the crowds of ardent devotees ; reproductions of their works were sold in their tens of thousands . |
| 6 | For such old people one has to ask whether acceptance of their professed wish to stay at home carries with it a responsibility to protect them from the consequences of their infirmity . |
| 7 | The police , who routinely bend the rules in black areas , portray the youth of Brixton as doing the same , acting as if they were ‘ above the law ’ because of special measures designed to protect them from the consequences of their illegal actions — a fairly apt description of the police 's own position until very recently . |
| 8 | In some of the more remote parishes , sculptures and carvings escaped the attentions of the iconoclasts , and elsewhere ornamental features such as carved fonts were boarded over and plastered to protect them from the commissioners . |
| 9 | The wheels were placed inside in order to protect them from the elements as well as from the deliberate damage that sometimes occurred during water disputes . |
| 10 | The steel bars of the cage were enclosed by tarpaulin sheets to protect them from the elements , except for one side , which was open with just a simple lift bar to move before exit . |
| 11 | It is essential to provide shelter for horses to protect them from the extremes of heat , cold , wind , or rain . |
| 12 | For the first few days we kept the family shut into the cow-shed , to protect them from the cats ; but I really think that if any cat had had the temerity to put in an attack , the hen would have chased it half-way to Gloucester . |
| 13 | Both their lorries were green , and so were their lead reins , anti-sweat sheets , buckets and bandages , and there were green braids on their splendid horses ' tails , which were left down until the last moment to protect them from the flies . |
| 14 | Linfield needed a gifted player to lift them from the doldrums after a disappointing start to the league campaign which prompted Bowyer 's dismissal . |
| 15 | IF DODGE City and Tombstone had to wait for movie star-type heroes to save them from the outlaws who were over-running the communities , would they stand by the lawmen if it looked like the bad guys were n't going to stay beat ? |
| 16 | In too many cases telecoms authorities had persuaded their governments to defend them from the provisions of the Treaty of Rome . |
| 17 | During a series of meetings with US President Bush , the US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney and the US Secretary of State James Baker , Moiseyev was informed that the USA would refuse to accept the reclassification of three Soviet motorized divisions as naval coastal units so as to exempt them from the terms of the treaty [ see p. 38027 ] . |
| 18 | They wore white uniforms in summer to distinguish them from the crowds that might throng their stations . |
| 19 | Such bodies are known as corporations , or ( to distinguish them from the corporations sole , to be mentioned later ) corporations aggregate . |
| 20 | to distinguish them from the signs by which we are already combining elements of Q. The new symbols are sufficiently unfamiliar to remind us of their defining role but sufficiently similar to + and . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most important point to be made about postverbals is to distinguish them from the adjectives in the last remaining position , the extraclausal adjectives , which occur in an identical sequence of syntactic elements , but which correspond to a different surface structure as in : ( 45 ) the two reformers persevered undaunted two stagehands appeared , breathless They have the different intensional structure : |
| 22 | Apart from the fact that they have an arrest rate lower than that of some of the older generation , there seems nothing of substance to distinguish them from the founders of the DUP party . |
| 23 | — The scarlet coat started as a uniform for the hunt staff ( paid professionals ) in the eighteenth century to distinguish them from the gentlemen riders who wore coats of all colours then . |
| 24 | He did not enumerate them , but it is not hard to reconstruct them from the records of over half a century of Masai administration . |