Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] from [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for this , however , is that almost all the references are found in what are intended to be exhaustive lists of ways of acquiring property : heretics , for instance , are debarred from acquiring under any title including legacy and trust ; curial property received in any way ( including legacy and trust ) is taxable . |
| 2 | women are disallowed from participating in most public decision-making and from the political process in general ; they are associated with the domain of the domestic ; |
| 3 | Similarly , partners are prevented from participating in a competing business . |
| 4 | Equally flawed is the idea that it is possible to legitimate the power of corporate managers by structuring the internal division of power in the company so that the managers are prevented from deviating from the narrow path of profit-maximization . |
| 5 | States are prevented from adhering to conventional provisions that operate to their benefit while distancing themselves from any undesired obligations . |
| 6 | In time of war , persons for the time being residing or doing business in an enemy country , whatever their nationality or domicile , are disabled from suing in the English Courts ; but , if sued here , they will so far as possible be given an opportunity of defending themselves . |
| 7 | It should be apparent that the critiques presented here will depend to a large extent on the very different insights which are gleaned from theorising about power from the pluralist and elitist perspectives to be studied later in this book . |
| 8 | ( vii ) Persons guilty of a corrupt practice are disqualified from standing in any constituency for five years ; persons guilty of an illegal practice may not stand for five years in the constituency in which the offence was committed ( see above , pp.75–6 ) . |
| 9 | Most peers are disqualified from sitting in the House of Commons ( see below , pp.76–80 ) and it was thus at one time the case that a promising political career could be cut short by the involuntary inheritance of a title . |
| 10 | It is also hard to move without being promoted , so if you do not want more administrative responsibility , or are not promotion material , again you are inhibited from searching for a more congenial workplace . |
| 11 | Director Mike Cairns said having to pay for community care may mean some older people are deterred from asking for help . |
| 12 | Let us say the only settlors of the trust are Newco and Target , and both are excluded from benefiting under the trust , as they would have to be for the trust to qualify as an " employees share scheme " for the purposes of the Companies Act 1985 , and come within s75(6) Financial Services Act 1986 . |
| 13 | It is based on the assumption that the sacred is better than the secular , that the Church is essentially European and only universal by implication , that celibacy is better than marriage , that belief can not go hand in hand with doubt , that the clerical state is more sublime than the lay , and hence that women are excluded from belonging at the level at which this belonging is most valued . |
| 14 | The seven points below are taken from Living With Giddiness , a leaflet prepared by Mrs M. Seiffert MCP . |
| 15 | Whereas Mr Sisulu 's release will be ‘ unconditional ’ , according to President FW de Klerk , his wife and son are prohibited from participating in any kind of public political activity and they are allowed to move — unless special exemption is granted — only within the boundaries of the Johannesburg area . |
| 16 | This follows because , as we have also seen , local authorities are prohibited from budgeting for revenue deficits . |
| 17 | There will probably be rows and outbursts on the part of both teenagers and parents , but if these are kept from degenerating into resentments , dislike and misunderstanding at a deep and continuing level , there will be little harm done . |
| 18 | Besides denying Dr Darsee government research funds for 10 years , the panel also recommended that Dr Darsee be excluded from serving on any NIH advisory committee for the same period and called for the heart institute to collect from the hospital the estimated cost of the aborted research put at $122 371 . |
| 19 | Maritz , Sheard , Sonja van Wyk and Michelle de Vries , the four South Africans on the Tour , are banned from playing in five of the 21 tournaments . |
| 20 | Kim Basinger is refusing to open an Argentinian disco named after her unless blondes are banned from standing near her in a photo session . |