Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [pron] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year ago , Everton 's only hope of salvaging anything from a miserable season evaporated when they lost at Stamford Bridge in an FA Cup tie . |
| 2 | In contrast , if you are white , and unless you actually subscribe to racist arguments , you will want to find ways of dissociating yourself from the views expressed here . |
| 3 | I laughed , and she said , ‘ Laughing is a way of protecting yourself from the truth . ’ |
| 4 | ONE type of wild potato has developed a novel way of protecting itself from the ravages of aphids — by producing the chemical that aphids themselves use as an alarm signal . |
| 5 | The advantage of this is that the secretaries can be laid off during the summer recess , and MPs can avoid the cost of employing them from the ‘ expenses ’ allowance . |
| 6 | And the effect for Locke is this , and again I , I quote the legislative being only a fiduciary power , that is to say a power based on trust a fiduciary power to act for certain ends , there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust imposed in them and thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of every body even if their legislators whenever they shall be so foolish or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject . |
| 7 | Month by month , the chances of saving anything from the wreckage of Bosnia grow less . |
| 8 | But at least she could be certain of one thing : it was n't a place where there was a risk of meeting anyone from the power station , at least not anyone who mattered . |
| 9 | But since she had wrecked Luke 's plans for a country weekend with Lexy , and deprived him of the possibility of replacing her from the ranks of his unofficial harem , perhaps it was hardly surprising that he should demand that she herself should fill the gap . |
| 10 | A Microsoft Corp staffer is reported to have told Sun Microsystems Inc that Microsoft would make Windows such a moving target that Sun , with its WABI Windows Application Binary Interface , could not keep up ( CI No 2,147 ) : if the tale is true and Microsoft means it , it means that the company has learned a little too well from its long cohabitation with IBM , and that the seeds of its own destruction are now being sown — for years , IBM added features and tweaked its mainframes with no thought of improving them from the user 's point of view , but simply to trip up competitors , and once a dominant company starts resorting to such tactics , it fatally injures the regard with which it is held by the outside world , and is embarking on the slippery slope that leads to the debacle IBM finds itself in today . |
| 11 | It follows from these conjectures that members of literate societies have the possibility of developing logical functions , of specialising in the ‘ truth functions ’ of language , and of extracting themselves from the embeddedness of everyday social life . |
| 12 | To find the benefits of religion , we have to find some way of separating it from the institutions which claim to represent it . |
| 13 | Harbour , having scanned the field for Geoffrey — he had some notion of rushing him from the rear and felling him with a rabbit-chop — ran off to compare notes with Dotty and the others . |
| 14 | By February he was at least considering a retirement condition , though still sceptical about its effect on unemployment , and commissioned a paper on the feasibility of enforcing it from the Ministry of Labour 's representative on the Committee , P.Y. Blundun . |
| 15 | The essence of the prosecution case would have been the use by the respondent of excessive force towards two members of the family of the Murphy brothers in the course of removing them from the vicinity of a police van into which the brothers were being placed . |
| 16 | Since the egg can not enter the oviduct , the treatment consists of removing it from the ovary prior to ovulation , fertilizing it in the laboratory , and placing the proembryo into the uterus where it has a chance to implant . |
| 17 | Although Dicken 's Barnaby Rudge was a historical novel , set several decades before the period in which it was written , few modern readers are capable of distinguishing it from the author 's non-period writings . |
| 18 | Generally , it is best for him or her to have some input into the management and other contracts instead of inheriting them from a lawyer . |
| 19 | Because if we turn back , said her mind , then you will be going away from Nuadu , you will be losing what might be the only chance of rescuing him from the Robemaker . |
| 20 | I had had nothing to read for three months , and now that we had some time to ourselves reading was a good way of distracting myself from the immediacies of life around me . |
| 21 | For instance , in the squatting ‘ demoiselle ’ Picasso had dislocated and distended the various parts of the body in an attempt to explain it as fully as possible , without the limitations of viewing it from a single , stationary position . |
| 22 | Buckmaster 's habit of distancing himself from the seamier side of the company worried him . |
| 23 | Closer co-operation with Western Europe was ideally suited to Adenauer 's policy of distancing himself from the Eastern bloc after September 1955 , when Moscow upset him by recognising East Germany as a sovereign state . |
| 24 | Ankara diplomats saw his resignation as a way of distancing himself from an unpopular government . |
| 25 | Another , contrasting function served by inverted commas ( besides direct quotation , which is discussed below , Chapter 5 , pp. 105 – 7 ) is that of distancing you from an expression . |
| 26 | Most of the other appointees were not senior members of the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) , as the government continued its policy of distancing itself from the party . |
| 27 | For Iranians it was always a political as well as religious creed , and way of differentiating themselves from the Arabs . |
| 28 | This strategy is capable of converting them from the least profitable product group to the most profitable — for a time . |
| 29 | When I protested , they assured me that there would be no question of hiding me from the crowd . |
| 30 | The character has a base 20% chance each round of dragging it from the skeleton 's grasp . |