Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’ |
| 2 | But it is still too early to be certain , and the jury must remain out until there is sufficient evidence of a true change of heart to distinguish it from the earnest gestures of political expediency . |
| 3 | Carnelian , spying through the eye-screen from wherever , had immediately begun withdrawing the hydra into the warp of Chaos to save it from extinction . |
| 4 | Such an astigmatic view of course excludes them from the main focus of research . |
| 5 | Give the customers plenty of opportunity to see you from all angles and let them feel the cloth if they want to . |
| 6 | Impatiently , Jezrael pushed the canopy back and an icy blast of wind snatched it from her grasp . |
| 7 | In 1911 , aged twenty-nine , the Crown Prince was sent off to Danzig to command a Hussar Regiment ( it was a fairly transparent form of exile to preserve him from the temptations of political and amorous indiscretion in Berlin ) , but he showed himself singularly adept at escaping from the tedium of regimental duties . |
| 8 | Robyn gritted her teeth and refrained from answering — she needed all her powers of concentration to stop herself from slipping . |
| 9 | Midge 's total lack of emotion prevented him from sharing his own grief with her and he found that unbearable . |
| 10 | A spasm of delight shook her from head to toe as he plundered her neck . |
| 11 | I need a different kind of exorcism to free me from what he did to me . |
| 12 | The review of directors ' managerial decisions can be viewed as being motivated by a similar desire to ensure that directors exercise their powers only in accordance with the will of their constituents ( the shareholders ) and that they are subjected to the controls often associated with the Rule of Law to prevent them from using their power arbitrarily . |
| 13 | Considerations of security prevented us from filming the machine which puts the layers into Vienetta … or the twirls into a tangle twister . |
| 14 | Some streak of reluctance stopped her from turning straight to Luke 's page in the book . |
| 15 | Before she 'd had a chance to react , to jump off the bed and snatch the towel , seize some kind of weapon to defend herself from whoever it was prowling around , the bedroom door swung open and the light clicked on . |
| 16 | Her sigh of exasperation reached him from 3,000 miles away . |
| 17 | Immediately , a cloud of mist hid them from their pursuers and , before it cleared , a messenger came and called the Dragoons off to another duty . |
| 18 | Is lack of knowledge preventing you from having a go at hunter trials , eventing or showing ? |
| 19 | Nonetheless she was determined not to let her fear of water prevent her from accompanying Bernard on their now frequent sailing holidays . |
| 20 | And then the bucket too which has been kept full of water to keep it from expanding and leaking which otherwise it would do . |
| 21 | We go into a state of shock to protect us from the knowledge . |
| 22 | Lines of enquiry suggested themselves from reported material which had accumulated over the years on possible energy effects at ancient sites . |
| 23 | She had just stood there , scarcely able to breathe , and aware that only a hair 's breadth of control separated her from a fury that would shake her to her soul . |
| 24 | The present appearance of the bridge owes much to the Counter-Reformation , its famous gallery of sculpture transforming it from an ordinary thoroughfare into a via sacra ( see p. 55 ) . |
| 25 | The only thing which was missing was the recognised transport qualification , a Certificate of Professional Competence , so , determined not to let this official piece of paper prevent her from doing the job she undertook a study course and was soon legally qualified to run the fleet . |
| 26 | We presume that those patients who manifested HBV in the allograft within day of transplantation acquired it from virus shed into the blood stream before or during the operation . |
| 27 | Every day the brave and clever assistant takes over from the master , whose slackness and lack of seriousness demotes him from the rank which seemed to be permanently his . ’ |
| 28 | Do n't let the volume of traffic discourage you from this superb walk . |
| 29 | This is not surprising when one considers the ways in which the attitudes and structures of society condition us from the early years of life . |
| 30 | 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 . |