Example sentences of "is [verb] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Koquillion claims he is protecting them from the wrath of his people . |
| 2 | To smoke is to dissociate oneself from the middle-class health fascists , to say no to jogging and yoghurt and yoga . |
| 3 | So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it . |
| 4 | S what in fact er Mrs said is too early in the process of community care to know how many homes you have to close she really is approaching it from the wrong way , it 's equally too early in the process of community care to know how many homes you need to have open , keep open or open and that is one of the problems which I believe this council and other councils will will face . |
| 5 | The wholesaler 's only sanction against non-cooperating members is to expel them from the group , whereas in the case of the variety multiples a recalcitrant manager can be quickly removed . |
| 6 | But there are signs that he is distancing himself from the UN . |
| 7 | I do not know whether that means that he has changed his policy or is distancing himself from the official line of the Labour party on unemployment issues . |
| 8 | Stylistically , Samson is distancing itself from the very audience it should inspire , but by doing so Milton is helping to avoid potential censorship and a silencing altogether . |
| 9 | All you 're doing is taking them from the objection , which is , well , we 're not prepared to give a decision , take them from that objection to where you want them do it with me , can you do it ? |
| 10 | This is taking us from the mundane and the ugly and helping us to see something of the reality of the splendour of God in our lives , particularly when we worship Him . |
| 11 | The first thing the three must do is disentangle themselves from the past . |
| 12 | 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 : |