Example sentences of "from [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them had been Keith Sutton , taking a break from editing the anti-Murdoch strike paper , the Wapping Post , in the office below . |
| 2 | Far from seeing the main enemy without , they increasingly become absorbed with blaming failures on organizational , rather than behavioural omissions . |
| 3 | The myth that community care is cheaper than institutional care has long since been dispensed with , but this may not necessarily deter the government from seeing the impending changes as an opportunity to cut costs . |
| 4 | The second feature is a protection mechanism that stops NetWare Loadable Modules from crashing the entire server , by adding memory protection . |
| 5 | It is sufficient for that person to establish that he or she has been prevented to an appreciable extent from enjoying the ordinary comforts of life ; there is no need to establish direct injury to health . |
| 6 | The only advantage identified from using the largest headhunting firms was a ‘ bigger candidate bank ’ ; it is unclear whether or not this means general pool of candidates open to the firm , or the size of their data bank . |
| 7 | What one hopes , of course , is to find that one comes to the same conclusions from using the neuropsychological method as from using psychological methods of investigation : and , as we will show in Chapter 9 , such agreements between conclusions do actually occur . |
| 8 | On the other hand the survey by the Policy Studies Institute reported that skill shortages are stopping many firms from using the new technology . |
| 9 | This is always true and follows from using the present values of redemption cash flows rather than actual values , a procedure that gives greater weight to earlier cash flows . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , the people in charge of Oxford Uni 's mail server have been playing around of late , and have changed from using the long form to the short form , and now , it seems , back again . |
| 11 | But where , as often , there is no such difference , the fact that adverbs are far more common than adjectives in structures where a property extends a verb will discourage speakers from using the adjectival form . |
| 12 | If an employer does not prevent them availing themselves of the opportunity to learn business secrets how can he later seek to restrain an employee from using the same information . |
| 13 | Last year Ford UK took a major step in banning staff members under 21 or with fewer than three years ' driving experience from using the fast models . |
| 14 | 56 An advertisement from The Sound Waves — demonstrating the dangers of distortion from using the wrong needle , or the benefits of being ‘ blown away ’ by use of the right needle ! |
| 15 | It replaced the previous categories of handicap with the concept of special educational needs , defined as existing where a child has significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of children of the same age , or has a disability that prevents or hinders him or her from using the educational facilities normally available . |
| 16 | Understandably , it has appealed to teachers reacting against older traditional methods , particularly if these divorced learning to read from any kind of true reading experience , or if they involved the use of books containing as many older schemes did — unnatural and stilted language which prevented children from using the linguistic knowledge they already had . |
| 17 | If we consider the lessons that exist around us now , we may be able to see the projected increase resulting from using the latest technology as a medium for job creation instead of job loss . |
| 18 | The most difficult part of the exercise , apart from handling the sheer volume of data that was being produced , was deciding what was meant by ‘ monitor and control ’ for each system element , and then drawing out the related information . |
| 19 | He was restrained from completing the undesirable behaviour of getting into their bed . |
| 20 | What , however , is the position if , at the time of the buyer 's wrongful anticipatory repudiation , the seller had already been disabled from completing the essential terms of the contract ( e.g. the seller 's factory making the goods was already so far behind in production that the seller could not possibly have delivered the goods by the contractual delivery date ) . |
| 21 | In the latter case , however , the commissioners give consideration because they refrain from pursuing the threatened proceedings . |
| 22 | In identifying and responding to real needs he did not shrink from touching the painful spots . |
| 23 | A civilization that never invented the wheel was automatically precluded from inventing the mechanical clock , but in fact neither the sundial nor the water-clock appear to have been developed by the Maya for measuring the passage of time . |
| 24 | The package cost $5,100 million , to be financed by compensatory revenues of $2,600 million gained from closing a loophole for wealthy taxpayers who make quarterly income tax payments , $880 million from maintaining the unemployment tax at 0.08 per cent ( instead of allowing the scheduled drop to 0.06 percent ) , and $1,700 million from allowing the Internal Revenue Service to continue to withold tax refunds from people who had defaulted on student loans . |
| 25 | Prosecuting uneducated deaf people with no speech , and accepting what they said in their defence in those days was however a different matter altogether from allowing the same people to go into the witness box and testify against other people . |
| 26 | By law no preparations are to be made in anticipation of death , apart from allowing the loved ones due access , and the positioning of candles — symbolic of the flickering life and to chase away the forces of darkness . |
| 27 | The 162bp DNA sequence in Figure 2(a) designated PBVISPCR2 was that derived from cloning the amplified DNA . |
| 28 | By the 1980s 300 people had died from eating the poisoned fish , and at least 1500 more were disabled . |
| 29 | If you eat an ice cream it prevents anyone else from eating the same ice cream . |
| 30 | The groom said one of her horses died of colic or some such recently , from eating the wrong things , and the trainer did n't want any more accidents , so he 'd made up the feeds himself . ’ |